The Taco: Not Really a Sandwich. Or Is It?
Taco does not currently appear on the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches. It was listed there in the past for a brief period. Back around late 2014 or early 2015, when I realized that this...
Yearly Archive: 2019
Happy 5th Birthday, Sandwich Tribunal!
Early in 2014, my friends Josh, Thom and I started sending brag photos of all the delicious sandwiches we were eating to each other on Twitter. Josh, at the time, was keeping a pretty...
Back Home, We Just Call Them Maid-Rites
Tavern sandwiches are on the List for this month. I’ve eaten at many a tavern in my day, and had my own ideas about what might constitute a tavern sandwich. Imagine my surprise, then,...
August List Sandwiches and July Wrapup
August is a special month for the Sandwich Tribunal. Five years ago in August, we began our “five year mission” to eat all the sandwiches, and August 21st will mark the 5 year anniversary...
What is a Steakburger?
There are plenty of burgers out there that could claim the name of steakburger. Every steakhouse in Chicago’s ritzy River North neighborhood offers a burger, many of them made from fancy grass-fed or dry-aged...
The New England Steak Bomb
I grew up thinking that a Philly Cheesesteak had green peppers in it. It’s not all that rare to find something called a Philly cheesesteak on menus in the midwest–however, they usually turn out...
One Steak Sandwich to Rule Them All
Often, when a subject like “Steak sandwich” comes up at the Tribunal, it ends up being a bit of a clip show of a post. Steak sandwich is a category rather than a specific...
July List Sandwiches and June Wrapup
Welcome to July, sandwich friends! A new month is upon us, and a new set of sandwiches awaits our exploration! First, though, let’s take a look back at what we covered in June. June...
The St. Paul Sandwich of St. Louis
In 2002, PBS aired a documentary by Rick Sebak of WQED in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, called Sandwiches You Will Like. This may not mark the absolute beginning of what would become the Sandwich Tribunal–it would...
Deli “Special” Sandwiches
I’m going to let Wikipedia speak to this one. There isn’t a separate page, but in the List of Sandwiches, our guidebook here at the Tribunal, it describes “Specials, Deli sandwiches” as being from...
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