What is National Sandwich Day?
National Sandwich Day, November 3rd, honors one of America's most popular lunch items, whether you stack it high or thin.
Following the assertion that he was the sandwich's designer, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, is thought to have been the namesake of the sandwich. We love every kind of sandwich, no matter who invented it. We love it.
Although John Montagu is said to have been named after him, the actual source and original use of the modern sandwich are the subject of controversy. In a recent travel book called Tour to London by Pierre Jean Grosley, there is a rumor that inspired Lord Sandwich's popular belief that bread and meat sustained him at the gambling table. Lord Sandwich was a very conversant gambler, but he didn't have a meal during his long hours of playing at the card table, according to reports. When hungry, he would ask his servants to bring him slices of meat from two slices of bread. This was a habit that was well-known to his gambling buddies who soon began to order "the same as Sandwich," and the sandwich was born from this.
The first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his work desk than at his work desk, according to N.A.M. Rodger, who wrote Sandwich's biography..
The food appears only to have been called bread and meat or bread and cheese before being identified as sandwiches.
