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       The sandwich as we know it was popularized in England in 1762 by John Montagu, the 4th Earl ofSandwich. Legend has it, and most food historians agree, that Montagu had a gambling problem that led him tospend hours on end at the card table. During a particularly long binge, he asked the house cook to bring himsomething he could eat without getting up from his seat, and the sandwich was born. Montagu enjoyed his meatand bread so much that he ate it constantly, and as it grew popular in London society circles, it also took on theEarl’s name.
        Of course, John Montagu (or rather, his nameless cook) was hardly the first person to think of puttingfillings 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 tookinspiration 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 mentionedthe sandwich by name in a diary entry, writing that he’d seen “twenty or thirty of the first men of the kingdom” ina restaurant eating them. By the Revolutionary War, the sandwich was well established in England. You wouldexpect American colonists to have taken to the sandwich as well, but there’s no early written record of them inthe new country at all, and a sandwich recipe didn’t appear in an American cookbook until 1815.
       Why would this creation go unsung in the nation for so long? It seems early American cooks tended toavoid food trends from their former ruling state. And the name “sandwich” itself comes from the British upperclass 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 manypretty excellent sandwich ideas have popped up since then.
【題組】31. 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.