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The Bachelor-Time Sandwich

I classify this as a recipe in only the loosest of terms. This is a sandwich I make for myself when nobody else is around, mainly because I can't imagine anyone else would like it, or at least like it in the evil, wrong way I like it You'll need:

  • Two frozen breaded chicken patties (whichever brand you prefer)
  • One deli slice, or one deli slice's worth, of good cheddar cheese
  • One bun
  • One bottle of sauce. Use whatever sauce you like and happen to have kicking around in the fridge. We all have bottles of sauces kicking around in our fridge. Tonight, it was a sweet apple barbecue sauce.
  • 2-3 thin slices of tomato (optional)

Sauce one half of the bun. Microwave the chicken patties until hot. Place one patty on the bottom of the bun, then the cheese, then the other patty, then the tomato, then the sauced bun. Apply pressure to the top bun until everything mooshes together and flattens. This will, or should melt the cheese.

Eat quickly, with a soda, between rounds of your current video game of choice. Serves one.

 

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The bachelorette version is kind of Atkinsy

I just nuke two Morningstar veggie chicken patties with a slice of cheese on each, and slather them in yellow mustard, or occasionally salsa, with no bun. I also do this with various Morningstar veggie burgers. Yellow mustard on the vaguely Southwestern black bean burgers is better than it has any right to be.
I do this not to be Atkinsy at all, but because I am excruciatingly picky about store-bought bread and too lazy to bake my own, so I generally just do without at home.

Veggie chicken?

Veggie chicken?

The key word is "Patties"

There are vegetarian "chicken patties" the same way there are veggie burgers.
 

Pretty good reproductions of chicken patties

Having eaten both real chicken patties and veggie chicken patties within about 3 years of one another, I must say that, at least as Morningstar makes them, they really do taste like real chicken patties, and they even have that stringy texture. This is much more acceptable, somehow, than veggie burgers that try to taste like real beef, which are just gross.

Yeeeeeah, I feel like this is

Yeeeeeah, I feel like this is very similar to my Steak Tartate comment, and really makes me seem like a food dick (which is not my goal) but I truly think that if this list of ingredients tastes like the chicken you had, you had the wrong chicken.  "Natural and artificial flavors from non-meat sources"?  

Well, not exactly the same.

Well, not exactly the same.  "burger" has come to describe a texture and shape.  "chicken" is still an animal, and thus an outright lie.  Still, it is my fault for forgetting how much vegetarian stuff is trying to pretend not to be. 
On a related note, a friend ordered a veggie burger with cheese and bacon this weekend and revealed that doing so will make a restaurant BREAK DOWN at every step of the meal.  FYI.

At least it's not as

At least it's not as revolting as that classic '50's bachelor favorite, Steak Tartare. (MM! raw chopped Beef with horseradish and an egg! Whee!)

I'm left to wonder if you've

I'm left to wonder if you've never had good Steak Tartar. 

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