The sandwich[edit]
The modern sandwich is named after Lord Sandwich, but the exact circumstances of its invention and original use are still the subject of debate. A rumour in a contemporaneous travel book called Tour to London by Pierre-Jean Grosley formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the gambling table. But Sandwich was into many bad habits, including the Hellfire club, and any story may be a creation after the fact.[26] Lord Sandwich was a very conversant Whist player, the story goes, and he did not take the time to have a meal during his long hours playing at the card table. Consequently, he would ask his servants to bring him slices of meat between two slices of bread, a habit well known among his gambling friends. Other people, according to this account, began to order "the same as Sandwich!", and thus the "sandwich" was born.[27] The sober alternative to this account is provided by Sandwich's biographer N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests that Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics, and to the arts mean that the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his work desk.
In het Nederlands : Lord Sandwich was zo verslaafd aan het Whist spel dat hij zich niet de tijd nam om fatsoenlijk te eten en zijn lakeien gebood om hem 2 sneden brood met wat sneden vlees ertussen te brengen zodat hij kon blijven verder spelen. zo werd de "Sandwich" geboren.
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