Food That Changed The World: The Sandwich
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Food That Changed The World is about food that was brand new in the time period we study and went on to become a staple in modern times. The sandwich changed the world. No longer do we dish food onto sippets, no way, we put it between two pieces of bread!
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Dad's college story from his days at Purdue in late '50's: The university did not serve supper on Sundays, students were on their own, in an era before dorm refrigerators. Dad and his roommate who was from Poland, went to a deli on Saturdays and bought summer sausage or some other sort of cured meat, cheese, bread, and bottles of Pepsi they drank at room temp. Their tableware was one shared knife, and some brown paper. The first time they ate this together in their room, the Polish guy cut little bites and ate sausage, cheese and bread, and Dad cut slices and ate sandwiches. They each thought the other was weird.
This is so cute! I went to IU in the 90s and they didn't serve food on Sunday either. I wonder if that's more widespread? I went hungry many weekends.
University of Illinois, late 80's. Same deal. Dorms didn't serve an evening meal on Sundays. I brought crackers and instant soup and an electric kettle-thing. But eventually everyone started forming groups to order pizza.
That's a great story! It has a simple beauty to it that would be wonderful as part of a novel or film.
Sounds amazing. I'd love to travel back in time for a day or two and experience a day in the life like that. Must've been great to be under that sky, though it's probably really the same as today's sky when you get down to it.
I am from poland too
I remember going fishing with my dad. Ever time, the cooler in the boat would have ham and cheese sandwiches made with the absolute cheapest ham, cheese, and bread money could buy. To this day I can't imagine cheap ham and cheese sandwich without also imagining the smell of salt water and fish slime. Good times
In Hungary we had "párizsi" with cheap bread buns, butter and salt. Usually compressed flat from being in a bag all day. In school i sometimes flattened it super thin, easier to eat.
Extremely cheap, not even cheese but i like it to this day.
@@KorianHUNparizer
I went fishing with my uncle once and we got an almost stale 15¢ baguette at Walmart and it was way better than we expected.
Dear old dad used to put potato chips in his sandwiches. It added a nice crunch to it.
Those (we'd call them "crisp sandwiches" or "crisp butties") are common in the UK and Ireland. It's a working class food that's about 200 years old and it's still quite popular to put a few chips/crisps in a sandwich with other fillings for the texture.
Chips on bologna or tuna sammiches ... yum!!!
I still do it.
When I was little, we went to a restaurant in Washington DC, and that's how they served the sandwiches. So I always thought it was the fancy way to eat a sandwich.❤
@@Eltener123 prawn cocktail are my preferred crisps for a butty.
My dad, who is now 94, remembers having sandwiches made for his school lunch long ago. His mom would make them with fresh baked bread, butter, cucumbers and lettuce, from the garden on the farm in Alberta, Canada. My dad said they were really good. Cheers!
The neighbour lady across the street is 82 and we invite her as often as we can for tea because she's very cool. She LOVES cucumber sandwiches. Just cream cheese, cucumber, Dill, maybe some lettuce, and she's happy. I'm so glad I get to enjoy them with her.
Tomato and cucumber sandwiches were a staple of my childhood summers. Just Bread, mayo, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers, and a little salt and pepper. Very delicious and refreshing
Oh that sounds so good. Put a bit of beef in there and I might cry
butter as a condiment is underrated lol. that sounds divine!
I grew up on a farm in Alberta Canada…. That sounds exactly like the sandwich’s mom made…
There's a sandwich shop somewhere near Schenectady that had a Thanksgiving dinner sandwich. An entire Thanksgiving meal stuffed between two slices of bread. It would not have fulfilled the Earl's desire to keep his hands clean, but it was sinfully delicious.
Yes! When I was ten, my neighbor made a Thanksgiving leftovers sandwich for me. I never had sliced turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and mayo together on bread before, and it was delicious! 🦃🍞😊
Wawa (a grab&go chain sometimes with a gas station in PA and NJ) has a sandwich called the Gobbler that they only serve during November just like this
"The Bobby" (or "Bobbi") for the eldest aunt in the family who used to serve the Thanksgiving leftovers to the kids. WHen they opened their shops they served it, and i the most popular!
Sounds like Ross’s sandwich with the “moist maker”.
Reminds me of the song "Alice's restaurant " 😀
In Vietnam around 2014, I went to Saigon. After a rather late night drinking, I was going back to my hotel when I met a woman serving banh mi from her handcart. She piled a sliced baguette full of creamy egg, pickled vegetables, liver spread, and god knows what other sorts of ambrosia. I ate it in about a minute. It was so delicious that I couldn't help but order another and devour it immediately, even though I was stuffed to bursting. That woman will likely never read this comment, but she gave me one of the most deliciously memorable meals of my life. Sandwiches extend across every culture and tradition, no matter what you call it or how you eat it!
I think the banh mi is one of the perfect sandwiches. It's usually ridiculously cheap, too!
