February List Sandwiches and January Wrapup
Hello sandwich fans! Welcome to another chapter in our List of sandwiches. In January we celebrated National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day, as we’ve done in years previous; however, this time it was actually Pastrami on Rye’s turn on our list. Good timing, that! In addition, we explored the world of panini, both the Italian original and the American knockoff, and I personally was blown away by how good a patty melt can be. It was a month full of pretty spectacular sandwiches, and February is going to have a lot to live up to.
Speaking of February, let’s see what we have coming up!
Oh boy. Well, I cannot say that peanut butter and jelly is a bad sandwich–in fact, a PB&J with crunchy peanut butter on toasted bread with an ice cold glass of milk is just the thing before bed–but I don’t know if I can find anything interesting to say about it. Hopefully somebody will step up who can. In addition to the classic PB&J, we’ve got the Argentine Pebete, which should be fun, as I always love an excuse to bake sandwich-specific bread rolls; and the Pepito, a Latin American steak sandwich that appears to admit many variations. Those can be difficult to nail down, but the research is always fun.
So do any of these sandwiches speak to you? Want to write for the Tribunal? Get in touch!
Changes to the List
- “Fish finger sandwich” was added to the list on January 8th. If this sticks around, it will go in our Make-Up Sandwich Queue to be explored at some point during or after our initial run through the list is complete.
- Hot Dog was removed and readded once again.
- Something called a “Banga Sanga” (also known as Democracy Sausage) was added to the list, then removed again, citing the fact that Sausage Sandwich is already on the list. The Banga Sanga appears to be an Australian thing, a hot dog served on a single slice of white bread with fried onions and ketchup or barbecue sauce. Any of our Australian cohort familiar with this phenomenon?
- Sneak preview to February: Taco has been readded to the list as of February 1st. This may not last. It may even be removed before this article is published. But part of me is glad it remains controversial, and I’m looking forward to covering it when the time comes. (Of course, I will eat many tacos between now and then)
- UPDATE: Taco was removed 7 hours after being readded.
The idea behind this site is to explore the nature of sandwichness by eating every sandwich on the Official en.wikipedia.org List of Sandwiches and then to post here about it, preferably with lots of pictures and also words. Sandwich words.
Democracy sausage is totally a thing. I could write a post about it, but there would need to be a(n)(federal) election on, as it only happens when there is one. Otherwise it is just a sausage sandwich/sausage sizzle.