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| Type | Sandwich |
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| Place of origin | United Kingdom |
| Main ingredients | Two pieces of sliced bread, slicedham |
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| Type | Sandwich |
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| Main ingredients | Sliced bread,cheese,ham |
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Theham sandwich is a common type ofsandwich.[1] Thebread may be fresh ortoasted, and it can be made with a variety of toppings includingcheese andvegetables likelettuce,tomato,onion orpickle slices. Various kinds ofmustard andmayonnaise are also common.
The main components of a ham sandwich—sliced bread and sliced cookedham—are readily available in Western supermarkets. As a result, they are a common component ofpacked lunches due to their ease of preparation and consumption.
The origin of theham and cheese sandwich has been debated for a number of years by culinary intellectuals. The leading theory as to who first started to produce a ham, cheese and bread dish is mentioned inThe Larousse Gastronomique 1961. Here it notes that Patrick Connolly, an 18th-century Irish immigrant to England, sold a bread dish which:
combined the remains of pig, cured and sliced with a topping of Leicester cheese and a kiss of egg yolk sauce (a form of mayonnaise) in a round bread roll. The dish was rather unimaginatively known as a Connolly and is still sometimes referred to as this in some parts of the Midlands in the UK.
In the United Kingdom a common addition to a ham and cheese sandwich ispickle (a sweet, vinegary chutney originally byBranston); the snack is then known as a ham, cheese and pickle sandwich.[2][3][4][5][6]
As recalled by Harry Stevens, a ballpark concessionaire, in a 1924 interview, in 1894 ham and cheese sandwiches were the only food sold in New Yorkbaseball parks;frankfurters were introduced in 1909.[7]
An Englishwoman, writing in 1923 of her passage throughEllis Island on a trip to the United States, noted:
I was in fear and trembling, having heard so many tales of the abuse aliens receive there.... The attendants were very kind and not at all rough with us. It was the noon hour... in a little while porters came along with baskets of very good ham and cheese sandwiches and coffee for the grown-ups and milk for the babies.[8]
Richard E. Byrd took ham and cheese sandwiches on his 1926 polar flight, as did the 1927transatlantic fliers Chamberlin and Levine.[9]
TheBritish Sandwich Association says that the ham sandwich is the most popular sandwich in the UK,[10] and a survey they conducted in 2001 saw ham as the second-favourite filling behind cheese.[11] 70% of the 1.8 billion sandwiches eaten in France in 2008 were ham sandwiches, prompting a French economic analysis firm to begin a 'jambon-beurre index', like theBig Mac Index, to compare prices across the country.[12]
The world's longest ham sandwich was created by Nico Jimenez, a butcher inPamplona, Spain, in 2009.[13]
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InArgentinian cuisine afosforito is a ham and cheese sandwich using puff pastry as the bread. InUruguayan cuisine the same puff pastry sandwich is called a jesuita.[14][15][16]
InFrench cuisine acroque-monsieur is a type of ham and cheese sandwich. It is baked or fried.
InBrazilian cuisine a toasted ham and cheese sandwich is known as amisto-quente (lit. 'hot mix').[17][18]
TheCuban sandwich is made with ham, cheese, and crusty Cuban bread, often toasted in a panini press. Variations of this sandwich are popular in Cuba, as well asSouth Florida in the United States.
TheWorld Cancer Research Fund warned in 2009 against parents feeding their children too many ham sandwiches, due to the risk ofbowel cancer from the processed meat.[19][20]
A ham sandwich was suspected of causing an outbreak ofswine fever in the UK in 2000.[21]
In the United States, formerChief Judge of New YorkSol Wachtler was quoted byTom Wolfe inThe Bonfire of the Vanities as stating that agrand jury would "'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted."[22][23]
The name "ham sandwich" is sometimes used (particularly by theNew Orleans Police Department) to refer to a firearm planted at a crime scene by police asfalse evidence.[24][25][26]
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