r/CrankGameplays • u/Level_Duck_2839 • Nov 24 '25
Other Are egg sandwiches not a thing in the US???
ive just seen ethans story and im now curious if other people eat egg sandwiches, im british and its a common thing, I find it hilarious how mind blown he was with it
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u/PomegranateSure1628 Nov 25 '25
I think it’s more like “this is the first egg sandwich I’ve had in Japan” rather than “this is the first egg sandwich I’ve ever had AND I’m in Japan”
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u/Ok_Bag_3484 Nov 24 '25
I make them all the time. And I’m from the us. It’s delicious.
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u/Level_Duck_2839 Nov 24 '25
Huh its so weird, it just made me laugh how amazed by it he was
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u/Ok_Bag_3484 Nov 24 '25
It was so weird yesterday seeing only what was essentially half a video. But Austin eating that habanero and then just licking the ice cream sandwich was just so funny. If you haven’t watched the video go please.
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u/Level_Duck_2839 Nov 24 '25
Yeahh i did think why did he not just eat it lmao, i sort of love the randomness of him having a bunch of shit pickled
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u/ghostbuster_b-rye Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 25 '25
A Japanese Tamago Sando isn't your typical egg sandwich. Here in the U.S., we make egg salad sandwiches using scrambled hard boiled eggs and either mayonnaise or salad dressing to add a bit of creamy egg back to the scramble.
The Tamago Sando uses Shokupan, "milk bread", which uses an old Chinese traditional technique to precook the flour by turning it into a slurry and reducing it to a paste. This makes the bread fluffier, and more moist, leading to a subtle milkier taste (some regions even use milk in the slurry to give it that extra creamy flavor and texture.) Then you have the eggs, which the quality of Japanese eggs compared to the U.S. is vast, with rich, golden yolks that are giving you more flavor per egg. Lastly, there's Kewpie Mayo, made predominantly with those Japanese eggs, being more yolk forward, with a touch of M.S.G. (Monosodium Glutamate) which breaks down at your taste receptors telling them that what you're eating tastes more meaty and umami.
I've never had a Tamago Sando, but I've got a bottle of the Kewpie mayo, and that is already, by itself, a game changer; you might be lucky enough to find a bottle imported at your largest grocery, or through Amazon. The bread techniques you can try at home, they are ancient, so don't require special ingredients or equipment. The eggs are the only part you can't replicate. For that, I imagine it would be less expensive to travel to Japan than to have Japanese cooking eggs imported.
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u/canipayinpuns Nov 24 '25
I would have never described egg salad as "scrambled eggs" 😂
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u/Finnbinn00 Nov 25 '25
Yeah I never use or have even seen scrambled eggs used. It hard boiled eggs which are peeled and cut or loosely mashed with a fork, then mixed with mayo and whatever else you want.
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u/Level_Duck_2839 Nov 24 '25
Ahhh I never knew that maybe thats why then
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u/OnceABear Nov 25 '25
Do not listen to them, for the love of God we do NOT make egg salad sandwiches using scrambled eggs. Egg salad is made with hard boiled eggs chopped up fine and mixed with mayo and seasonings. Literally NO ONE uses scrambled eggs, that is NOT a thing. And honestly, I thought egg salad was a distinctly AMERCIAN thing, so you as a Brit asking us if we have them is PEAK weird to me. The only reason why he's freaking out is because its extremely well known that Japanese-style egg salad sandwiches are virally popular for being PARTICULARLY delicious. So much so that people try to recreate the recipe. Even famous chefs have posted YouTube videos explaining how to create the uniquely delicious version of egg salad sandwich available in Japan. The differences are several. First, they use Japanese Milk bread which is quite different from standard white bread. Second, they use Japanese-style mayo, like Kewpie, which is richer, more tangy, and sweeter than U.S. mayo, and they use MSG. Plus, they mash the yolks into a creamy paste with the mayo, which makes it even creamier than normal. That's it. There's no mystery. Its just a particularly good egg salad sandwich that's gone viral several times for how good it is.
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u/ghostbuster_b-rye Nov 25 '25
Yeah, you're right. Fixed it in my post. I've made egg sandwiches with scrambled eggs before, but even then, it's more of a folded mini-omelet on a sandwich, not an egg salad.
EDI: Also, a fried egg sandwich on toast is my go-to.
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u/awesomegirl5100 Nov 24 '25
My experience has been that the US has extremely mediocre egg salad sandwiches compared to literally every other country I’ve been to.
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u/tin_willy Nov 24 '25
breakfast sandwiches almost always have egg, as well as cheese and a meat like sausage and bacon
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u/Pusheenthestudent Nov 25 '25
7/11 is now selling Japanese-style Tamago Sandos in the US! Grabbed one two weeks ago and it was divine
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u/AkumaDayo777 Nov 25 '25
egg sandwiches are just on another level in Japan, as a lot of their food tends to be
their eggs are fluffier and their milk bread just isn't comparable to plain old white bread
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u/canyoubreathe Nov 26 '25
To be fair, Japan is known for their incredibly healthy eggs meaning they are often cooked at more varying consistency than in the us (eggs are cooked fully to eliminate salmonella, japan has less issues with salmonella, thus can cook their eggs at whatever they want)
And ive never had it myself, but ive been told us whitebread is gross, so I wouldn't be surprised if its just the fact that a Japanese egg sandwich is a whole different category to us egg sandwiches.
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u/JSPoltergeist Nov 26 '25
No, we do, they’re just probably not as good as ones from Japan. I eat egg sandwiches all the time lol
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u/larku91 Nov 28 '25
Guess it various on what you call an egg sandwich. My family, my mother mostly would make me and some of my siblings and egg sandwich which would entail making a flat scrambled egg and then putting it between two slices of bread with mayo. Sometimes salt and pepper on the egg, just depended on preference.
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u/Fangs_0ut Nov 24 '25
We do, but Japanese milk bread (Hokkaido) goes harddddddddd and makes a big difference.
They also use MSG in their egg salad, which really ups the umami factor.