September List Sandwiches and August Wrapup
Hello everyone! Welcome to September, and a new set of three sandwiches here at the Sandwich Tribunal! As always, we have tasty thing in store for the next 30 days. But first, we should take a look at what we explored in August.
To begin with, August 21st marked the 7 year anniversary of the founding of the Sandwich Tribunal, or at least of registering and creating this website, so happy birthday to us! When I put 8/21/2014 in as the birthday of the @SamwichTribunal account on Twitter, it immediately disabled the account. I suppose I must agree, Twitter is no place for a 7 year old, but what this site lacks in years it makes up in wisdom. Sandwich Wisdom.
As for sandwiches, in August we looked at the Istanbul street food Midye Tava, fried mussels on a stick Turkish-style, that is sometimes served in a bread roll with tarator sauce. Fried shellfish may not be for everyone, but it certainly was a winner for us! We also tried out Southeast Asian sandwiches using Moo Yong, or pork floss. They were good but we liked it in congee even better! Finally, we explored another Southeast Asian (by way of the Arab peninsula) street food, Murtabak. It’s a favorite of some friends of the site, and it’s a favorite of ours now as well!
Now let’s take a look at September’s sandwiches:
First up is the frybread taco, which I originally had on this list as the “Navajo frybread” given that that is how I referred to it most of my life. But I changed that to “Native American,” thinking that frybread isn’t limited to a single tribe. I added it to our List earlier this year after a discussion with Mindy when we reminisced about how we used to make it all the time, and I’m looking forward not only to getting reacquainted with it, but also to digging into its history. Next up is the “Nutritious” sandwich, a street food served in Taiwanese night markets wherein a savory donut is stuffed with sandwich fillings. We added this back in January after reading about them online and I’m hoping it’s not as much of a drag as other donut sandwiches we’ve tried. Finally, there’s the oyster loaf, thought to have originated in New Orleans but claimed by San Francisco as well. I only added this to the list in June of this year but whatever whim made me curious about it has evaporated in the intervening months, leaving me only with this mandate, this need to eat a loaf of bread filled with fried oysters.
It’s a tough life on this sandwich journey, but these are the sacrifices we make for you, our readers. I’d tell you that it is you who make it all worthwhile but, seriously, it’s the sandwiches. I’m looking forward to September!
Changes to the List
The Wikipedia list only saw minor cosmetic changes in August. I’m sure many more sandwiches await us in future months though!
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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