Category: The List

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Bocadillos of Spain

Bocadillos, or bocatas, are a sandwich type in Spain. In Spain, there are several words for sandwiches–maybe not quite as many as in American English, but with somewhat explicit differences between the sandwich each...

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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...

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“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...

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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...

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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....

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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:...

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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...

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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...