You ate a french dish in vietnam. Pretty cool that they kept the smarter ideas from the old colonial days.
Great story! How Timeless memories are Created! :)
@@interstellarsurfer a French dish that the Vietnamese have made their own.
It's funny but you made me realize that a lot of regional dishes that are well known are sandwiches, and some of the best and most memorable meals I've ever had were sandwiches. There was the first fresh mozzarella and pesto panini I ever had, 20 years ago in upstate New York, then another very memorable balsamic marinated Portobello mushroom sandwich the following day. There were many many memorable hamburgers I've had over the years. A hamburger just isn't the same without the bun. There was the amazing cheesesteak I had in Philadelphia. The best sandwich I ever had, and in fact one of the best meals I ever had was a half shrimp and half roast beef po' boy at Parkway Bakery in New Orleans. And of course I fondly remember stopping at an Asian market for a $5 Bahn Mi in Hartford Connecticut many times when I used to work there about 8-10 years ago.
“Sippits & sops”…. That unlocked a core memory! Growing up whenever we had anything with gravy, or stews, or juicy meat, my dad would take bread and sop up all the juice and call it “soppy”
That's actually where we get the word, like to sop something up! You're family is part of that linguistic tradition evidently :)
Growing up in the 70s a plate staked with slices of store bought white bread was on the table at every dinner.
Guess that's where the saying "need some bread for sopping" cans from.
Yeah, there's an old southern adage I hear older folks say - "That biscuit won't sop no syrup." - meaning "That just won't do."
@@ashleycope1237 I also guess that's when sliced bread become so great as in "so-and-so is the greatest thing since sliced bread." It certainly was a neat and practical way to eat.
Gallimaufry is a noun that means a confused or disorderly mixture of things, or a medley of various kinds of food. It comes from French galimafrée, and is first attested in 1551.
interesting. had never heard the word before this video. thanks.
cool. I speak French but I didn't know this word. It's an old word meaning a mix of left over stewed meats
I will find a way to use this word. Thank you for this!
I think I need a tshirt labeling me that LOL
@@romulus_literally a hapax legomenon in my life. I'm now going to start to see it everywhere 😅
Weird to think that the idea of the sandwich was spawned from someone who had a gambling addiction.
"betcha I can eat that beef without touching it!"
proof that gambling brings great thing, if you ask me we should put slot machines in preschools.
@@thatguywatchingyou9549 Righteous!!!!
i guess the audacity of the invention was the idea that one piece of bread to hold up a meal and keep your fingers clean was enough the second piece of bread was a power move
nice
Mine is the simplest of sandwiches, two thick slices of fresh baked cottage loaf well spread with somerset butter, generous slices of mature cheddar cheese (preferably from Cheddar) with slices of onion, I used to wander down a narrow country lane one long summer to an old drovers inn and have the same sandwich with a pint of cider every day.
Thank you for that post. Something so descriptive makes it so that I can picture it in my mind, and it sounds quite lovely. Sort of a ploughman's lunch in sandwich form, and with a pint of cider, good stuff.
Sounds wonderful!
so simple yet I bet the flavors were distinct!
my favorite sandwich my buddy turned me onto was two thin small sippets with sardine (or any soft canned fish) mayo, arugula and some lemon juice. a very savory yet bright and textural sandwich.
This sounds delicious! I'm going to try it!
Yuck 🤮 sardines no thx
Never heard of an arugula lmao
Edit: oh, it's Rocket. Not bad but I adore Oakleaf.
Townsends is really keeping the edutainment field going with these high-end vids. Always a treat to watch.
i recommend tasting history with max miller and the channel of adam ragusea as well if you like educational food content
I remember tea parties as a kid and it's was butter and cucumber sandwiches, radish sandwiches also very common. Something that both the very rich and the poor could have.
Radish sandwiches are great.
My ex, RIP, loved pressed corned beef and mayo on white bread. I will never forget watching him take 10 minutes to align his 2 slices of meat on the precisely mayonnaised bread. He was so happy every time. When we moved to the Midwest, delis didn't carry pressed corned beef. I never tried it because it reminded of head cheese. I really miss his 😁 when he ate good food.
well, in Poland, or at least back when I was a kid in my part of Poland, we'd eat "kanapka" which doesn't even have to have a bread on top. We'd called it "open" kanapka. You'd put cheese, ham, tomato, boiled egg, spring onion, springle with salt. Very common as a side snack during birthday and other celebrations.
there is also variant with salt or butter only.
Oo, so chlebíček!!!
In Germany we also have the term Kanapee/Canapé for fancy small pieces of bread with toppings specifically in the context of buffets or parties. It's a term taken from French and I expect the Polish word is also related. Originally it was a type of sofa, but got used for the small bites of bread since the toppings are resting on it like a person on a Kanapee sofa.
Still popular in Poland :) Especially when you place slices of juicy vegetable on top - like tomato or cucumber. If you cover it with another piece of bread, it will get soggy fast.
