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Eating Like An Earl - Talking Time's Top Sandwiches

Torzelbaum

Torzelbaum

????? LV 13 HP 292/ 292
(he, him, his)
Hello everyone. I'd like to thank all of you for joining me as we start to expand Talking Time with our new initiative - Eating Epoch.

Our first endeavor under the Eating Epoch banner is entering into the restaurant industry with our two new flagship restaurant concepts.

Our first concept is Cheesygoing - a casual sandwich shop located in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland. This location is a cozy resort city which receives up to eight million visitors annually. During summer weekends it hosts between 320,000 and 345,000 vacationers. So we have lots of hungry potential customers looking for a quick bite to eat. @Johnny Unusual will be the acting general manager for this location. Johnny will be quite busy managing Cheesygoing and will check in when he can.

Our second concept is Crustidigitation! - a 50's diner on legs that will serve as the ultimate food truck or pop-up restaurant. Getting this working and acquiring all of the necessary permits was very difficult but it will really help us stand out in this crowded industry. I will be the acting general manager of Crustidigitation! and will be taking it on a North American tour to different sandwich hot spots based on the menu that we collectively developed. I'll be starting the tour in Sandwich, Illinois which is located in Northern Illinois and felt like an appropriate launching point (and lunching point).

Before we start I would like to thank the contributing partners - @Alex, @Daikaiju, @Issun, @JBear, @RT-55J and @WildcatJF.
And I want to give special thanks to our location strategy consultant @nataeryn and our identity strategy consultants @Kirin and @Lokii.
 
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But before we proceed I think we should first consider how we got here.

The use of some kind of bread (or bread-like substance) to lie under some other food, or to scoop it up and enclose or wrap it, is found in many cultures historically. Before being known as a "sandwich", this food combination seems to have been known as "bread and meat" or "bread and cheese". These two phrases are found throughout English drama from the 16th and 17th centuries.
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The sandwich is named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an eighteenth-century English aristocrat. The common rumor* is that he was a frequent card-player and often had his servants bring him roast beef between toasted bread so that he wouldn't have to use a fork to eat or get grease on his cards from eating with his bare hands. Other people began to order "the same as Sandwich!" and thus the "sandwich" was born.

But an alternate explanation is provided by Nicholas A. M. Rodger, Earl Montagu's biographer. Rodger suggested that "Sandwich's commitments to the Royal Navy, politics and the arts mean the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his desk."

* This rumor came from a travel book written by French writer Pierre-Jean Grosley titled Tour to London (published 1772).
 
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Honorable Mention #1:

Jill Sandwich

Tour Location: Racoon City

We have a rather unusual choice here from @Issun. It's quite famous but I'm not sure how we would manage the logistics of it. Also, partnering with the Umbrella Corporation did not pass review by our legal department.
 
The Jill Sandwich is a rumor and a myth. There was almost a Jill Sandwich once, but that's the closest anyone's ever come.
 
I prefer the more complex taste of a full PB & Jill.
 
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The Jill Sandwich is a rumor and a myth. There was almost a Jill Sandwich once, but that's the closest anyone's ever come.
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Nonsense. That’s the closest in canon, but then there’s fanfic. I’m not gonna go check but I’d be pretty shocked if Jill Sandwich isn’t a tag on AO3.
 
Honorable Mention #2:

church basement/potluck mini sandwiches

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Tour Location: Chipman, New Brunswick (or a church basement or other potluck near you)

Here we have a Johnny Unusal @JBear pick near and dear to his heart that resonated with me and might just resonate with you. I'll let him explain:
The specific ones matter less*, but I just love the tiny sandwiches that little old ladies make that you find in church basements or community potlucks for events like graduations or funerals or church picnics and the like.
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*[But] no egg salad please
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I didn't put it on my list but I do have a strong memory from my youth and fondness for these sandwiches on little hemispherical bread rolls that my dad often made for occasions like the ones Johnny JBear listed.
 
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Oh Jill Sandwich is an amazing #25. Bravo.

At my church growing up, the filling of choice in the south was usually pimento cheese. Its easy to spread thick on soft white bread.
 
Well you're in luck: every spread of these that I've ever seen involves way too many egg salad sandwiches.
 
Little hand sandwiches are nice. Regardless of what is in them (most of the time.) I can't believe all the Egg Salad slanderers on this forum!? Very disappointing.
 
I have a similar entry on my list but I also have enjoyed a mini sandwich in such a location. Due to my dislike of raw onion and the texture of celery bits with something soft I did not really like egg salad or tuna sandwiches but the other ones where nice. But frankly Im more partial to the other church basement standard: sugar donuts.
 
I will also eat a tiny egg salad sandwich. Or like, cream cheese and cucumber, that’s a thing with those isn’t it?
 
It is! As is the ungodly combination of cream cheese and maraschino cherries, per my TikTok link above.
 
Same! I'm pretty sure that, to this day, no other kind of cherry has ever entered my parents' home, unless you count cherry pie filling.
 
Who knew such little sandwiches could yield so much discussion?

#53
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fluffernutter

33 points, 2 votes
Staunchest Sandwich Supporter: Daikaiju (#16)

Tour Location: Melrose, Massachussets​

Pastes made from ground cooked peanuts have existed since the Aztec and Inca civilizations. North American innovations in the late 1800s and early 1900s allowed people to mass produce shelf-stable versions of this food.

Marshmallow creme was invented in the early 20th century. Commercial versions were produced starting in the 1910s. Amory and Emma Curtis of Melrose, Massachusetts started producing their version in 1917. They also created a promotional recipe booklet which they sent to their customers. The booklet is one possible origin of the fluffernutter sandwich - a combination of peanut butter and marshmallow creme usually served on white bread.

The competing product named Marshmallow Fluff was produced by Durkee-Mower Inc. starting in 1920 (originally using the name Toot Sweet Marshmallow Fluff). In 1960 Durkee-Mower hired an advertising firm who created the name "fluffernutter" as a more effective way for the fluff maker to market the sandwich. (The name is a registered trademark but that only applies in a few specific contexts.)

@Daikaiju @Lokii
 
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no comment on the quality of the sandwich, but time has not been kind to its name
 
I have never had a Fluffernutter. I have had peanut butter and honey and it was way too sweet so I feel like this would be the same.
 
I've had one or two and yeah they're real sweet. You've got to go real heavy on the PB (chunky helps) and/or real light on the marshmallow creme. I also think of it more of a dessert item than a meal one.
 
I have never heard of this sandwich before this list, and I think I was happier that way.
 
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