The word 'sandwich' comes from a man who spent his days play

The word 'sandwich' comes from a man who spent his days playing cards and eating meat between two slices of bread.

John Montagu, known as the Earl of Sandwich, was a high-ranking nobleman living in England. He loved gambling and often played long games with his friends late into the night.

Because there were no take-away restaurants in the 1700s, he could not stop his game to go into a kitchen. He simply ordered a simple meal that he could eat with one hand while his cards were still in his other hand.

His servants put slices of meat between two pieces of bread, which was a quick and easy way to eat without washing plates or using cutlery. This habit became so popular with his friends and servants that they began asking for the same thing, even if he was not playing cards.

Finally, people started calling this meal a 'sandwich' because of him, and the name stuck around for over two hundred years. Now we eat this meal every day without thinking about its strange and surprisingly useful origin story.