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fat sandwich (plural fat sandwiches)

  1. (US, New Jersey) A submarine sandwich containing various fast food items such as burgers, fries, and gyro meat.
    • 2005, Taryn Lynn Sauthoff, Omid Gohari, Rutgers New Brunswick College Prowler Off the Record, page 58:
      Nationwide, Rutgers is more known for its grease trucks then its highly rated business school. [] It is said that you are not really a Rutgers student until you have had a fat sandwich.
    • 2012, Renee Pires, Day Trips from Philadelphia, page 43:
      At the top of the food chain is PJ's, whose pizza wins high accolades, and whose menu of fat sandwiches (a local delicacy that stuffs as many deep-fried items into a roll as possible) is extensive.