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"Usually preferred by people who are allergic to red meat."

Old discussions

I have never heard this before, is this an American thing? I like BLT and I am not allergic to red meat. Google can find no other references to this. Edward

me neither, jimfbleak 09:30 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I removed the sentence Edward 15:46, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Bacon (pork) is technically red meat. —jiy (talk) 07:06, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No, Red and White meat are culinary definaintions and meat from pigs is White meat Dainamo (talk) 14:40, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Britain

Just a quick comment to say that BLT sandwiches in Britain are quite often served on wholemeal bread rather than white. Loganberry (Talk) 00:05, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly to say, but here in America, most people tend to prefer the foods that are less natural. Take for example, all the fast food chains. In a highly populated city, it can almost be said that you'll never be more than a block away from fast food places. The low prices, the ease, and the marketing convince people to take the white bread over the whole wheat. 69.208.173.93 06:12, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to say that I can't believe this wasn't an article before and how glad I am that someone created it :) Isopropyl 04:51, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

At least in Britain, I've never heard of a BLT with cheese in it... Is this something special in the US (or elsewhere)? EAi 15:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've never heard of putting cheese on a BLT, seems like its a personal preference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.220.238.174 (talk) 23:59, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

YouTube links

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Cut out the TLB Salad invented by some dude on Food Network; put it on his page if you have to.

This should be on Alton Brown's page, or on the Good Eats page.

In an episode of Good Eats, Alton Brown declared that a BLT is too difficult to eat as a sandwich, and constructed a salad of bacon, lettuce, cherry and grape tomatoes, and croutons with a vinaigrette dressing. He also dubbed it a TLB, claiming that the tomatoes are the real feature of the dish.

--Phant 04:03, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BLTs are British?

I'm not convinced. Is there something you could cite to support this claim? Bigpeteb 04:46, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They eat plenty of them in the US. So whether it's a British sandwich or not it's also an American sandwich. I'll look for any appropriate categories to add. Wikidemo 23:55, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In Popular Culture

Okay, my vote is to keep this section. It is interesting and adds to the article. It's not just a random "Trivia" section in my oppinion, and lots of articles have "In Popular Culture" sections. Captain Phoebus 17:17, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I looked it over and don't see anything there that's terribly helpful or illustrative of the sandwich. Nothing anyone needs to know to understand the subject. Wikidemo 23:54, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich

This could be included as a variant, it's essentially the same sandwich, just without the bacon. I will add it if there are no objections.--RLent (talk) 17:29, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article subjected to Vandalism

Entire article was deleted and Pornographic links were put instead, by an anonymous user. Any admins please make note of this, and carry out ip-banning measures. The ip is 85.92.73.245 (talk) 18:46, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Second Most Popular

The article mentions the BLT’s ordinal rank of popular sandwiches. If the BLT is second most popular, it would be helpful to say which sandwich beats it. For example, if someone were doing some research on what to put on a menu. Synetech (talk) 12:34, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The source appears to be unreliable and has been tagged as such. I suggest deletion. I find it hard to believe that the peanut butter and jelly sandwich isn't more popular than both the BLT and ham sandwich in the US. Weetoddid (talk) 15:36, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed move

Per WP:LEAD: "Abbreviations and acronyms are generally avoided unless the subject is almost exclusively known by its abbreviation (e.g. NATO and Laser)."

I know that the sandwich is most often referred to as a BLT, but that doesn't mean it's exclusively known as this. This article should, in my opinion, be called "Bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich". Anyone else have an opinion about this? DKqwerty (talk) 17:50, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Almost is an important qualifier. Where exactly does one draw the line between most often and almost exclusively? I say no move. -- Logotu (talk) 20:49, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Move to delete citation 1 along with its corresponding quote.

BLTs are the second most popular sandwich in the US after ham and cheese? Whoever wrote that is full of horse poop. Burgers are clearly also sandwiches (hence the original term, "Hamburger sandwich"), and anyone with common sense can tell that burgers are WAY more commonly eaten here than BLTs. Succubus MacAstaroth (talk) 20:14, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to merge "BLA" here

I propose the article Bacon, Lettuce, and_Avocado be merged with this one. That article is short, the differences are insignificant. and I believe there is little room for development. Despite living in Philly, I've never even heard of the baseball playoff reference.

Further, a surprising number of people probably stumble onto that page because it is the first disambiguation listing for the search query, "bla".

If we want to move this to the 'BLA'page, there needs to be a lot more done with that page to make it more informative.