March List Sandwiches and February Wrapup
February is a short month, and we had some pretty exotic sandwiches to cover. Thanks to this unfortunate combination of factors, only two of us published a total of four List posts for February (one of which was posted just a bit after the deadline but we’ll let that go). However, it was still a great month for the Tribunal. We saw a spike in traffic mid-month thanks to incoming links from Buzzfeed (not to mention various copycat pages around the web that I won’t feed with direct links) and the Chicago Reader, and we ate some very tasty sandwiches.
March should be fun as well.
We’ll be covering Cemitas, a specialty of Puebla, Mexico, and also well-known here in Chicago thanks to local shop Cemitas Puebla (in fact, I ate lunch there Friday in anticipation). We’ll be heading back to Chile (only figuratively, unfortunately, as I’d love to visit for real) to try the Chacarero, a sandwich containing my personal Kryptonite, green beans. And we’ll be exploring Cheese sandwiches, a ubiquitous enough item that I hope to see a lot of posts on the subject.
As always, I plan to cover all three, and while I don’t have it all figured out just yet, I have some vague ideas on what I’ll be doing. Tribunal regulars, what do you think? Do any of these sandwiches speak to you? And anyone else out there with aspirations for sandwich blogging, do you think you have something to say about one or more of these sandwiches? Comment below, let’s stake things out.
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.
btw, all you Austrian folks commenting on the Buzzfeed article. I get it. The Bosna is not your national sandwich, it’s a street food specialty in Salzburg and since you live in (fill in the blank) you’ve never heard of it, yadda yadda…. So what? Enjoy a sandwich, they’re much tastier than internet bile. Also, click around our site! We’ve covered a few more of the sandwiches mentioned in the Buzzfeed article, the Bauru (Brazil’s Bauru Sandwich, Happy Beefday to Me), the banh mi (Good Sandwich, Vietnam!, A Tale of Two Banh Mi), and the Dutch Broodje Kroket (Broodje Kroket, or my life as a fake Dutchman, The Broodje Kroket and Emotional Distress) and we’re covering 2 more this month!
Anyway, I’m thinking I’m going to try to interview Tony Anteliz about Cemitas. Maybe I’ll try to make my own or maybe I’ll just eat a bunch at one of the Cemitas Puebla locations. I will definitely make my own Chacarero and probably bitch a whole lot about having to eat green beans. And I have a vague idea re: cheese sandwiches but I hope there’ll be a lot of interest there so I would rather see what all your ideas are first, so I’m not stepping on any toes.
I’m sure I can write about cheese sandwiches. That’s not an issue at all. I looked to see if I could get either of the other two in the area–looks like chacarero is a no go, while the cemita is something I can get in Charlottesville (90 minutes away) but not here. I am not usually in Charlottesville but I might drive up and make a day of it if I am bored at some point this month. I’ll keep you posted.