@@FrikInCasualMode and do you also use, hmm, i dont know the name of it, but its a pepper (vegetable) but not fresh, ita more like... Pickled? Yum!
If you are ever in the UK - you can get a genuine sandwich at Mapperton House Dorset. To lift from their website: John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who was the first to be seen eating a ‘Sandwich’ in a coffee house in St James’s Street in 1762. His descendants still live at Mapperton and will give you a tour of the house!
Here in SW PA, a restaurant opened in the 20’s that catered to truck drivers of the area. They dropped or picked up produce, meats, foods in an area called the Strip District which had many food stores. Many delivery’s took place at night. It was called Primanti Bros. His sandwich was tailored to grab and go for drivers in a hurry to keep on schedule. It was bread with meat and/or cheese stacked with slaw and fry’s on top covered with another slice of bread. Full meal in two bread slices.
It is still open and became a local chain in SW PA. But the sandwiches are still best off the 100 year old grille in the original restaurant.
I was in the Pittsburgh area recently and planned on stopping at Primanti Bros. but my trip was changed because of the airlines debacle last month. I ended up driving 18 hours to get there and had to cut my stay short to drive home. I planned on a three day stay but had to cut it short to two days.
@@Reubenhubertoriginally it was sliced potato’s way back when. Now it’s fry’s. Too bad you missed out.
Yinzer here! Can confirm that the 100 year old grill adds something special.
A friend of mine's grandfather says he knew the original Primanti guy who came up with sandwich and, according to him, the original was served with marinated bell peppers instead of cole slaw because he could get peppers for free when the produce sellers were about to throw them out. I dunno if that's true or not, but my friend's grandfather did grow up in the Strip District/Lawrenceville area at about the time Primanti was starting out.
@@johnfitzgerald9245 could be! I just go on what I hear in that area. My grandma made sandwiches with marinated bell peppers she made herself. Sooo 🤔 possible
I found your channel about 12 years ago. And you never disappoint. I get sucked into every new video you make. And it humbles me knowing how good we have it now compared to back then. 😅
When I was a kid grandma would make cheese and mayo sandwiches and we would have a "picnic" under the tree in her backyard.
Melting the cheese and butter together to make a spread sounds so delicious. I'm definitely going to try that
Just by itself it sounds like it could make an exceptional grilled cheese sandwich.
Try pickles on a grilled cheese if you haven't yet. Kosher style cut in coins sorta thin, put them between two cheeses and dip the whole thing in tomato soup as you eat. For extra flavor use tomato basil soup instead.
@@Slay_No_More That sounds very good. Thanks for the tip
@@StrandedLifeform my mom made it for me growing up. It's a weird good combo.
My all-time favorite is an onion sandwich. Vidalia onion about 1/4" thick, in-between 2 slices of buttered bread and sprinkled with sugar. My brother and I practically grew up eating them. We learned a lot from the people who lived through the depression.
I've heard from some historians that sandwiches were previously known as 'Luncheon', mentioned in Elizabethan times as a "selection of cooked meats and cheeses with cut bread into which to put the food". But there's mention of similar as far back as some pharaohs with bread and preserved meat and fish on a platter shown on a wall in a tomb, I think. But it became known as a Sandwich after the Earl asked for it playing cards which was done in the evening, so it was the novelty of having lunch so late, a bit like having cornflakes before going to bed. But, as you say, it all depends on how you define the meal of something eaten between bread - is it still a sandwich if it's in a bun sliced in two?
I've never believed that the Earl of Sandwich was the first to eat meat between two slices of bread. Of course it was done before and elsewhere. I remember in Great Expectations, Pip is given "meat and bread" after a session visiting with Miss Haversham and her ward. The 'meat and bread' were in a kind of basket. Just makes sense Pip would have tried wrapping the bread around the meat. People have been doing this for thousands of years. European bread doesn't always wrap quite as well as flat breads so you surround the filling with slices. Common sense.
@@charlottekey8856 great expectations was published about 70 years after the earl of sandwich died
I agree - the item was ancient. He made it fashionable.
If you search Google Books for books published between 1600 and 1700, the bilingual dictionaries explain "luncheon" is variously a chunk of breads and/or meats, a slice cut off a piece, cutting things into smaller pieces. So it was cut up bread and meat. What the Earl did was give it social cachet.
The idea of combining for example cheese and sausages with bread, all stuff around for several thousand years occured to Humanity a bit before the 17th century for sure. Just nobody made enough PR for it like the good Earl did.
I’m 100% using gallimaufry in a sentence this week.
If you give a mouse a gallimaufry...
Reminds me of The Gallimaufry, a huge alien space station of unknown origin with universe shattering secrets in Buck Godot Zap Gun for Hire .
I just looked up the definition because I saw the comment just as he said the line 😂
not the absolute craziest, but one of my favorite sandwiches is a cubano. it has ham (or salami depending on where you get it), roasted pork, pickles, mustard, and swiss cheese on cuban bread. an absolutely fantastic sandwich.
