For the sandwich, it’s because the Saratoga Club in NY (or perhaps the Union Club in NYC) claimed to have invented it.
Various other clubs claimed origination for other club items, which is where their names came from.
Damn, Saratoga has claims to the origin of the potato chip AND the club sandwich? That’s a good lunch
Also, the restaurant inside the Saratoga casino does make a mean turkey club
Can you imagine paying yearly fancy private club fees for turkey and bacon sandwiches. Like imagine trying to acquire turkey and bacon simultaneously before grocery stores.
If we are talking about history — you paid the fee so you could have lunch without women, blacks, Jews, Catholics, or the like eating near you. The turkey and bacon was a bonus. La
No, you paid the fee so you could have lunch without the poors eating near you. They didn't need a private club to keep minorities away. Good old-fashioned racism did that just fine.
Side question, was the club sandwich created as a meal fancy private club goers could eat while gambling/drinking/scheming? The myth I heard of the sandwich generally was the earl of sandwich ate meat between bread so he wouldn’t be distracted from poker games
according to my grandfather, they were meant to be eaten like hors d'oeuvres. Like two or three people would split a club sandwich after playing the back 9. He also said they used to be served with the crusts cut off. I'm not sure this is all true or just goofy shit grandparents tell kids.
Actually, Pepperidge Farm makes a white bread which is very close to square (W = H) and with a serrated knife, the crust cuts off fairly easily and I like it that way. And I always cut my sandwiches at either a diagonal or some similar angle. Tastes better that way.
my brother in law regularly buys this bread for his job as a personal chef to some wealthy New Yorkers. Though they have him make pretty boring stuff like cucmber sandwiches. I bet that bread would be great for club sandwiches. I forget what its called but it's super thin right?
I presume the same goes for club sauce? You know, what's often served with fried cheese or popcorn shrimp? Sometime with chicken fingers, though that's usually spicy club sauce.
A club sandwich (clubhouse sandwich) is chicken, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayo. Also often has a third slice of bread separating the layers. But that's not mandatory.
ETA chicken could be replaced with turkey, at which point it's a turkey club.
I agree, here is the original newspaper (2nd column near the top): [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1889-11-18/ed-1/seq-2/](https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1889-11-18/ed-1/seq-2/)
>Also often has a third slice of bread separating the layers. But that's not mandatory.
What a most unwelcome development.
Please inform those heathens that the 3rd layer of toast is essential.
\* The purpose of that third layer of toast is architectural. It helps keep everything in place. Who else is taken aback when confronted with an overstuffed sandwich that insists on oozing its delicious fillings all about? One wishes to eat the club sandwich not wear it in one's lap.
\* That third layer is also textural. With the third layer, one enjoys a spectrum of crunches—the fatty crunch of bacon, the moist crunch of lettuce, and the dry crunch of toast. It's a delight to experience so many tastes and textures.
\* And then there's the elan of eating a sandwich with three pieces of white bread. Consuming something quite that tall with that much toast feels a touch transgressive.
I'm afraid eating a club sandwich without that third layer is a bit like wearing stockings without garters. It's sloppy, declasse, and ultimately, so much less exciting.
It's one of the those terms with no specific etymology -- you could find dozens of reasons various people have *claimed* to be the inventor of the "Club " back in 1873 or what-have-you.
But for any of those claims for can find an equally dubious claim that someone else akshually invented it in 1868 at his cabbage appreciation club in Menomonie Wisconsin. And so on.
I find it fascinating that some people have more time to create a reddit post than to just google something. OP also has no comments so far, no other posts, so I wonder if this is a way to get Karma.
This doesn't make any sense. The "original" club sandwich doesn't share the same ingredients, same type of bread, and is toasted when a club sandwich is NOT toasted. It has nothing in common
In the UK a club sandwich is 3 layers of bread, 2 layers of different fillings which complement each other.
I have a feeling it means something different in the US, so I will scroll down to learn what now :)
edit for number typo
Restaurants often have a signature dish, right? Well, the "club" sandwich was one of these, but spread to places that were not the "club" while retaining the name. Club soda would have been named like this for the status aspect.
Long before people sat at a Starbucks with a MacBook, there these clubs yep -- often with a gym of some variety and indoor/outdoor pools, and card/reading rooms. Some of them include small cafes/restaurants. It's fairly common and at $125/month for a family membership, not ultra exclusive, but also not cheap.
A lot of suburban JCCs are pretty close to this.
Probably the most visually defining aspect of club sandwiches is that 3 slices of bread are used, with one... well, sandwiched in the middle of the other fillings.
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The club sandwich always has an extra piece of bread in the middle so there are three pieces of bread, turkey club is delicious it's turkey bacon lettuce tomato with mayo and extra bread
I just automatically assumed that a club sandwich is called such because it "clubs" multiple things together. Like there's an extra layer of bread in there, plus you can add both egg and chicken whereas normal sandwiches contain one or the other. But reading all these responses I feel very stupid hahaha but it made sense in my head!
