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A sandwich is a food item typically consisting of two pieces of leavened bread between which are laid one or more layers of meat, vegetable, cheese, jam, together with optional or traditionally provided condiments, sauces, and other accompaniments. The bread can be used as is, lightly buttered, or covered in a flavored oil to enhance flavor and texture. It is named after the 4th Earl of Sandwich.
Sandwiches are commonly carried to work or school in lunchboxes or brown paper bags (in sandwich bags) to be eaten as the midday meal, taken on picnics, hiking trips, or other outings. In some parts of the world, they are also served in many restaurants as entrées, and are sometimes eaten at home, either as a quick meal or as part of a larger meal. When eaten as part of a full meal sandwiches are traditionally accompanied with such side dishes as a serving of soup (soup-and-sandwich), a salad (salad-and-sandwich), french fries/chips, potato chips/crisps and a pickle or coleslaw. A new trend appearing is making sandwiches into wraps, in which a tortilla is substituted for the bread. According to a recent court ruling in the United States, a sandwich must have two slices of bread and not one tortilla
Examples
Sandwiches vary greatly both in their style—how they are put together—and in their fillings. Not every style is used with every filling.
Sandwich styles
- Bacon butty
- Filled baguette
- Banh Mi
- Barros Jarpa, Chilean sandwich consisting of melted cheese and fried ham on white bread.
- Barros Luco, Chilean sandwich consisting of melted cheese and thin fried beef.
- BLT
- Bocadillo, Spanish style sandwich
- Caprese, mozzarella, tomato, fresh basil
- Cheesesteak
- Chip butty, a sandwich that has Chips (french fries) in it
- Choripán, an Argentinian sandwich made with a grilled chorizo
- Club sandwich
- Cornflake Honey Sandwich
- Crisp Sandwich
- Croque-monsieur
- Cuban sandwich
- Cucumber sandwich
- Dagwood sandwich
- Double-decker
- Egg Sandwich
- Georgia Hots
- Grilled cheese
- Gyros-pita or Souvlaki-Pita, nicknamed 'sandwich' to distinguish them from souvlaki-kalamaki
- Hamburger
- Happy Waitress
- Hero sandwich
- Heather sandwich
- Hoagie
- Hot dog
- Lobster Roll
- Melt sandwich: Tuna melt, Patty melt, etc.
- Monte Cristo sandwich
- Morey Amsterdam Sandwich
- Muffuletta
- Open sandwich, also known as "open face sandwiches". Traditional in several parts of Europe, especially in Scandinavia. In some parts of the United States the open face sandwich is usually served open face with warm meat (beef, turkey, ham) and covered with gravy.
- Panini
- Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
- Po' boy (or "poor boy")
- Primanti sandwich, A sandwich popular in the City of Pittsburgh, and named after the restaurant that it is most commonly associated with. Consists of some sort of traditional filling, normally a patty of beef, with french fries and cole slaw between thick slices of Italian bread.
- Reuben sandwich
- Sandwich loaf
- Sandwich de miga
- Sausage sandwich
- Sloppy Joe
- Smoked meat
- Smörgåstårta, Swedish. Literally, "sandwich cake".
- Steamed Sandwich
- Submarine sandwich
- Tea sandwich, are diminutive sandwiches usually reserved for entertaining
- Toasted sandwich, is toasted under a grill or in a toaster oven
- Torta
- Treble- or triple-decker
- Wish Sandwich
Notes
- Arguments spread thick, Is a burrito a sandwich?. November 10, 2006.
External links
- The British Sandwich Association
- The Sandwich Project - over 2,000 recipes
- The Sandwich Manifesto: What is a Sandwich?