February List Sandwiches and January Wrapup

Welcome back, sandwich fans, to a brand new month at the Tribunal! As is our practice, we have 3 new sandwiches to explore in February, and we’ll tell you all about them in a moment. First, let’s take a look at what the past 31 days held for the Tribunal!

We spent the first several weeks of January tracking down the origins of the Freddy, a far South Side Chicago sandwich featuring a patty of sweet Italian sausage, melted mozzarella, grilled green peppers, and marinara sauce. It’s long been a favorite, and we’re glad to finally present it to you! It seems there’s more to the story though, and we’ll update it when we can. We also tried the Fricassé, a Tunisian tuna sandwich served in fried bread. It’s spicy with harissa, salty and savory and filling, a real treat. Finally, we tried a Caribbean hamburger variant called the Frita Cubana. It’s saucy and multitextured, with sweet cooked onions, crisp pungent raw onions, and crunchy shoestring potatoes. All in all, a tasty group of sandwiches for a single month!

And now, let’s take a look at what’s coming up for the Tribunal in February:

In February, we’ll be looking into an Australian child’s sandwich called Fritz and Sauce, featuring the bologna-like sausage called Fritz in some parts of Australia, with the ketchup-like tomato sauce served as a condiment down under. Bologna and ketchup sounds pretty simple, but we’ll see if we can’t make it interesting. We’ll also try our hand at Galette-saucisse, a sort of pigs-in-blankets served as a street food in France’s Brittany region. Buckwheat crepes and homemade sausages sound like a fun project for a short month. Finally, German Halve Hahn is a drinking snack consisting of buttered rye bread rolls with cheese, onion, and mustard, and should be simple enough, and now that Dry January is over, the proper beverages can accompany it.

February should be a good, albeit short month. Come back and see how we do!

Changes to the List

Wikipedia List

• Bulkie roll was added to the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches on January 23rd. It is apparently a type of bread roll, similar to a Kaiser, that is sold regionally in the New England area of the US and it’s unclear whether there is a specific sandwich type associated with the roll–it appears to be used in much the same way a Kaiser roll would be. Not adding it to our List currently, at least until we can find some indication that this term references a type of sandwich and not just a bread roll.

Our List

• Immediately undermining the point made in the previous paragraph, in January we added Schiacciata to our list, a type of Italian bread similar to a focaccia that is often used for sandwich-making, after missing a sandwich-related trivia question for which that was the correct answer. We gotta protect our phony-baloney “expert” status here, folks!