1. Click on the photo to make it bigger so you can see what town is close to Sandwich. It's not a joke.
2. I waited but no sandwich came
3. So are you allowed to eat in the Sandwich Library?
4. If someone puts something on a Sandwich that you disaprove of, you may need to contact the Sandwich Police.
5. I suppose you need a special liscense for that.
Last weekend I was over in the UK for a friends Birthday party. Eva and I took the ferry and spent four nights there; two in Wales and two in England. That is one of the great things about living in Europe, it's easy to pop over to another country for things like that. One of the places I visited on the way back to the ferry was the town in SE England called Sandwich.
"The word sandwich that we use today was born in London during the very late hours one night in 1762 when an English nobleman, John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), was too busy gambling to stop for a meal even though he was hungry for some food. The legend goes that he ordered a waiter to bring him roast-beef between two slices of bread. The Earl was able to continue his gambling while eating his snack; and from that incident, we have inherited that quick-food product that we now know as the sandwich. He apparently had the meat put on slices of bread so he wouldn’t get his fingers greasy while he was playing cards."
-quoted from: http://www.wordsources.info/words-mod-sandwich.html
For some reason, the town's name brought me an incredible level of fascination.
"The word sandwich that we use today was born in London during the very late hours one night in 1762 when an English nobleman, John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), was too busy gambling to stop for a meal even though he was hungry for some food. The legend goes that he ordered a waiter to bring him roast-beef between two slices of bread. The Earl was able to continue his gambling while eating his snack; and from that incident, we have inherited that quick-food product that we now know as the sandwich. He apparently had the meat put on slices of bread so he wouldn’t get his fingers greasy while he was playing cards."
-quoted from: http://www.wordsources.info/words-mod-sandwich.html
For some reason, the town's name brought me an incredible level of fascination.
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