Word: sandwich
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...Whether a cat ends up in a lap or a wok is a matter of local custom. There are moments when Serpell seems to harbor a hidden vegetarian agenda. His descriptions of the insensitive technology of pig farming and "porcine stress syndrome" take the fun out of a ham sandwich. Yet In the Company of Animals is not intended to change our habits but to open our minds. Historians, psychologists, sociologists and Lady Beaverbrook may resent Serpell's romp through their territories. Both petted and petless readers should welcome the incursions...
Conservationists have been lobbying for measures to protect the animals since the early 1970s, when they distributed bumper stickers reading WOULD YOU KILL FLIPPER FOR A TUNA SANDWICH? In 1972, when 304,000 dolphins were lost to the nets, Congress passed the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which specified that dolphin kills by commercial fishermen were to be reduced in theory to "insignificant levels approaching a zero mortality." Further legislation, passed in 1984, fixed a numerical limit on the dolphins that could be killed by the U.S. tuna fleet: 20,500 dolphins a year...
...expanse of land as large and varied as the U.S., it is no surprise that there are many regional sandwich specialties. Philadelphia touts its cheese-steak, wafer-thin and watery beef with fried onions on a long roll, gooey with melted orange cheese. A barbecue sandwich in North Carolina means shredded pork in sauce piled on a hamburger bun with a mound of coleslaw. Maine and Massachusetts, with their abundance of fresh ocean shellfish, are celebrated for the lobster roll. Heaped with fresh chunks of briny lobster lightly bound with mayonnaise (celery is considered by most a heretical addition...
...York City's most renowned sandwiches are based on the East European- Jewish delicatessen meats, corned beef and pastrami, and the high priest of the genre is Leo Steiner, who oversees the action at the Carnegie Delicatessen & Restaurant. Half a pound of meat or more is thinly sliced and deftly layered between slices of seeded rye bread. "Not just anyone can build a sandwich like this," says Steiner. "It has to be many thin slices folded at the edges so there is the right texture, and the meat must be even on the bread so the customer doesn't bite...
...Sandwiches even inspire a special lingo used by coffee-shop and deli personnel to relay orders to the sandwichmen behind the counter. Because pastrami can sound a lot like salami when shouted out in a busy, noisy dining room, it is known as "pistol." A "pistol with a shot" means that coleslaw will be added. If the cus- tomer wants his sandwich on rye toast, the waiter hollers "whiskey down." A pistol "dressed" indicates that Russian dressing is to be used, and anyone discovered eating pastrami that way in a New York delicatessen can expect to earn the sort...