sandwiches

I am showing my project partner pictures of sandwiches online.  Delicious sandwiches, gyros, subs, paninis, and sliders.  With tomato, lettuce, cucumbers, spinach, peppers, ham, turkey, bacon, roast beef, salami, avocado, mustard, spicy mayo, onions, pineapple, all kinds of cheeses, and different types of bread.

Sandwiches here are not sandwiches.  One typical attempt is to slather lots of butter on the inside of a roll, put in a piece of unmeltable cheese, and then smash it as flat as you can in a pan with some blunt object, like a can of shaving cream or the base of a mortar.  When the bread is paper thin and saturated with butter (but most of the butter is unmelted), it is ready to serve. Sometimes there are big pieces of uncooked salami inside.

During training in El Seibo, we discovered a sandwich stand in front of the LINCOS.  The LINCOS sandwiches had ham, tomato, ketchup, and mayo, and if you pulled out the diarrhea-causing lettuce, were the closest thing yet to a real sandwich.  Squished flat, naturally.

There is a colmado (quickie mart) near the Peace Corps office in Santo Domingo that sells similar sandwiches, and they make up about half my diet while in the capital.  The other half is usually ice cream.