Where did the name sandwich come from?

Answer 1

The story goes that it was named for the Earl of Sandwich. Not wanting to leave the gaming tables to sit down to a formal meal, he slapped meat between two pieces of bread and voila! the sandwich.

Answer 2

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich "invented" the sandwich. He lived from 1718 to 1792 and was First Lord of the Admiralty. Captain James Cook discovered a group of islands in the Pacific and named them after him. The Sandwich Islands belong to Hawaii today.

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich was not very popular. Corruption was a big problem at that time. So he sent out unseaworthy ships to fight for England.

John Montagu liked to play cards very much. He often played for hours and hours. So there was no time to eat. John Montagu told his butler to make something he could could eat at the gambling table. The butler put a piece of meat between two slices of bread. So the "Sandwich" was created.

Answer 3

The first written usage of the English word appeared in Edward Gibbon's journal, in longhand, referring to "bits of cold meat" as a "Sandwich".[9] It was named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an 18th-century English aristocrat, although he was neither the inventor nor sustainer of the food. It is said that he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and because Montagu also happened to be the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, others began to order "the same as Sandwich!"[10][6] It is said that Lord Sandwich was fond of this form of food because it allowed him to continue playing cards, particularly cribbage, while eating without getting his cards greasy from eating meat with his bare hands.[6]

The rumour in its familiar form appeared in Pierre-Jean Grosley's Londres (Neichatel, 1770), translated as A Tour to London 1772;[11] Grosley's impressions had been formed during a year in London in 1765. The sober alternative is provided by Sandwich's biographer, N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics and the arts mean the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his desk.

Before being known as Sandwiches, the food seems to simply have been known as "bread and meat" or "bread and cheese".

Source: Wikipedia

Answer 4

The Earl of Sandwich

he was a slave owner and asked if he can something tom eat. what the slave brought him was the first Sandwhich

Answer 5

The sandwich got it's name because of John Montagu aka 4th earl of sandwich.

Answer 6

Supposedly in the 1930s, a New York Herald Tribune food writer commented that only a hero could finish off such a massive concoction. And the name stuck. _mw

Answer 7

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