The Stranger, May 11th, 2006
Decoding the Rosetta Stone of Sandwiches
The Monte Cristo sandwich has always served as a sort of Rosetta Stone in my explorations of this planet: one common idea, one common truth, one common sandwich, translated through a multitude of local points of view. Even in as demographically white a city as Seattle, there are subcultural variations on the Monte Cristo that could keep an ethnographer busy for months.
The Monte Cristo (it translates literally as "sandwich of Christ") is a sandwich engulfed in controversy. Arising from clouded origins at the beginning of the 20th century (either in Pa...
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