You have to be a Grey Poupon huffing aristocrat to use fancy bread for grilled cheese or a BLT. Do hot dogs need whole grain? Come on now.
If you want to taste white trash haute cuisine, do a fried bologna sandwich. Get in your truck and go to the gas station for your Wonderbread, Oscar Mayer bologna that smells like a fart, and the Heinz ketchup. The trick is you have to slice the meat so it fries in a cross shape because otherwise it curls up into a freakish meatcup that could be a tit sliced off by Ed Gein. I can't remember if it needs much more than that and maybe some iceberg lettuce. The processed meat transmutes from limp smelly rubber to a delicious crunchy mouthfeel like bacon with the squishy bread to cushion it and tame the salt. Poverty food doesn't have to be disgusting.
This one's even fancier than needed. I had to look up what Chow Chow is, they mean relish.
Putting chips in a sandwich is also a chad move. Protip: use a high-heat kind like Paqui ghost pepper chips plus avocado.
Here's a not even trashy version with rye bread. Look how fucking good this is.
This recipe brings us back. Way back.
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Elvis might have died on a toilet but that's a fair price for eating like a king on food like this.