Sandwich
A sandwich (or "butty") is the name given to a popular lunchtime food consisting of a filling (such as meat or cheese), sandwiched between two pieces of bread. Condiments such as mayonnaise, ketchup, and mustard are commonly used to add extra flavour to the sandwich. The beauty of the sandwich is that the possibilities for fillings are almost endless and that the bread keeps one from getting the filling on one's hands allowing them to be eaten anywhere.
Bread
Sandwiches can be made with almost any kind of bread. Popular sandwich breads include:
Wholemeal Bread
Soda Bread
Black Bread
The Bread Roll (also known as a "cob", "barm", "bampot", "tea-cake" in West Yorkshire, "bread cake" in Leeds or "oven bottom")
The Stotty Cake, a round, flat loaf beloved of Tyneside
Popular Sandwiches
The knuckle sandwich is a traditional English factory worker's lunch.
The Double Pork Sandwich is another traditional English dish.
The "BLT" consists of bacon, lettuce and tomato.
The Beef Roll consists of sliced beef and horseradish on a bread roll
The Bombay Roll consists of sweet and sour chicken, lettuce and soy sauce on a bread roll and was popular in ports where trade was done with the Orient.
The Bacon sandwich is a popular breakfast item and consists of bacon and either brown sauce or tomato ketchup
The chip butty consists of a buttered bap, cob or soft roll filled with hot freshly fried chips.
The jam butty consists of bread with lashings of strawberry jam oozing out of the side. The best butties come from the jam butty mines of Knotty Ash.
Sandwich Trivia
It is thought to be named after the 4th Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, although he never used nor sought to perpetuate the term. The popular legend is that he ordered bread and meat one eveing during an extended card game. When the victuals arrived, he sliced the bread and meat and 'sandwiched' the bread between the meat, so that he could carry on eating and playing. In fact sandwiches had existed long before the birth of Lord Sandwich. In fact the earliest known example of a sandwich is thought to be the Paschal lamb and matzo combination eaten by Hillel the Elder at Passover. It is likely that Jesus ate sandwiches.