YUM!
One of my favorites. I think the authentic Cubano has no salami, as it was not very common in Cuba where it originated. I have had one with and without salami, and I have to say I prefer without, as I feel the salami flavor takes too much away from the roast pork
Definitely dig the Cuban.
I can buy one anytime here but they are easy to make at home. One three foot long loaf of Cuban bread can make at least six sandwiches.
Introduced them to Western PA
The Sandwich. The Greatest thing since Sliced Bread, literally.
Presliced bread is a 20rh century thing. Sliced bread is the Greatest thing since the sandwich!
noice
Sliced bread is overrated, I'd much rather have a normal bar of bread
To be fair although the modern sanwich is a relatively recent idea, the earliest sandwiches probably go back as far as the invention of leavened bread itself. It is not hard to imagine someone had the idea of eating a slice of bread or two with some sort of filling
judaism has sandwiches (pardon the pun) baked into the liturgy of passover and has been for about two millennia, it’s always fascinating to me when the idea of a sandwich is credited to a rich person with a gambling addiction. perhaps he popularized it in the west among english speakers, but surely people had been making sandwiches for a long long time
@@josephd183Shut up
The food history videos are probably my favorite Townsends videos.
My favourite sandwiches are:
1) the B.L.T on wheat
2) pastrami on rye
3) the Club sandwich
4) Peanutbutter & grape jelly
5) thin slices of cold roast leg of lamb with a dollop of ketchup on rye.
6) tuna salad on wheat
7) chicken salad on wheat
8) bacon and cheddar with either H.P. or A1 sauce in a bun
What's your favorite drink? ??????? Dying in anticipation.....
@@jamesmanolakis2420 - I'm sorry, was there a limit on how many sandwiches one may like?
@@peterlarsen7779 I stand with you Peter, I liked hearing about your sandwiches
That does cover it for me!😅
I'd like to add a favorite of my own. A Monte Cristo sandwich; A ham, Cheddar cheese and turkey melt, served between two slices of French toast, accompanied by raspberry jam and a serving of French fries. Best breakfast/brunch ever!
Townsend is the one channel that can make a sandwich interesting
Try Sandwiches of History. Short vids with a new sandwich recipe every day. Always interesting. :)
@@staceyn2541 Subscribed. thanks for mentioning this channel.
Shrimp PoBoy in Lafayette Louisiana…. Real, hand made French bread like a foot long with a pound and a half of shrimp on it. Mawmaw in the back hooked me up! Thank you, MawMaw!!!!
"Po BOY" sandwiches are made with OYSTERS, if made with SHRIMP, they're "Po GIRL" sandwiches!! Either way, now I want one!!!
The best sandwiches on Earth!
@@jasonrodgers9063 Poboys are sort of catch-all for a lot of sandwiches in Louisiana. As long as it's in some french bread, it counts. Shrimp, fish, oysters, turkey, ham, whatever.
Ooh that sounds divine
It's funny to think of this as the beginning of sandwiches, since a lot of the rest of the world had already been wrapping food in bread for roughly 4000 years.
Probably my favorite sandwich I've had in my travels was in Pittsburgh, at a place called Primanti's. Their signature thing is putting a fat bundle of seasoned french fries right in the middle of the sandwich, between the meat and the veggies. It was out of this world.
Don't know why a topic as simple as this makes a video that I was very interested in and enjoyed
I really enjoy this channel
My German-Danish relatives and others brought the ground beef & pork frikadeln to America, a worker's lunch eaten between slices of bread. The meat was a thick patty of meat with torn bread or breadcrumbs, egg, chopped onions and salt/pepper. It was browned in oil then steamed in the skillet. A kind of hand size Salisbury steak, it was known as the Hamburg steak.
6:40 Maaaaaan, you just reminded me of one of my favorite things at grandma's house when I was a kid. Tongue sandwiches. My cousins and I used to fight over who got the last slice on a sandwich! 🥰🥰🥰
Can you imagine being a pioneer of sandwich making?
"I shall put mayonnaise upon mine sandwich!", the eccentric time traveler exclaimed. A young woman across from him blushes, the matron of the house faints and everyone else stands and claps.
The person who told Americans the butter wasn't necessary must be held accountable.
Hamburgers were an ancient Roman street food. They were found at a stall in Pompeii. I've had a modern rendition of it (with caul fat and a sauce that involved pine nuts). It tasted strange to my taste buds, but it wasn't bad at all
They cut the crusts off back then! My children feel vindicated! 😂
But only because the crumbs would go flying everywhere, not for flavor
The original PB&J cerca 1920 was three slices of bread with peanut butter on between the first two and jelly between the second - no crust and as a side.
Back then ovens used fire and wood or coal. And the crust would probably be hard and partly burned aswell.
To be fair it was for rich people and the presentation. No commoner is wasting bread in such a manner! Lmao
The pinnacle of sandwich art was the Dagwood. A club sandwich of impossible proportions, named after the cartoon character Dagwood Bumstead, the husband of Blondie, the star of the strip.
