The spaghetti sandwich or spaghetti jaffle in Australia is a

sandwich A sandwich is a food typically consisting of vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type. The sandwich began as a po ...

prepared using cooked

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, a sauce and bread as primary ingredients. It is sold at some underground concession areas near subway stations in Tokyo, Japan, and has been purveyed at the

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baseball park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. and in some U.S. restaurants.

Preparation

Cooked spaghetti with sauce and bread are used to prepare the spaghetti sandwich. It is sometimes prepared using

leftover Leftovers are surplus foods remaining unconsumed at the end of a meal, which may be put in containers with the intention of eating later. Inedible remains like bones are considered ''waste'', not leftovers. Depending on the situation, the amoun ...

spaghetti, and the spaghetti can be chopped or left whole. Butter or margarine is sometimes used as an ingredient, spread on the bread. A

bread roll Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat) and water, usually by baking. Throughout recorded history and around the world, it has been an important part of many cultures' diet. It is one of the oldest human-made foo ...

, sliced bread and

garlic bread Garlic bread (also called garlic toast) consists of bread (usually a baguette or sour dough like a ciabatta), topped with garlic and olive oil or butter and may include additional herbs, such as oregano or chives. It is then either grilled un ...

can be used to prepare the sandwich. Additional ingredients used in its preparation can include cheeses such as grated Parmesan cheese and spices such as garlic powder and oregano. It can be served cold or hot, and can be cooked using a sandwich maker.

By country

Japan

The spaghetti sandwich is a food in

Japanese cuisine Japanese cuisine encompasses the regional and traditional foods of Japan, which have developed through centuries of political, economic, and social changes. The traditional cuisine of Japan (Japanese: ) is based on rice with miso soup and other ...

. In Tokyo, the sandwich is prepared using a meat sauce, a sliced French roll or white bread, and has been described as a "Tokyo novelty." Some underground concession areas near subway stations in Tokyo sell the spaghetti sandwich, and it has been described as a "handy commuter snack." The

yakisoba ''Yakisoba'' ( ja, 焼きそば ), "fried noodle", is a Japanese noodle stir-fried dish. Usually, soba noodles are made from buckwheat flour, but soba in yakisoba are Chinese noodles (Chuuka soba) made from wheat flour, typically flavored with ...

sandwich is a similar noodle sandwich that is more common in concession areas near Tokyo subway stations.

United States

The

baseball park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, included a spaghetti sandwich on its concessions fare in 2013, named the Spaghetti Pie Panino. It was prepared using cooked spaghetti, pasta sauce, meatballs and mozzarella cheese. A cooking variation that is used at a restaurant in

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in Queens, New York City, involves using an

egg wash An egg wash is beaten eggs, sometimes mixed with another liquid such as water or milk, which is sometimes brushed onto the surface of a pastry before baking. Egg washes are also used as a step in the process of breading foods, providing a substra ...

to coat a mixture of sauce, pasta, and cheese, and then baking it into a

patty A patty or burger (in British English) is a flattened, usually round, serving of ground meat and/or legumes, grains, vegetables, or meat alternatives. Patties are found in multiple cuisines throughout the world. In British and American Eng ...

using a

blini A blini (sometimes spelled bliny) ( pl., diminutive: блинчики, ''blinchiki'', dialectal, diminutive: млинчики, ''mlynchiki'') or, sometimes, blin (more accurate as a single form of the noun), is a Russian and more broadly Eastern ...

pan. The patty has a moist texture on the inside and a crispy exterior. File:Spaghetti sammich (14434939910).jpg, A spaghetti sandwich

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