Sandwich birthday
Sandwich is one of the most popular snacks, recipes for which are present in the national cuisines of many countries
It is eaten on the run, washed down with coffee for breakfast and taken on a picnic March 14 marks the birthday of a simple but delicious snack - a sandwich The name of the dish, which can be safely attributed to fast food, came into Russian from German: butter means “butter”, and brot means “bread”
The standard size of a sandwich, called a croque monsieur in French and a panini in Italian, depends on the size of the bread from which it is made There are small sandwiches - canapés They are made from tiny croutons weighing up to 30 g, decorated with meat, fish or cheese and skewers for easy serving
The sandwich has long been the talk of the town Cat Matroskin in the cartoon "Three from Prostokvashino" argued that this snack should be eaten correctly - put the sausage on the tongue Popular wisdom says that according to the law of meanness, a sandwich always falls butter side down Although comedians made a slight amendment to this statement “For the unlucky ones, the sandwich falls down with butter And for the lucky ones, it falls like caviar,” the jokers note
Countries and peoples compete with each other not only in sports, but also in culinary skills, in particular, in preparing the largest sandwiches Well-known achievements in this area are included in the Guinness Book of Records Thus, in 2010, a sandwich 2,700 meters long with cheese spread, olives, tomatoes and cucumbers was made in the UAE The Emirati record was broken in 2013 by Italians from the city of Castelleone 520 volunteers prepared a 3 km long sandwich from buns and 10 tons of chocolate spread
The British are big fans of unprepossessing snacks, beans, oatmeal and bacon According to one version, the first sandwiches appeared in Great Britain thanks to John Montague, Earl of Sandwich He was considered a busy person, because was a member of parliament, but loved to eat quickly, tasty and cheap And the count didn’t like getting his hands dirty with food This is how sandwiches appeared, according to legend In 2003, residents of Cheshire attempted to prepare a sandwich weighing 2 tons A giant sandwich 25 meters long with 15 cm thick bread and filled with tuna, mayonnaise and cucumbers claimed to be included in the Guinness Book of Records
In Russia, similar records were set in 2001 by cooks from Nizhny Novgorod and in 2019 from Cherepovets at the Vereshchagin festival “Dairy Traditions” And if the first masterpiece of domestic masters was distinguished by an unprecedented height and area of almost 17 m2 for a snack, then the second sandwich had a length of 100 m and a weight of as much as 110 kg The latest achievement in this area is the 720 m long Lebanese sandwich, made in 2017 from 3,500 pieces of rustic flatbread with local labneh cream cheese, vegetables and olives It was fed to more than 14 thousand people present, including the political leader of the country, and was included in the Guinness Book of Records
In honor of the sandwich's birthday on March 14, gourmets are sharing sandwich recipes and preparing real culinary masterpieces Vietnamese banh mi, Japanese katsu-sando, Cuban medianoche, Mexican kemita, Turkish doner kebab, Chilean chacarera Become a real chef in honor of the holiday: prepare sandwiches according to the recipe of one or more national cuisines and treat them to your loved ones!