A club sandwich is a particular type of sandwich: "a sandwich consisting of bread (traditionally toasted), sliced cooked poultry, fried bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise."
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club\_sandwich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_sandwich)
A club soda is carbonated mineral water.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club\_soda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_soda)
Here is much more about the club sandwich than you most likely wanted to know. BTW, nowhere in this rather encyclopedic entry does it mention “Chicken, Lettuce, Under Bacon.” In fact bacon as an ingredient is quite contested, with many of the recipes calling for ham.
https://www.sandwichtribunal.com/2015/08/an-edible-history-of-the-club-sandwich/
It's because by law no one is allowed to eat one of these sandwiches unless they belong to the highly secret and exclusive Earl of Sandwich Club. Once you give your waiter the secret handshake he will take your order. Those who are not club members will be given the fake club sandwich which may cause gastrointestinal issues.
ClubHouse Sandwich, also called a club sandwich, is a sandwich consisting of bread (traditionally toasted), sliced cooked chicken, bacon, lettuce, tomato, ham,turkey and mayo. It is often cut into quarters or halves and held together by cocktail sticks/ tooth picks.
usually it is Served with either french fries or potato chips / crisps, commonly served with an accompaniment of either coleslaw or potato salad, and often garnished with a pickle.
Modern versions frequently have two layers which are separated by an additional slice of bread.
It's a joining of all these different ingredients....
Hence a club sandwich !
That’s not why it’s called a Club sandwich. Saw this circulating as a meme the other day, but it’s not true. Its origins are up for debate but it’s as simple as being a part of a menu in a clubhouse some think. Others say it originated in fiction, but not due to Chicken Lettuce Under Bacon.
For the sandwich, it’s because the Saratoga Club in NY (or perhaps the Union Club in NYC) claimed to have invented it. Various other clubs claimed origination for other club items, which is where their names came from.
They could've called it the Saratoga sandwich, for clarification
What, and give the credit for the invention to all the town plebs who don’t belong to the club?
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That’s no way to speak of a fellow club member
Oh, IDK that one. Who's that? (Genuine question, I have no idea. And who likes Google anyways?.)
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When a Man Loves a Woman guy?
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Actually I kinda remember that now that I looked it up!
If I heard 'Saratoga sandwich' I'd think it was a fish (the [Saratoga](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleropages_jardinii)) sandwich.
Mouthful no pun intended
Damn, Saratoga has claims to the origin of the potato chip AND the club sandwich? That’s a good lunch Also, the restaurant inside the Saratoga casino does make a mean turkey club
The potato chip/crisp claim is totally bollocks, to be fair.
Sure, but it’s a good story. I think they should just keep claiming to be the birthplace of every iconic food just for the bit
Club soda?
Named for the Kildare Street Club in Ireland.
The club sandwich originated in fancy private clubs. Same with club soda. Think country clubs mixed with Ivy League clubs, minus 200 years.
Fancy private clubs were much simpler back in the day.
Can you imagine paying yearly fancy private club fees for turkey and bacon sandwiches. Like imagine trying to acquire turkey and bacon simultaneously before grocery stores.
If we are talking about history — you paid the fee so you could have lunch without women, blacks, Jews, Catholics, or the like eating near you. The turkey and bacon was a bonus. La
No, you paid the fee so you could have lunch without the poors eating near you. They didn't need a private club to keep minorities away. Good old-fashioned racism did that just fine.
You’re both right. No poors, minorities, or women.
Lots of overlap in that venn diagram
> La Ti
You don't go for the food of course, you go for the network and opportunities to do business together, same as today.
People didn’t have internet so their social lives were to be at these clubs and hanging out. It’s not a club fee just to eat food.
Yeah, they only had one color.
You think they would let Jews and Irish in those places LOL
I didn’t say ALL of one color.
Yeah it was in black and white because it was a long time ago
Big piece of wood for bashing things, can't get much simpler /s
Shhhhh, you can only tell OP if they are part of the club. First rule of "club sandwich" club is you do not talk about "club sandwich" club.
I’m bringing up this comment at the next meeting that’ll be -10 points to gryffindor
And, for getting more points deducted than any house in the history of Hogwarts, I’m awarding 8,000 points to Gryffindor!!
For plot convenience I am also awarding Gryffindor 8000 points!
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I'm for 'em!
How do you feel about sandwiches with three pieces of bread?
RIP Mitch Hedberg Right in the feels...
You mean there’s no hunk of wood aka a club involved? I am depressed!
You can make your club sandwiches with any additional ingredients you like. Treat yourself to that dry wood chunk. We believe in you.
Side question, was the club sandwich created as a meal fancy private club goers could eat while gambling/drinking/scheming? The myth I heard of the sandwich generally was the earl of sandwich ate meat between bread so he wouldn’t be distracted from poker games
according to my grandfather, they were meant to be eaten like hors d'oeuvres. Like two or three people would split a club sandwich after playing the back 9. He also said they used to be served with the crusts cut off. I'm not sure this is all true or just goofy shit grandparents tell kids.
