December List Sandwiches and November Wrapup

Hello Sandwich fans! It’s December 1st, time to break out a new set of sandwiches for the Tribunal to test, taste, and tack on to our tally of the world’s bready bits of bliss. I’m here to tell you all about them.

But first let’s recap November’s tasty topics. We started the month with a deep dive into the history of Eggs Benedict, along with an exploration of a few of its more delicious variants. We were under the impression based on looking at a lot of menus that Eggs Benedict was a bit on the old-fashioned side. This may or may not be true, but based on the comments Jim received on his TikTok video about Benedicts, they are still a favorite to this day! Next, we tried the Cuban Elena Ruz sandwich, a sweet-and-savory mashup that leans a little harder into the sweet than the savory. Finally, we tried our hand at Mexican Empalmes, a simple enough “sandwich” on the surface, but involving a lot of prep work to do it up right!

Now let’s take a look at December’s sandwiches!

Flæskesteg is a crisp-skinned roast of pork popular for holiday meals in Denmark, and like most holiday roasts there is a tradition of using it in leftovers sandwiches. This one, we’ve been looking forward to for a while. The Flying Saucer, or so we’re told, is a kind of sealed melt–like a pudgy pie or a jaffle–featuring a saucy loosemeat mixture similar to Sloppy Joe filling and cheese. Time to bust out the pie irons! Finally, “Francheezie” is supposedly a Chicago-based version of the “Danger Dog” known to fans of the LA Dodgers. We haven’t fully vetted this provenance but we have found at least one menu that carries it so we’ll investigate, ’cause that’s what we do!

As always, please comment or reach out to us on social media if you have any particular insight into or connection to any of these sandwiches–we’d love to hear about it!

Changes to the List

Wikipedia List

• Early in the month, a sandwich called Jesuita was added, featuring ham and cheese between glazed sections of puff pastry. Sounds worth a try!
• The “kanapka z sałatką z makreli” that we mentioned in last month’s roundup post was removed. The reasoning was that it seemed to be just a sandwich that one guy had invented, and not really a notable named sandwich style.
• The “Słońce na Kromce” or Polish-style “Egg-in-a-basket,” was also removed for similar reasons. There did not seem to be sufficient documentation behind it.
• Hani is another that we mentioned last month, a specific type of chicken tender sandwich sold by a specific business in Detroit, but it was added to the Wikipedia List incorrectly. It has been given a more full entry as of a few days ago, and we’ll see if that lasts.

Our List

We have not added anything to our list in a few months–but we do have a list of sandwiches we are evaluating. Many of them start with the letters A-C so we may be looking at a Phase 4.