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第 31 題
📖 題組：
The sandwich as we know it was popularized in England in 1762 by John Montagu,
the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Legend has it, and most food historians agree, that Montagu
had a gambling problem that led him to spend hours on end at the card table. During a
particularly long binge, he asked the house cook to bring him something he could eat
without getting up from his seat, and the sandwich was born. Montagu enjyed his meat
and bread so much that he ate it constantly, and as it grew popular in London society
circles, it also took on the Earl’s name.
Of course, John Montagu (or rather, his nameless cook) was hardly the first
person to think of putting fillings between slices of bread. In fact, we know exactly
where Montagu first got the idea for his creation. Montagu traveled abroad to the
Mediterranean, where Turkish and Greek mezze platters were served. Dips, cheeses, and
meats were all ”sandwiched” between and on layers of bread. In all likelihood
Montagu took inspiration from these when he sat at that card table.
Montagu’s creation took off immediately. Just a few months later, a man named
Edward Gibbon mentioned the sandwich by name in a diary entry, writing that he’d
seen “twenty or thirty of the first men of the kingdom” in a restaurant eating
them.By the Revolutionary War, the sandwich was well established in England. You
would expect American colonists to have taken to the sandwich as well, but there’s
no early written record of them in the new country at all, and a sandwich recipe
didn’t apprar in an American cookbook until 1815.
Why would this creation go unsung in the nation for so long? It seems early
American cooks tinded to avoid food trends from their formerruling state. And the
name “sandwich” itself comes from the British upper class system, something that
most Americans wanted to forget. Once memory faded and the sandwich appeared, the
most popular version wasn’t ham or turkey, but tongue!
Of course, most Americans today wouldn’t dream of eating a tongue sandwich. But
that’s ok, since so many pretty excellent sandwich ideas have popped up since then.
The sandwich as we know it was popularized in England in 1762 by John Montagu,
the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Legend has it, and most food historians agree, that Montagu
had a gambling problem that led him to spend hours on end at the card table. During a
particularly long binge, he asked the house cook to bring him something he could eat
without getting up from his seat, and the sandwich was born. Montagu enjyed his meat
and bread so much that he ate it constantly, and as it grew popular in London society
circles, it also took on the Earl’s name.
Of course, John Montagu (or rather, his nameless cook) was hardly the first
person to think of putting fillings between slices of bread. In fact, we know exactly
where Montagu first got the idea for his creation. Montagu traveled abroad to the
Mediterranean, where Turkish and Greek mezze platters were served. Dips, cheeses, and
meats were all ”sandwiched” between and on layers of bread. In all likelihood
Montagu took inspiration from these when he sat at that card table.
Montagu’s creation took off immediately. Just a few months later, a man named
Edward Gibbon mentioned the sandwich by name in a diary entry, writing that he’d
seen “twenty or thirty of the first men of the kingdom” in a restaurant eating
them.By the Revolutionary War, the sandwich was well established in England. You
would expect American colonists to have taken to the sandwich as well, but there’s
no early written record of them in the new country at all, and a sandwich recipe
didn’t apprar in an American cookbook until 1815.
Why would this creation go unsung in the nation for so long? It seems early
American cooks tinded to avoid food trends from their formerruling state. And the
name “sandwich” itself comes from the British upper class system, something that
most Americans wanted to forget. Once memory faded and the sandwich appeared, the
most popular version wasn’t ham or turkey, but tongue!
Of course, most Americans today wouldn’t dream of eating a tongue sandwich. But
that’s ok, since so many pretty excellent sandwich ideas have popped up since then.
What is the passage mainly about?
- A The process of making the sandwich.
- B The history of the sandwich.
- C The story of John Montagu.
- D The ingredients of the sandwich.
思路引導 VIP
請試著觀察每一段落開頭所提到的時間（如 1762 年、1815 年）以及地理位置（如英國、地中海、美國）的轉移。當一位作者試圖呈現某個事物從「起源、傳播」到最後「在不同國家的演變」之完整過程時，這整篇敘述通常會是在探討該事物的什麼面向呢？
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