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Sandwich[ This text is also available in English ] Uppfanns vid spelbordet John Montagu (obs ej Montague) var earl av Sandwich (ett samh�lle i Kent), och det �r helt klart att r�tten f�tt sitt namn efter honom - enligt Morton kallades den inget s�rskilt innan dess. D�remot var det inte han som uppfann den. ... People had been wrapping slices of bread around bits of food for thousands of years before the earl came along. Mark Morton Den uppgift som jag funnit mest intressant ur faktoid-synpunkt �r mer f�rr�disk �n s�, n�mligen att den skulle ha kommit till i samband med �verdrivet spelande. Det �ldsta bel�gget f�r sandwich i engelskan �r fr�n 1762. Den spridda episoden om dess tillkomst kommer fr�n en resedagbok skriven av en fransman som bes�kte London 1765: A minister of state passed four and twenty hours at a public gaming-table, so absorpt in play that, during the whole time, he had no subsistence but a bit of beef, between two slices of toasted bread, which he eat without ever quitting the game. This new dish grew highly in vogue, during my residence in London: it was called by the name of the minister who invented it. P. J. Grosley Vilket en historiker kommenterat som f�ljer: Grosley's book is a piece of travel literature. There is no supporting evidence for this piece of gossip, and it does not seem very likely that it has any foundation, especially as it refers to 1765, when Sandwich was a Cabinet minister and very busy. There is no doubt, however, that he was the real author of the sandwich, in its original form using salt beef, of which he was very fond. The alternative explanation is that he invented it to sustain himself at his desk, which seems plausible since we have ample evidence of the long hours he worked from an early start, in an age when dinner was the only substantial meal of the day, and the fashionable hour to dine was four o'clock. N. A. M. Rodger Om earl Sandwich blivit svartm�lad s� saknas inte motiv - han var inblandad i flera skandaler och aff�rer. P� 1770-talet blev han f�rresten "First Lord of the Admiralty" = marinminister, och var ansvarig f�r krigsflottan n�r den engelska krigsmakten misslyckades med att kv�sa de kolonier som b�rjat kalla sig USA. Men det var ju efter sm�rg�sen. Kuriosa: N�r kapten Cook gav en �-grupp namnet Sandwich Islands s� var det John han t�nkte p�. Senare kom namnet att �ndras till Hawaii. Referenser:
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