You don’t want to know what’s inside

Country Cupboard is a mess

Bologna sandwich at Country Cupboard/ Photos by Michael Stern
Bologna sandwich at Country Cupboard/ Photos by Michael Stern
Avatar photo
Avatar photo

People come to Country Cupboard of Barnwell for many reasons, foremost among them to buy a sandwich. Available ingredients extend beyond ordinary deli cold cuts. Customers can choose from eight kinds of ham, four kinds of turkey, five different beefs, and countless cheeses including four Swiss (aged, baby, smoked, and regular). Lebanon bologna, a faintly smoky and barely fermented beef sausage from Pennsylvania Dutch country, always is on hand.

Sandwiches are made to order, starting with a customer’s choice of bread. Options are white or wheat, marble rye, sub roll, wrap, or croissant. They’re all softies; nothing is crusty. White slices, baked on premises, are lightweights, their flavor indiscernible.

 
blue-line

This article is available to paying subscribers.

BECOME A SUBSCRIBER

Help us cover food and drink across the American South as though it mattered as much as crime and politics (because it does).