May List Sandwiches and April Wrapup

Hi sandwich fans! It’s May, and time to roll out three new sandwiches for the Tribunal. Looks like it’ll be a good month, and I personally can’t wait. But let’s take a look at what we covered in April first.

April started with the lesser known, massive Chicago sub sandwich called the Jim Shoe. We ate Jim Shoes all over the city and suburbs and we were even able to have a conversation with Peter Engler, noted scholar of South Side culinary oddities, about the sandwich. We also tried an Afghani street food common in some Pakistani markets called the Afghani Burger or Kabuli Burger, a delicious wrap and a rare exception to our frequently vocal dislike of carb-on-carb sandwiches. Finally, we closed the month out with a post and very dumb video about the Austrian finger sandwich Kaiser’s Jagdproviant.

It wasn’t a bad month, not at all! But there’s good stuff ahead as well! Let’s take a look at May’s sandwiches.

We start the month out with Kanapka, a Polish word for sandwich that can mean just about anything. Any excuse to hit a bunch of Polish delis is a good one! Next up is a Singaporean sandwich called Kaya Toast, a sandwich of coconut jam on toasted bread that is often dipped into egg yolks for a sweet and savory breakfast treat. Finally, we’ll be trying the sandwich called Khao Jee, a sort of Laotian analog to the Vietnamese banh mi.

Looking forward to a great month of sandwiches! Anybody out there feel particularly attached to any of these and want to tell the world about them? Get in touch!

Changes to the List

No real changes to the Wikipedia list. However, in our conversation with Peter Engler, he brought up tortas futboleros. This is apparently a trend seen in some Mexican sandwich shops, wherein they create overstuffed Torta varieties and name them after famous soccer players. There is actually a spot in Chicago called Tortas Futboleras, though the local place that Peter referenced I believe was called Doña Torta Chilanga. We may do some exploratory work this weekend in view of adding these to the List, but if they’re as gigantic as I suspect, I don’t know that I can handle eating a whole lot of them!

Sandwich Tribunal

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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