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Proof that laziness, done right, becomes civilization's most perfect food delivery system.
means Two or more pieces of bread with filling in between, designed so you can eat a meal with your hands.
from Named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, an 18th-century English nobleman. The popular story says he was so devoted to gambling that he ordered meat tucked between bread so he could eat one-handed without leaving the card table — a tale repeated by a contemporary traveler's account, so it may be embellished, but it's the origin we've got, and it stuck hard enough to name the whole category of food.
- legal loophole
- A burrito is legally not a sandwich in Massachusetts.
- earl's real motive
- Historians think he was just working late, not gambling.
- hot dog debate
- Still unresolved whether it counts as one.
- open-faced exception
- The Danish smorrebrod breaks the two-bread rule entirely.