I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, you loaf.

Do you get the reference? Do I need to ask? Are you insulted?

I have found a love match in my dad and my friend Mimi. Their meatloaf banter is a harmonic convergence, although they have never met.

Mimi writes:
I love meatloaf sandwiches. I love to have a warmed, thick slice of leftover meatloaf, on a good hard roll with ketchup and and red onion. Sometimes with sweet relish. I like the roll to be untoasted, because I like the temperature contrast with the warm meatloaf. Not that complicated, but yummers. I suppose the whole trick is in the quality of the meat loaf. I can’t imagine not liking ML

And from my dad:
And leftover ML is a great cold sandwich on fresh bread or a nice crispy semmel or Kaiser roll. (Gotta be crispy, so no Safeway pre packaged rolls, please). Mustard for me in this case, but with lots of crispy HEAD lettuce, not the kind of lettuce that is nutritious. That would spoil the intent of that particular sannitch. By the way, along the same lines, meatball sandwiches are great, too, but a lot juicier to eat.

And they are both so familiar with the stuff. ML! Something like calling Martin Scorcese Marty. Or Deniro, Bobby. ML indeed!

Love Match and Meat Loaf have a pleasing syllabic synchronicity and inside-out illiteration. LM and ML.

Mimi and my dad are in the school of contrasting texture. Meatloaf on a crunchy roll. They are renegades. Most meatloaf sandwich disciples favor soft bread. I am thinking that the hard roll/soft bread line is drawn similarly to the mayo vs mustard camps.

So far in my meatloaf investigation no one has mentioned a particular recipe. Most remarks have been about engineering the sandwich properly. More to come on this topic.