The Marketing Organization of German Agricultural Industries declares the last Friday in the month of September to be the "Tag des Deutschen Butterbrotes" — the Day of German Sandwiches. (Butterbrot literally means "buttered bread.")
The English word "sandwich" (supposedly after John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich) first appears in Edward Gibbon's journal. He later wrote "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
Peasants use thick pieces of stale bread called "trenchers" as edible plates.
Jewish sage, Hillel the Elder, is said to have created an early form of the sandwich for Passover.
