Thursday, February 12, 2009

Toy Boat 10 times fast: The Convenience Sandwich

The Toy Boat is within a stones throw of my house and is thus the most accessible and convenient sandwich shop. Wake up at noon on sunday? Toy Boat. This place also has awesome ice cream. Get the large rocky road-strawberry combo in the waffle cone.
On to the sandwich:

Meat(25):x 19 Cajun Turkey from Boar's Head.
Quality(15):x 12.5
This is some pretty good turkey. I would even say top 3. It's spicy without being ridiculous. This stuff is the exact opposite of what most turkey is, flavorful and with good texture

Quantity(10): x 6.5
Like a bar that jiggers its shots, I hate sandwich places that pre-weigh and package their meat. Give the sandwich artisan some leeway damn it. Still, pretty good amount for a prepackaged.

Bread(20): x 15
Contrary to popular belief, dutch crunch actually comes in a number of varieties. The underlying roll almost always is a soft French roll, and then there is the "crunch". The crunch comes in many forms with a spectrum starting at a continuous layer with intermittent cracks to the dutch crunch plate tectonics form.

As the diagram above shows, this particular dutch crunch roll falls more towards the plate tectonics end of the spectrum. This sandwich was toasted to perfection bread. The crunch plates had just ok flavor, not on par with their texture.

Value (20):
x 9
The base price on this sandwich is $7. Swiss cheese costs $0.50. After tax, a diet coke, and throwing the change in the jar $10. You do choice of a side of chips, some sort of mayo based salad (I think it is mayo with some potato or egg mixed in for taste), or a worthless pickle. $10 for chips, drink sandwich is alright. Sandwich is pretty substantial so they get just under average.

Spread (10): x 7
They have 2 or 3 different choices on mustard as well as ranch dressing. However this places makes salads as well with honey mustard dressing available. I opt for the Honey mustard as my sandwich spread. The flavor is good, but it doesn't quite have the viscosity I look for in a mustard. Mayo was good.

Fixings (10):
x 5.5
  1. leaf lettuce (good crunch)
  2. peperoncinis
  3. Red onion
  4. Butter Pickle slices
Little to much red onion.
Lettuce provides good crunch although it was hanging over the edge a little (Rip that shit off sandwich maker. Nobody wants to nibble a bunch of lettuce to get to their sandwich).
Standard picles
Peperoncinis are good. They aren't called banana peppers. That's what Gwen Stefnai calls them and she doesn't know shit about sandwiches.

Cheese:(5): x 2
Two slices of swiss which is good. They get knocked down to two stars because although the sandwich is toasted, the cheese wasn't melted. Amateurs.

Originality (5): x 1.5
Turkey and swiss. 0 pickles.
Toasting 0.5 pickles.
Having honey mustard 1 pickle.
Not letting me know about it:-1 pickle
Cajun Turkey 1 pickle

Sandwich shop/creator (5): x 3.5
So there are a few sandwich makers here. This place has numerous sandwich makers, most of who are average. The two hipster dudes who are average, the two hipster girls and the asian girl are average, the owner/old guy who I have never got a sandwich from and then there is the cute skinny girl who also happens to be the best sandwich maker. She made this one. Funny side story: Having frequented the Toy Boat often, I have a certain rapport with THE Toy Boat Girl. My buddy Nate and I formed an elaborate scheme for me to introduce him to her after which he would subsequently ask her out. The introduction worked well but Nate (who fancies himself quite the lady's man) got I believe 2.3 syllables out before she shot him down.

Ice cream is good.
Proximity to my house is better.

Total Points: 62.5

Just your average cafe/deli sandwich. Nothing really special except the cajun turkey, the cute and ruthlessly efficient counter girl and the proximity to my house.

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