London’s Salt Beef Beigel
What in the world is a beigel? The word… was imported into English from the Yiddish beygl, which in 1919 was spelled beigel and in 1932 was shortened to bagel. Safire, W. (1994, June...
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Richmond, VA’s Sailor Sandwich
Knackwurst is a favorite of mine. More commonly spelled Knockwurst here in the US, it’s basically a stubby, fat, garlicky hot dog in a natural casing that pops and cracks while the sausage is...
The Portuguese Prego
The first thing that the word “Prego” makes me think of is an unfortunately named commercial pasta sauce, and the genre of slack-faced noodle-slurping pregnancy announcement photos that feature a jar of it. The...
Finnish Porilainen
Almost every English-language writeup online that I’ve found of the Finnish Porilainen sandwich–and there aren’t all that many, to be honest, but hey! we’re adding to that number–uses some form of the phrase “a...
National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day
I’m feeling a little deja vu today. As it turns out, I’ve written this post before. I will likely write it again. There are 365 days in a year, and every one of them...
Smoked Meat in Montreal
A Montreal-style smoked meat sandwich is… Well, it’s a pastrami on rye. That’s minimizing of course. It’s a cured smoked piece of beef similar to pastrami, though the spice rub used is different (they...
Medianoche
When I wrote about Cuban sandwiches nearly two years ago, I had this to say: The greatest thing though is that while getting the sandwich exactly correct can be a pain in the ass–not too many...
Limburger Sandwich. People Eat This.
Limburger is a cheese famous for one thing: it stinks. Ripened with Brevibacterium linens, a bacteria more commonly associated with human foot odor, Limburger, when consumed, has a soft interior with a somewhat more...
Leberkäse on Kaiser
Back in the mid-1990s, I lived just off the intersection of Western and Lawrence in Chicago, near the heart of a neighborhood called Lincoln Square. The anchor of that neighborhood is a short, narrow, one-way section...
Kottenbutter of the Bergisches Land
Das Bergisches Land is a mountainous region of Westphalia in Germany. The traditional industry of the area was mining–Westphalia was once known as the land of coal and steel–and working the ore the mines produced....
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