The Signature Sandwich Of Every State

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The Signature Sandwich Of Every State By Brian Boone Sept. 25, 2025 7:40 am EST

Humble and elegant, simple and elaborate, the sandwich is a quintessentially American contribution to food history. Although its creation may be attributed to Britain's Earl of Sandwich, the U.S. has more than made the sandwich its own, and a gift to the world. But what even is a sandwich? We're choosing to define it as anything between two pieces of bread, or a bread-like flat carbohydrate folded over to approximate two pieces of bread.

After that, brilliant professionals and amateurs have taken those simple parameters and gotten extremely creative, occupying the space between bread with all manner of things. A sandwich doesn't need all that much meat , but it's also a place where chee