Lincoln Log Sandwich
Lincoln Log Sandwich
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Lincoln Log Sandwich
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Post #1 - May 22nd, 2007, 7:52 pmSopranos fans know what I am talking about. Anyone ever heard of this delicacy before Sunday night? I may have to try it.
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Post #2 - May 22nd, 2007, 8:56 pmHB wrote:Sopranos fans know what I am talking about. Anyone ever heard of this delicacy before Sunday night? I may have to try it.
HB,
Why don't you explain the "Lincoln Log Sandwich" for those who did not watch the show. Maybe it goes under another name.
Enjoy,
Gary
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Post #3 - May 22nd, 2007, 9:01 pmG Wiv wrote:HB wrote:Sopranos fans know what I am talking about. Anyone ever heard of this delicacy before Sunday night? I may have to try it.
HB,
Why don't you explain the "Lincoln Log Sandwich" for those who did not watch the show. Maybe it goes under another name.
I think that's the problem. There's really nothing to explain beyond the name. It was kinda hard to see and all they said was the name.
Anyway, I know what it is: It's a split hot dog with cream cheese.
Best,
Michael
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Post #4 - May 22nd, 2007, 9:39 pmLooks as close as anything I know to edible Lincoln Logs:
"Don't you ever underestimate the power of a female." Bootsy Collins
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Post #5 - May 22nd, 2007, 10:58 pmI lived in New Jersey for a number of years and I never heard of it. Isuspect that it is another case of David Chase sharing an inside joke with someone that none of us will ever understand.
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Post #6 - May 23rd, 2007, 8:16 amIt was split hot dogs, smeared with cream cheese, and served on a bun.
Hmmmm......
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Post #7 - May 23rd, 2007, 9:05 amA hot dog with cream cheese is a Seattle-style dog.When I grow up, I'm going to Bovine University!
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Post #8 - May 23rd, 2007, 10:54 amI did a little research. The only recipe I can find is white bread pressed flat, spread with peanut butter and then rolled into a log-like shape. However, Brian Williams of NBC is a guest on Slate's ongoing Sopranos dialogue and claims to have grown up in NJ, where his Mother made them for him as a kid. On the show it was clearly a hot dog with cream cheese. Colin McEnroe has suggested that they were part of a sexual theme he elaborates on in his own column.
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Post #9 - May 23rd, 2007, 11:02 amI don't know. I grew up in NJ, and Sunday night on the Sopranos was the first I've ever heard of a Lincoln Log sandwich.
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Post #10 - May 23rd, 2007, 11:22 amIs that an alternative to Concrete Booties?
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Post #11 - May 23rd, 2007, 1:38 pmHI,
I did a quick google for Lincoln Log Sandwich. There are many, many website forums and blogs puzzling over this. Funny! I think Ourpalwill is spot on stating this may be an unexplained inside joke.
Regards,Last edited by Cathy2 on May 24th, 2007, 7:09 am, edited 1 time in total.Cathy2
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Post #12 - May 23rd, 2007, 11:13 pmWell, my take on it is that Lincoln was a depressive. Last weeks episode included a Kennedy... this week a Lincoln. Both lost sons. So David Chase was trying to clue us into something.
That and it was some kind of comfort food Carmella made for A.J. when he was young. And was trying to please him.
I need a twelve-step program for the Sopranos. Seriously.
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Post #13 - May 25th, 2007, 11:02 amBryan Williams says (from Slate):Would that my mother were here to defend herself. She went to her reward years ago, and with her went the Lincoln Log recipe. During what has been a painful day of culinary reminiscence on my part, all I can recall were Oscar Mayer "frankfurters" (as my dad still calls them, I believe in deference to the Supreme Court justice) split suggestively down the middle (I never watched that part, because as with lobsters, I was never really sure they were dead) and then slathered—in our version—lengthwise in mayonnaise. I know. How do you think I feel? That was my life in north Jersey. They made for a handy, portable heart attack on a bun. Enough aggressively bad food in a fist-size package to give the eater/victim instant angina (and this was years before he got voted off American Idol) if not worse. I remember we had to get a certain kind of bun—the Pepperidge Farm "New England cut"—so that when splayed open it presented more like a double-thickness slab of Wonder Bread. On the dog would go copious amounts of mayo—and in some houses, cream cheese. Always Breakstone's. My mom later developed some tsoris over the quality of the Oscar Mayers, so we switched to Hebrew Nationals.
He then goes on to describe several other culinary malfeasances perpetrated by his mother. He's a pretty funny writer, I must say. Doesn't make me want to eat a Lincoln Log, however.Anthony Bourdain on Barack Obama: "He's from Chicago, so he knows what good food is."
