National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day
I’m feeling a little deja vu today. As it turns out, I’ve written this post before. I will likely write it again. There are 365 days in a year, and every one of them...
Category: The List
Pan Bagnat, a Nice Sandwich
Sandwiches are often touted as a way to make a meal portable, encasing ingredients in bread to keep the eater’s hands clean. Many of the sandwiches on our List here at the Tribunal had...
Mexican Pambazo
English language sources say that the Mexican Pambazo sandwich gets its name from its bread, a poor man’s bread, pan basso, made with the oldest, poorest quality flour, soaked in salsa guajillo to make it edible....
Open-Faced Sandwiches
The concept of open-faced sandwiches sure makes some people mad. https://twitter.com/SandwichMeats/status/936251334541668352 Though I respect my pal Ian’s opinions most of the time, we’ve gone toe-to-toe on this subject in the past. I tend toward...
Obložené chlebíčky
Don’t ask me how to pronounce the name of this sandwich. I have asked my linguist son Damian multiple times to say it for me, and he (not a fluent Czech speaker but with...
A Big Dumb Muffuletta
I used to say that a great sandwich starts with great bread. I’ve since qualified that. A great sandwich starts with the right bread. For some sandwiches, a great bread detracts from the experience. For...
What is a Naan Sandwich?
The Wikipedia List of Sandwiches (all hail!), source of our inspiration, has this to say about naan sandwiches: The Naan sandwich link redirects to the main page for Naan. The nation of origin listed is...
November List Sandwiches and October wrapup
Hi everyone! We’re wrapping up October’s sandwiches here at the Sandwich Tribunal, and what a month it was, despite that last sandwich being less than thrilling. Mindy and I went to Montreal and had...
Chicago’s Mother-in-law
Search the internet for mentions of Chicago’s Mother-in-law sandwich, a cheap mass-produced tamale on a bun with chili, and the results you find will likely mention one of two different places (or both of...
Mortadella Sandwiches
Like the Montreal-style smoked meat we’ve covered this month, Mortadella bears great similarities to another more familiar product. This time, it’s bologna. Like bologna, Mortadella is a forcemeat, or an emulsion of very finely...
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