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[robkelk]

First, earls are nobility and peers, not royalty.

Second, that's an urban legend, not a fact.

Grosley's book is a piece of travel literature. There is no supporting evidence for this piece of gossip, and it does not seem very likely that it has any foundation, especially as it refers to 1765, when Sandwich was a Cabinet minister and very busy. There is no doubt, however, that he was the real author of the sandwich, in its original form using salt beef, of which he was very fond. The alternative explanation is that he invented it to sustain himself at his desk, which seems plausible since we have ample evidence of the long hours he worked from an early start, in an age when dinner was the only substantial meal of the day, and the fashionable hour to dine was four o'clock.

The sandwich is the invention of a workaholic, not a gambler.

This also happened during World War I, and the code talkers also spoke Assiniboine, Basque, Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Cree, Meskwaki, Mohawk, Muscogee (both Seminole and Creek), Tlingit, or Welsh. Nubian was used during the Yom Kippur War. Wenzhounese was used during the Sino-Vietnamese War of the Third Indochina War. Hungarian is being used during the current Russo-Ukrainian War. The WWII Navajo have the good press, but they're hardly the only ones.


You really need to stop trusting those sites.