Why was sandwich named 'sandwich'? what does a filled bun got to do with sand? and whats 'wich' ?

Question

just some weird ideas come up my mind...

Answer 1

The sandwich is named after it's creator, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who loved to gamble so much that he didn't want to stop to eat. So he had the server throw together some meat between two pieces of bread and the sandwich was born.

Answer 2

It was indeed named after John Montagu, Fourth Earl of  Sandwich (1718-1792), British politician.  http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q...

Answer 3

I believe the guys last name was sandwich...

(the one who invented it) ...

Answer 4

lol

just check here:

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

Answer 5

whats your IQ?

Answer 6

read this in an encyclopedia someplace

there was a place in Britain somewhere,called Sandwich.. A nobleman ..the Earl of Sandwich.. used to love playing cards, so one day he asked his chef to stuff his omelettes and him in between some slices of bread for a snack.. so the sandwich was named after him@  

Answer 7

The Earl of Sandwich was a card-playing fanatic,who hated post-poning a game to have dinner.He ordered his butler to bring  bread & meat to the card-table, & so invented  the sandwich.  

Answer 8

I believe rumor has it that during a poker game the Earl Of Sandwich (place) didn't want to stop to eat so asked chef to put the meat between bread so he could keep playing. The idea stuck.

Answer 9

Because it was invented by the Earl of Sandwich, who wanted to play some game or other while eating. So he combined his meal of bread and meat by putting two pieces of bread on either side of the meat and voila! A sandwich.

Answer 10

The sandwich was named after the Earl of Sandwich of England. Sandwich in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) means place of sand.

Answer 11

It was invented by the Earl of Sandwich, who needed to provide the troops with a nutritious meal they could eat quickly.  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'. 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 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.

Answer 12

The sandwich, which is most popular with world-wide eaters, functions as a noun or a verb and usually prefers to have its name pronounced as SAND wich. Besides the more obvious occupation of being something edible between two or more slices of bread, metaphorically speaking, it also likes to squeeze in between two other people, places, things, materials, etc.; as, he is willing to sandwich an appointment in between two other meetings or her car was sandwiched between two other cars in the parking lot.

The word sandwich that we use today was born in London during the very late hours one night in 1762 when an English nobleman, John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), was too busy gambling to stop for a meal even though he was hungry for some food. The legend goes that he ordered a waiter to bring him roast-beef between two slices of bread. The Earl was able to continue his gambling while eating his snack; and from that incident, we have inherited that quick-food product that we now know as the sandwich. He apparently had the meat put on slices of bread so he wouldn’t get his fingers greasy while he was playing cards. It’s strange that the name of this s*x fiend should have gone down in history connected to such an innocent article of diet.  

Answer 13

"If you were stranded on a desert island, what would you eat?"

The answer: "The sand which is there."

Although the sandwich has nothing to do with sand, it still has a vague connection with island life, because the Hawai'ian Islands were once called "The Sandwich Islands."  They were named for the very same person for whom the sandwich that we eat was named, portrait of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, courtesy Maritime Art GreenwichJohn Montagu (1718-1792), the Fourth Earl of Sandwich.

The Earl was the patron of Captain James Cook (the explorer who discovered the Hawai'ian Islands) and, because he was also the First Lord of the Admiralty during the American revolutionary war, he has sometimes been blamed by the British for the loss of the American Colonies.  There is a story that he was an enthusiastic gambler and when he didn't wish to leave the gaming table -- or possibly just his desk -- to go to dinner he would ask for someone to bring him some meat between a couple of slices of bread.  Later, when others began asking for the same thing, they would say something like, "I'll have what Sandwich is having..."  Obviously it caught on, and people just started calling for "a Sandwich" when they wanted meat between two slices of bread.  The word sandwich is therefore an eponym -- a word or phrase whose origin is a person or historical figure.

Answer 14

its named after John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), was too busy gambling to stop for a meal even though he was hungry for some food. The legend goes that he ordered a waiter to bring him roast-beef between two slices of bread. The Earl was able to continue his gambling while eating his snack; and from that incident, we have inherited that quick-food product that we now know as the sandwich. He apparently had the meat put on slices of bread so he wouldn’t get his fingers greasy while he was playing cards. It’s strange that the name of this s*x fiend should have gone down in history connected to such an innocent article of diet.  

Answer 15

named for the earl of Sandwich who like to have meat between bread