October List Sandwiches and September Wrapup
Welcome to October, sandwich fans! As always, a new month brings 3 new sandwiches for the Tribunal to investigate, and there are some good ones coming! But first, as ever, we must review what we learned in September.
September’s Tribunal sandwiches included the Mulita, a Mexican melt from Tijuana involving 2 handmade corn tortillas, plenty of Oaxacan cheese, meats like carne asada or carnitas, and a thin Tijuana style guacamole or avocado salsa. It’s at least as terrific as that sounds! We also tackled a long-time interest of ours, the Senegalese bean sandwich called Ndambe. We’ve been obsessed with it since seeing Anthony Bourdain eat one on the side of a Senegalese street in an episode of Parts Unknown 8 years ago. Finally, we closed out the month by eating some big, very big beef sandwiches, the Boston area’s North Shore 3-Way. We got to try them in Massachusetts earlier this year and now we know we can recreate them at home!
So September treated us to some great sandwiches! But October is looking up as well
In October the Tribunal will take on Palermo Italy’s Panella, a type of chickpea fritter that is often served in soft sesame seed buns as a sandwich. It sounds ordinary, but the kind of ordinary that could be surprisingly tasty. Time will tell! We’ll also be looking into the Parmo sandwich popular in the Yorkshire area of England. This is not the Chicken Parm sandwich we know in these parts but it does look pretty good! Finally, the Tribunal will try its hand at Utah’s Pastrami Burger. What kind of “You got your peanut butter on my chocolate / You got your chocolate in my peanut butter” meet cute birthed this monstrosity? Not sure, but we’ll do the research and see if we can find out. If not, at least they’re 2 great tastes that may taste great together.
So be sure to check back and read about these sandwiches in October!
Changes to the List
Wikipedia List
Only housekeeping edits and a little infighting over whether hot dog belongs on the List.
Our List
We’ve added the following to our potential Phase 4 list of sandwiches
- Fishcake butty–this somehow snuck onto the Wikipedia list when we weren’t looking and we missed it entirely. We feel obligated to try it.
- Gordita–Friend of the site Dennis Lee wrote about these on one of his newsletters recently, and the hook was set
- Pain thon–While researching the Senegalese Ndambe we came across mentions of this Senegalese sandwich, nominally featuring tuna, though the recipe we saw used sardines instead.
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.
Ah, glad to see you want to cover the fishcake butty.
May I recommend that you consider trying the other variations on fish and chip shop butties at the same time?
Also note that there are two distinct kinds of fishcake, the type where the fish and potato are mashed together and the type which is a piece of fish fillet sandwiched between slices of potato and battered. People who prefer one type will vehemently argue it’s the correct one. What almost everyone in the UK will will agree, though, is that unlike McDonald’s filet o fish there should never be cheese on it. Or pickles, or mayo. (You can do ketchup or tartar if you must. Do butter the bread roll. And don’t get into an argument about what the bread roll is called. That’s like trying to discuss the correct pronunciation of ‘scone’).
Hi Alison, thank you for the tips! One thing I’ve learned is that no matter what sandwich I’m making, there will be Brits in the comments telling me I’m doing it wrong. So I’m trying to develop a thicker skin about that kind of thing.