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What Your BLT Says About You

Sandwich choices offer insight into personality, love connections

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 23, 2009 1:50 PM CDT

(Newser) – Online dating sites and jury-selection pools may have a new criterion for determining personality traits: sandwich choice. A new study breaks down the deli line, finding, among other things, that BLT lovers are devoted perfectionists who are best matched with loyal, unselfish seafood-salad lovers, the Chicago Tribune reports. More culinary match-ups:

Club sandwich: Also compatible with BLT lovers, those who prefer club sandwiches are agreeable and committed in their relationships.

Ham and cheese: Inquisitive and independent, pork-and-dairy devotees work best without any strong love connections.
Egg salad: Entertaining, energetic, and always craving excitement; compatible with just about any other sandwich type.
Turkey: Turkey lovers are free thinkers who need space; function best with other turkey lovers.
Tuna: Competitive, type-A personalities who get along best with other tuna-lovers—or the flexible egg salad person.
Chicken salad: Perhaps the best type of all for a spouse or partner, chicken-salad lovers are easy-going and understanding.

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BLT lovers have integrity, according to a recent study. (Photo: Business Wire)

Roast beef wasn't included in the study, but food critic Phil Vettel figures "roast-beef-sandwich types make good providers. Roast-beef-and-horseradish types are dashing, and could use a breath mint." (PRNewsFoto/Togo's Eateries, Inc.)

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Alexandria

Jul 24, 2009 12:52 PM CDT

"One of the challenges about peanut butter and jelly," Hirsch says, "is that too many people choose that. When everybody chooses one thing, you can't make a statistical statement about it; similarly, you can't use something that nobody chose."

BrittanyM

Jul 23, 2009 8:25 AM CDT

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Timinator2K

Jul 23, 2009 7:10 AM CDT

Typical Newser non-news...which is usually the only un-hyper-biased thing they publish.

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