Skip to content

Top Navigation

Food & Wine Food & Wine
  • Recipes & Cooking
  • Drinks
  • Travel
  • Holidays & Events
  • News
  • F&W Classic
  • Video
  • Kitchen & Home
  • F&W Pro

Profile Menu

Your Profile

Your Profile

  • Join Now
  • Newsletters
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Give a Gift Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Wine Club
  • Podcast
  • Logout
Login
Subscribe Subscribe
Pin FB

Explore Food & Wine

Food & Wine Food & Wine
  • Explore

    Explore

    • F&W Cooks

      Food and Wine presents a new network of food pros delivering the most cookable recipes and delicious ideas online. Read More Next
    • Our 22 Best Crock Pot and Slow-Cooker Recipes

      Looking to amp up your beef stew but unsure where to start? A slow cooker can can take your comfort food to the next level. Read More Next
    • 50 Affordable Wines You Can Always Trust

      We’ve assembled a list of 50 of the world’s most reliable, inexpensive wines – bottles that offer amazing quality for their price year in and year out. Read More Next
  • Recipes & Cooking

    Recipes & Cooking

    See All Recipes & Cooking
    • Chicken Recipes
    • Comfort Food Recipes
    • Breakfast & Brunch Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • Dessert Recipes
    • Vegetable Recipes
    • Pasta & Noodle Recipes
    • Chefs
    • Meat & Poultry Recipes
    • Soup Recipes
    • Appetizer Recipes
    • Side Dishes
    • Fruit Recipes
    • Seafood Recipes
    • Special Diets
    • Cooking Techniques
    • Steal This Trick
  • Drinks

    Drinks

    See All Drinks
    • Wine
    • Cocktails & Spirits
    • Coffee Drinks & Recipes
    • Juices
    • Beer & Brews
    • Champagne & Sparkling Wine
    • Tea Recipes & Ideas
  • Travel

    Travel

    See All Travel
    • Wine Regions
    • Restaurants
  • Holidays & Events

    Holidays & Events

    See All Holidays & Events
    • Valentine's Day
    • Halloween
    • Passover
    • Hanukkah
    • Christmas
    • Gifts
    • Super Bowl
    • Easter
    • Thanksgiving
    • New Year's Eve
    • Holiday Entertaining
  • News
  • F&W Classic
  • Video
  • Kitchen & Home
  • F&W Pro

Profile Menu

Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
Your Profile

Your Profile

  • Join Now
  • Newsletters
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Give a Gift Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Wine Club
  • Podcast
  • Logout
Login
Sweepstakes

Follow Us

  1. Home Chevron Right
  2. News Chevron Right
  3. 11 Republican Presidential Candidates As Represented by Sandwiches

11 Republican Presidential Candidates As Represented by Sandwiches

By Food & Wine
Updated September 16, 2015
Skip gallery slides
Save FB Tweet
Credit: Photo Composite: Bloomberg / Getty Images / iStockphoto
Election season is upon us, and the number of candidates throwing their hats into the ring keeps on growing. Each one is vying for a chance to lead the free world, but to do so, they must appeal to the humblest citizens. In short, the candidates all want to be something we'd order. Since there's a sandwich for every taste, much like there's usually a candidate for every political leaning, here is the first in our series of the 2016 candidates as represented by sandwiches.
Start Slideshow

1 of 11

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Donald Trump

Credit: Photo Composite: Bloomberg / Getty Images / Christina Holmes

Open-Faced Ham Sandwich:

There's no bread covering up what's inside this sandwich, which can be a refreshing option to have on the menu. While some people think it comes with a little too much ham for their taste, a surprising number of folks would still consider ordering this one.

1 of 11

Advertisement
Advertisement

2 of 11

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Jeb Bush

Credit: Photo Composite: Johnny Louis / Getty Images / Lucy Schaeffer

The Leftovers Sandwich:

It's practical and filling, but in the end, it's made up of ingredients from meals we've already had.

2 of 11

3 of 11

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Scott Walker

Credit: Photo Composite: Richard Ellis / Alamy / Fredrika Stjärne

Grilled Cheese Sandwich:

Popular plain folks' fare featuring Wisconsin's pride front and center. Also, and most important, an actual sandwich.

3 of 11

Advertisement

4 of 11

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Carly Fiorina

Credit: Photo Composite: © Scott Olson / Getty Images / Lew Robertson / Corbis

Lettuce-Wrapped Burger:

Don't you dare discredit this sandwich for having a different exterior. Inside it's still red-blooded American beef. Unfotunately, people only started taking this kind of burger seriously a few years ago.

