This is Michigan’s Favorite Sandwich
Sandwiches are a delicious option when you don’t have a lot of time to eat. But, even if you’re out on a leisurely lunch or dinner, you can still enjoy a tasty one when you have a lot of time on your hands. Now, the experts at Reader’s Digest have unleashed a tally of the best dish in every state, including Michigan’s favorite sandwich. If you’re someone who loves Michigan-bred food, then make note that this one, supposedly, is the best in the entire state.
Michigan’s Favorite Sandwich Revealed
So, where did this dish get its start? According to In Mama’s Kitchen, “The first recorded sandwich was made by the famous Rabbi, Hillel the Elder, who lived during the 1st century B.C. A poor man, but a great scholar, he began the Passover custom of sandwiching a mixture of chopped nuts, apples, spices, and wine between two matzohs to eat with bitter herbs.”
Of course, one of the country’s favorite sandwiches is the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. According to History, “The first known recipe for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich appeared in 1901 in The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science & Domestic Economics. During the 1920s, companies began to mass-manufacture peanut butter in the United States and targeted children as potential new consumers.” So, that’s why the peanut better and jelly one became a favorite for school lunch. I still love a good P&B. Some restaurants even have “gourmet” varieties, which are fun to try. Also, according to History, the dish we recognize today was created in 1762 in England, and the majority of food historians agree that this dish is thanks to John Montagu. Of course, today, sandwiches take on many different looks and feels, so the choices are really endless.
So, what’s Michigan’s favorite, according to the experts at Reader’s Digest? It’s the meat pasty. Who knew? “The name for these half-circles of pie crust filled with minced beef and root vegetables rhymes (ironically, we assure you) with ‘nasty’ and not ‘tasty,'” they wrote. “But pasties were always more about practicality than flavor. The portability of these pocket sandwiches served Michigan’s copper miners of the early 1800s well—as it does today’s loggers.”
The Reader’s Digest study was conducted with popular recipe magazine Taste of Home, and their collective readers put their heads together to find the best “ways to fill two slices of bread.” What’s your favorite? Contact me and let me know.
