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Welcome to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which we trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, David writes about a confoundingly beloved Irish favorite: the chicken fillet roll. — Talia From Newton and Leibniz battling over the invention of calculus, to Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray racing each other to file the first patent for the telephone, the concept of simultaneous invention has been a surprisingly common phenomenon throughout history.

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, a weekly feature in which my editor David Swanson and I nibble our way through the bonkers document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in alphabetical order. This week, a piece of rock ‘n’ roll apocrypha: the Fool’s Gold Loaf. We’ve written here before about one of the banes of the researcher: the “orphan fact,” an unverifiable detail that, nevertheless, is repeated at infitum in all subsequent accounts of the given subject (in our case, sandwiches.

Welcome to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which we trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. Once I meet a book deadline (which is … today), I’ll be back on the sandwich beat. But for now, David writes about a carbo-maximalist British delight: the chip butty. — Talia September has been a rough month for the British, what with the death of Her Majesty, a brand-new government dead on arrival, and the collapse of the pound.

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the strange and ever-shifting document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in alphabetical order. This week, after a month’s absence where I handed the reins over to David, I climb back into the sandwich saddle and examine the foodstuff most often called “shit on a shingle”: chipped beef on toast. From the dawn of time, and certainly since the much-later advent of recorded history, soldiers have marched on their stomachs as much as their feet.

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the baffling document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in alphabetical order. This week: a specialty from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the cudighi sandwich. All my life I’ve been a bit of a dilettante: I will dip into an obsession, feverishly read everything I can get my hands on for a period from days to months, make it the bulk of my conversation for some time, and then move on seamlessly to another, with scarcely a backward glance.

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in alphabetical order. This week, a St. Louis specialty: the Gerber. I do not, despite all my efforts, give a single shit about the Gerber sandwich. I tried. I went through and looked at some timeless classics set in St. Louis (like Meet Me in St.

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the odd mutable ranks of Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week: a Mexican street-food classic, the guajolota. NOTE TO READERS: For the first time in nearly 300 posts, I am working bereft of an editor today, because David is moving house & quite busy. As you’ll no doubt see in this post, by his absence he proves his necessity – we’re a two-person team, and he’s the guy who, in addition to contributing a lot of amazing content (no one can do an archive roundup better), turns the incoherent Google Docs I send him at 4am into polished posts with art and headlines and stuff.

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My wife Cassie had to work on a random Saturday. That meant I faced a daunting and fun day of solo parenting. And that meant we could either hang out in and around Rochester in some familiar settings or we explore some new breweries. The car has become a secret parenting weapon. Audie seemingly falls asleep instantaneously once he’s secured in his car seat and the wheels are in motion. Plus, I wanted to make an overdue visit to Underground Beer Lab.