re: how would you dress a chicken and sausage/andouille/tasso gumbo poboy?

I would make a jambalaya and omit the rice and extra liquids. Make some fresh white beans cook them really thick and creamy, slather that on a toasted po boy bread and then put some almost jambalaya mixture on it.

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do you think same way about RB poboy and good roast with rice and gravy you could be having?

What is fundamental difference between two thoughts?

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Now I've been intrigued and actually read the thread. This is a good point to bring up, Rouge, but the fundamental difference between the two is that a roast beef sandwich works because the roast beef is the main player in a good pot roast. You serve yourself some roast, then put the gravy over rice as a side to go with the nice piece of roast,even if it's giant mound of rice and gravy. The roast is first fiddle and the rice and gravy is really good along with it. So, in a roast beef poboy you have a nice solid chunk of beef to build the sandwich on that captures what the original dish was all about.

The gumbo on the other hand is a soup, for lack of a better term (anything roux based to me is more than a soup where water extracts flavors on its own; the roux is one of the main flavorants along with what the water can extract from the other ingredients), and has a liquid as its main player. Once the chicken and sausage give up their flavors to the liquid, they play second fiddle to the gumbo itself. They're just the tasty bites of protein you eat between spoonfuls of the gumbo and rice headliner. Trying to capture a gumbo flavor by pulling the meat out and putting it on bread with other things just misses that the gumbo liquid is the gold in the dish and it could fall flat on its face with people wondering where the gumbo is. If you serve a wet sandwich coated with the gumbo liquid, then we're right back to people eating with two hands and wondering where the rice, bowls, and spoons are.

If you pull it off, though, be sure to let us know how you did it.

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gumbo poboy?

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I think I just had a little bit of food come up.

I make soup sandwiches all the time, they're great.

Skip the sandwiches. Make a standard bowl of gumbo except use half the juice as if youre making rice and gravy instead of gumbo. Shred all the meat and mix everything together, then make empanadas with the mixture and deep fry it. It's gumbo meatpies.