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Default Do you fold or roll your lunchmeat or pile it on flat?

On May 14, 10:11*am, Sqwertz > wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2010 08:27:21 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe wrote:
> > Just got a boneless Kretchmar ham on sale too! Sliced for free too
> > into "thick sandwich" slices about 3/16 inch thick. YUM!

>
> There are people that fold (or roll) their lunchmeat and those that
> don't. *I take it you're the latter - the kind that just take it out
> of the package and pile it flat on the bread. *I'm the former. The
> kind that neatly and methodically folds or rolls each piece so that
> more air gets mixed in with each bite, making it tastier(*).
>
> (*) OK, so I pulled that one out of my ass. I have no idea why I do
> that, but it tastes better than piling it on flat with no airspace.




At the restaurant we sliced our deli meats paper thin and piled them
on the sandwiches. The thinner the meats were
sliced the fluffier the pile could be. Made great deli sandwiches.
I concur that the more air and more surface the better.