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Sandwiches make a delicious snack any time. They
are a common ___1___
at picnics and teas. Interestingly enough, the
sandwich is the invention of ___2___
eighteen century English Earl called John Montagu.
Montagu was addicted ___3___
card games. he would play these games ___4___
his friends for long stretches of
___5___ . Often, he even found it ___6___
bothersome to stop his games ___7___
meals.
One day, ___8___
the middle of a game, Montagu was served a meal of
sliced meat ___9___
bread. At that time, Montagu was playing the game
that ___10___
its players to cover cards one on top ___11___
another. As Montagu looked at ___12___
the game and his food, an idea came to his ___13___.
"I can do the same with my food ___14___
well," he thought.
He took a slice of bread, ___15___
a piece of meat on it and covered that with ___16___
slice of bread. Montagu was very pleased with his
invention ___17___
it allowed him to play cards with one hand and eat
his meal with the ___18___.
Montagu's friends quickly caught ___19___
to his idea and they named the new invention ___20___
him. As Montagu's full title was 'the Earl of
Sandwich', the new invention became known as a
'sandwich'.
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