Russia: What Is A Sandwich?
Hello,
I was drinking my morning cup of coffee & thinking about sandwiches! In America a sandwich is food, meal, art & tradition! The term Dagwood Sandwich comes to my mind.
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Dagwood A real sandwich is awesome! (click read: more to expand article like a Dagwood Sandwich!)
In Russia; the concept of a sandwich is still very foreign and new. Russia has a form of a sandwich called, бутерброд (buterbrod).
(click: read more to expand article like a Dagwood Sandwich.)
“Dagwood Sandwich – It is a multi-layered sandwich with a variety of fillings. Used to denote a sandwich put together so as to attain such a tremendous size and infinite variety of contents as to stun the imagination, sight, and stomach of all but the original maker.
Dagwood sandwiches, a term so well-known it made Webster’s New World Dictionary.
1930 – A term that originated in the comic strips in the 1930s after a comic strip character named Dagwood Bumstead, a character in the “Blondie” comic strip. According to the creator of the comic strip, Murat Bernard “Chic” Young (1901-1973), the only thing that Dagwood could prepare in the kitchen was a mountainous pile of dissimilar leftovers precariously arranged between two slices of bread. Dagwood became know for his huge sandwiches he created on evening forays to the refrigerator.
The comic strip is produced today under the direction of the creator’s son, Dean Young, the strip has continued to keep up with the times.”
Buterbrod: (According to my Wife: who is an expert on Russia. 
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Buterbrod is one slice of bread, with or without butter, & could have one of the following; Sausage (kielbasa), cheese, salmon or caviar. Never two of those items?? (Yummy?)
I happen to disagree with this Russian form of sandwich. So; I have converted my wife to sandwiches!
I make her every kind of sandwich that I can think of. She has eaten & liked grilled cheeses, hamburgers, grilled ham & cheese, Monte Christos, cold cuts & many more styles! (but she still tells me that Russian do not eat sandwiches like this)
She is right: All you have to do is go to McDonald’s in Russia and you will see what I mean! The art of eating sandwiches in Russia is a new concept. (But that is another story!)
You learned something new about Russia today. That is why I love Russia!
Kyle
comments always welcome.
