January List Sandwiches and December Wrapup
Welcome to 2019, the penultimate year of The List here at Sandwich Tribunal. We should have this whole thing wrapped up inside of 2 years. Hard to know what I’ll do with myself after that.
December was a mixed bag here at the Tribunal, not quite the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly though, more like the Good, the Fair, and the Obscene. We started the month with London’s Salt Beef Bagel, for which I made both the bagel and the salt beef as it was cheaper than flying to London. We also tried Argentina’s Sandwiches de Miga, a fairly nondescript type of multi-layer tea sandwich that nevertheless is immensely popular at parties in Buenos Aires. Finally, the dreaded Sandwich Loaf turned out awful pretty, key word being awful. Lessons were learned and the chapter is closed. Onward to January!
In January we’ll be talking about Sausage sandwiches. Funny that this is basically a catchall category that includes hot dog, yet it doesn’t inspire the same irrational divisions that the question “Is a hot dog a sandwich?” does. Next up is the Schmitter, a big giant mess of a sandwich from Philadelphia that is not as well known as either the world famous cheesesteak nor the slightly less famous Philly-style roast pork sandwich. I’m looking forward to it and have had local agents feeding me intel already. Finally there is the “sealed crustless” sandwich, which seems like something that somebody made up to justify the existence of Uncrustables. Is this really a thing? I guess we’ll find out.
Any of these sandwiches speak to you? Get in touch, we’re always looking for your unique perspective, whether for a little local color to add to one of our pieces or for you to write it up yourself!
Changes to the List
In December it was mostly vandalism, but it does look like Pork Roll was added to the List. Since we’re past the Ps, we’ll have to add it to the make-up section at the end.
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.
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