A sandwich is any type of food (typically meat, cheese or egg) placed between two slices of bread.
The oldest documented sandwich was made in the 1st century BC by the ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder. He is said to have wrapped meat from the Paschal lamb and bitter herbs between two pieces of flat, unleavened bread. Variants of the ‘hillel sandwich’ are still eaten by Jews today to celebrate the festival of Passover.
John Montagu, The Fourth Earl of Sandwich (November 13, 1718 – April 30, 1792), was a notorious gambler, often going from pub to pub in London on gambling marathons. To satisfy his hunger, while continuing to gamble, he ordered roast beef between pieces of bread for a snack while he was at the gaming tables; it allowed him to keep one hand free to play while he ate. This became known as the "sandwich".
The first recorded use of the word 'Sandwich' (with a capital S), was in 1762 by Edward Gibbon writing of the Beef Steak Club in London. The word was originally spelt with a capital letter as it referred to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich's fondness for eating beef between slices of bread.
Before the Earl of Sandwich, the sandwich was just called ‘bread and cheese’ or ‘bread and meat’
The Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) were also named after the 4th Earl of Sandwich in 1778,
Fanny Murray, a mistress of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, once reputedly ate a £20 note between two slices of bread.
The verb ‘to sandwich’ was first used in 1815 to mean ‘to have a light meal’. Its current meaning to insert something between two things of different character, only began to be used in the 1860s.
The sandwich was introduced to America in 1837 in a cookbook by Elizabeth Leslie. A recipe for ham sandwiches was suggested as a main dish.
The British also invented the "toast sandwich" which is literally a sandwich with buttered toast as the filling. A recipe in the 1861 Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton suggests adding salt and pepper to taste, and that it "will be found very tempting to the appetite of an invalid."
The Italian sandwich was invented in 1903 by Giovanni Amato, a baker, after dockworkers in Portland, Maine asked a baker to slice his bread rolls and add vegetables, meat, and cheese.
The Reuben sandwich is an American hot sandwich composed of corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Russian dressing, grilled between slices of rye bread. Arnold Reuben, the German-Jewish owner of the Reuben's Delicatessen (1908–2001) in New York City created the Reuben sandwich around 1914. He is also the inventor of the New York style cheesecake.
Earl Sandwich might have 'invented' it, but until sliced bread arrived in the late 1920s the sandwich didn't catch on.
The earliest reference to a 'bacon sandwich' listed in the Oxford English Dictionary was by George Orwell in 1931.
Hot dog seller Pat Olivieri invented the famous Philly Cheesesteak sandwich in the 1930s. Cheese was added to Oliveri's original recipe by his restaurant manager Joe Lorenza in the 1940s.
The word butty (a reference to the fact that butter is often used in British sandwiches) is common in some northern parts of England as a slang synonym for "sandwich".
"Sarnie" is a similar colloquialism for a sandwich. The first mention of a 'bacon sarnie' was in the Daily Express on August 21, 1986.
The only novel by Jane Austen containing the word 'sandwich' is Mansfield Park. She wrote in chapter 7: "It was all in harmony; and as everything will turn to account when love is once set going, even the sandwich tray, and Dr. Grant doing the honours of it, were worth looking at."
During his famous transatlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh survived on four home-made sandwiches and half a glass of water.
Whilst working on a novel Ernest Hemingway survived solely on peanut butter sandwiches.
Astronaut John Young smuggled an illegal corned beef sandwich on board the Gemini 3 spacecraft in 1965. For this, he was given the first reprimand in NASA space mission history and his snack remains the only contraband sandwich to ever make it into space.
Elvis Presley once flew from Graceland to Denver and back in one night just to buy a Fool's Gold Loaf - a hollowed out loaf of bread filled with a jar of peanut butter, a jar of jam and a pound of bacon. It has an estimated 8,000 calories.
The most expensive individual sandwich was purchased in 2004, when a woman sold her 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich with the image of the Virgin Mary on it for $28,000 on eBay. An online casino called GoldenPalace.com placed the winning bid.
In 2008, an attempt in Iran to beat the record for the world's biggest sandwich failed when the impatient crowd ate the giant snack before it was measured.
The largest sandwich ever made was made by Wild Woody's Chill and Grill, Roseville, Michigan in 2009. It weighed 5,440 lbs.
The world's most expensive sandwich is Serendipity's "Quintessential Grilled Cheese" made with Caciocavallo Podolico cheese, a rare Italian variety made from the milk of free-ranging cows fed a diet of fennel grasses and wild strawberries, with a truffle spread and gold flakes. It retailed in 2016 for $214 (£132).
The record for eating corned beef sandwiches is 20 eight-ounce sandwiches in 10 minutes. It was set by competitive eater Joey Chestnut in 2012. Chestnut also holds the record for grilled cheese sandwiches: 47 in 10 minutes.
