SANDWICHES //1.-a sandwich -according to the wikipedia- is a food item, typically consisting of two or more slices of bread with one or more fillings between them.

The free encyclopedia built collaboratively using wiki software also points out two basic types of sandwiches: hot and cold, but if they had the chance to read what the dirty little minds of our gentle readers think about Dead Man's Bones' members Gosling and Shields, they would graciously add another category to its current list of types of sandwiches: "The one our visitors would make with them" but then we would be forced to add a little padlock to this entry as it happens to the term "cunnilingus" included in our glossary.

//2. circumstances of the sandwich invention and its original use are still the subject of debate -according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica-The legend says that modern sandwich is named after the The Right Honourable John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, British first lord of the Admiralty during the American Revolution (1776–81)

His interest in naval affairs and his promotion of exploration led the English explorer Captain James Cook to name the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) after him in 1778.

The politically correct version written by Sandwich's biographer, N. A. M. Rodger, suggests John Montagu's commitments to the navy, to politics and the arts could have been the reason why meat between two slices of bread was what sustained Montagu at his work desk.

But as it happens in most stories, there's another version that sounds cooler tous which is the one that Pierre-Jean Grosley -local historian, travel writer and observer of social customs in the Age of Enlightenment- wrote in his travel book "Tour to London": In his private life Sandwich was a profligate gambler who did not take the time to have a meal during his long hours playing at the card table.

Consequently, he would ask his servants to bring him slices of meat between two slices of bread; a habit well known among his gambling friends. Because John Montagu was the Earl of Sandwich others began to order "the same as Sandwich!", and the 'sandwich' was born...Hell yeah! Rock and Roll!

//3. the sandwich before Lord Sandwich: "Bread & meat" and"Bread & cheese" In 2004 Mark Morton (writer at Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture) wrote a two page article "Bread and Meat for God's Sake" where after an exhaustive research he concluded that long before the Earl of Sandwich was even born, the sandwich appeared to have been simply known as "bread and meat" or "bread and cheese".

The author takes for example "Love and Fortune", "The Old Wives Tale" and Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" to name some sources that made reference to a sandwich before Lord Sandwich using the terms "bread and meat" or "bread and cheese".

//4. Mr. Gosling putting some love in his sandwiches In November 2010 Brett Martin -correspondent for GQ- spent some time with Ryan Gosling gathering information to write an interesting GQ profile about the actor where the reader could find a collection of charming personal anecdotes including the day Mr Gosling decided to have "a real" job:

"We're downtown, just around the corner from where Gosling lived until a coupleof years ago (Lexicographers' note: from 2004 to 2008) He can still recite a roster of the area's oddballs: the Rooster, who would wake him up each morning with screams of pain and suffering.

Gosling: "I assumed it was at finding himself still alive."

And there was Flower Guy and Joke Man and Ricky the Pirate. This was after The Notebook, when he was working in a nearby sandwich shop.

(L) Recreation of the Gosling Sandwich



That isn't a joke: After his one legitimate Hollywood hit, a perennial entry on Most Romantic Ever lists, the movie that still causes women to go to pieces on the street when they see him, Gosling followed up with a gig making sandwiches at a local deli.

Gosling: "I'd never had a real job -he looks sheepish- The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place."