Egg sandwich

Egg sandwich
An egg sandwich
Type Sandwich
Main ingredients Bread, eggs (boiled eggs or egg salad)

An egg sandwich is a sandwich with some kind of egg filling. Sliced boiled eggs or egg salad are popular options. In the latter case, it may be called an egg salad sandwich.

Types of egg sandwich

Fried egg sandwich

Fried-egg over hard, with bacon and cheese, on a sesame bagel

Beyond the basic model of fried egg between slices of bread, many common sandwiches have variations that include a fried egg in addition to bacon, sausage, cheese, black pudding, cold cuts, or as another topping to a hamburger.[1][2][3] A popular breakfast sandwich in New Jersey consists of a fried egg, pork roll, and American cheese on a roll.[4] The Southern egg sandwich is an egg and cheese sandwich, with bacon and avocado as additions.[5]

A popular filling snack with British troops since at least World War I, the "egg banjo" is a sandwich of a runny fried egg between two thick slices of bread[6] (if possible, buttered or with margarine), often accompanied by a mug of "gunfire". A popular account of the term's origins is the act of cleaning spilt egg off one's body, the sandwich held out to the side with one hand whilst the other wipes at the drips, giving the impression of playing an invisible banjo.[7][8]

Boiled egg sandwich

A 1905 British cookbook describes an "egg sandwich" made with sliced hard-boiled eggs, marinated in oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper, and garnished with minced watercress. An "egg and chutney sandwich" is made from chutney and minced hard-boiled eggs; an "egg cream" sandwich from hard-boiled eggs pounded into a smooth paste and seasoned with anchovies and mustard.[9] A common alternative is to mash the hard-boiled egg together with mayonnaise, salt and black pepper, usually called simply egg spread, or an egg mayonnaise or egg mayo. Cress is often seen as the typical accompaniment to an egg sandwich.

It is worth noting in passing that the term sandwich in British or Australian use always refers to a filling of any sort between two slices of bread: that is, bread slices from a loaf. An egg sandwich is thus egg between two bread slices. The same filling served in a cut roll, bagel, muffin or the like is not, ever, a "sandwich". It is an egg roll, egg bagel, egg muffin etc.

Egg salad sandwich

An egg salad sandwich with french fries

It is also common, in the United States, to use egg salad as a sandwich filling.[10]

History as fast food

Prompted by meat rationing during World War II, a manager for a White Castle at St. Louis introduced the first fast food egg dish with a fried egg sandwich. However, the dish was unpopular, and was abandoned as soon as wartime meat rationing was lifted. Fast food restaurants did not begin serving egg dishes again until the 1970s, starting with the McDonald's Egg McMuffin, invented in 1971 by a McDonald's franchisee in Santa Barbara, California.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Deborah Madison (2009). What We Eat When We Eat Alone. Gibbs Smith. p. 54. ISBN 9781423607762. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  2. ↑ Tara Mataraza Desmond & Shirley Fan (2014). Full Belly: Good Eats for a Healthy Pregnancy. Running Press. ISBN 9780762455300. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  3. ↑ George Motz (2016). The Great American Burger Book: How to Make Authentic Regional Hamburgers at Home. Abrams. ISBN 9781613129425. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  4. ↑ Karen L. Schnitzspahn (2012). Jersey Shore Food History: Victorian Feasts to Boardwalk Treats. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781614237273. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  5. ↑ Jasper Alexander (2016). The Hattie's Restaurant Cookbook: Classic Southern and Louisiana Recipes. The Countryman Press. ISBN 9781581575583. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  6. ↑ Tom Daziel; Terry Victor (eds.). "Banjo". The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. ISBN 0415212596. Banjo noun 1 a generously proportioned sandwich or filled roll. In military use in forms such as an "egg banjo" or a "chip banjo".
  7. ↑ Rachel Khong & Lucky Peach (2017). All about Eggs. Crown Publishing Group. p. 57. ISBN 9780804187756. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  8. ↑ Major Des Astor (2012). The Official ARRSE Guide to the British Army. Random House. ISBN 9781446464045. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  9. ↑ Beaty-Pownal, S. (1905). The "Queen" Cookery Books No. 9: Salads, Sandwiches, and Savories, Second Edition. London: Horace Cox. pp. 33-4, online . Note: description based on Google Books title page, which differs slightly from Google Books "about this book" information.
  10. ↑ Beth Allen (2004). Good Housekeeping Great American Classics Cookbook. Hearst Books. p. 67. ISBN 9781588162809. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  11. ↑ Smith, Andrew F. (2011). Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 221. ISBN 9780313393938. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
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