The Ballad of Mister Crunchy, Mrs. Crunchy, and the Crunchy Horde
In Western Europe, in the land of France There’s a strange little guy without any pants With guts made of ham and a hat made of cheese Crisp fried bread’s all the clothes he needs....
Cubano? CubanYES!!!
It’s come to me over the past couple of days that each of the three sandwiches we’re covering this month is basically a variation of the grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich. As good as a melty-ass ham-and-cheese sandwich...
This post is a croque
We do things differently in the antipodes, and it turns out that today is Fathers’ Day. This put me somewhat on the hook to ‘do something’ for the man in my life, the father...
To Carve the Corned Beast
I have a tendency to obsess over things. No, not you, Jim! Not the guy who wrote a 4000 word history of club sandwiches earlier this month! Yes, me, hard as it may seem...
The Three Faces of Corned Beef
Corned beef is incredible. Whether you’re boiling it with some vegetables, frying it up it with some potatoes and runny eggs, or stacking it high on bread, you can count me in. Naturally, it’s the...
Crisp Sandwiches
The UK and Ireland are crazy for these crisp sandwiches. If you don’t know what a crisp sandwich is, it’s when you stick some potato chips into some bread and eat it. cricket sounds...
A Drunken Crisp Sandwich
OK, so in the sprit of this sandwich, I’ve drunk rather a lot of cider, and decided I should eat something to try to ameliorate the effects. I started with Henry Weston’s Old Rosie,...
An Edible History of the Club Sandwich
A Turkey Sandwich Wearing a BLT Hat That’s what club sandwiches have always seemed like to me. It’s like this, you’ve got a turkey sandwich So you think to yourself, this turkey sandwich kind of...
Churrasco–Chilean Steak Sandwiches
If you’ve been following this blog and you’re feeling a little deja vu right now, you’ve come by that feeling honestly. Churrasco is far from the first Chilean steak sandwich we’ve covered. So what...
Cultural Assimilation and the Chow Mein Sandwich
I recently watched the very good documentary The Search for General Tso, nominally about the origins of that popular Chinese-American dish (and where it turns out to have been created comes as a bit...
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