The first fastfood of the world – 250 years ago

Two hundred and fifty years before, his ancestor the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, had solved a newfangled problem – how to eat lunch without leaving the gambling table – by having his servants stick some slices of the day’s roast between two pieces of bread and deliver it to him. With that, gentility, hierarchy, cutlery, table manners, seating protocol and side dishes all flew by the wayside, and an entire lifestyle was born.