Singaporean Roti John
Singapore is an island, a city-state, a port town at the far south end of the Malay Peninsula. Its position at one end of the Strait of Malacca, the easiest route between the Indian...
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Getting the Reuben Right
There are a lot of ways to fuck up a Reuben sandwich. You’d think it would be an easy win, with so many good things going for it–corned beef, rye bread, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut,...
Pudgy Pie aka the Jaffle
Pudgy pie. Hobo pie. Toastie. Jaffle is my preferred term, mostly due to an Australian friend but also because it’s fun to say and it also answers that long-standing question “What rhymes with waffle?”...
Bringing Queen Alexandra’s Sandwich Home
It was an unlikely road that brought Alexandra of Denmark to the throne of England–she’d grown up as the daughter of a Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg but a relatively obscure one living on an Army...
How Do I Pulled Pork
This far into a project like this, trying all the sandwiches on Wikipedia’s big List of Sandwiches, we’re running into so many variations on a theme, or even outright repeats. Nearly 4 years ago,...
St. Louis’ Prosperity Sandwich
The first clue is right there in the description for this sandwich on the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches. “Ham and turkey topped with broiled cheese,” it says. “Sometimes includes bacon and tomato.” Hm, I...
The Portuguese Prego
The first thing that the word “Prego” makes me think of is an unfortunately named commercial pasta sauce, and the genre of slack-faced noodle-slurping pregnancy announcement photos that feature a jar of it. The...
Primanti Bros. Sandwiches
Often when we cover a city’s “signature sandwich” here at the Tribunal, there is an apocryphal origin story accompanying the sandwich, one that cannot be verified and is unlikely to be true but is...
Antipodean Prawn Rolls
According to Wikipedia, prawn rolls are a common takeaway item in parts of Australia. Wait, wait, let’s back up a minute. There are a couple of things, scientific and cultural, that require explanation if...
The Original Breaded Pork Tenderloin
Breaded Pork Tenderloin sandwiches–sometimes abbreviated BPT but usually just called tenderloins for short–are something I’ve written about once or twice on this site. They were a favorite of mine in my hometown of Quincy,...
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