[Sca-cooks] Sandwich anyone

[Johnna Holloway]

Silly season is about over for 2013 but we can contemplate sandwiches before it closes.

August is apparently National Sandwich Month.
(I read it on the Internet-- it must be right. Article from 2012 says so right here
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/food-for-men/national-sandwich-month-11251493 )

So here's a list from one of my sources that came in the mailbox today.

http://www.thrillist.com/food/nation/national-sandwich-day

The boring rules are important for this list. It explains why certain items don't appear!

BORING RULES
1) The Thrillist Sandwich Countdown® concerns itself only with general sandwich styles, not specific sandwiches from this or that deli or restaurant.
2) Availability is taken into account. If there's an amazing sandwich that's only served by a Buddhist monk with gilded robes and particularly well-manicured eyebrows at the top of Machu Picchu, it's going to be docked points.
3) A specialty sandwich born at a particular restaurant, or endemic to a region, can still make the cut, provided it has been recognized as a general sandwich style recreated by other sandwich makers. Primanti lovers rejoice.
4) Certain sandwiches are grouped. We won't break down grinders by their various meat combos, but chicken salad is different from tuna salad.
5) If you can't pick it up with your hands, it isn't a sandwich.
6) For the purposes of this list, a hamburger is not a sandwich. It is a hamburger.
7) A hamburger sub is a sandwich, as it falls under the subset of Submarine Sandwiches, kind of like the Irish kid you went to college with who got a full ride for being 1/16th Swazi.
8) There will be no cased meats, including bratwursts, knockwursts, frankfurters, or spankfurters. If a sausage is sliced into rounds and piled between bread as a deli meat, it is a sandwich.

But still should cheesesteak really outrank Italian beef?

Johnnae