Talk:BLT

message: I have never heard this before, is this an American thing? I like BLT and I am not allergic to red meat. Google can find no other references to this. Edward
: me neither, jimfbleak 09:30 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)
: I removed the sentence Edward 15:46, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Bacon (pork) is technically red meat. —jiy (talk) 07:06, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

text: No, Red and White meat are culinary definaintions and meat from pigs is White meat Dainamo (talk) 14:40, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old discussions 

message: Just a quick comment to say that BLT sandwiches in Britain are quite often served on wholemeal bread rather than white. Loganberry (Talk) 00:05, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sadly to say, but here in America, most people tend to prefer the foods that are less natural. Take for example, all the fast food chains. In a highly populated city, it can almost be said that you'll never be more than a block away from fast food places. The low prices, the ease, and the marketing convince people to take the white bread over the whole wheat. 69.208.173.93 06:12, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I've been making or ordering BLTs for over fifty (50) years. Personally I prefer the bread toasted and I like both whole wheat and white, I just decide what I want at the time and Ive never been to a restaurant in the US where I have not been offered whole wheat. The person above in red is just passing along European propaganda about Americans.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.32.11.192 (talk) 14:43, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Britain 

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thread_title:  YouTube links 

message: This should be on Alton Brown's page, or on the Good Eats page.
::In an episode of Good Eats, Alton Brown declared that a BLT is too difficult to eat as a sandwich, and constructed a salad of bacon, lettuce, cherry and grape tomatoes, and croutons with a vinaigrette dressing. He also dubbed it a TLB, claiming that the tomatoes are the real feature of the dish.
--Phant 04:03, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cut out the TLB Salad invented by some dude on Food Network; put it on his page if you have to. 

message: I'm not convinced. Is there something you could cite to support this claim? Bigpeteb 04:46, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They eat plenty of them in the US.  So whether it's a British sandwich or not it's also an American sandwich.  I'll look for any appropriate categories to add.  Wikidemo 23:55, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The term BLT appears in US publications from the mid-1980s.  "I could make four BLT's from one slice" Philadelphia Inquirer 1986.  "The food is classic short-order fare... a BLT" LA Times 1986.  "Instead of cheeseburgers, they've gotten chicken sandwiches and a BLT" Chicago Tribune 1986.  Prior to that blt is an abbreviation of 'built' in property ads.  Capitalised it makes a brief appearance in 1983 as the official name for the US/French Battalion Landing Team (building) attacked in Lebanon. Hakluyt bean (talk) 04:04, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  BLTs are British? 

message: Okay, my vote is to keep this section. It is interesting and adds to the article. It's not just a random "Trivia" section in my oppinion, and lots of articles have "In Popular Culture" sections. Captain Phoebus 17:17, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I looked it over and don't see anything there that's terribly helpful or illustrative of the sandwich.  Nothing anyone needs to know to understand the subject.  Wikidemo 23:54, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Popular Culture 

message: This could be included as a variant, it's essentially the same sandwich, just without the bacon. I will add it if there are no objections.--RLent (talk) 17:29, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich 

message: Entire article was deleted and Pornographic links were put instead, by an anonymous user. Any admins please make note of this, and carry out ip-banning measures. The ip is 85.92.73.245 (talk) 18:46, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article subjected to Vandalism 

message: The article mentions the BLT’s ordinal rank of popular sandwiches. If the BLT is second most popular, it would be helpful to say which sandwich beats it. For example, if someone were doing some research on what to put on a menu. Synetech (talk) 12:34, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The source appears to be unreliable and has been tagged as such. I suggest deletion. I find it hard to believe that the peanut butter and jelly sandwich isn't more popular than both the BLT and ham sandwich in the US. Weetoddid (talk) 15:36, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Second'' Most Popular 

message: Per WP:LEAD: "Abbreviations and acronyms are generally avoided unless the subject is almost exclusively known by its abbreviation (e.g. NATO and Laser)."
I know that the sandwich is most often referred to as a BLT, but that doesn't mean it's exclusively known as this. This article should, in my opinion, be called "Bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich". Anyone else have an opinion about this? DKqwerty (talk) 17:50, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Almost is an important qualifier. Where exactly does one draw the line between most often and almost exclusively? I say no move. -- Logotu (talk) 20:49, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed move 

message: BLTs are the second most popular sandwich in the US after ham and cheese? Whoever wrote that is full of horse poop. Burgers are clearly also sandwiches (hence the original term, "Hamburger sandwich"), and anyone with common sense can tell that burgers are WAY more commonly eaten here than BLTs. Succubus MacAstaroth (talk) 20:14, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The book cited itself just cites one opinion: "according to restaurant critic John Mariani." Maybe this is regional, but where I live you hardly ever see a ham sandwich on a menu, anywhere. There shouldn't be any statement of what the most popular sandwich is without a citation backing it up with some kind of survey or poll. --Ericjs (talk) 19:57, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to delete citation 1 along with its corresponding quote. 

