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1 {scene: The Atlantic Ocean, 1940}
1 Long Tom: Arrr! What manner o' strange craft be this underwater boat?
2 Dirque: It be lookin' like a sandwich I be eatin' once...
3 Wendy: I be seein' designs for somethin' bein' like this. By Leonardo da Vinci.
4 Long Tom: Aha! I be seein' a design for a man with four arms and four legs by him! He be a lunatic!
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This usage of the word "sandwich" is anachronistic, as the humble sandwich was (probably) named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who existed two centuries after the time the pirates originally came from.
But then again, they are in 1940 now.
The term has only really become known where I live in recent years due to the spread of the Subway chain to Australia.
Looking at Wikipedia's "subway sandwich" page, I see there also a slew of hilariously quaint regional terms for this sort of sandwich in parts of the USA: hoagie, hero, grinder, Italian, wedge, spukie, blimpie, po'boy, cosmo, and zep. These are great!
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