List of sandwiches facts for kids

A sandwich is a super popular food! It's usually made with two or more pieces of bread and a yummy filling in between. Think of it like a tasty hug for your food! Sometimes, it can even be just one slice of bread with toppings, which is called an open sandwich.

There are so many different kinds of sandwiches, made with all sorts of ingredients. The sandwich got its name from John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a British leader. Sandwiches are often eaten for packed lunches and are a big part of food culture around the world.

Some main types of sandwiches include:

• Two slices of bread with fillings.
• Two halves of a long roll or baguette with fillings.
• Big, long sandwiches like a hero or submarine sandwich.
• Open-faced sandwiches, which have toppings on just one slice of bread.
• Pocket sandwiches, where the filling is inside a bread pocket.

Things like Sandwich cookies or ice cream sandwiches are called "sandwiches" because they look similar, but they don't have bread and are usually desserts!

Awesome Sandwiches from Around the World

Sandwiches are enjoyed everywhere! Here are some famous ones from different places:

American Favorites

The United States has created many well-known sandwiches.

American Sub

This sandwich often has sliced turkey, ham, roast beef, and cheese like American, Swiss, or Provolone. It's usually served on a long roll with lettuce, tomatoes, and green peppers.

Bacon, Egg and Cheese

A popular Breakfast sandwich in the United States. It usually has a fried or scrambled egg, bacon, and cheese, often on a roll or English muffin.

Barbecue Sandwich

Popular in many parts of the United States, especially the South. It's served on a hamburger bun with chopped or shredded meat like pulled pork, beef, or chicken. Sometimes, it's topped with coleslaw.

BLT

This classic sandwich is named after its main ingredients: bacon, lettuce, and tomato. It's often served on toasted bread with mayonnaise.

Bologna Sandwich

Made with sliced (and sometimes fried) bologna sausage between slices of white bread. People often add mustard, mayonnaise, or ketchup.

Breakfast Sandwich

A quick and easy breakfast in the United States. It typically has a scrambled or fried egg, cheese, and a sausage patty or other breakfast meat. It's often served on a biscuit or English muffin.

Cheesesteak

A famous sandwich from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It has thinly sliced steak and melted cheese in a hoagie roll. People often add peppers, onions, and mushrooms.

Chicken Sandwich

You can find chicken sandwiches all over the world. In the United States, popular types include grilled chicken breast, fried chicken breast, and chicken salad sandwiches.

Club Sandwich

A tall, triple-decker sandwich from the United States. It's made with sliced turkey or chicken, bacon, tomato, and lettuce, usually with mayonnaise.

Cuban Sandwich

This tasty sandwich comes from Tampa, Florida or Key West, Florida. It features ham, roasted pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard on Cuban bread. It's often pressed and warmed.

Dagwood Sandwich

Named after a character in the Blondie comic strip. It's a huge sandwich with many layers of different meats and toppings!

French Dip

Originating in Los Angeles, California, this sandwich has thinly sliced roast beef on a baguette. It's served hot, usually with its own juices (called au jus) for dipping.

Grilled Cheese

A simple but delicious sandwich, popular in the United States and Canada. It's made with one or more types of cheese, often grilled until the cheese is melted and gooey.

Hamburger

A very famous sandwich from the United States. It has a ground beef patty, often with vegetables and sauces, usually on a round bun. A cheeseburger is a hamburger with cheese on top.

Hot Dog

A classic American food. It's a grilled or steamed sausage served in a sliced bun. The sausage is usually a wiener or frankfurter.

Italian Beef

A specialty from Chicago, Illinois. It has thin slices of seasoned, juicy roast beef on a long Italian-style roll. It's often topped with spicy pickled vegetables called giardiniera.

Jucy Lucy

A unique cheeseburger from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The cheese is melted *inside* the meat patty, rather than on top!

Meatball Sandwich

Popular in the United States. It has meatballs in marinara sauce, with melted Parmesan or provolone cheese, on a long bun.

Monte Cristo Sandwich

This sandwich is like a fancy grilled ham and cheese. It has sliced ham and cheese (often Emmental or Gruyère) between slices of French toast and is sometimes batter-fried. In some places, it's served with powdered sugar and jelly.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

A classic childhood favorite in the United States. It's made with peanut butter and jelly (or jam) on bread. It's often called a PB&J.

Pulled Pork Sandwich

A barbecue sandwich from the Southern United States. Pork is smoked slowly until it's so tender it can be "pulled" apart with forks. It's served on a bun, often with barbecue sauce and coleslaw.

Reuben Sandwich

A grilled sandwich from the United States. It has Corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and Russian dressing (or Thousand Island dressing) on rye bread.

Sloppy Joe

A fun, messy sandwich from the United States. It has ground meat (usually beef) cooked in a seasoned tomato sauce and served on a round bun.

Submarine Sandwich

Also known as a sub, hero, hoagie, or grinder. This is a generic name for a long sandwich served on a French or Italian roll. It can have all sorts of sliced meats, vegetables (like lettuce, tomato, onions), and sauces.

Tuna Fish Sandwich

Common in the United States. It's usually made with tuna salad, which often includes mayonnaise, sweetcorn, cucumber, or celery.

Veggie Burger

A Hamburger-style patty made entirely from non-meat ingredients, popular in the United States for vegetarians.

Wrap

A modern sandwich from the United States and Canada. It has meats, cheeses, and vegetables rolled up inside a flatbread like a tortilla.