message: I propose the article Bacon, Lettuce, and_Avocado be merged with this one. That article is short, the differences are insignificant. and I believe there is little room for development. Despite living in Philly, I've never even heard of the baseball playoff reference. 
Further, a surprising number of people probably stumble onto that page because it is the first disambiguation listing for the search query, "bla".
If we want to move this to the 'BLA'page, there needs to be a lot more done with that page to make it more informative.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by DTBH (talk • contribs) 07:07, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the original proposer that it be merged into BLT (sandwich), it's more closely related. -- œ™ 03:30, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to merge "BLA" here 

message: The article does not say what the outcome was. Michael Hardy (talk) 21:26, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lina Morales lawsuit 

message: I've written up my suggested addition to the popularity section. 
reading the discussion above, there does appear to be local consensus (with one editor objecting). I'd appreciate it if someone could add this sentance into the article, but if there's no objections in the next 24 hours, I'll do it myself. KW, if you still find this text significantly objectionable, let me know and I'll start up an RfC to get more eyes on the situation. WormTT · (talk) 11:16, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Support: The above sentence is directly supported by multiple, reliable sources.  The discussion about the mechanics of commodities trading and deep agronomical analysis steered this discussion well afield of the scope of this article, which is, after all, about a sandwich.  The above sentence appears, from the sources, to be factually correct and solidly verfiable through multiple reliable sources.  Good stuff.  --Jayron32 14:29, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Before voting, some discussion may be useful. Your text's style and its accuracy can be improved. 
 Kiefer.Wolfowitz 17:40, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

text: Support that too.  --Jayron32 18:04, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Jayron, but we must choose one among them (or others). Do you agree that mine has better style and is more faithful to the sources?  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:00, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No need for rivalry here KW, your version incorporates all the information I would like to see in the article - I'm happy with that. And since there's no objections to it, would you like to put it in, or should I? WormTT · (talk) 19:02, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Why don't you go ahead. I would probably rewrite it again!  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:58, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah for collaboration!  Wikipedia works!  --Jayron32 23:14, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggested addition

message: Here's why.  Lengthy article, but I'm thinking BLT is an acronym for 'bacon lettuce tomato' and only appears where sandwiches containing predominately those ingredients are advertised for sale, for example on a menu, on the label of a sandwich wrapper, or in a newspaper advertisement.  Other than that, so far as I can tell, there is no canonical BLT, neither are there BLTs.  BLT is an acronym in a commercial context and relates to sandwiches.  A lot of the article seems to concern itself with different ways to make sandwiches containing bacon, lettuce and tomato.  All very yummy.  However, I think people were sticking bacon, lettuce and tomato between slices of bread long before someone in a hurry wrote BLT on a menu. Hakluyt bean (talk) 03:52, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have other subjects which use the acronym BLT and need their own article, you could write them by following the instructions at Wikipedia:Disambiguation.  Articles are each supposed to be about a single subject, not every possible use of the title.  --Jayron32 04:28, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perplexed 

message: The reference link for the line about eggs goes to a one-sentence personal blog post. With no comments. It seems vastly insufficient to warrant being included in the article at all, let alone being portrayed as a matter of controversy. Gonna cut it. Spark240 (talk) 20:27, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Controversial" egg? 

message: there is much mention of mayonnaise.  the first mention is that UK substituted a low fat mayo.  so it is inferred that indeed, a BLT has 5 ingredients, not just 4.
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jmarcv  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.92.157.252 (talk) 01:51, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  what about mayo? 

message: Is the "streaky" or "American style" bacon the standard, or is it subject to regional bacon variation such as "back" or "peameal" bacon?  Someone should probably add something on that if there is. -- 24.212.139.102 (talk) 22:27, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Bacon" - region variations? 

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message: I was surprised to see the suggestion here that BLTs may be toasted sandwiches. I have always known them as being on a fresh role, or even an un-toasted sandwich. Who the hell wants toasted lettuce, anyway. In Ireland, I have several times been given a "toasted BLT" that appears to have some horrid green slime inside that was probably once lettuce. TonyP (talk) 13:37, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toasted? 

message: Have any other sources ever reported that Tony Blair's choice of BLT as his favorite sandwich "is loaded with political symbolism" Is the source enough for content about a living politician? I'm leaning towards removing this as non-encyclopedic gossipy trivia. Spudlace (talk) 04:52, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  2004 New Statesman report 

message: What's the abbreviation to that? Alexkrzywicki1 (talk) 17:54, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  BLT dub for Dragon Ball Z