Website Claims West Coast Has Only Invented Three Sandwiches (Are They Right?)
The good people at Serious Eats have put together a thorough guide to all of the sandwiches of the world (so big it's split into two editions: American and International). There are beautiful sandwich-porn photos and a fascinating rundown of the international language of stuff-between-two-slices-of-bread. For example, did you know that South Africans favor a variation on the submarine called the Gatsby that often features French fries? Now you do.
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One thing troubles us, however. In the American edition, the West Coast is only credited with three sandwiches: the French Dip, the Monte Cristo, and S.F.'s own Dutch Crunch. The Northeast alone has 16 to its name. Is it just that other regions of the country had a hundred years or more on us for sandwich innovation, and all the sandwiches had been invented by the time the West was settled? Or did the New York-based Serious Eats miss a few?
There've gotta be more than three, but damned if we can think of them. Maybe the California Powerhouse at Stately Sandwiches, but we've never seen that on a menu. Can you think of any more? Let's brainstorm and show the East Coast what we've got!
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