February List sandwiches and January wrapup
January wasn’t a bad month for the Tribunal. We covered all three of our List sandwiches for the month–even though two of them were largely reruns from last January–and even managed a couple of additional posts on Random topics. I especially enjoyed getting stories about Egg sandwiches from some of my favorite food media folks and restaurateurs.
February has arrived, and with it three new sandwiches to cover.
Fairy bread, already written up once by long-time Tribunal stalwart Crit, is essentially white bread with sprinkles. Maybe interesting, maybe not, depends on what you do with it I guess. Falafels are deep-fried balls of deliciousness that can be enjoyed in wraps or stuffed into pitas to make sandwiches, though I don’t think we need to explore the question of whether a falafel wrap is a sandwich this time around. And Fischbrötchen should finally spur me into finding a decent method for replicating the hard German bread rolls my wife remembers so fondly from her youth.
If you would like to cover one of these sandwiches, please let me know, as I’d love to get your input! I will try to write something about all 3, but I promise that if you let me know what you want to do, I will make sure that my writeup overlaps yours as little as possible, if at all. I am a sandwich eating machine but this site is about all of us, so please don’t be shy.
January saw a lot of edits to the List on Wikipedia. The notable changes are
- Taco was removed again. Link
- Chimichurri sandwich was added. This is before our current spot in the list, which brings our current total of make-up sandwiches needed to 3, which means we may spend a month sometime soon covering those sandwiches. (The other two are Chicken Schnitzel and the Double Down, which I totally whiffed on in December). Link
- Hot Dog was removed again, just yesterday, by some foul anonymous Canadian vandal. You are mistaken if you think the hot dog is not a sandwich. It remains on our List. Link
The Sandwich Tribunal always welcomes contributions from new authors, if you have something interesting to say about one of our sandwiches this month. Let us know in the comments!
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.
I would love to hear some USers’ takes on fairy bread. Because I grew up with it, it’s just a thing. I didn’t realise how weird it was until I was in my mid-20s and I went to the US, and stayed with a friend who had lived in Australia for 2 years when we were kids. I cooked an Australian dinner for her family and friends, and she really wanted fairy bread, as it was something she remembered clearly that was so different in terms of food.
Ian’s birthday is coming up later this week, and he’s having some friends over for videogames & pizza on Saturday. It would be a terrible thing for me to do to him to give these kids fairy bread instead of cake though, right?
I mean, maybe I should just put a tray of fairy bread out on the table while they’re there and record the results?
The wife has approved a tray of fairy bread for the child’s birthday party (with the understanding that there will also be cake). We’ll see how this works.