Today, Nov. 3, is National Sandwich Day! I plan to celebrate by eating a sandwich for lunch. But you know, I eat a lot of sandwiches, and I take a lot of pictures of them too. Each month I find myself with some leftover pics that didn't make it into a blog post but still look delicious. So I present my new feature, Randomwiches, where I round up eight sandwiches that have nothing really in common except that I ate them. Let the celebration begin!
That's right: today, Nov. 3, is National Sandwich Day in honor of John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, who was born on Nov. 3, 1718. That means ol' John and I are both Scorpios. Coincidence? I think not.
Montagu gets credit for invention the sandwich, at least according to lore, when he requested his meat served between two slices of bread so that he could keep playing cards unencumbered in 1762. Montagu couldn’t possibly have been the first to make a sandwich; he simply has the best story, plus his notoriety as a devoted scallywag and gambler who couldn’t be bothered to break for dinner. Food historian Solomon Katz surmises that Montagu was inspired by the meat-stuffed pitas he probably encountered on his travels to Greece and Turkey, and according to the legend, the statesman was in the midst of a 24-hour gaming binge in London when he requested his one-handed meal. I'm celebrating National Sandwich Day by eating a sandwich. How about you?
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