Sunday, November 3rd is National Sandwich Day
Posted by: Timothy Tibbetts on 11/03/2013 02:21 AM
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Another day brings another reason to celebrate just about anything. Today we have sandwich day.
There is even an attempt at creating a Facebook page for it but there arent too many followers there. After all, lamost every day is sandwich day for most of us, so it almost seems like "skip the bread" day would be a better idea considering what we know what we are told at the time this was written.
November 3 is also the birthday of John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich.
According to Wikipedia the modern sandwich is named after Lord Sandwich, but the exact circumstances of its invention and original use are still the subject of debate.
A rumor in a contemporary travel book called Tour to London by Pierre Jean Grosley formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the gambling table. A very conversant gambler, Lord Sandwich did not take the time to have a meal during his long hours playing at the card table. Consequently, he would ask his servants to bring him slices of meat between two slices of bread; a habit well known among his gambling friends. Because John Montagu was the Earl of Sandwich others began to order "the same as Sandwich!" and the ‘sandwich’ was born.
The sober alternative is provided by Sandwich's biographer, N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics and the arts mean the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his work desk.
Like most, we stick to the first story because it makes a better tale.
There is even an attempt at creating a Facebook page for it but there arent too many followers there. After all, lamost every day is sandwich day for most of us, so it almost seems like "skip the bread" day would be a better idea considering November 3 is also the birthday of John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich.
According to Wikipedia the modern sandwich is named after Lord Sandwich, but the exact circumstances of its invention and original use are still the subject of debate.
A rumor in a contemporary travel book called Tour to London by Pierre Jean Grosley formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the gambling table. A very conversant gambler, Lord Sandwich did not take the time to have a meal during his long hours playing at the card table. Consequently, he would ask his servants to bring him slices of meat between two slices of bread; a habit well known among his gambling friends. Because John Montagu was the Earl of Sandwich others began to order "the same as Sandwich!" and the ‘sandwich’ was born.
The sober alternative is provided by Sandwich's biographer, N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics and the arts mean the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his work desk.
Like most, we stick to the first story because it makes a better tale.
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