It started with crust-free PB&J, lovingly placed in your Batman lunchbox.
Upon settling into your first apartment, the ladies at the deli counter knew you — and your standing order — by heart: ribbons of paper-thin sopressata, garlicky mortadella and hot capicola, sliced paper-thin.
These days, you travel for a (literal) handful of reasons: tasting Wisconsin butter burgers, Brooklyn’s fabled beef on weck and mess-making Polish boys — a smoky sausage, coleslaw, fry and barbecue sauce-laden Cleveland original.
In America, the sandwich is the number one food eaten at lunch — no surprise there. It’s also the top dinnertime entree eaten at home, according to the NPD Group, a market research firm that tracks people’s eating habits.
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