Joey Chestnut stuffed 25 1/4 ice-cream sandwiches into his mouth on June 4, 2017, at Petco Park in San Diego to set his 44th world record. This broke the previous record of 24 ice cream sandwiches, which was set by Matt Stonie in 2016.
The world’s most expensive fish finger sandwich cost £187 to make and included sweet caviar, edible violets, saffron mayonnaise and edible gold leaf encrusted fish fingers. Birds Eye asked former Savoy hotel head chef Peter Lack to create it to commemorate the Queen’s 90th birthday.
The world's largest peanut butter and jelly sandwich, made in Grand Saline, Texas, weighed 1,342 pounds.
Around 12 billion sandwiches are eaten every year in the UK. – which means the British each eat over 230 sandwiches annually.
Sandwiches account for 50% of bread consumption in the UK; whether bought or made-at-home.
According to research at the Smithsonian Magazine, 50 percent of Americans 20 years or older eat at least one sandwich every day.
The average American will have eaten 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the time they leave school.
Ham is the No. 1 sandwich eaten in U.S. households.
Subway serves about 5,300 sandwiches every 60 seconds, which means roughly 320,000 sandwiches are served every hour.
There are about 37 million sandwich combinations available on a Subway menu.
It would cost about $1,500 to make a sandwich entirely from scratch, including growing the vegetables, killing the chicken, and so on.
Paddington Bear keeps a marmalade sandwich under his hat in case of emergencies.
In 1996, a teacher in Italy was suspended for passing students exam answers hidden in salami sandwiches.
Andy George of the video series How to Make Everything spent $1,500 and six months making a single sandwich completely from scratch. He did absolutely everything from making his own cheese to harvesting his own wheat. George made his own salt and grew sunflowers from which he collected their seeds to extract fat for the oil. In order to do the latter he needed a press. So he built one.
Burritos are legally considered sandwiches in New York, but not in Massachusetts.
The word taco is the Mexican equivalent of the English word sandwich. The tortilla, which is made of corn or wheat, is wrapped or folded around filling that is usually made of spiced beef, pork or fish.
The Japanese sweet snack called "English toast" is neither English nor toast. It consists of two slices of white bread, covered with a layer of margarine, sprinkled with sugar and put together.
Sources Daily Express, Fox News, QI: The Third Book Of General Ignorance by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin and Andrew Hunte, Food For Thought by Ed Pearce
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| English sandwiches. By 溜池ゴロ |
HISTORY
The oldest documented sandwich was made in the 1st century BC by the ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder. He is said to have wrapped meat from the Paschal lamb and bitter herbs between two pieces of flat, unleavened bread. Variants of the ‘hillel sandwich’ are still eaten by Jews today to celebrate the festival of Passover.
John Montagu, The Fourth Earl of Sandwich (November 13, 1718 – April 30, 1792), was a notorious gambler, often going from pub to pub in London on gambling marathons. To satisfy his hunger, while continuing to gamble, he ordered roast beef between pieces of bread for a snack while he was at the gaming tables; it allowed him to keep one hand free to play while he ate. This became known as the "sandwich".
The first recorded use of the word 'Sandwich' (with a capital S), was in 1762 by Edward Gibbon writing of the Beef Steak Club in London. The word was originally spelt with a capital letter as it referred to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich's fondness for eating beef between slices of bread.
Before the Earl of Sandwich, the sandwich was just called ‘bread and cheese’ or ‘bread and meat’
The Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) were also named after the 4th Earl of Sandwich in 1778,
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| John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich |
Fanny Murray, a mistress of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, once reputedly ate a £20 note between two slices of bread.
The verb ‘to sandwich’ was first used in 1815 to mean ‘to have a light meal’. Its current meaning to insert something between two things of different character, only began to be used in the 1860s.
The sandwich was introduced to America in 1837 in a cookbook by Elizabeth Leslie. A recipe for ham sandwiches was suggested as a main dish.
The British also invented the "toast sandwich" which is literally a sandwich with buttered toast as the filling. A recipe in the 1861 Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton suggests adding salt and pepper to taste, and that it "will be found very tempting to the appetite of an invalid."
The Italian sandwich was invented in 1903 by Giovanni Amato, a baker, after dockworkers in Portland, Maine asked a baker to slice his bread rolls and add vegetables, meat, and cheese.
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| An Italian sandwich. By Arnold Gatilao from Oakland, CA, USA |
The Reuben sandwich is an American hot sandwich composed of corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Russian dressing, grilled between slices of rye bread. Arnold Reuben, the German-Jewish owner of the Reuben's Delicatessen (1908–2001) in New York City created the Reuben sandwich around 1914. He is also the inventor of the New York style cheesecake.
Earl Sandwich might have 'invented' it, but until sliced bread arrived in the late 1920s the sandwich didn't catch on.
The earliest reference to a 'bacon sandwich' listed in the Oxford English Dictionary was by George Orwell in 1931.
Hot dog seller Pat Olivieri invented the famous Philly Cheesesteak sandwich in the 1930s. Cheese was added to Oliveri's original recipe by his restaurant manager Joe Lorenza in the 1940s.