International Delights

Sandwiches from all corners of the globe!

Bánh Mì

A delicious Vietnamese sandwich. It's served on an airy baguette and can have many fillings like meat, sardines, tofu, or eggs. It's often topped with pickled carrots, daikon radish, cilantro, and jalapeño peppers.

Bifana

A popular sandwich from Portugal. It's made with a marinated pork cutlet, often served with a special sauce.

Bocadillo

A common sandwich in Spain. It's made with baguette bread and various fillings, often eaten in cafes and tapas bars.

Bosna

An Austrian sandwich. It's usually grilled on white bread and contains a bratwurst sausage, onions, and a mix of tomato ketchup, mustard, and curry powder.

Butterbrot

A simple, open-faced sandwich from Germany. It's just a single slice of bread with butter.

Croque-monsieur

A classic French sandwich. It's a baked or fried ham and cheese sandwich (usually Emmental or Gruyère), sometimes covered in a creamy sauce.

Croque-madame

Similar to a croque-monsieur, but with a fried egg on top! Also from France.

Cucumber Sandwich

A traditional British sandwich. It has two thin slices of crustless, lightly buttered white bread with very thin slices of peeled cucumber. It's often served as a tea sandwich.

Döner Kebab

Originating in Turkey, this sandwich uses meat cooked on a vertical spit (often veal, beef, or chicken). It's served wrapped in a flatbread like lavash or pita, or as a sandwich.

Falafel

A popular Middle Eastern sandwich. It has deep-fried balls of seasoned chickpeas topped with salad vegetables, hot sauce, and tahini-based sauces, all wrapped in pita bread.

Fischbrötchen

A German sandwich with a simple name meaning "fish roll." It's a crusty bread roll filled with fish (often herring) and onions.

Francesinha

A hearty sandwich from Portugal. It has wet-cured ham, sausage, steak, or other roast meat, topped with melted cheese and a hot, thick tomato and beer sauce.

Gyro

A Greek sandwich. It includes meat roasted on a vertical spit (like a Döner Kebab), with tomato, potatoes, raw onion, and tzatziki sauce, wrapped in pita or sandwich bread.

Ham and Cheese Sandwich

A very common sandwich found globally. It's prepared with ham and sliced cheese, and can include lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise.

Jambon-beurre

The most popular sandwich in France. It's a French baguette with butter and ham. It's also known as a "Parisien."

Katsu Sando

A Japanese sandwich made with a breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet (called tonkatsu).

Panini

In Italy, a panino is a sandwich made from bread other than sliced bread (like ciabatta or baguette). In other countries, "panini" usually means a long, pressed, and toasted sandwich.

Roti John

A popular sandwich in Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia. It's an omelette cooked with bread on top, often with ingredients like sardines, chicken, or beef, and garnished with mayo and chili sauce.

Rou Jia Mo

A Chinese sandwich with a long history. It's stewed pork, chopped finely, and stuffed into a type of flatbread called mo.

Smørrebrød

An open-faced sandwich from Denmark. It's buttered dark rye bread with cold cuts, pieces of meat or fish, cheese, or spreads on top.

Souvlaki

A Greek sandwich with sizzling skewers of pork or chicken. The meat is shaved off the spit and placed on a rolled pita bread, with toppings like lettuce, tomato, cheese, onion, and tzatziki sauce.

Spaghetti Sandwich

An unusual sandwich from Australia, made with cooked spaghetti, sauce, and bread.

Toast Hawaii

A German open-faced sandwich. It has a slice of toast with ham, a pineapple slice (often with a cherry in the middle), and cheese, then grilled until the cheese melts.

Torta

A popular Mexican sandwich. It's made with a Mexican roll (like a telera or bolillo) spread with mayo or refried beans. It's stuffed with various sliced meats, cheeses, vegetables (tomatoes, onions, avocado), and pickled jalapeños.

Tramezzino

An Italian sandwich made with triangular white bread with the crusts removed. It has various fillings like tuna and olive or prosciutto, often served in Italian bars.

Vada Pav

A popular street food from Maharashtra, India. It's a potato fritter coated in chickpea flour (called batata vada) served in a bun.

Vegemite Sandwich

An Australian classic! It's bread spread thinly with butter and Vegemite, a dark brown paste made from yeast extract.

Images for kids

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  A Camel rider sandwich from Jacksonville, Florida.

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  Chipped beef sandwich.

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  A Conti Roll from Perth, Western Australia.

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  A fishcake butty from the United Kingdom.

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  A Hamdog from Australia.

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  A Handwich from Walt Disney World, Florida.

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  A Har cheong gai burger from Singapore.

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  A Kabuli burger from Peshawar, Pakistan.

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  Kaisers Jagdproviant from Austria.

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  A Kumru sandwich from Turkey.

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  A Matschbrötchen from Germany.

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  A Pattie butty from the United Kingdom.

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  A Peanut butter and pickle sandwich from the United States.

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  A Pistolette from Louisiana.

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  A Salad Sandwich from Australia.

• Tapioca de presunto e queijo.jpg

  A Tapioca de presunto e queijo from Brazil.

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  A Xis sandwich from Brazil.

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  A X-caboquinho from Brazil.

See also

In Spanish: Anexo:Sándwiches para niños

• Hot dog variations
• List of bread dishes
• List of hamburgers
• List of submarine sandwich restaurants
• Sandwich bread
• Soup and sandwich