March List Sandwiches and February Wrapup
Welcome back, sandwich fans! It is March 1st, and–dare I say it? Spring is coming. Say it with me, make it real. Spring is coming. The sun is already working on melting that snow still clinging stubbornly to the ground, and vaccination efforts are lowering the infection rate of Covid-19, and it becomes possible to imagine a day when once again we can leave our houses to gather in inadvisably large groups to do things like drink in bars, dance in front of bands, and yell at sports referees. I’m looking forward to seeing just how weird it’ll feel to start traveling again, especially traveling just to try a dumb sandwich that people in the area I’m traveling to most likely take for granted. Illinois’ vaccine rollout has been slow, and I’m a mostly-healthy middle-aged person working from home in a non-essential field so in all likelihood I’ll be one of the very last people in the state to get the vaccine, but it will happen. One day soon it will happen.
In the meantime, we here at the Tribunal will continue our mission to try all the world’s sandwiches, even if we have to make them all at home. March has some good ones coming up, but before we get into that let’s take a look at the sandwiches we tried in February. We started the month on the French Canadian Grillade, a sandwich of grilled, seasoned pork belly served in white bread with mustard and tomato in a very small geographical area centered on the Northeastern corner of Lake Saint Francis in Quebec. From there, we dipped down into central North Carolina for another sandwich with limited geographic distribution, Mount Airy’s Ground Steak sandwich. Finally, we returned to Quebec to try the French Canadian Guédille, a sandwich of various salads and other fillings served in a split-top hot dog bun like a lobster roll. Tasty times were had. And now, we continue on to our March 2021 sandwiches!
Hunter Beef is a type of cured meat, nominally Pakistani, but popular in the parts of India and Bangladesh as well where the slaughter and consumption of beef is permitted. There are various ways in which Hunter Beef is made into sandwiches, and we look forward to eating a few of them. The Harold is a secret menu item at Hardee’s restaurants, originating from Macomb in West Central Illinois but also well-known in my hometown of Quincy, and is not necessarily a sandwich but seems worth a mention on the site regardless. And finally, Islak burgers are a type of Turkish street food, a garlicky burger served “wet” with a spicy tomato sauce at stands in the Taksim Square neighborhood of Istanbul’s European side.
Good stuff coming up, so stick around!
Changes to the List
In February, Hot Dog was removed from the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches, then readded, then removed and readded again by the same Wikipedia contributor who had readded it in the first place. We’re used to seeing this happen regularly with hot dog. However, this time the Caprese sandwich was also removed. I get it–Caprese is at least nominally a salad rather than a sandwich. But plenty of Italian-American delis and other restaurants serve it as a sandwich regularly. We covered it last August, so our work here is done, but since a type of Caprese sandwich is among the first things we ever wrote about on the Tribunal, we feel protective of this sandwich in general. So what gives, Wikipedia? Bring Back Caprese!
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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