Between the Bread

• The greatest hits of NYC's hero sandwiches — Serious Eats
• Laura Werlin's tips for great grilled cheese — YumSugar
• Barros Luco: Chile's star sandwich — Eat the Sink
• Marin Sun Farms burger, from the butcher to your plate — The Hamblogger
• Can KFC outdo the Double Down? Doubtful — Huffington Post Food
• Subway's whole grain bread is hardly healthy — Slashfod

Does Friendly's new Grilled Cheese BurgerMelt one-up the KFC Double Down in decadence? It's a patty melt made from two hot grilled cheese sandwiches instead of bread and dressed with lettuce, tomato, and mayo. (The mayo seems like overkill, doesn't it?) Apparently, it's even worse for you than the Double Down, with 1500 calories, 97 grams fat, and 2090 mgs sodium, but also delicious.

Though this new menu item may seem like a sign of the apocalypse, making a burger with grilled cheese sandwiches isn't a new idea. A very similar sandwich, called the Logan County Burger, led Katie Lee Joel to victory in the Burger Bash at the Food Network's NYC Wine and Food Festival in 2008.

No matter who's making it, I admire the ingenuity, but I doubt I could eat one. How about you?

Just when you thought the KFC Double Down sandwich was the unhealthiest sandwich imaginable, someone raises the stakes. Last week, while I was eating and drinking my way through New Orleans (stay tuned for sandwiches), the Top Cultured blog dreamed up the KFC Double Down Luther Burger.

For those of you unfamiliar, a Luther burger is a hamburger made with a glazed donut (preferably from Krispy Kreme) sliced in half in place of a bun. For this monstrous variation, Top Cultured suggests hitting up a KFC situated near a KK (a frighteningly common occurrence, I'm sure), purchasing the bacon and cheese sandwich made with fried chicken instead of a bun, then sandwiching that between a Krispy Kreme classic glazed.

As if that weren't enough, the fast foodies recommend extra KFC Colonel's Sauce. I'm not one to shy away from grease, but I'll take a humble fried oyster po'boy any day over this. Would you take a bite?

• Scoot around town, sandwich style — Insanewiches
• Mad scientist sandwiches at the Ace Hotel's sub shop — Serious Eats
• A brewer offers beer pairings for the KFC Double Down — Huffington Post Food
• Beyond the Double Down: the grossest, yummiest fast food sammies — Amog
• Critics share their favorite foods, including Bakesale Betty— San Francisco Chronicle
• Rosamunde makes a mean breakfast sandwich — BreadxBread
• Indian tacos: a taste of Native American cuisine — The Atlantic Food

In August, I reported that KFC was testing a sandwich called the Double Down, which uses fried chicken patties in place of bread. After an apparently successful run in Nebraska and Rhode Island, the Double Down will become a standard KFC menu offering.

The sandwich will make its decadent debut today. The chain lists the nutritional info if you're interested (hint: it's bad for you) along with this description:

two thick and juicy boneless white meat chicken fillets (Original Recipe or Grilled), two pieces of bacon, two melted slices of Monterey Jack and pepper jack cheese and Colonel's Sauce. This product is so meaty, there’s no room for a bun!

As one Facebook reader commented the first time I wrote about this, when does it stop being a sandwich and start being chicken cordon bleu? Good question. Another might be, when does fried food stop being good and just start being gross? Probably when you're deep-frying a sandwich made with French fries. Would you gamble on the Double Down?

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