4 of 11

5 of 11

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Marco Rubio

Credit: Photo Composite: Larry Marano/ Getty Images / Robert Fisher

Cuban Sandwich:

The Cubano is a classic, well-liked sandwich with bold flavor, but just make sure the pickles within aren't too sour. That can turn people off.

5 of 11

6 of 11

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Mike Huckabee

Credit: Photo Composite: Bloomberg / Getty Images

Chik-Fil-A Sandwich:

Southern through and through, the Chik-Fil-A is pretty popular everywhere, but behind this sandwich is a core set of beliefs some voters can't stomach.

6 of 11

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

7 of 11

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Ted Cruz

Credit: Photo Composite: Bloomberg / Tannis Toohey / Getty Images

Smoked Meat Sandwich:

It has a certain overstuffed appeal but isn't known to work particularly well with anything else on the plate. Also originally from Canada.

7 of 11

8 of 11

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Ben Carson

Credit: Photo Composite: Scott Olson / Getty Images /Con Poulos

Ice Cream Sandwich:

You have to stretch a bit to consider this one a viable sandwich. It's definitely something to indulge in during the primaries, but not a likely main course.

8 of 11

9 of 11

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Chris Christie

Credit: Photo Composite: Bloomberg / DEA / G.PISACANE / Getty Images

Plain Calzone:

Big and hearty with a warm, bread-y exterior, a cheese calzone is full of potential (even if a little bland).

9 of 11

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

10 of 11

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

John Kasich

Credit: Photo Composite: David McLain / Getty Images

The Polish Boy Sandwich:

Impressive sandwich credentials—sausage, French fries, hot sauce, coleslaw—but much like the governor, you have almost certainly never heard of it unless you are from Ohio.

10 of 11

11 of 11

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Rand Paul

Credit: Photo Composite: Bloomberg / Getty Images / iStockphoto

Cold Cut Platter:

Because every ingredient should independently govern itself.

11 of 11

Replay gallery

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook

Up Next

By Food & Wine

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook
Trending Videos
Advertisement
Skip slide summaries

Everything in This Slideshow

Advertisement

View All

1 of 11 Donald Trump
2 of 11 Jeb Bush
3 of 11 Scott Walker
4 of 11 Carly Fiorina
5 of 11 Marco Rubio
6 of 11 Mike Huckabee
7 of 11 Ted Cruz
8 of 11 Ben Carson
9 of 11 Chris Christie
10 of 11 John Kasich
11 of 11 Rand Paul

Share options

Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Login

Food & Wine

Magazines & More

Learn More

  • Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
  • Books from Food & Wine
  • Contact Us
  • Media Kit
  • Content Licensing

Connect

Follow Us
Subscribe to Our Newsletter
Other Meredith Sites

Other Meredith Sites

  • 4 Your Health this link opens in a new tab
  • Allrecipes this link opens in a new tab
  • All People Quilt this link opens in a new tab
  • Better Homes & Gardens this link opens in a new tab
  • Bizrate Insights this link opens in a new tab
  • Bizrate Surveys this link opens in a new tab
  • Cooking Light this link opens in a new tab
  • Daily Paws this link opens in a new tab
  • EatingWell this link opens in a new tab
  • Eat This, Not That this link opens in a new tab
  • Entertainment Weekly this link opens in a new tab
  • Health this link opens in a new tab
  • Hello Giggles this link opens in a new tab
  • Instyle this link opens in a new tab
  • Martha Stewart this link opens in a new tab
  • Midwest Living this link opens in a new tab
  • More this link opens in a new tab
  • MyRecipes this link opens in a new tab
  • MyWedding this link opens in a new tab
  • My Food and Family this link opens in a new tab
  • MyLife this link opens in a new tab
  • Parenting this link opens in a new tab
  • Parents this link opens in a new tab
  • People this link opens in a new tab
  • People en Español this link opens in a new tab
  • Rachael Ray Magazine this link opens in a new tab
  • Real Simple this link opens in a new tab
  • Ser Padres this link opens in a new tab
  • Shape this link opens in a new tab
  • Siempre Mujer this link opens in a new tab
  • Southern Living this link opens in a new tab
  • SwearBy this link opens in a new tab
  • Travel & Leisure this link opens in a new tab
Food & Wine is part of the Meredith Corporation Allrecipes Food Group. © Copyright 2021 Meredith Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policythis link opens in a new tab Terms of Servicethis link opens in a new tab Ad Choicesthis link opens in a new tab California Do Not Sellthis link opens a modal window Web Accessibilitythis link opens in a new tab
© Copyright . All rights reserved. Printed from https://www.foodandwine.com

View image

11 Republican Presidential Candidates As Represented by Sandwiches
this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.