Showing posts with label sandwiches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sandwiches. Show all posts

November 3 - Sandwich Day in the U.S.A.

 Posted on November 3, 2021


This is an update of my post published on November 3, 2010:

“Sandwiches are beautiful, 
sandwiches are fine!
I like sandwiches—I eat them all the time!”

- song by Bob King

 


Today is Sandwich Day because it is the birthday of the guy who is often said to have invented sandwiches.

John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, was born on November 3, 1718. He liked to play card games so much, he didn't want to bother to take a break for a proper meal that had to be eaten with knife and fork. Instead, he often ordered his servants to bring him a slice of meat between two slices of bread. He could play cards and eat the one-handed meal at the same time—and his hands didn't get greasy.


John Montagu

You can see from his resemblance to the "Founding
Fathers" of the U.S. that this painting  was created
by Thomas Gainsborough at roughly the same time 
that the United States was born. The fashion of breeches,
waistcoats, and powdered wigs made men a bit difficult
to distinguish from one another!

Of course, even though many sources retell this story of the Earl of Sandwich inventing the entire idea of sandwiches, people have been making and eating sandwiches (by many other names) since the invention of bread during the Neolithic Age. 

The sandwich - with the name "sandwich" - made its way into polite English and American society from a food shared by men as they played cards, to a late-night meal for aristocratic men and women, to a fast, portable midday meal for the working classes in the new factories and industrial settings.

By the way, even though Montagu didn't invent sandwiches, they do owe their name to him. Also, a friend of Montagu's named James Cook discovered some Pacific Islands and named them the Sandwich Islands.


The Sandwich Islands do not resemble either the Earl
of Sandwich or the portable food named for him.



Celebrate sandwiches!

You could eat sandwiches morning, noon, and night!


  • Here is a gathering of sandwich recipes for little kids. 
  • And here are many more sandwich recipes - probably for older kids and adults.




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November 13 - Sandwich Day

Posted on November 13, 2020


There are many stories that claim that the modern sandwich is named after John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich.

One story is that Lord Sandwich didn't want to get up from gambling long enough to eat a proper meal, so he would ask his servants for the portable, no-need-for-a-plate meat-plus-bread. Another story suggests that the dedicated art patron, public servant, and naval officer ate what we now call sandwiches at his work desk.

Whatever the case, today is the Earl of Sandwich's birthday (he was born on November 13, 1718), and we can remember him by eating our favorite sandwiches!

Here are some of mine: beef dips, Disneyland's cheese-only Monte Cristo, a grilled cheese sandwich with pepperjack cheese, Subway's Veggie Delite, a fully-loaded burger (preferably a veggie burger), and a variety of vegetarian sandwiches that I've been lucky enough to try in my life!










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April 12 – Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day


Posted on April 12, 2017

One of the most delicious-but-decadent things I ever eat is a 3-Cheese Monte Cristo - Swiss, mozzarella, and double-cream Brie cheeses in a battered, deep-fried sandwich, dusted with powdered sugar and served with berry purée. 

 I mean, it's supposed to be my dinner - but it's such a dessert!

 I get it at Café Orleans in Disneyland. Needless to say, I don't get it very often!!!

 That's close to a grilled cheese sandwich, but deep frying is not grilling. Luckily for me, since I eat grilled cheese sandwiches far more often than I eat that decadent Monte Cristo, grilling is lower in fat and lower in calories!


Melting cheese on top of bread has been along since at least the time of the Ancient Romans and is common everywhere that cheese and bread exist. (Pizzas and quesadillas are only two of bajillions of examples from various cuisines.) But the common availability of pre-sliced bread made what we think of as a "grilled cheese sandwich" very popular in the 1920s - especially since we can now buy cheese perfectly pre-sliced, as well. 

 Making a grilled cheese sandwich is easy - just butter two slices of bread, pop some between the unbuttered sides, and put the whole thing on a skillet or griddle, or in the broiler, or in one of those little sandwich appliances, or even in a waffle iron that has a grilled-sandwich side.

 What's your favorite grilled cheese sandwich? Mine is pepperjack cheese on 7-grain bread. Yum-umm!

 (But it's not quite as good as the Monte Cristo!)

 Here are some other grilled-cheese recipes.


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