Club Sandwich & Atlantic City? (1900)

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Club Sandwich Rivals Hash.
Boston Daily Globe (1872-1960). Boston, Mass.: Aug 5, 1900. p. 33 (1 page)
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_Club Sandwich Rivals Hash._
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An Atlantic City Hotel serves a club sandwich that is composed of broiled ham, cold chicken, lettuce and mayonnaise dressing between thin toast.
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This is one of the newest evolutions of a dish that promises to rival hash as a general mixing up of foods.
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The club sandwich began mildly as a sandwich of cold chicken and lettuce; then warm broiled bacon was added, which in turn gave way to ham.
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The addition of mayonnaise dressing with broiled ham seems rather startling, but under the mysterious influence of the toast, presumably, it has obtained a reputation among the hotel's patrons.
--New York Sun.