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.