{"id":10507,"date":"2014-10-04T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T15:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10507"},"modified":"2014-10-04T15:39:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T15:39:14","slug":"sandwiches-and-portsmouths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10507","title":{"rendered":"Sandwiches and Portsmouths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sandwich is named after the 4th Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, who is reputed to have invented it as a convenient way to eat while playing cards. He didn&#8217;t come up with the idea of putting meat or filling between two slices of bread, but he certainly popularised it and gave it his title. <\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/qi.com\/people\/elves\">QI* elves<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/qi.com\/podcast-episode-027\/\">No Such Thing as a Fish podcast<\/a>, the Earl would have preferred to be the Earl of Portsmouth, but someone else got that title first. If he had got his wish, we might be eating portsmouths rather than sandwiches.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know of any other interesting stories attached to foodstuffs, items of clothing or other things named after famous people?<\/p>\n<p><em>*<a href=\"http:\/\/qi.com\/\">QI<\/a> (Quite Interesting) is a quiz show on BBC TV.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sandwich is named after the 4th Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, who is reputed to have invented it as a convenient way to eat while playing cards. He didn&#8217;t come up with the idea of putting meat or filling between two slices of bread, but he certainly popularised it and gave it his title. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}