January List Sandwiches and December Wrapup
Happy New Year, sandwich fans! It is now 2024, but more to the point it is now January, a new month at the Tribunal, when we announce 3 new sandwiches that we will be exploring and sharing with you.
But first, let’s take a look back at December, a festive month full of great food for many. We started the month with the Danish holiday roast Flæskesteg, and tried a few of the sandwiches that Danes make with slices of that roast pork and the attached cracklings. They were terrific! We also delved into a Hawaiian sandwich called the Flying Saucer, and touched on a few similar items that are served elsewhere as well. We’ve since learned of even more burger joints around the country selling burgers pressed and sealed into spaceship-shaped toasties, and if you know of one near you, please tell us all about it! Finally, we explored an unexpectedly local (but fading) phenomenon, a cheese-filled, bacon-wrapped hot dog called a Francheezie.
Even after almost 10 years of writing about sandwiches, they can still surprise us from time to time. And now, let’s take a look at what lies ahead in January!
This month we’ll be exploring more of the Chicago Sandwich Canon with a far south side treasure called the Freddy. It was mentioned previously when we wrote about the Cudighi of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula but it deserves a writeup all its own, and it will soon have one! We’ll also be trying the Fricassee, a Tunisian tuna sandwich served in a deep-fried bread roll. Yet another donut sandwich? This one looks interesting though. Finally, we’ll take a shot at recreating a pretty extravagant-looking Cuban burger variant developed by expats in and around Miami, the Frita Cubana.
All these sandwiches look great, and January is bound to be an interesting month at the Tribunal as a result. We hope you’ll stick around and learn about them with us!
Changes to the List
There have been no additions to or removals from the Wikipedia List in December. As for our list, we have a few additions in mind, but we are contemplating whether to save them for a potential Phase 4 or to try and slot them into the Phase 3 lineup. We have already bypassed the alphabetical positions of a few of them, so a Phase 4 seems inevitable, but Phase 3 is currently scheduled to run through June of 2025, so we have a good year-and-a-half of sandwiches ahead of us on the current schedule already. Keep watching here and we’ll let you know when we do make a change.
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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