Happy 250th Birthday to Dear Sandwich

Our very own dear sandwich completes 250 years today. Well, actually I’m talking about its given name Sandwich only.

We find references of sandwich from ancient times. Like the ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder is said to have wrapped meat from the Paschal lamb and bitter herbs between two pieces of bread.

But it was the 4th Earl, the First Lord of the Admiralty in Britain from whom the sandwich got its worldwide popular name. John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an 18th-century English aristocrat, ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and because Montagu also happened to be the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, others began to order - the same as Sandwich. 

Happy Birthday Dear Sandwich

Marks & Spencer launched the first packaged sandwich in Britain in the mid-Eighties. Its believed that more than three billion sandwiches are sold in Britain every year.