Dagwood also ate mashed potato sandwiches.
@@TooLooze this makes me think of Japanese fried noodles sandwich. carb on carb!
Ooo. Dagwoods. Remember making those as a kid!!!
I’m still quite fond of fresh yeast bread, freshly roasted chicken breast-sliced thin-and a healthy gob of butter spread out across the warm bread. Toss on some salt and pepper. Oh my! Now I’m hungry again!
I love this but with mayo instead of butter. Yummy!
2:09 Edward Gibbon? The history of the decline and fall of the roman empire Gibbon?
8:00 It wasn't "crazy," per se, but it was excellent. A swordfish sandwich at The Berghoff in Chicago circa 1993. If we're including burgers, the fanciest one I've had was at Oak & Alley in Warsaw, Indiana (a town named after Warsaw, Poland). It had beets, dill, and goat cheese on it. It was sensational! They dropped it from their menu because it didn't sell. More's the pity. Guess most Hoosiers aren't as adventurous as me.
I grew up hating sandwiches. My mother was a disaster in the kitchen, and made them with white bread and salami. Ugh. I know most people love it, but I found it revolting. I didn't touch sandwiches for years and years. Fast forward twenty-five years, and I met my second wife. She was a great cook and knew how to make delicious sandwiches. Homemade whole wheat bread, cheese or various meats, cabbage or romaine lettuce, dijon mustard or horseradish mayonnaise......I never knew sandwiches could be so enjoyable. And they're a meal in themselves! Truly a brilliant invention, and we have a man with a gambling addiction to thank.
I order the Club Sandwich all the time, I'm not even a member. I have no idea how I keep getting away with it.
At the end of World War 2, my dad (who served as a sergeant in the US Army infantry in France) passed through the city of Marseilles on the Mediterranean. There he ate a _pan bagnat_ , which at that time was a very simple sandwich consisting of thin slices of onion and of perfectly ripe tomatoes, which were laid on a _baguette_ and dressed with a vinaigrette. He couldn't believe that something which was so simple could taste so good. He never forgot it.
The 'craziest' sandwich I ever made was very simple; Elk Summer sausage (no beef filler) on pumpernickel that was thinly spread with cream cheese. It was deeply flavorful and kept just enough of the gamy flavor of the Elk to remind a person where the meal came from (one of my uncles hunting efforts).
The sandwich is amazing, and has a history that goes further back than most European cultures acknowledge. It's a ubiquitous use of a bread and a protein that may very well predate written history. I really love that you included that context in this video.
To this day I'm very fond of a traditional BLT as much as I'm fond of a hot roast beef (open faced in the German style) from an American Diner, and of course the best sandwich ever; the Monte Christo.
I hypothesize that the idea of a sandwich had to wait until breads of a suitably soft texture could be baked consistently. When yeast wasn't understood a lot of bread would be so hard and heavy that it needed to be soaked in liquid prior to eating - ala trenchers and sippets.
Now THAT is a really interesting idea, and makes perfect sense. If so it would be an early example of how advancing technology changed our diets.
People had been baking bread for millennia before the sandwich showed up. You don't need to understand microbiology to make good bread. Soaking bread in liquid is for using old bread that has gone stale.
Yeah ... sourdough bread is just fine to make a sandwich. The main novelty was that noone in polite circles would have eaten with their fingers before the Earl of Sandwich...
Wrong hypothesis
I say, a “sandwich” - this may well be the most odd foodstuff I have ever seen!
I follow the Montagu family of Mapperton in Dorset. Luke is Viscount Hinchingbrooke and his wife, Viscountess Hinchingbrooke, is Julie Montagu from a small town outside Chicago. Luke is heir apparent to Earl of Sandwich, as his father John Montagu 11th Earl of Sandwich. A delightful family to follow as they keep the home fires burning and Mapperton afloat.
Sandwiches are the epitome of human ingenuity
Yay upload! I've been really sick over the past few weeks and binging your videos and long content, its been soothing. Thank you!
Pineapple sandwich: I recently moved to South Georgia. At my tiny rural church, ladies ‘ Bible study I was served pineapple slices and mayo on white bread. They say it’s an old traditional Southern sandwich.
I adore pineapple and put it on all my salads and sandwiches and burgers but that just doesn't sound pleasant to me. Not a mayo fan I guess.
"gallimaufry" is an amazing word
When I lived in the North of England, in the late 1980's, I went to a pub that served a hot meat pie in a bun. Absolutely incredible. It sounds very, very wrong, but it was astonishingly good.
Ahh the Wigan Kebab. What a beautiful thing.
@@jebdunkins6796 Spot on. Whatever genius thought of that, deserves a pint. (Or several) 👍👍👍
I had a friend who would put left over spaghetti and sauce between two slices of bread. Spaghetti sandwich... YUM!
