Type | Sandwich |
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Main ingredients | Bread, corned beef, mustard, pickles |
Variations | Reuben sandwich |
A corned beef sandwich is a sandwich filled with corned beef. The salt beef style corned beef sandwiches are traditionally served with mustard and a pickle.
In the UK, pickle is a common addition to a corned beef sandwich.
Another variant has sauerkraut, known as a Reuben sandwich.
A contraband corned beef sandwich on rye brought aboard the Gemini 3 spacecraft by John Young resulted in a minor controversy, for the risk posed to the craft and crew by floating crumbs and lingering odors.