Sandwich, A Tango!

Hello mes amis....

As you know, I love to reflect upon the sandwich, what it is, what it does, how it is made and indeed enjoyed. It has occurred to me on more than one occasion that sandwiches are like people. Varied in sizes, shapes, colors and substance. Some tacky, others refined, some steeped in tradition, some out of the ordinary, extraordinary, even avant-garde. Heaven-sent on the mean streets where life is greasy and hard, stacked high and mighty in rarefied neighborhoods where life is rich and filled with entitlement.

I am in love with the concept that a benign and ordinary thing such a sandwich, is a metaphor for life, at least in my world this is true, as noted in previous posts on the subject. As a noun, a sandwich is just that. As a verb, to sandwich means to fit something into a tight space.

I was most intrigued to learn that Sandwich describes an Argentine Tango move, where the leader traps one of the follower's feet between his two feet. Often his feet will be left and right of the follower's foot as two slices of bread. The follower's foot would be the filling of the sandwich. Although, the leader can cross his feet to trap the follower with the left foot on the right and right foot on the left.

The move is called "El Sanguichito", and if you log on to YouTube.com, use the search bar, type the words tango sandwich and watch Dario's Tango Guide Lesson #6, The Sandwich. Exquisite, don't you think? Sam