Talk:Ham and cheese sandwich

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Contents 1 Origins? 2 AfD 3 Rarely Used 4 Weird 5 Picture?

[edit] Origins?

Oddly enough, I've been looking at some 1870s-1920s cookbooks at Project Gutenberg and can't find ham and cheese sandwiches. Ham sandwiches, cheese sandwiches, but no ham and cheese. Quite a few references to "nut sandwiches" and "salad-and-nut" sandwiches. One reference that says that peanut butter has a "peculiar" consistency and should be moistened for sandwiches by adding "salad dressing" to it... no ham and cheese.

A fairly typical reference:

The luncheon put up for school-children may consist chiefly of sandwiches, preferably several small ones of different kinds, rather than one or two large ones. Biscuit sandwiches are generally more palatable to a child than plain bread ones. Besides those made of cold meat, there should be at least one cheese or one salad-and-nut sandwich, and one jelly sandwich. A hard-boiled egg, preferably one that has been cooked for some time in water kept under boiling point, will vary this diet. Of course fruit, such as an apple, an orange, or a banana, forms the best dessert. Occasionally cake, gingerbread, sweet biscuit, or a piece of milk chocolate may be put in the basket for a pleasant surprise.

Dpbsmith (talk) 22:27, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

According to Croque-monsieur the French style hot ham and cheese sandwich originated i Paris in 1910. Thomas Nygreen 08:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD

This article was nominated for deletion on 31 August, 2005. The result of the discussion was keep.

I'm glad they voted to keep this article. Even though not a lot of people care about an article on Ham and cheese sandwiches, the fact that Wikipedia has all these seemingly pointless articles is what makes is so cool. Wikipedia is supposed to have everything imaginable.

--LocrialTheSequel 19:41, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rarely Used

I'm not saying that this is rare, but there's a topping that's rarely used. That's Ketchup. A friend and I at school use them alot. I LOVE Them. 72.83.145.68 12:16, 15 December 2006 (UTC)Air Transport Freak

• Ketchup is commonly used as a topping on everything... by some people. But never forget, ketchup has more calories per ounce than ice cream. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:46, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Weird

This article confirms a strange idea: type in a random idea, and wikipedia, strangely, will have an article for it! When I read the last part — "Thus, we read in a detective novel..." — I couldn't help laughing. I bet there was great debate about which should come first — cheese or ham? I myself prefer the former, though some consider me an incorrigible aesthete. Rintrah 10:46, 26 December 2006 (UTC) _____________________________________________________________________________________________

This article has semi-renewed my faith in the USA. Not that the elite-class-owned government should be spared the people's wrath, however. 68.13.60.210 (talk) 04:25, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture?

Just my $0.02 and I didn't take either picture, but I like the picture of the sandwich on the griddle, whereas I think the picture of the "fried ham and cheese sandwich served with potato chips" is quite unappetizing. I also think it is not terribly appropriate since a) the article isn't about potato chips, b) potato chips aren't particularly associated with ham and cheese sandwiches, and c) ham and cheese sandwiches aren't usually fried. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:25, 8 March 2008 (UTC)