Let us now praise John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, after whom the humble (and often, not so humble) sandwich is named. The way the story goes, the 18th-century Earl was fond of playing cribbage and enjoyed a bite while at table but didn’t like to get his cards greasy.

And since using a fork would have meant putting the cards down, he came up with the notion of eating his meat and cheese between bread. Nobles were trendsetters back then. And when the common folk began asking for their food served “the same as Sandwich,” the name stuck.