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Default Assembly order of BLT sandwich?

> wrote:
> The Five Guys thread included a discussion of what, if anything, goes
> between the patty and the bottom of the bun. And suddenly I worried --
> not that I ever put anything between the patty and the bottom of
> the hamburger bun -- but that when making BLTs I had been spreading
> the mayonnaise on the bottom slice of toast. Could this have been a
> fatal error all along?
>
> So is it: toast, lettuce, mayo, bacon, tomato? Or toast, tomato, bacon,
> lettuce, mayo? Is mayo needed to seal in the juices from the tomato?
> What about the problem of non-uniform mayo adherence to the lettuce?
>
> These sorts of questions wake me up in the middle of the night. But
> then there is no answer, so I lie awake until I collapse from
> exhaustion.


I like the tomato sliding around in the mayo. Other than that, I add onion
in there somewhere. BLTO

Greg