Spend enough time on TIkTok like us, you’d know the very popular Roll For Sandwich series – incepted by sandwich connoisseur and Dungeons & Dragons faithful, the show sees Jacob make sandwiches using ingredients that are randomly selected by the roll of the board game dice. He then names his creations and gives them an out-of-ten rating.
He keeps the series fresh by expanding his list of ludicrous ingredients such as candy cane, doughnuts, and alfalfa sprouts. You never really know what to expect when a new episode drops!
Odd combinations are frequent but you’d be surprised how many turn out good – so today, we’re going to look at some of the best and worst sandwiches the show has seen.
The Good
The Crunch Squad – 10/10
We’re starting off strong with a perfect-scoring sandwich; cinnamon bread, sweet capicola, Edam cheese, Almond Crunch Sauce (crushed almonds, sesame seed, and herbs in oil), and Kewpie mayo.
While the ingredients sound strange (they all do), the nutty cheese balances out the sweetness of the capicola and cinnamon bread, while the Almond Crunch Sauce adds depth and texture. The Kewpie also helped bind all the flavours together nicely.
Vlokken-stein’s Monster – 8.7/10
As the name suggests, this monstrosity seemed far gone with a Dutch Hagleslag as the base – this is a popular breakfast in the Netherlands where chocolate sprinkles are added to buttered bread; but this oddity mish-mosh of a sandwich actually pulled through with an impressive 8.7 score
On top of the Hagelslag is one spinach chicken sausage, baby Swiss cheese, raw radicchio leaves, BBQ-flavoured potato chips, and habanero hot sauce to bind it all together.
The dish had everything – crunch, sweetness, bitterness, and a whole lot of spice!
Bombayconator – 8.7 / 10
Of all the proteins Jacob could’ve rolled for this episode, he rolls a Wendy’s Bacon Cheeseburger – yikes!
While it’s technically a sandwich inside a sandwich, it actually tasted pretty nice – the Dungeons & Dragons gods were kind and gave cheese that was also infused with bacon; so no conflicting flavours here.
On the roughage side of things, he rolled cucumbers and chives, which were perfect elements to cut through the already meaty-tasting sandwich. Ironically, for sauce, Jacob rolled the green chutney spread (made with mint, chilli, garlic, and ginger), which is typically used in the all-vegetarian Bombay sandwich from India.
We suspect that it was the Wendy’s burger that did all the leg work for this sandwich, but the other elements completed each other as well. An unexpected but well-deserved 8.7 rating we say!
The Bad
The Pizza Trash – 2 / 10
What can go wrong if you use pineapple pizza as sandwich bread? Well, quite a lot as it turns out.
The game dice then forced Jacob’s hand to butter up the pizza in case there weren’t enough calories in the dish already. A saving grace was the addition of ham and tomatoes, but then a few slices of aged gouda and tahini for the sauce tipped the flavour balance way over.
Unfortunately for Jaboc, the sandwich had no single element that played well together, and the dish was texturally all over the place. Do not try this at home folks.
The UF-Oh-No! – 4.3 / 10
Creative name aside, this sandwich was quite an abomination. The mode of transport was two slices of super bread which had carrots, sunflower seeds and sesame seeds.
Things started to pick back up when he rolled a fried egg and roast beef slice, but luck was not on his side as Jacob had to also include leftovers – which in this case was SpaghettiOs. If you’ve never had SpaghettiOs, it’s basically ring-shaped pasta in tomato sauce from a can.
For the cheese, he used a port wine-infused cheddar spread, which did not complement the addition of mango slices and tomatoes. Lastly, the dice landed on hot mustard which, on paper, could cut through a lot of the wild flavours that the sandwich already had.
Too bad for Jacob, the sandwich was too mushy, and the contrasting tasting notes didn’t help either.
The Revenge of King George III – 0 / 10
This is one of the only few sandwiches to score a grand total of zero and it came as no surprise with ingredients such as bottled beef and sardine meat pastes, brioche slices, muenster cheese, apple, green onions, and Big Bad Ketchup – a mixture of ten different ketchups mixed by Jacob himself. He probably shot himself in the foot here.
To make matters worse, his final roll of sauce landed him with a heaping spoon of pickled chutney. This jam-like spread is sweet and spicy but does nothing to help what is essentially a texturally awful sandwich.
The end result nearly made Jabob’s eye water thanks to the overpowering fishines from the sardine paste. On top of that, the ketchup concoction only served to amplify the nasty flavours of every other ingredient. This sandwich should be locked away in a prison cell forever if you ask us.
Conclusion
With over 200 episodes to catch up on, the Roll for Sandwich series is as entertaining as TikTok videos come – and we weren’t expecting to learn so much about flavour or texture combinations from this.
With that said, we’re heading straight to Wendy’s now to make our own sandwich inside a sandwich.
