Why do we call a sandwich a sandwich?

QUOTE from James Russell Lowe: "The foolish and the dead never change their opinions."

What I LEARNED today. I'm reading a book entitled, "AMAZING...BUT FALSE. (HUNDREDS OF "FACTS" YOU THOUGHT WERE TRUE, BUT AREN'T.)" The one I read today had to do with how the sandwich got it's name.

There's a difference between inventing something and having one's name affixed to it. It's no secret that the sandwich was around long before John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, but it didn't have a name-at least in merry England-until 1762. So how did the English earl happen to lend his aristocratic moniker to the hand-held meal? The earl loved to play cards so much that he wanted to find a way to eat and keep playing without getting his hand sticky, so he put a piece of meat between two slices of bread and chomped away, holding the sandwich in one hand while playing cards with the other.Since the earl was a high-profile kind of guy (the Hawaiian Islands once bore his name as well), "sandwich" became the permanently popular name for the utensil-free meal.

The Earl of Sandwich did not invent the sandwich. Historians know that centuries before the earl was born, Arabs were stuffing meats into pita bread and medieval European peasants working in fields were eating meals that combined bread and cheese.Ancient Jews ate sandwiches of nuts and fruit placed between matzo during the Passover feast to represent the mortar used by their ancestors in Egypt when (supposedly) building the pyramids.

The reason the Hawaiian Islands were once called the Snadwich Islands is because British naval officer Captain James Cook landed on Kauai, in January 1778 and named the archipelago the Sandwich Islands, in honor of the card playing meat and bread eating 4th earl of Snadwich, then head of the British Admiralty.

HUMOR for today: The difference between the Pope and your boss is the Pope only expects you to kiss his ring.