September Sunrise Sandwich Spree, Day 8: Ted’s Ultimate Breakfast Sammy

Ted’s Ultimate Breakfast Sammy (T.U.B.S.)

Ted’s Bulletin 505 8th Street SE Barracks Row Breakfast anytime from 7:00 a.m. daily $9.79

I’ve written often, both on this site and on the corresponding Twitter feed, about the distinction between “overpriced” and “expensive” sandwiches. To be sure, there are $10 sandwiches that are worth every penny. But there are, without question, vastly more $10 sandwiches whose fair market price is probably closer to half that amount. Of those few and far between sandwiches that can justify that kind of price tag, fewer still are breakfast sandwiches, which, as the selections in my month-long project have shown, generally fall in the $4 to $7 range. Ted’s Ultimate Breakfast Sammy (T.U.B.S.) from the much ballyhooed Barracks Row diner/bistro Ted’s Bulletin, the eighth entry in our September Sunrise Sandwich Spree, is an interesting case. It is undoubtedly an exceptional sandwich. Viewed alongside yesterday’s Aramingo Avenue hoagie from Taylor Gourmet, T.U.B.S. is also a great illustration of the wildly different, but no less fantastic, sandwiches one can create from similar ingredients. With sausage, bacon, scrambled egg, fried egg and cheddar on butter-soaked Texas toast, T.U.B.S. is another behemoth that can easily sate a two-meal appetite. And eggs two ways? That’s not something you see every day, but after this sandwich I’m wondering why not. Whether this all justifies the cost is not for me to decide, but there’s no question that T.U.B.S., judged on its merits alone, is among the small elite of D.C.’s finest breakfast sandwiches.