Talk:Dagwood sandwich

History of term
Eventually, this article should also address:

-When did the term enter common usage? Dagwood Bumstead was from 1933, he made sandwiches at least as early as 1944, but possibly earlier. But when did people outside the comic strip begin using the term "Dagwood Sandwich"

-When did Webster's New World Dictionary first include "Dagwood sandwich"?

-Alecmconroy 10:38, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


 * OED says the term originated in the 1970s. Potatoswatter 03:36, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm another one of the jerks who actually consult OED, and i hereby attest to the fallibility of even OED as a WP:RS. You might BTW consider the fact that OED values the resource of readers who send in refs that are older than the current edition's first-use date; clearly they haven't gotten (or hadn't, 10 years ago) adequate info in this vital area. Or perhaps uses by the originator don't count? Is it a real word when only one person has used it? --Jerzy•t 21:12, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Holding together?
"An olive pierced by a toothpick usually crowns the edible superstructure (though skeptics remain doubtful of the toothpick's ability to hold the sandwich together)."

Toothpick? Are you kidding? It'd be a skewer, surely? -- Logotu 19:24, 30 July 2007 (UTC)


 * LOL. are there seriously sandwich "sceptics" out there who doubt the hold-a-bility of toothpicks in dagwoods? And if so, can this be cited, or otherwise removed/edited appropriately.
 * 3th0s (talk) 04:50, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Sandwichology is serious business. There's zoning concerns and everything. Proper skewering is like a building's foundation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 05:19, 19 July 2008 (UTC)


 * AHHAHA ZONEING EH? LMFAO —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.177.137.213 (talk) 22:57, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

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We specialize in fantasy and imagination, what did you expect?
It appears that the marketability of such sandwiches remains in question, also the existence thereof - Developers of Dagwood's Sandwich sue for fraud Asat (talk) 09:49, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Question about links
Say, shouldn't the various ingredients cited have links to their own pages? I don't know how to do it, exactly, or I would do it. But... shouldn't they? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.29.70.144 (talk) 01:46, 2 June 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅ Kendall-K1 (talk) 14:43, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Gandolfo's
Gandolfo's New York Delicatessen has a sandwich they call the Dagwood. It has roast beef, turkey, ham, corned beef, swiss and cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, mayo, spicy mustard, salt and pepper. (There are no Gandolfo's in New York.) Bizzybody (talk) 10:20, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

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Confession of a humor-impaired editor
"Now, I enjoy a good laugh as much as anyone... except perhaps my wife. And some of her friends. Oh, and Captain Johnson." And i imagine the sandwich photo would be easier to create using food, than to fake. (Interested readers will enjoy, as i did, the background information attached to the photo but not reflected in this article's link to it.) However, i doubt the image of a real-world dagwood adds anything in the way of 'pedia-worthy information relevant to the topic: any fool can see that as long as enough of an intelligence-compromising substance is involved, a bet could be made that will result in a construction comparable to that in the photo. Further, the photo provides no verified nor even noteworthy information about one or multiple r-w dw-ses (and even a Guinness BoWR entry would IMO fail to make the real-world sub-topic noteworthy, except possibly if a verifiably sustained DWS-race ensued). I am not unilaterally removing the photo, but

--Jerzy•t 05:44, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) i have recaptioned the photo from "A Dagwood sandwich" to "A real-world realization of the Dagwood-sandwich concept", to clarify that we do not assert that anything comparable has ever been constructed except under the influence of dangerous amounts of alcohol, testosterone, or other rationality-impairing substances. (The large majority of native speakers of English probably can recognize this photo as what i'll describe as a form of practical joke, but i, for instance  -- tho i've contributed on Wikipedia -- am not proud enough of my German that i'd expect to correctly construe a German wikipedian's corresponding German-language caption for the same picture. How much potentially misleading info de:WP can tolerate is up to its editors; IMO the world role of English imposes tight anti-misconception standards on en:WP.)
 * 2) 1 or 2 sympathetic responses to this from colleagues could suffice to convince me to remove both photo and caption, without bothering with a formal poll.

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