As it happens to be, most followers of any blogs I create are usually American or English. Sometimes Indian. They always offer me web design and SEO advice. On a high ranked blog, about building sites. Anyway. On topic.

So, because of this, I’d like to take the time to address a “cultural” bit that I’ve always found funny and confusing. You see, My Anglo-American friends, we share a word that has a different meaning over here.

This word, this cultural schism where a mutual world has a vastly different bread-related reason, is the word “Sandwich”.

For you guys, a Sandwich is a glorious combination of bread and (insert something), like in the picture below (although I’m sure you know what a sandwich is).

I should point out that, in the Netherlands, a sandwich is the same thing as it is in the U.S of A which I just discovered after a Google session, but I’m going to ignore that and inform you of the “sandwich” in the glorious, superior dialect I use.

However, in my part of the glorious nation of Belgium, a sandwich is something else. Over here, a sandwich is, in fact, a type of bread itself. A soft type of bread, easy to cut open and turn into an… uhm… sandwich.

I should point out that this is true in ‘Flemish’ only, which I just discovered, which nearly ruined this blog post.

So, what does a sandwich look like over here? Because, after all, the real reason I wrote all of this is because I saw my sandwich, thought “It’s funny, because it’s name is a sandwich” and wanted to share a funny fact about it. Well, it looks a little like this.

Those are two sandwiches, waiting patiently until they’ll be eaten. Or, if you prefer to use the French words, they’re pistolets. Which sounds like a pistol. I don’t know the idea behind that, you can’t exactly rob a bank with them. Although they look a bit pistol-y if you hold them in a hand.

But Trooooooooollllll, a nagging voice in the distance says, what do you call a sandwich then? Other than the fact that, apparently, we are also supposed to call them ‘sandwich’ as well, we usually call them “broodje” or “boterham” depending on the source material used.

As you can see, the word sandwich can have a different meaning. I thought I’d make a cool point out of that, to educate y’all, but I didn’t realize that the cultural divide doesn’t exist between us, but between the Belgian people and the people on the wrong side of the Maas. But I’m not going to edit the opening of this post, because admitting I’m wrong is weak and I just really wanted to post a picture of what a “sandwich” is. Why are you still reading this, anyway.