Sandwich Day!

Stop the presses, the blogrolls, the toilet bowls, today is November 3rd. The top of the blog post could have told you that so I will make this slightly more worth your while than when you need to fill in a date, can't remember what it is and go over to the Monstro Blog to get all your pressing life questions answered.

November 3rd is muthafuckin sandwich day! (ADD sidenote of the day: spell check wants to correct "muthafuckin" to azimuthal)

Sandwich Day is named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich who was born on November 3, 1718. I doubt the fool ate a sandwich the day he was born, probably just sucked some titty milk, but the day is celebrated today. I was talking about celebrations in my prior post and I think birthdays of famous people are too obvious, make it on the day he had his first sandwich. That would be like celebrating the moon landing on Neil Armstrong's birthday.

It was said that he ordered a piece of meat to be tucked between two pieces of bread to sustain him at the gambling table and soon others were ordering, "the same as Sandwich" and a legend was born.

I know that at least 50% of my meals involve a sandwich. This leads me to some pierceing questions.

What is the best sandwich?

-wow, hard to say, there are SO MANY good ones, BLT, Reuben, prosciutto, too many to say.

On to more important questions.

Why did it take until the 1700's for the sandwich to become institutionalized! That means there were literally THOUSANDS of years of human existence where this was not a known, common thing. Dark ages indeed!

and lastly, why the fuck does every portrait of someone from this era look exactly like George Washington?