Lunch perched on a low wall, with my thoughts turning to a burning question. What is a sandwich? How would our busy lives cope without the twin bread and filling morsel?
Well a quick perusal on the internet and a definition profligates the results
"The bread-enclosed convenience food known as the "sandwich" is attributed to John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), a British statesman and notorious profligate and gambler, who is said to be the inventor of this type of food so that he would not have to leave his gaming table to take supper."
Well no. The real inventor of the sandwich was the cook or other person unknown who whipped a couple of beef slices off the bone, wedged them into two slices of bread and headed off into the Den of Iniquity to change eating habits forever. Not the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Fake news then!
But it was fabulous sitting in the warm sun, sandwich in hand and a can of Italiano juice composing today's blog in my head. Belissimo.
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