Ah The Sandwich. The Original Square Meal. The first ever recorded sandwich was in the 1st century B.C. by a Rabbi named Hillel the Elder. This sandwich was in celebration of Passover. It was made by mixing apples, chopped nuts, spices, bitter Herbs and wine between two Matzos. The name however is drived from the 4th Earl of Sandwich John Montague, a well known work a holic, who instead of stopping for dinner ordered that a cut of salty beef between two pieces of toasted bread, and others thinking this was a good idea, began ordering the same as Sandwich.
Then in the early 1900s sliced bread was very popular making sandwiches very easy to assemble, and people were bringing lunch with them to work because many people went to work in cities during the industrial revolution. Mmm Sandwich.
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