April List Sandwiches and March Wrapup
Hi everyone! Welcome to April, though with Nature pranking much of Illinois with a heavy blanket of snow, it didn’t seem much like Spring. We’ve made it through our 43rd month of the List, and had some good sandwiches in March. Lent was a good time for us to explore the Pepper and Egg sandwich, an Italian-American Lenten tradition for meatless Fridays. We also looked into the Southern delicacy Pimento cheese, including reposting a 3 year old article from Tribunal co-founder Thom about the stuff. Finally, there was the Pistolette, which is a Cajun stuffed and deep-fried bun.
And now, April’s sandwiches:
Pljeskavica is a Serbian spiced meat patty sometimes served in flatbread to make a kind of burger or sandwich, basically cevapcici in a different shape. The Ploughman’s Lunch is no longer listed on the wikipedia list of sandwiches but remains in our list, the prototype of the English cheese and pickle sandwich. And finally, the Po’boy is New Orleans’ answer to the hot sub sandwich.
I’m looking forward to trying all of these. Do any of them speak to you? Let me know, it’s always great to have another contributor to the Tribunal!
Changes to the List
There was a lot of activity on the list during March. Some highlights:
- The “folded” sandwich, a single slice of bread folded around unspecified ingredients, was added and removed
- The eternal battle over “hot dog” continued
- Poptart was added and removed
- “Sealed crustless sandwich” aka Smucker’s Uncrustables was added.
- The Chow Mein sandwich was removed
- Caviar sandwich was added
- Porchetta sandwich was added
- The “Italian” pepper and egg sandwich, which differs from the pepper and egg sandwich we just covered in some unspecified way, was added
- The Italian cutlet sandwich was added
This activity has continued into April, with “boloney” (bologna) salad sandwich among the new additions. Looks like the list is growing!
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.
The chow mein sandwich was removed?! How is the chow mein sandwich not a sandwich?
To be clear, we here at the Tribunal fully believe in the sandwichness of the chow mein sandwich, and I personally found it surprisingly good. Somebody in Alberta, Canada removed it from the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches on March 29th without any explanation and the change has not yet been reverted: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_sandwiches&diff=833012637&oldid=831991374
Anyone can edit Wikipedia, you should right this wrong!
My husband grew up in Fall River, and while I have never eaten a chow mein sandwich, we have a box of that kit in the pantry. It’s more a souvenir than something we plan to ever eat, honestly. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t an important American sandwich!
It has been my policy to avoid editing this particular Wikipedia page. I can’t articulate why, it feels like a conflict of interests, like I’m supposed to be reacting to that List, not directly influencing its contents.
It is true, though, anybody can edit Wikipedia, even someone who grew up in Fall River and has a connection to the Chow Mein sandwich.
You have a point, but turns out, not so simple: “This page is currently semi-protected so that only established registered users can edit it.”
It’s still on the list of American sandwiches. How could it be correct for that not to be a subset of the general list of sandwiches?