Category: The List

Red caviar on Pumpernickel 15

German Butterbrot

I’ve mentioned before that here at the Tribunal, we are not fully on-board with the concept of the open-faced sandwich–a sandwich is supposed to be a food of convenience, a neat edible carrying case used to...

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British Rail Sandwiches: The American Version

As Jim has already explained in his own post about the subject, the British Rail sandwich is a super-weird entrant to encounter in our trip through the Wikipedia list of sandwiches. Not only can...

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What “breakfast sandwich” means to me

OK, I’ve been absent from the tribunal for a while–had a bunch of life stuff to deal with, plus the sandwiches from last month I could easily get access to were um, not very appealing...

January Breakfast Sandwiches 1

A Month of Breakfast Sandwiches

We ran into this issue back in October with the Barbecue sandwich. “Breakfast” is not a sandwich. It’s a category. It’s a sandwich you have for breakfast, simple as that. The Wikipedia article is referring...

The Full Irish in a bun 4

The Breakfast Roll

It’s a weird month at the Tribunal (but then again, when isn’t it?), and the alphabetical order in which we’re exploring the List has dealt us a couple of very similar sounding items. The...

The seven British Rail sandwiches of doom 11

The British Rail Sandwich

One of you cats is quite the joker. How does a British cultural reference that’s 20 years out of date end up on the List of Sandwiches that I had, until now, presumed were meant...

Bosna with ketchup, mustard, onions, and curry powder 7

The Austrian Bosna

Rules stink, and sometimes following your own rules stinks the worst of all. Today is the last day of December, and we haven’t covered the Austrian Bosna yet, a Salzburg street snack consisting of...

My "ideal" BLT 2

Chasing the ideal BLT

I don’t eat enough BLTs. This is a weird thing for me to say, right now, when I’ve spent much of the past few weeks eating BLT after BLT, dozens in total. It’s true,...

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BL(FGT)T

Twenty-one years ago, lo-fi band Guided by Voices played one of their first shows outside of Ohio at a small club in Philadelphia called the Khyber Pass. On 2nd street in a neighborhood called,...