The word butty (a reference to the fact that butter is often used in British sandwiches) is common in some northern parts of England as a slang synonym for "sandwich".
"Sarnie" is a similar colloquialism for a sandwich. The first mention of a 'bacon sarnie' was in the Daily Express on August 21, 1986.
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| A Bacon Butty or Bacon Sandwich. By Davidwnoble |
FAMOUS PEOPLE AND SANDWICHES
The only novel by Jane Austen containing the word 'sandwich' is Mansfield Park. She wrote in chapter 7: "It was all in harmony; and as everything will turn to account when love is once set going, even the sandwich tray, and Dr. Grant doing the honours of it, were worth looking at."
During his famous transatlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh survived on four home-made sandwiches and half a glass of water.
Whilst working on a novel Ernest Hemingway survived solely on peanut butter sandwiches.
Astronaut John Young smuggled an illegal corned beef sandwich on board the Gemini 3 spacecraft in 1965. For this, he was given the first reprimand in NASA space mission history and his snack remains the only contraband sandwich to ever make it into space.
Elvis Presley once flew from Graceland to Denver and back in one night just to buy a Fool's Gold Loaf - a hollowed out loaf of bread filled with a jar of peanut butter, a jar of jam and a pound of bacon. It has an estimated 8,000 calories.
RECORDS
The most expensive individual sandwich was purchased in 2004, when a woman sold her 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich with the image of the Virgin Mary on it for $28,000 on eBay. An online casino called GoldenPalace.com placed the winning bid.
In 2008, an attempt in Iran to beat the record for the world's biggest sandwich failed when the impatient crowd ate the giant snack before it was measured.
The largest sandwich ever made was made by Wild Woody's Chill and Grill, Roseville, Michigan in 2009. It weighed 5,440 lbs.
The world's most expensive sandwich is Serendipity's "Quintessential Grilled Cheese" made with Caciocavallo Podolico cheese, a rare Italian variety made from the milk of free-ranging cows fed a diet of fennel grasses and wild strawberries, with a truffle spread and gold flakes. It retailed in 2016 for $214 (£132).
The record for eating corned beef sandwiches is 20 eight-ounce sandwiches in 10 minutes. It was set by competitive eater Joey Chestnut in 2012. Chestnut also holds the record for grilled cheese sandwiches: 47 in 10 minutes.
Joey Chestnut stuffed 25 1/4 ice-cream sandwiches into his mouth on June 4, 2017, at Petco Park in San Diego to set his 44th world record. This broke the previous record of 24 ice cream sandwiches, which was set by Matt Stonie in 2016.
The world’s most expensive fish finger sandwich cost £187 to make and included sweet caviar, edible violets, saffron mayonnaise and edible gold leaf encrusted fish fingers. Birds Eye asked former Savoy hotel head chef Peter Lack to create it to commemorate the Queen’s 90th birthday.
The world's largest peanut butter and jelly sandwich, made in Grand Saline, Texas, weighed 1,342 pounds.
CONSUMPTION
Around 12 billion sandwiches are eaten every year in the UK. – which means the British each eat over 230 sandwiches annually.
Sandwiches account for 50% of bread consumption in the UK; whether bought or made-at-home.
According to research at the Smithsonian Magazine, 50 percent of Americans 20 years or older eat at least one sandwich every day.
The average American will have eaten 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the time they leave school.
Ham is the No. 1 sandwich eaten in U.S. households.
FUN SANDWICH FACTS
The United States Department of Agriculture says the official definition of a sandwich is: “at least 35% cooked meat and no more than 50 percent bread”.Subway serves about 5,300 sandwiches every 60 seconds, which means roughly 320,000 sandwiches are served every hour.
There are about 37 million sandwich combinations available on a Subway menu.
It would cost about $1,500 to make a sandwich entirely from scratch, including growing the vegetables, killing the chicken, and so on.
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| Chicken breast sandwich. By Tmannya |
Paddington Bear keeps a marmalade sandwich under his hat in case of emergencies.
In 1996, a teacher in Italy was suspended for passing students exam answers hidden in salami sandwiches.
Andy George of the video series How to Make Everything spent $1,500 and six months making a single sandwich completely from scratch. He did absolutely everything from making his own cheese to harvesting his own wheat. George made his own salt and grew sunflowers from which he collected their seeds to extract fat for the oil. In order to do the latter he needed a press. So he built one.
Burritos are legally considered sandwiches in New York, but not in Massachusetts.
The word taco is the Mexican equivalent of the English word sandwich. The tortilla, which is made of corn or wheat, is wrapped or folded around filling that is usually made of spiced beef, pork or fish.
The Japanese sweet snack called "English toast" is neither English nor toast. It consists of two slices of white bread, covered with a layer of margarine, sprinkled with sugar and put together.
Sources Daily Express, Fox News, QI: The Third Book Of General Ignorance by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin and Andrew Hunte, Food For Thought by Ed Pearce
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