May List Sandwiches and April Wrapup
Welcome to May, folks! It’s a new month, and we may be doing the same old things every day but you can take comfort in the fact that a new month brings three new...
Yearly Archive: 2020
Arnold Palmer: Half Golfer, Half Beverage, Half Sandwich
Arnold Palmer, your boomer dad or grandpa’s favorite golfer (unless he favors that shady Jack Nicklaus fella), would tell the story like this. He was in a restaurant and ordered his habitual beverage, a...
The End
But of course if you’ve been paying attention you know that we’re not done. Many sandwiches have been added to Wikipedia’s list since we started, and through our own obsessive study of the subject (and through tipoffs from some of you!) we’ve discovered a raft of sandwiches that aren’t even mentioned on the Wikipedia page.
Hungary’s Fatty Bread
Paprika is commonly associated with Hungary–many of Hungary’s iconic dishes feature the spice–Chicken Paprikash naturally, but also Gulyás (Goulash), Pörkölt, Lecsó (Hungarian ratatouille), and many others. In fact the word Paprika itself is a...
Polish Zapiekanka
The 1970s were lean times in Poland. Wages stagnated while the price of food and other basic goods–prices that were fixed by the government–rose, and rose again, sparking protests, labor strikes and civil unrest....
April List Sandwiches and March Wrapup
Welcome to April, 2020. A momentous month marking the End of the List.
Wraps of the World
In April of 2019, Bloomberg published an article, “The Best Sandwiches In New York, as Picked by Top Chefs.” In laying out their guidelines for what constituted a sandwich, they had this to say:...
Yakisoba-pan, Japan’s Spaghetti Sandwich
One of our recurring bugbears here at the Tribunal is the dreaded carb-on-carb sandwich. The Chip Butty, Guajolota, Toast sandwich, Spaghetti sandwich… Seems like a lot of people around the world like sticking something...
Mild Sauce, Fried Hard
Mild sauce, though, is a west side and a south side phenomenon in Chicago. Served at a variety of establishments–fish and shrimp houses, chicken shacks, barbecue joints, sandwich shops, basically any place where you can order fried foods down to and including French fries–mild sauce has been a favorite at restaurants serving African-American neighborhoods since the 1950s. There, it is ubiquitous.
German Wurstbrot
Five years ago in February of 2015, Sandwich Tribunal covered the first of what would become many open-face sandwiches on our List, the German Butterbrot. Back then, I had this to say about open-face...
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