I do that.
you know about the chip butty?
spag sauce in a puffpasty pie maker is good too
@@buglepong I put chips on my bologna sandwiches, is that close enough?
Japanese yakisoba bread
In Glasgow Scotland in the UK, Sausage Sandwiches are a common classic. However we mainly used Scottish Lorne Sausage which more akin to Meatloaf, sliced and put into a white roll with either tomato or Brown sauce Lovely! My family tends to make something we call the Glas Vegas Sandwich, two slice of Lorne on two pieces of white bread (I use the ends for better bite), with American cheese and good dollop of American Mustard. Its to die for :D
Lorne, Black Pudding in a morning roll, sauce of your preference, which for me is HP or Daddies.
Plastic cheese is almost as bad as using Richmond sausages as a sandwich filling 🤢
Possibly the best sausage is the Scottish square sausage, hot and beautifully spiced in a buttie served with a hot cup of tea
I bet I could dig a Lorne sausage sandwich. Would have to find the right spice though. The site I found suggested the spice profile is nutmeg and coriander - might be a good fit for this channel ;).
@@kavasir7042 - if you're using the wrapped individual slices you're supposed to take the wrappers off before you eat it.
The hotdog is an american taco.
Lol genius
You're toying with forces beyond your ken!
The hot dog is a german invention. The "frankfurter" invented in the 1600s in Germany. It's funny how Americans assume so many things are "american".
The Taco is a Tuesday food.
Why does this man not have his own network television show? I've been watching him for years.
I'm sure he could. But why bother with a network when he can keep 100% creative control with RUclips. No need to get television execs involved in a good thing.
I always wondered why he isn't on PBS.
For sure, why have them control your life@@sclarsen86
The "sandwitch" is one of the greatest human inventions and the superior form of food imo
I do love sandwiches. I cannot imagine not having them as part of our meals.
Keep in mind that the sandwich is an entirely English-American concept. Here in Germany we eat a lot of bread with stuff on it, but it's usually just bread, butter and one type of topping (sausage, meat, cheese, jam, Nutella, whatever), a second slice of bread being optional, mostly for if you want to take it with you. Garnish and greens on top also optional. It's also pretty much the normal thing to have for breakfast and supper (small evening meal). But it's not a sandwich, we just call it belegtes Brot or Brot ("topped bread"/"bread"), the toppings being implied if you say you are eating some bread.
It's always funny because I have American friends and they usually don't get the concept of just putting stuff on bread without it arbitrarily becoming a sandwich.
Also the Nordic smörrebröd / smørrebrød / smörgås / voileipä (= butter bread) becomes an "open-faced sandwich" in the eyes of an American. One slice of bread, butter, toppings like meat or sausage, fish, cheese, etc.
Similar to the English idea of the Ploughman's Lunch. Bread is good with almost anything
It’s so interesting to learn about foods and traditions. If we concentrated on this and celebrated it, maybe there would be more peace.
As an American, I would be sooooo tempted to just sandwichize the topped bread.
It only needs one more sliiiice. It could be so portable!
Same concepts in the netherlands, tho i like the english 'crisp sando'
"Have you ever heard of a wish sandwich? A wish sandwich is the kind of a sandwich where you have two slices of bread and you...*chuckle*...WISH you had some meat!"
There are recovered Ancient Roman recipes that call for a roll sliced in half with patties of grilled ground meat in between. So they had hamburgers in Ancient Rome!
But would that also count as a sandwich? Are burgers a subset of sandwiches? (I know this is an age old question but I've never got the answer) I prefer bread sliced in half to slices from a loaf. A subway sandwich is a sandwich. A hotdog is a sausage sandwich? How about a filled pita pocket? It's been sliced open, though not in two, but hotdog bun isn't in two either...
@@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407The hamburger is absolutely a sandwich; like I get that there's debate on hot dogs but a burger could not be more clearly a sandwich
@@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407bruh it's two pieces of bread with meat in the middle. Of course it's a sandwich, it's just a sub-set of sandwiches with questionable definition what makes it a burger.
"The Earl of Sandwich invented the sandwich, Samuel Morse invented the Morse Code, Plato invented the plate."
@ 9:15 'exactly what they would have had on those early sandwiches.' ....~earl~y sandwiches . . . pun intended? or happy accident?
"Is a hotdog a sandwich?" A wild Mythical Josh screeches in the distance, Nichole not far behind...
The Brits still put butter on sandwiches first along with mayo or salad creme. I just can't. It's either or, not both.🎉
The Butter is put on the bread, to prevent the contents from soaking into the bread and making it soggy. Cucumbers may not seem that wet, until they are cut and placed on a piece of sponge, we call bread.
The Butter on the bread, is a trick all restaurants use for 'formal tea' parties, or other events where bread is the carrier for 'wet' foods.
Fast food will put the Cheese on the bread, for the very same reason: act as a moisture barrier to the rest of the indgredients and the bread.
@@Objective-Observer mayo is a moisture barrier as well. Not as occlusion as butter though.
