Tell it to the Earl of Grey.
We know he wasn’t, and that is not really the history of it either, although most people seems to think it is.
The concept of two slices of bread with something (mostly protein) inside them goes as far back as bread does. But it was mostly used by working people who needed a portable meal that didn’t easily spoil. So in the time of the Earl of Sandwich it was farm hands, shepards and so on.
He just used that method and made it fashionable amongst the wealthy, and then it trickled back down to the middle classes, who now saw it is a socially acceptable form of meal.
Of course not, he’s just the first person known to popularize it, and it’s well known that he didn’t even come up with the idea. He was famished after a long session of gambling and told his cook to bring him something quick to make and easy to eat. So the cook slapped something between two slices of bread and shoved it in front of him.
Nice try, Duke of hand pastries
Things titled people do are written down, so there’s a record.
Probably, people had done this for centuries--as long as there’s been bread--and it had different names, and no one thought anything about it. It wasn’t important enough to write down until an Earl did it, and needed his ego stroked over it.
He was the first aristocrat, and their naming rights took precedence over those of commoners.
Absolutely.
But also, you’ve got me thinking, sausages are pretty old. Romans had them. They also had mustard, rolls and flatbreads. A Roman could have watched a chariot race while eating, essentially, a hot dog in the stands. Maybe even a beer too, if they liked Egyptian imports.
What makes me mad about this is it was probably better tasting than anything you can get in modern stadiums
Ah, but the Romans also invented the profit margin. For instance, they also made hamburgers in front of the colosseum (I read an article about this a dozen years ago). The advantage of ground meat is that you can mix other stuff into it, when nobody is looking.
As evidenced by the fact that, in German for example, the equivalent is “bread with stuff put on it” (“belegtes Brot”).
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Edit: and now my head is singing about alcoholic beverages on the rocks. Great.
Schinken… Schinken!
EI!
Das sind zwei belegte Brote!
But a belegtes Brot only has bread from one side, whereas a sandwich by definition has the contents sandwiched from both sides
A belegtes Brot can indeed be both.
Sorry, but you can’t compare a German belegtes Brot with a sandwich.
Don’t tell me what I can’t do.
Why not?
I’m guessing here… most likely it makes you feel uncomfortable?
Nah, comparing the two doesn’t make me uncomfortable at all, I like doing things that are pretty easy. Makes me feel accomplished.
Snark aside, I’m asking why you think they’re not comparable.
Sorry, I don’t follow.
Can you first define what a sandwich is?
A sandwich is what occurs whenever two or more things interact with each other.
Two slices of bread with other foods in between
The story that I heard is, that the earl of Sandwich liked to play cards with his friends, and he asked his butler to make for him pieces of bread, with cucumber and Roastbeef in between them, and that they should be cut in small triangles, and that the rim should be removed, so that they could be easily consumed during a long, nightly cardgame, without the hands or playing cards getting dirty. Somehow that sounds more appetizing than two pieces of bread slapped together with some shit in between… which was probably invented by the Neanderthals.
He might have been the first person to CALL IT a sandwich tho.
The Earl didn’t even do that, other people named it after him.
Gravity obviously always existed before Issac Newton sat down and wrote out a thesis about it.
It’s all about actually putting the idea to paper in the end, really.
Indeed, there’s an Asian sandwich from 200 BC. Also known as The Chinese Hamburger
No but he was the one who started the current lineage that exists today.
the earl the earl of taco invented the taco.
Quite an underachiever compared to the Earl of Blowjob.
Earl of Chilicheesefries
