October List Sandwiches and September Wrapup
Welcome back, friends of the sandwich! It’s October of 2020! The days have gotten shorter, the evenings are getting colder, and we’re all getting older (but especially Jim, who just turned 50!), and the Tribunal has 3 more sandwiches on our plate for the new month. At least one of these sandwiches is something we’ve been raring to get after for years! But first, let’s talk about our September sandwiches!
In September, we looked into the Cheese Dream, a kind of cheese toast that evolved from the original version of the grilled cheese sandwich. We also tried Chimichurris, a Dominican street burger that uses a unique shredded cabbage topping. Finally, we tried to recreate the fading Salem, Massachusetts favorite, the Chop Suey sandwich. All three of these were interesting sandwiches to research and tasty ones to eat. As if that wasn’t enough, Jim also wrote one of our favorite pieces ever, about one of our favorite events ever, and then gave it a dumb title that guaranteed nobody would ever read it. It’s called More Photos of Tractors and Corn and it’s about Jim’s family’s annual Labor Day Hog Roast at their farm in Missouri, and if you haven’t read it, please do!
Now let’s see what’s on the docket for October!
First off, the Chopped Cheese, an NYC bodega sandwich consisting of loose ground beef, cheese, sauces, onions, tomatoes, and lettuce in a torpedo roll that got Columbused all over the Internet about 4 or 5 years ago. We’re going to try to do it justice. We’re also checking out Chutney sandwiches, a simple but highly variant sandwich that might mean different things entirely in different areas of India. Finally, we’ll be looking into the various ways that Indian cottage cheese, or Paneer, gets incorporated into grilled sandwiches.
These should be pretty good, I think it’ll be a good month.
Changes to the List
Welp, there wasn’t a whole lot of net change–that is, the list ended the month basically exactly the same as it started the month. There was a big flurry of minor edits, but no major additions or removals. However, there were two reverted changes that merit mention
- On September 10th someone edited a seemingly sincere endorsement into the List of a type of gas station sandwich from Iceland. Patient googling of this sandwich, dubbed “pepperoni taco,” revealed gushing accounts from visitors of what is, essentially, a plastic-wrapped manufactured 7-11 type sandwich. Of course we have to try it. Pepperoni Taco has been added to our List
- Roti Bakar, a type of stuffed grilled toast from Indonesia that was added to the Wikipedia list in June but not to ours as yet, was removed and then immediately readded, more properly formatted and looking more official. It doesn’t look very exciting but we’ll see. It probably ought to go on our list at this point
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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