The Taco: Not Really a Sandwich. Or Is It?
Taco does not currently appear on the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches. It was listed there in the past for a brief period. Back around late 2014 or early 2015, when I realized that this...
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Back Home, We Just Call Them Maid-Rites
Tavern sandwiches are on the List for this month. I’ve eaten at many a tavern in my day, and had my own ideas about what might constitute a tavern sandwich. Imagine my surprise, then,...
What is a Steakburger?
There are plenty of burgers out there that could claim the name of steakburger. Every steakhouse in Chicago’s ritzy River North neighborhood offers a burger, many of them made from fancy grass-fed or dry-aged...
The New England Steak Bomb
I grew up thinking that a Philly Cheesesteak had green peppers in it. It’s not all that rare to find something called a Philly cheesesteak on menus in the midwest–however, they usually turn out...
One Steak Sandwich to Rule Them All
Often, when a subject like “Steak sandwich” comes up at the Tribunal, it ends up being a bit of a clip show of a post. Steak sandwich is a category rather than a specific...
The St. Paul Sandwich of St. Louis
In 2002, PBS aired a documentary by Rick Sebak of WQED in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, called Sandwiches You Will Like. This may not mark the absolute beginning of what would become the Sandwich Tribunal–it would...
Deli “Special” Sandwiches
I’m going to let Wikipedia speak to this one. There isn’t a separate page, but in the List of Sandwiches, our guidebook here at the Tribunal, it describes “Specials, Deli sandwiches” as being from...
Binghamton, NY’s Spiedies
Spiedies are a kind of sandwich from central New York, Binghamton to be exact, consisting of marinated chunks of meat, grilled on a skewer, and served in rolls or on slices of white Italian...
More Danish Smørrebrød, featuring Sol over Gudhjem
It was just last month when we covered Smørrebrød, the Danish open-faced sandwiches that use their deliciously dense Rugbrød as a base for an unending variety of toppings. There are any number of Smørrebrød...
(not your) Mom’s Spaghetti (sandwich)
The Wikipedia page on Spaghetti Sandwiches doesn’t give a whole lot of guidelines. That is to say, it is not very specific on what constitutes a spaghetti sandwich, other than that it contains 1)...
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