November List Sandwiches and October Wrapup
Good morning sandwich fans! It’s November 1st, a day that marks the end of Spoopy season and the beginning of Turkey season. a terrific coincidence since we have a turkey sandwich to cover in November! That’s a spoiler though–as usual, before we talk about our new sandwiches of the month, we need to first do a recap of the Sandwiches of October. So let’s take a look!
In October, we used the last of the late summer tomatoes to make a tomato sandwich, and make a case for these soft, sweet, overripe tomatoes being among the best for these Southern treats. Of course that doesn’t mean that we wouldn’t eat one in mid-August! We also tried our hand at the Trapizzini of Rome, a new-fangled type of sandwich that features a pocket of pizza bianca filled with a variety of ragus. They were delicious! Our third List sandwich of October was the Trinbagonian Bake, a misleadingly named type of frybread filled with fish and eaten for breakfast in parts of the Caribbean. I think I found my new favorite bacalao preparation! Additionally, we published a video in which Jim created a black, definitely-not-licorice-flavored Hallowiener based on a meme he saw. It was worth it just to invent the onion/mustard gummies.
Now let’s take a look at the month ahead!
In November, the Tribunal will investigate Turkey Devonshire, a regional Pittsburgh specialty that sounds even more suspiciously like the Louisville Hot Brown than the regional St. Louis specialty called the Prosperity Sandwich does. With turkey, bacon, tomatoes, and cheese sauce on toast, who’s complaining? Let every city have their own version! We’ll also finally check out the Vastedda, a Sicilian sandwich featuring fried spleen and cheese on a special bread roll. Can you even buy spleen? We’ll find out! Finally, we’ll be checking out veggie burgers. What qualifies us to do so? What do we have to say about veggie burgers that hasn’t been said better dozens of times already? No idea! We’ll find out, I guess!
As usual, if anybody has any special insight into one or more of these sandwiches, we’d love to hear from you! Contact us by commenting on this post, reaching out on one of our various social media accounts, or using the Contact Us page right here on the site. Can’t wait to hear from you!
Changes to the List
Wikipedia List
October on the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches was marked mainly by idiot vandals either removing hot dogs from the list while drooling and shouting catchphrases cribbed from someone else’s years-old meme, or 12 year olds adding unnecessary and crude anatomical references. Well done, jackasses!
Our List
Somehow we managed to go the entire month of October without adding a single sandwich to our List either! A slow month for sandwiches, it seems. Though we will be concluding our second run through the alphabet at the end of 2022 and then starting a third run in January 2023, though we have written about hundreds of sandwiches and have dozens more to go, I can’t help but suspect we’ve only scratched the surface. I’m sure we’ll find more!
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.
One take on the veggie burger would be to look at how much it’s changed in recent years. I was brought up vegetarian, so I remember the veggie burger from the 80s – homemade patties of beans and veg which fell apart while cooking- to the 90s supermarket frozen veggie burgers of mashed up veg (usually with a breaded coating), to meat like options in the late 90s and nougties (Quorn being a popular UK brand) to the high tech, ‘trying as hard as possible to replicate beef’ plant based patties of today.
A good bean burger (preferably with breaded coating for texture) is enjoyable as its own thing. I like the nougties style, not very convincing fake meat burgers best but that might be because that’s what I ate the most of. I would guess that’s the type that would be least enjoyed by meat eaters.
Thanks, these are great ideas! I do not have as much personal history with veggie burgers but I have also noticed how they’ve evolved over time.