Since we ’ve covered the origins of various sandwich in other Dietribes , this week we ’re looking at some consecutive up sandwich facts and figures , some of which may astound and amaze ! Or just … induce thirstiness .
" ¢ In 2008 , in a bidding to advertise healthy eating , Iranians assay to make theworld ’s largest ostrich sandwich . It ask two days to set the monolithic meat hero , which ran along a measure tape the length of the table . regrettably , some people rushed forward to eat it before it could be properly measure for the Guinness Book of World Records .
" ¢ " First came the atom bomb , then stealth bomber and then the airborne optical maser . Now comes the US military ’s latest fearsome weapon : the indestructible sandwich . "
" ¢ You might not cerebrate the sandwich to have much longevity , but consider the storey of the former Boy Scout who keep a one-half rust sandwich from Richard Nixon forover 48 year .
" ¢ Sandwiches are good , but are theyfainting good ?
" ¢ What ’s the " greatest matter since sliced bread ? " How much do we know about theInventor of the Bread Slicing machineanyway ? As it happens : after many twelvemonth of labor , Iowa native Otto Frederick Rohwedder ( born July 6 , 1880 , in Des Moines ) charge for a patent on his new fade - and - wrapping twist , and sold his first automobile to the Chillicothe Baking Company , in Chillicothe , Mo. , in 1928 . On July 7 of that yr , the company sell its first loaf of bread of chopped bread . Customers , of course , love the mathematical product ( and have ever since ! )
" ¢ Not sure what handle to make for Sunday ’s Super Bowl ? How about a sandwich in the figure of afootball ?
" ¢ So to answer the question of the greatest matter since sliced bread : Perhaps the slicedmeat face ? My favorite scuttlebutt underneath it is " what ’s it made of ? 80 % meat … 20 % face . " Although it should be measured - New York State Chief Judge Sol Wachtler , in a New York ( NY ) Daily News consultation on January 31 , 1985 , stated that a distinguished panel could indict just about anyone or anything , include " indict a ham sandwich . "
" ¢ Think you sleep with sandwich back to front ? prove this vintage Mental Flossquiz .
" ¢ The issue of sandwiches a person can dream up are moderately endless . harmonize to the National Restaurant Association , " the make - up of a sandwich consisting of just five items or toppings ( such as pelf , heart , cheese , lucre , tomato ) can be ordered in 120 ways . A sandwich comprised of 10 item or toppings could provide 3,628,800 combinations . what is more , an individual presented with 15 items for a sub or sandwich has 1.3 trillion combinations – make it physically impossible to label for all of these combinations . "
- Still , what are some of your favourite and most inventive sandwiches , Flossers ?
" ˜Dietribes ' appears every other Wednesday . solid food photo take on byJohanna Beyenbach . You might remember that name from our station about hercolorful dieting .
