Portuguese Bifana
A couple years ago, we wrote about a Portuguese steak sandwich called the Prego. It was a fantastic sandwich, and I drank a fantastic amount of Portuguese wine while enjoying it. Named after the...
Author: Jim Behymer
“Toastim” – Israeli Bagel Toast
I started out thinking this might not be a real sandwich, like maybe somebody was putting fake entries in the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches just to mess with me. When I first started searching...
Arnold Palmer: Half Golfer, Half Beverage, Half Sandwich
Arnold Palmer, your boomer dad or grandpa’s favorite golfer (unless he favors that shady Jack Nicklaus fella), would tell the story like this. He was in a restaurant and ordered his habitual beverage, a...
Hungary’s Fatty Bread
Paprika is commonly associated with Hungary–many of Hungary’s iconic dishes feature the spice–Chicken Paprikash naturally, but also Gulyás (Goulash), Pörkölt, Lecsó (Hungarian ratatouille), and many others. In fact the word Paprika itself is a...
Polish Zapiekanka
The 1970s were lean times in Poland. Wages stagnated while the price of food and other basic goods–prices that were fixed by the government–rose, and rose again, sparking protests, labor strikes and civil unrest....
Wraps of the World
In April of 2019, Bloomberg published an article, “The Best Sandwiches In New York, as Picked by Top Chefs.” In laying out their guidelines for what constituted a sandwich, they had this to say:...
Yakisoba-pan, Japan’s Spaghetti Sandwich
One of our recurring bugbears here at the Tribunal is the dreaded carb-on-carb sandwich. The Chip Butty, Guajolota, Toast sandwich, Spaghetti sandwich… Seems like a lot of people around the world like sticking something...
Mild Sauce, Fried Hard
Mild sauce, though, is a west side and a south side phenomenon in Chicago. Served at a variety of establishments–fish and shrimp houses, chicken shacks, barbecue joints, sandwich shops, basically any place where you can order fried foods down to and including French fries–mild sauce has been a favorite at restaurants serving African-American neighborhoods since the 1950s. There, it is ubiquitous.
German Wurstbrot
Five years ago in February of 2015, Sandwich Tribunal covered the first of what would become many open-face sandwiches on our List, the German Butterbrot. Back then, I had this to say about open-face...
Vegetable Sandwich, India-style
Many of the various cultures and peoples of India practice forms of vegetarianism; therefore many of the street foods of India–not all, not by far, but many of them–are vegetarian foods. The vada pav...
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