@@annettefournier9655 Mayo has eggs and lemon juice to add to that moisture content, despite the oil in the emulsion. That's why high end bakers and caterers use butter, well, that also adds to the flavor.
For home cooks, the mayo may be enough, since the sammies are served immediately. If you must store those sammies over night, butter the bread.
Ham and cheese is best with butter on the bread, not mayo.
I love how there's so much comfort in a sandwich. This comment section is full of so many cozy and heartwarming stories i wanna copy and share (with full accreditations) to my other social media ❤️
Sadly, youtube won't let me.
The ghost 👻 of the Earl of Sandwich wants his share of your sandwich 🥪.
Your channel is such a treasure, possible one of the most wholesome, and warming channels on youtube. God bless you and your team
Craziest sandwich I've ever eaten? Has to be when my brother and I decided to have burgers with slices of pizza as the buns.
Now I have to do this, thank you for contributing to my health issues
That sounds pretty good!
I salute you
Burger using two grilled cheese sandwiches as buns.
@@patrickrandolph6345 yw
One of my all time favorite sandwich is, bologna and cheese on either white bread or wheat, with mayonnaise, a little mustard, and red onion. With a few chips in the sandwich also. To me thats some good eating.
Maybe some day we'll find a recipe from the days then they had real sand in them, like the original recipe for Coca-Cola's special ingredient.
And only witches ate them! The t was lost in translation.
@@Tomichika They're a Bri'ish invention so that's natural.
Flatbread sandwich adjcent things existed in the Mediterranean for a pretty long time (thousands of years). The earl of sandwich had traveled to that area and may have gotten the idea from the flatbread wraps in anatolia
I have noticed there are many that don't put mayonnaise on their bread or some other sort of sauce before assembling the sandwich. This has always been odd to me, I suppose it comes down to personal preference which makes complete sense, but personally, I don't want the bread of my sandwich to be dry, grilled cheese being an exception for the cheese offers some moistness.
Are you from the south? A sandwich without mayo here is like a person without a soul. Hell, sometimes we make sandwiches with nothing BUT mayo. Mayonnaise sandwich. I weep for people who have never eaten Bama Mayonnaise.
@@cocobutter3175 lol True
I especially don't understand people who only put mayo on one slice of bread. This is why I loathe Subway. You say you make sandwiches, but you fail at basic sandwich making 101. Mayo goes on the BREAD NOT THE TOPPINGS, YOU MORONS. I may have strong feelings about this issue.
Pig Brain Sandwich from the Fall Festival in Evansville, IN. Bread, pig brain, pickle, mustard, bread. Better than I hoped for.
I saw a documentary claiming brain sandwiches were huge in Indiana, like the most popular sandwich. Then it said they only seem to be served in one bar now, near Evansville. I dunno where they got the info that decided it was popular throughout Indiana, because I haven't seen any evidence of that at all. My family is from Seymour/Columbus/Bloomington area and in a family poll, no one could remember ever eating them or seeing them sold. My country granny sometimes made pig brains with eggs, but never breaded as a sandwich. Sorry, just one of those weird things that bugs and confuses me. Townsends is in Forrt Wayne, I wonder what their research team could uncover.
Pig brains with eggs were a thing in the south. Not so much noe. But tomato slices and mayo on white bread is still popular.
@@sadjaxxGrilled tomato slices on toast is a pretty popular breakfast item in Australia usually with a wee bit of salt and pepper. Not really my thing but reasonably popular.
From the original version, it sounds like a sandwich needs to have 2 separate SLICED pieces of bread to qualify. So a taco, burrito, and hotdog wouldn't qualify.
By that definition a sub isn't a sandwich.
@@SodaDjinn It isn't.
@@SodaDjinn If the sub's bread isn't sliced into 2 separate pieces, then it would not be a sandwich (at least by the original definition).
Is a burger a sandwich? Does the bun qualify since it is a piece of bread sliced into two separate pieces?
@@jagermeifster I'd say a burger is a sandwich. Others might disagree of course, lol!
The most unusual sandwich I've ever heard of is a sandwich made by Officer Bill Gannon from Dragnet called the Mile High Sandwich: Corned beef, imported Swiss, lettuce, Russian dressing, cole slaw, kosher pickle, slice of tomato, mayonnaise, peanut butter, horseradish, and a little hot mustard on rye. Another one of Bill's unusual sandwiches is the Garlic Nut Butter Sandwich: Cream cheese, crushed garlic, and peanut butter on pumpernickel bread.
I have to make one of each! Dang!
In Germany we have the Butterbrot, which dates back to the 1400's. it's the absolute staplepiece of german nutrition, which is eaten for breakfast and dinner and mostly consists of a piece of greybread, butter and "Aufschnitt" (pieces of sausage or meat) or cheese.
