September List Sandwiches and August Wrapup

Welcome to September, sandwich fans! We’re a couple days late posting our September sandwiches, but as long-term readers may be aware the Tribunal has a big event every Labor Day Weekend that brings us to a farm in Northeastern Missouri with little connectivity to the outside world.

But before we can unveil September’s sandwiches, we need take a look back at August! August 21st marked the 10-year anniversary of the founding of Sandwich Tribunal as a website, and to celebrate Jim went on a trip to rural Quebec to try a few of the more obscure Quebecois sandwiches we’ve written about in the past. Great times were had, and a big thank you to our good friend Sandwich Dad for coming along! His knowledge of the French language was definitely helpful in parts of Quebec, and his company was impeccable.

As for the List, August had some excellent entries. We started the month with Merguez Frites, a French-Algerian sandwich featuring sausages, harissa, and fries in a baguette. You know a sandwich is going to be a good time when we get to make our own sausage. Next we tried our hand at a Tunisian flatbread called Mlewi, and the namesake wraps that are made with them. Much harissa was consumed in Tribunal HQ this month! Finally, we closed out the month with a Dutch-Surinamese broodje called Moksi Meti, featuring a mixture of Asian meats in a hard roll with cucumbers.

Now let’s take a look at what’s coming up in September!

There is some good stuff coming up this month. First we’ll be checking out the Mexican Mulita, which is very much like a quesadilla but made with 2 corn tortillas (instead of one flour tortilla folded over), cheese, and meat. Simple but delicious, and it surely lends itself to a variety of treatments. Next is a sandwich we’ve been waiting a long time to write about, the Senegalese bean spread in a baguette as seen on an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown. The bean spread is known as ndambe and there are seemingly innumerable variations, but we’ll try to make sense of the chaos, or at least pick one version and run with it. Finally, we’ll try our hand the Boston-area roast beef sandwich that is often called a “3-way” due to the specific combination of three ingredients that are included. We tried a few of these while we were in Massachusetts earlier this year and it’s another that we’ve been looking forward to!

So keep an on on these pages for further updates, and please let us know if you have any special insight into any of these sandwiches you’d like to share!

Changes to the List

Wikipedia List

• Antipasto sandwiches were removed from the Wikipedia list due to a lack of linked article or descriptive text associated with the entry. We have written about an antipasto sandwich here at the Tribunal, the antipasto sub made by our friends at J.P. Graziano, but we don’t particularly recall this item having been on the list. We’ll watch to see if the entry returns with corroborating evidence.
• The usual infighting over hot dog continues, with hot dog having been removed from the list mid-month and not returned as of yet.
• An Italian sandwich called panuozzo has been added to the Wikipedia List, and it looks promising. We’ll be adding this to our List at some point in the near future, surely!

Our List

• We added Hungarian egg salad sandwiches called Tojáskrém after seeing them on an “International Sandwich Sunday” episode of our friend Barry’s Sandwiches of History.