February List Sandwiches and January Wrapup

Hello Sandwich Tribunal readers! As we in the Midwest prep for a midweek Winter Storm Watch, and parts of the Northeast are digging themselves out from the 2 feet or snow that they already got over the weekend, we welcome you to another February, a very cold (but also very short) month. We have some pretty great sandwiches lined up for this month but as usual, let’s take a look back at what we covered in January first!

We started out 2022 by exploring the Pickle Sandwich–where did it come from? What does it want from us? Why won’t it leave us alone? But more to the point, does it taste good? To answer these questions read the post! Next, we used the old kitchen time machine to recreate a pig ear sandwich from a decades-gone tavern in Quincy, Illinois. We even drove to Jackson, Mississippi to try the slightly more famous version served there. Finally, we had a Thanksgiving dinner in January just so we could play with the idea of a Pilgrim sandwich, the classic use of Thanksgiving leftovers.

Some tasty things happened last month. But let’s take a look now at the month ahead!

In February we’ll do what we can to recreate the Japanese coffee shop snack Pizza Toast that was so fondly lauded in an Eater post published just before the pandemic, at a time when I naively thought I might actually be able to travel to Japan and try one. Maybe some day! We won’t have to travel far to cover the Poor Boy though, a type of hamburger or cubed steak grinder that is served at a few places in this area of Illinois, within a 30 or 40 mile drive of my home. Finally, we’ll sing a song to all the pork roll sandwiches we’ve loved before, anticipate our next visit to Philadelphia or the Garden State to try some more, and probably make more of them at home than any one person ought to eat in a month.

I’m very much looking forward to all three of these sandwiches. I hope you are too! And as always, if anybody out there has any special insight into any of these sandwiches that they’d like to share, please reach out!

Changes to the List

Wikipedia

• Hot dog was removed again by someone who simply pointed out “hot dogs arent sandwiches.” This edit was reverted by another editor who reasoned that “List contains other hot dog-like sandwiches (see Bratwurst, Choripán, etc), removing hot dog is inconsistent (also it is a sandwich).” I like this editor’s thinking!
• Something called a “Bacon and brie” sandwich, described as a “beef patty topped with side bacon and sliced Brie” and cited as Canadian in origin was added. Sadly it was quickly removed by the same editor who’d added it. I say live your dream, random Wikipedia editor! If a bacon and brie burger is the sandwich you want to see, make that sandwich happen!
• This site was added as a reference for the Queen Alexandra sandwich, which I only wrote about because I saw it on the Wikipedia List. Layers upon layers…

Our List

I have a friend who once offered to write about Persian sandwiches for the site but has yet to follow through. I was reminded of this fact recently so I went out and looked up some Persian sandwiches to add to our List.

• Sosis Bandari, a mixture of spicy sausages, onions, and potatoes in a tomato and chili sauce that is usually served with tomatoes, pickles, and baguettes for making sandwiches
• Kalbas, a type of Persian mortadella, served in submarine rolls with mayonnaise, pickles, tomatoes, and perhaps lettuce.

I also added a few other sandwiches that I found independently and decided were worthy of our List.

• Small Sausage in Large Sausage, a Taiwanese street food consisting of a sausage stuffed into a larger, rice-based sausage as a bun.
• Bagel Dog, a hot dog baked into bagel dough. Why? I just thought it might be fun to make
• Cheese roll, a cylindrical New Zealand toastie
• Chipped ham, a type of barbecue sandwich native to Pittsburgh
• Completo, a Chilean sandwich style that has been mentioned on our site but not covered independently
• Collards, a sandwich of collard greens and fatback served in cornbread brought to our attention by our friends at Bounded By Buns
• Continental roll, an Italian sub native to Perth in Western Australia

It’s a lot. I think there’s a big part of me that hopes this project will never end. I know it’ll be hard to find something as fun to do with my free time.