August List Sandwiches and July Wrapup

Welcome to August, sandwich fans! It’s National Sandwich Month, and on top of all the sandwiches I’ll be making that feature perfect summer tomatoes out of my garden–BLTs, Caprese sandwiches, even just plain old Tomato sandwiches–the Tribunal will be exploring three new sandwiches from our ongoing, alphabetical list of as many notable sandwiches from around the world as we can possibly find. What are the three new sandwiches? We’ll get into that in a minute. First, let’s take a look back at what we covered in July!

July’s sandwiches included something we’ve been looking forward to since we first heard of it, the Taiwanese night market specialty, 大腸包小腸, or Small Sausage in Large Sausage. Was it worth the wait? More than worth it, especially if you’re a fan of garlic! We also explored Persian Sosis Bandari, a tomato-and-turmeric heavy curry made with hot dogs and plenty of onions, served in a demibaguette or similar bread roll, that is a popular street food in Iran. It was sloppy but good! Finally, we chopped up a wild number of ingredients, including pepperoni, to make the South American sandwich (that hails from the Iron Range of Northeastern Minnesota)! It is definitely not a Sloppy Joe!

Well, July certainly turned out to be a sausage party. Now let’s look ahead to August!

In August we’ll be trying to recreate the Spatlo, a South African specialty that consists of a quarter loaf of bread, hollowed out and stuffed with… just about everything! It looks wild! We’ll also be checking out a regional specialty of Eastern Tennessee that we first read about in a beautiful article on The Bitter Southerner, the Steamed Hoagies of Knoxville! Sometimes a sandwich is worth a little road trip–we’ll see about this one. Finally, we’ll be looking at the Strammer Max of Germany, an open-face sandwich featuring ham and egg. Is it as simple as it seems? We’ll try to find out!

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Changes to the List

The Wikipedia List

• On July 10th, an Italian sandwich called 5 e 5 was added to the Wikipedia list that was described as being “stuffed with farinata,” which is a chickpea-based flatbread. The sandwich was removed the next day It sounds similar to, though different from, the panelle sandwiches that are already on our list, stuffed with chickpea fritters. Perhaps we will run into additional references down the line, or the contributor will readd it with additional supporting references. We’ll keep an eye out!
• On July 29th, a sandwich called Sloppy Fergus was added to the Wikipedia list, described as being “Similar to the sloppy joe but haggis is used instead of ground meat.” This… sounds wild, and difficult to accomplish, given the trouble sourcing legitimate haggis in the US. It also was removed almost immediately, but we remain… intrigued. Scotland, give us a shout and let us know if this is a real thing!

Our List

• On July 21st, we added the Finnish sandwich Kuuma Koira, having heard somehow about this take on a hot dog. We keep trying to get out (of eating donut sandwiches) but they keep pulling us back in!
• On July 25th, we added Taiwanese Coffin Bread, another street food we discovered while researching 大腸包小腸 this month. It’s stuffed toast and sounds sandwichy enough to us!
• On July 29th, we added the Iron Range, Minnesota version of Porketta to our list, which we read about while researching the South American. This one, we are looking forward to!