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Open-Faced Sandwich

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Steve Coast
Feb 16, 2021
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The open-faced sandwich appears at restaurants across Europe and is a wonderful analogy for European efficiency. It’s easy to forget the sandwich was once a brand new efficient invention. Of course, being a British invention, Europe had to find a way to somehow make it worse.

Lord Sandwich apparently liked the idea because it allowed him to play card gam…

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