Friday, November 16, 2012

History of Sandwich

The sandwich was invented by the notorious English gambler, John Montagu (1718-1792), the Fourth Earl of Sandwich. Sandwich was an area in Southeast England, during the 18th century.

He liked to gamble but heated to get up from the table to goo eat.

After a day-long round of dice and cards, it was said that Montagu the first person to order sliced meat placed between two pieces of bread, an event that reportedly occurred in 1762 at London’s Beef Steak Club situated above Covent Garden Theatre.

With a whole meal in a single hand, he could continue rolling the dice with his free hand.

From this efficient invention came nearly two and a half centuries of fast food, which freed drivers to continue a journey during mealtime and offered cooks great scope for inventiveness in combining foods and bread for picnic meals, travel food, impromptu dinners and school lunches.

The late nineteenth century United States produced two meat sandwiches of German origin, the frankfurter, aka hot dog, and the hamburger, both served in buns.

Jack in The Box, founded in 1951, was the first chain restaurant offered chicken sandwich in the western United States and the industry’s first breakfast sandwich.

In 1967, the first Big Mac sandwich debuted at Uniontown MacDonald franchise.. It was developed by Jim Delligatti’s. In 1968, MacDonald promoted the Big Mad nationwide eventually becoming the most recognized sandwich in the world.
History of Sandwich

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