June List Sandwiches and May Wrapup
Hello everyone, welcome to June 2019 on the Sandwich Tribunal, and a whole new set of sandwiches we’re going to try. We’ve been slogging through the S sandwiches all year so far. By August we’ll have reached the Ts, and sometime next year we’ll have gotten through the whole alphabet, at which point we’ll have some time to think over some of the sandwich decisions we’ve made in the past 5 years. We’re getting ahead of ourselves though–let’s talk about what we did last month, and what’s coming up next!
May was an extremely busy time for me personally, with weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, college moves, and various other events happening every weekend it seemed. Still we managed to make time to try Souvlaki, a Greek sandwich similar to a gyro, but with marinated pork grilled on a skewer instead of the slivers of crisp beef-and-lamb mix shaved off a cone, and see a Greek parade in the process! Spaghetti sandwiches were kind of a bust, but Tribunal veteran Crit may yet come through one day and show us how they do things in Australia. Finally, we took one more crack at Danish Smørrebrød with Sol over Gudhjem, a surprisingly delicious combination of smoked herring and raw egg yolk. We laughed, we cried, we learned, and now we’re on to June’s sandwiches!
In June we’ll be covering Deli Specials, a combination of a selected cold cut with coleslaw and Russian or Thousand Island dressing on rye bread…. hm, this sounds familiar. We’ll also be trying the Spiedie from Central New York, consisting of cubes of marinated meat, grilled on a skewer, and served in a submarine roll (not rolled up in a pita with tzatziki this time around, thank goodness for variety!) Finally, we’ll be eating the St. Louis specialty called the St. Paul, a sandwich of egg fu yung on white bread with mayonnaise, pickle, onion, tomato, and lettuce.
It’ll be a good month for sandwiches, and who wouldn’t like an excuse to visit a bunch of delis?
Changes to the List
No big moves in May, some minor edits and quibbling over the definition of a sandwich. All par for the course.
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.
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