Sandwich by Bee Wilson

Author:Bee Wilson [Wilson, Bee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781861898913
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Al’s Sandwich Shop, Miami Beach, Florida.

and a slice of Bermuda onion). Above all, the diner sandwich

was cheap. In , at the Worcester Lunch Car in Newbury-

port, Massachusetts,  cents would buy you any of the follow-

ing sandwiches: cream cheese and olive, cream cheese and

jelly, cold sliced ham, cold minced ham, grilled hamburg (in

other words a hamburger), or American cheese. If you wanted

the bread toasted, that was  cents extra.

The story of Bonnie Parker (–) and Clyde Barrow

(–) – otherwise known as Bonnie and Clyde – gives

a little snapshot of what a poor life sustained on sandwiches

might look like. Jeff Guinn, biographer of Bonnie and Clyde,

writes that their ‘entire menu’ while on the run often comprised

‘bologna-and-cheese sandwiches’, sometimes sup plemented

with a glass of buttermilk. Bologna, also known as baloney

– pale pink luncheon meat – was often pretty unwholesome

stuff. American meatpackers used ‘bologna’ as shorthand for

meat that was so substandard it was only fit for sausages. Still,

it was filling, and remarkably economical. Bonnie and Clyde

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bought sandwiches for breakfast on the very morn ing that

they were finally apprehended and shot by the police. Opin-

ion differs as to whether their final sandwich, bought from

Ma Canfield’s café in Gibsland, Louisiana, was a fried bologna

or a . But the remains of Bonnie’s sandwich was still

on her lap when she was killed, wrapped neatly in a paper

napkin.

It’s worth noting that Bonnie and Clyde saw sandwiches

as a breakfast food. In Britain the choice of breakfast sand-

wiches is essentially limited to the ‘greasy spoon’ bacon or

sausage sarnie (though some cafes do now do Panini filled

with an all-day British breakfast of egg and bacon). In Amer-

ica, however, breakfast sandwiches are plenteous and varied.

The repertoire of morning sandwiches was built up first

through diners and street vendors. It includes the classic

bacon and egg roll; toasted sandwiches of peanut butter and

bacon; soft breakfast burritos stuffed with green pepper

omelette; Tex-Mex sandwiches of avocado and salsa; and the

McDonald’s Egg McMuffin, in which an eerily round fried

egg made in a Teflon ring is stacked inside an English muffin

with melted cheese and a slice of Canadian bacon (first

served in California in ).

In their book Roadfood Sandwiches (), in which they

travel the States for no other purpose than to eat the best

sandwiches, Jane and Michael Stern describe the joy of a

breakfast sandwich bought from a little street cart called

Tony’s, in New York City, which parks at Nassau and Wall

Street from around  a.m. The eggs are cracked fresh for every

order and cooked on a tiny griddle. The Sterns order Bacon

and Egg on a long roll: ‘a magnificent lode of buttery eggs and

sizzled bacon folded inside a muscular hero roll with a silky

seeded crust’. They note that, unlike bacon and egg rolls

eaten elsewhere in the States, this one is served on ‘a tubular

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