#2 Peameal sandwich — Rashers

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For the second episode of Sliced Bread, I had to show love to the cities’ iconic style of sandwich. I rolled up to the new location of Rashers on Ossington, just south of Dundas, to taste the best peameal bacon sandwich in the city.

Rashers opened up in 2012, as a small sandwich counter at 948 Queen East, in Leslieville. It quickly gained a reputation as ‘Toronto’s most iconic sandwich done right,’ as Toronto Life called it, and was selected as BlogTo’s most essential sandwich. They recently opened a larger location in my neighborhood on the Ossington strip, and I headed over there with a bellyfull of hunger, and a mind full of questions about Toronto’s iconic sandwich.

Biting into the Hogtown sandwich was like biting into a treasure chest of bacon-y flavour. Each juicy morsel of peameal melted into the corners of my mouth like a thousand gold doubloons pouring onto the deck of a victorious sloop. The cheese and egg provided a complimentary shimmer of savoury richness, twinkling in the flavour mix like perfectly cut diamonds. Finally — the sultry spiceness and ale-induced darkness of the brown mustard created balance within the flavour onslaught, contrasting with the golden and white hues of the sandwich, like a satchel full of rubies sliced open with a bucaneers cutlass. By the end, I found myself in a fever dream — deliriously raising my sandwich to toast to Captain William Davies, whose great vision had lead to this delicious plunder. I must not have been the first person to react like this, because Richard didn’t seem surprised by my behaviour at all. He handed me a delicious Boylan’s birch beer to wash it down with, and it made a great pairing.
Rashers is one of Toronto’s greatest sandwiches, and just so happens to be it’s most iconic! If your in the city, I highly recommend you maow this landmark. Enjoy your lunch!
-SBTO