There was a deli in Vermont that I went to when my partner and I were on vacation, it was a sandwich with assorted Italian cold cuts, thick slices of cheese, and an oil and vinegar dressing. The whole thing was toasted in a panini press. Wonderful
(Pagani from the West and Main deli in St. Johnsbury)
The sandwich was invented in Göbekli Tepe in about the year 4000 BC
Tacos of the gods
@@michaelmarshall8041 Graham Hancock Crackers
@@michaelmarshall8041 Taco Truck Vimana !!
Gobekli Tepe was basically the Subway of ancient times.
@@craigmitchell4071 the sacred words "eat fresh" are inscribed upon pillar 18, in line with the constellation Jared
Chipotle Leek BLT Eggs in a Basket sandwich. Pan fry your bacon with chopped leek onion. Season with salt pepper and chipotle. Use thick slices of a hardy bread of your choice, sourdough works well. Take the bacon and leek out of the pan, leave a little oil. Toast the bread with the egg cooking in a cut out center of one slice. Leave some egg yolk a little runny. Put it all together when done cooking with fresh lettuce and tomato and you've got a hell of a sandwich. Leek and bacon go amazing together. The egg yolk makes it a little messy but brings it all together. I created it myself. A friend discovered how well leek and onion go together, I took it from there.
I LOVE SANDWICHS
@xltwilightragelx the preferred food group of the enlightened individual
in spain the word sandwich is used only for those made from loaves with the typical square-ish industrial bread, with the word bocadillo used for those using other kinds of breads, often slicing the loaf open with the crust outside and fillings on the softer inside
this makes me believe the conventional international conception of the sandwich was introduced afterwards, but there's much to analyze on this
8:05 You never answered the question! Is a hot dog a sandwich?
Lolz because he doesn't want to get tied up in an epic debate
Yes it is we just don't call it a hot dog sandwich. Very much in the same way we don't call a burger a burger sandwich. It's one of those things.
One of my favorites is smoked turkey on healthy seeded bread w/fig jam....it may have had jarlsberg as well. yum. thanks for another great video
Nah I'd eat
My grandmother had a summer favorite that she called "tomato, cheddar and bacon". White bread, tomatoes fresh from the garden, cheddar, raw bacon stacked up in that order and put under a broiler until the bacon was done. It just isn't summer without it.
0:43 name of the painting ?
Still Life #7 by Pieter Claesz
why do you care?
@@OhioDan why do you know?
@@beefsupreme67 Why are you trolling?
@@OhioDan I'm not trolling how tf you just know that
My favorite treat is homemade ham or bologna salad. Or braunschweiger mixed with a little cream cheese. Both served on cocktail size rye or pumpernickel.
2:45 why are the s f?
it's a long s, an old letter that isn't used anymore. it looks similar to an f but technically different
The best thing you can start doing to your sandwiches right now that nobody does for some reason is to salt and pepper your bread when you toast it.
People have been placing various foodstuff between two pieces of bread for the best part of two thousand years. In Europe, during the middle ages they were known as trenchers Just because the name we now use comes from a nineteenth century doesn't mean that he invented the idea. Your channel is usually so good at research, but you really dropped the ball on this one.
Trenchers weren't a sandwich. They were more of a plate.
Could you put in some sources for your claims please? Not that I dont believe you, but our man here is basing what he says on cookbook etc. So it would be fair to provide a source too.
Pretty much any book on life in medieval Europe is going to identify trenches or manchets as a single round piece of bread used as a plate to sop up juices that were frequently given to the poor after a feast.
This is one of those things that I find extremely bizarre, because it’s such a simple, practical thing, but apparently in Europe at least, it wasn’t a thing until much later.
But loads of people were making versions for centuries where bread or a pita wasn’t necessarily cut all the way through but stuffed with meat and vegetables and other stuff. I think the Chinese pork ones (roujiamo, or something like that?) date back over two thousand years. And we would consider that a sandwich today
I'm sure people had the idea plenty of times. But this was the first time it caught on, on a large scale and became a popular staple food of a large population.
The peanut butter sandwich was basically what kept me alive for most of my pre-teen years.
Meanwhile cultures that made flatbread had been rolling stuff into it for millennia...
Hardly the same thing as loaf bread though.
This channel is unique. Food, history, storytelling. It's both interesting and calming to watch.
I remember, on a family trip to switzerland, ordering a "grilled cheese".
What I recieved was a small, cast iron skillet, with a thick slice of sourdough bread at the bottom, sort of surrounded by a cheesy soup of several different cheeses with a fried egg on top.
While I would hesitate to call it a sandwich, it was one of the most delicious meals I have ever had
Grilled cheese and homemade tomato soup is definitely my favorite comfort food!
Been watching for a few years now. I just love your content. Never stop!
Thanks for sharing these recipes and the history behind the sandwich. Not only was the history good but the different sandwiches looked great. Stay safe around there and keep up the fun you have making these videos. Fred.
this guys enthusiasm is infectious. truly great youtuber
something so simple yet made a 10 min video and kept us entertained the entire time! bravo! mate bravo!