I May Never Eat Another Meatball Sandwich
We’re solidly in the Ms now, which puts us about halfway through the list. If you’ve been following along, you’ll understand what I mean when I say that there’s only so many ways you...
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The Problem with Marmite
I recall my wife watching a movie one time, one of the indie, rambling, mumblecorey films she loves where nothing actually happens except a lot of low-key conversations. I was not really paying attention,...
Mallorca de Jamon y Queso
Sometimes exploring a sandwich is a journey. Maybe an ingredient is difficult (or impossible) to find, or a recipe doesn’t exist in English and it has to be translated. Maybe it becomes an actual...
The Luther Burger
The Luther Burger is often cited as an example of a particularly American type of excess. As in ancient Rome, our donut culture may be reaching a point of orgiastic decadence, which sooner or...
Salmon in Manhattan
I just flew back from New York, and boy is my liver tired! My wife Mindy and I are recovering from spending 4 days and 3 nights in Manhattan. We didn’t go there specifically to try...
Lobster Rolls: Expensive giant sea-bugs in a hot dog bun
I remember being a kid and seeing, in every grocery store it seems, the tanks of live lobsters and crabs for sale. I don’t see them so much anymore. Maybe it’s just the season–lobster...
Limburger Sandwich. People Eat This.
Limburger is a cheese famous for one thing: it stinks. Ripened with Brevibacterium linens, a bacteria more commonly associated with human foot odor, Limburger, when consumed, has a soft interior with a somewhat more...
Making the Lettuce Sandwich Delicious
According to the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches from which we draw our inspiration here at the Tribunal, the lettuce sandwich consists of “lettuce and mayonnaise.” The Wikipedia article about lettuce sandwiches goes into more...
Leberkäse on Kaiser
Back in the mid-1990s, I lived just off the intersection of Western and Lawrence in Chicago, near the heart of a neighborhood called Lincoln Square. The anchor of that neighborhood is a short, narrow, one-way section...
An Actual Larry David Sandwich
Curb Your Enthusiasm is… an acquired taste, I think. I find it funny in bits and pieces, but overall, I don’t watch much of it. Something about watching a guy make an ass of himself...
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