Dear Conchlers

I always am thinking on nice girls, when I hear the Sandwich Islands. Maybe when
Cook arrived at this island, he saw very nice girls, only few dressed, dressed only
near the breasts and the legs. Between the white clothes at the belly they were
not dressed and brown from the sun. White - brown - white. This must be a sandwich.
Only a joke. I really don't know where the name comes from.

with best shelling greetings before I am eating a sandwich

Helmut


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James,

To complete the little saga of James Cook and his naming the Hawaiian
Islands after the Earl of Sandwich.  I got this from Julie Dillon
(thanks Julie - I kind of knew this but it was under a pile of stuff
somewhere in the dark and unused part of my brain).

Julie Dillon says, "Anyway--Somewhere I remember hearing that the Earl
of Sandwich was a gambler that invented sandwiches so that he would not
have to leave gambling tables, thus the name sandwiches."

So now we know about islands and shells with the moniker of sandwich as
well as one of the primary food groups (along with pretzels, cookies,
and beer).

As for sandwich shells, I found two in Abbott & Dance, an olive (a
synonym) and a cone.  Are there others?

Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico (where if you gamble you eat a tamale to
keep from having to leave the table)