On Sandwiches and Hyperbole
It’s a long, cold ride to 35th and Morgan in the Chicago neighborhood of Bridgeport from my office in the West Loop, just shy of five miles in weather that’s barely breaking into double...
My weekend in sandwiches, March 2, 2015
A couple of quick hits here, as I had a bit of a theme going this weekend and I thought I might take a moment to tick off the purists. I live a stone’s throw from...
The Broodje Kroket and Emotional Distress
“Why am I putting these into a sandwich?” I thought to myself as I constructed my Broodje Kroket. A blasphemous thought, perhaps, especially within the context of Tribunal research, but the heart feels what...
Broodje Kroket, or my life as a fake Dutchman
When I was a kid, my stepfather Tim was from Pella, Iowa, a small town of (at the time) about eight thousand people southeast of Des Moines that didn’t so much cling to its...
Bun Kebabs in the Desi Corridor, Chicago
Often at the Tribunal, when presented with an unfamiliar sandwich originating in a far off and exotic land (e.g., Buffalo, NY), I’ll have no choice but to try and recreate that sandwich myself, from...
JP Graziano’s February special, the Muffaletta
In celebration of Mardi Gras, for the month of February J.P. Graziano (who make what is my absolute favorite sandwich in Chicago, and who are part of the inspiration for this site) are offering a muffaletta...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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