A Vegemite Sandwich
I first became aware of the term “Vegemite sandwich,” as I’m sure many Americans my age did, due to the 1982 Men at Work hit song “Down Under.” More accurately, I became aware of...
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Argentina’s Sándwich de Milanesa
For a long time, Argentina has been among the world’s top consumers of beef per capita. Figures vary by source and by year, but Argentina, along with its neighbors Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil, along...
Finnish Ruisleipä
Finland loves its rye bread. Though it has perhaps the mildest climate of the Nordic countries, the northernmost parts of Finland are in the Arctic Circle, snow lies on the ground for 6-8 months...
St. Louis’ Prosperity Sandwich
The first clue is right there in the description for this sandwich on the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches. “Ham and turkey topped with broiled cheese,” it says. “Sometimes includes bacon and tomato.” Hm, I...
Primanti Bros. Sandwiches
Often when we cover a city’s “signature sandwich” here at the Tribunal, there is an apocryphal origin story accompanying the sandwich, one that cannot be verified and is unlikely to be true but is...
The Argentine Pebete
According to Wikipedia, a pebete is “an Argentine soft oval bun made of wheat flour with a thin brown crust, rather like a fatter hot dog roll.” I would say that it is more like...
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...
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...
Tapas on Toast: the Spanish Montadito
Montaditos are a type of small-plate, open-faced Spanish sandwich. Like tapas, they are often served with drinks, sometimes as a complimentary snack (to help you keep drinking!) There’s no specific recipe. It’s simply a...
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,...
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