January List Sandwiches and December Wrapup
Welcome to 2021, Tribunal readers! At times, I wasn’t sure if we’d make it through 2020–something like 4 or 5 years have passed since March. But we did it! 2020 was a pretty terrible year in a lot of ways. But it also marked the end of the Sandwich Tribunal’s initial mission–to eat all the sandwiches on the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches in alphabetical order. Of course it took us around 5 and a half years to do it, and in that time many more sandwiches were added to that List, and we found some other sandwiches not on the list that we wanted to try, so here we are solidly in phase two of our mission, working our way back through the alphabet. We’ve got three exciting new sandwiches ahead of us this month as a result. But first, let’s take a look back at what we did in December!
December saw us finally taking on the Donair, a gyros variant from Canada’s Maritime Provinces. Sadly, due to the state of things, we were unable to travel to Nova Scotia and try it in person as we had long planned. Hopefully 2021 will see a resumption of Sandwich Tribunal road trips. We also tried to approximate KFC’s (currently discontinued) Double Down, a sandwich that asks, if something is “breaded” does that mean it can be used as bread? I liked the wrap version better. We also mused upon the practice of using donuts as bread for sandwiches other than the Luther Burger. Personally, I’d rather use those calories on a second sandwich.
But not only did we write about our three List sandwiches last month. Jim also made a couple of YouTube videos on some goofy sandwich topics that caught his attention. First off, there was the Pumpkin Spice Bologna video, which apparently got a lot of discussion on morning talk radio programs around the country (though few of the people discussing it appear to have watched the video or read the post). Jim is still looking for suggestions on how to use up some of the leftover bologna and mortadella from that experiment. Let us know if you have any ideas! Finally, Jim threw together a last-minute Christmas post about the Three Decker Sauerkraut and Toadstool Sandwich (with Arsenic Sauce) of Grinch fame. Jim appears to enjoy making the videos and we hope to have some more for you soon.
Now let’s see what the first month of 2021 has in store!
We start with the Farroupilha, which in addition to being the name of a city in Brazil appears to also be an eponymous mortadella and cheese sandwich associated with the city. (We imagine that pumpkin spice mortadella is not the preferred variety). We dropped the ball by missing this Brazilian favorite back when we covered mortadella sandwiches in 2017, so we appreciate this chance to rectify that mistake. Next is the fish finger sandwich, another chance for us to be horrified by the casual forms of food abuse perpetrated by the Brits that fall under the name “Sandwich.” Finally there’s the French Taco, a Lyons street food that first came to our attention thanks to our friend, prolific food and travel blogger Titus Ruscitti. There should be at least 2 good sandwiches in this bunch, and there may be some surprises along the way, so we’re looking forward to a delicious January!
Changes to the List
There were a few notable changes to the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches in December
- Something called “Mezcla” was added to the list, which is a kind of Puerto Rican cheese-and-meat-spread tea sandwich. It appears to be a valid, though simple sandwich, and we’ll add it to our list.
- Some fun-hater removed Fairy Bread from the list, claiming it is not a sandwich. I think a room full of 9-year-olds might disagree with them!
- The List of Sandwiches now references this site’s writeup of the Puerto Rican Tripleta sandwich that was published last January. Since the entire existence of this site is a reference to the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches, this of course creates a circular reference. Our forecasts currently project a very low probability of this logical loop closing off completely, creating a vortex that consumes the internet, but we are carefully keeping our eyes on the situation.
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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