User talk:Zeng8r/Archives/2011/May

Cuban Sandwich
Wat U mean that? My addition is well researched and not a joke, is true it is. Pleze do no cast asperzions on my work here. I don't go to where you work and "shake the slurpee machine," as it were. Dank you. Beresford 77 (talk) 21:43, 16 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Hey, if it's possible to clear a quarter million making Cuban sandwiches, please pass the mustard. Otherwise, I've gotta warn you that this is generally a very dry and serious website full of overly stuffy and self-important people. Cracking jokes in articles is sure to attract the wrath of the wikipolice, which is never a good thing. Not telling you what to do, but in my case, I generally try to govern myself accordingly. Zeng8r (talk) 00:39, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Ah yes, thank you for the sage advice. While I did have a close acquaintance who did make a "lot of Miami" in his sandwich shop in Miami in the 1980s, I have given your words some thought and realise that you are right. I'll try to add sources in the future. Thanks. Beresford 77 (talk) 15:08, 17 April 2011 (UTC). (Oh sorry about the spelling and diction of my last message, I was a little messed up yesterday.)

Please educate yourself with this:
"If the sandwiches didn't arrive with the first wave of émigrés from Cuba more than 175 years ago, they were certainly a fixture in Key West by the time those fleeing Spanish rule formed communities around cigar-manufacturing factories in the 1860s, says historian Loy Glenn Westfall, author of several books on Cuban cigars. The sandwiches were a favorite cigar worker lunch.

While most of the cigar factories and workers moved on to Ybor City in Tampa after a devastating fire in Key West in 1886, a taste of the culture remained.

``A Cuban sandwich was born in Cuba and educated in Key West,'' says Westfall".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.26.51.6 (talk) 19:40, 27 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Now there's a much better source than the "some random guy who emailed a blog" citation that you tried to use earlier. I actually know Westfall; he's one of the leading historians of the Florida-Cuba connection, and that statement is definitely worthy of inclusion in the article.


 * However, it's not an end-all, argument-closing statement, since other good historians have come to different conclusions (educate yourself using the other references at Cuban sandwich). Still, that's a good find, Mr. A.(!) Zeng8r (talk) 16:49, 29 May 2011 (UTC)