Today's useless fact - How did the sandwich get its name?

The word sandwich was born in London one night in 1762 when an English nobleman, John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), was too busy gambling to stop for a meal even though he was hungry for some food.

The legend goes that he ordered a waiter to bring him roast-beef between two slices of bread. The Earl was able to continue his gambling while eating his snack; and from that incident, we have inherited that quick-food product that we now know as the sandwich.

The title, Earl of “Sandwich�? comes from Old English (O.E.) Sandwic, and literally means “sand village�? “Sandy Place�? or “Place on the Sand�? The old English "wic" is a loan word from Latin vicus, “hamlet�? which also gives us the word vicinity. The first recorded mention of the town was around 640 A.D.