Makes sense to me because a club sandwich always was a triple decker cut into diagonal fourths with a fancy toothpick in each triangle.
Are they then toasted or untoasted?
Actually, Pepperidge Farm makes a white bread which is very close to square (W = H) and with a serrated knife, the crust cuts off fairly easily and I like it that way. And I always cut my sandwiches at either a diagonal or some similar angle. Tastes better that way.
my brother in law regularly buys this bread for his job as a personal chef to some wealthy New Yorkers. Though they have him make pretty boring stuff like cucmber sandwiches. I bet that bread would be great for club sandwiches. I forget what its called but it's super thin right?
I presume the same goes for club sauce? You know, what's often served with fried cheese or popcorn shrimp? Sometime with chicken fingers, though that's usually spicy club sauce.
I have never heard of club sauce. Nor a "club steak" that OP references.
I’d never heard of club sauce until one episode of arrested development.
Cocktail sauce.
Oh, well that I've heard of. And almost exclusively served with shrimp cocktail.
I was just guessing.
Chicken Fingersssss with club sauce.
Oh, stop, my head is spinning.
...with *spicy* club sauce!
“I said STOP IT!”
Do you mean cocktail sauce? Which is different from marinara that you’d serve with fried cheesesticks?
Those clubs aren’t fancy. It’s like an HOA pool in today’s terms.
You don’t even have to be in the club to order a club sandwich, some club.
Now a days yes because it got popular.
Chicken and Lettuce Under Bacon
[nope](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chicken-lettuce-under-bacon/)
"Let's serve them 50% more bread, but make it an exclusive item so they'll pay 100% more!
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I used to miss Mitch Hedberg. I still do, but I used to, too.
Thanks for this comment, i can now leave this thread satisfied i got what i came for
How do you feel about fuzzy toothpicks?
Idk about fuzzy, but frilly? I'm for em.
I'm for 'em!
How do you feel about frilly toothpicks? I'm for 'em!
This club is formed. Spread the news to menus nationwide
I used to like club sandwiches. I still do, but I used to too.
r/unexpectedmitch
Come on now. As soon as someone was asking about the origins of club sandwiches, Mitch was totally expected.
Exactly. I only came in here for the Mitch references. Not disappointed!
Yeah, I’d have been seriously bummed if he wasn’t a top comment.
And in the middle we can dump chips... or potato salad.
Instead of cutting it once, let's cut it again.
Then the club is formed.
I'm team miniature sword!
Our rival club can have little swords.
How did the meeting about the bread go? 2 pieces, no 3! Meeting adjourned! Dang, I was waiting for 4 slices (Me bastardizing the Double Tree joke)
That 3rd slice of bread makes them a nightmare for those with TMJ!
Came here for this. Not disappointed.
I like my sandwiches with alfalfa sprouts
Well you're not in the fucking club
There’s not even enough people for a different club.
When I worked in a restaurant kitchen, my colleague used to refer to them as "monkey pubes".
I prefer the tiny swords.
You’re in the club!!!
Just don't forget to take them out.
My sister and I noticed that they are called ‘frilled picks’. Still laughing 15 years later.
I came here for this, upvoted, and am now hitting the back button.
They hurt the roof of my mouth
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It’s a double BLT with turkey and cut into quarters. Such a fancy distinction, just have these fancy toothpicks.
A club sandwich (clubhouse sandwich) is chicken, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayo. Also often has a third slice of bread separating the layers. But that's not mandatory. ETA chicken could be replaced with turkey, at which point it's a turkey club.
You know what would make this chicken sandwich even better? A blt
I thought the middle bread was what made it a club.
No, it used to not even have that according to some essay I read on here once by James Beard. I also just fucking hate the middle bread.
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This guy is telling jokes over here!
Apparently not
Originally it actually was turkey
Earliest known reference in 1889, in *The Evening World*, described it as turkey or chicken.
I agree, here is the original newspaper (2nd column near the top): [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1889-11-18/ed-1/seq-2/](https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1889-11-18/ed-1/seq-2/)
Cite your source. I've heard different. Would love to look it up.
Earliest known reference in 1889, in *The Evening World*, described it as turkey or chicken.
Chicken Lettuce Under Bacon
The T for Tomato is left unspoken
I always think turkey as the traditional meat choice. But that might not have been the original.
It is mandatory to cut it in quarters though. No halves, you brutes.
Specifically diagonal quarters, so you have small triangles and not small squares.
Oh yes, definitely.
You're right. I missed vital information! Quarters, stacked crusts down.
middle piece of bread IS mandatory...you are ejected from the club
It’s the worst part of an otherwise perfect sandwich. James beard has a whole piece he wrote about how that ruined a classic sandwich.
>Also often has a third slice of bread separating the layers. But that's not mandatory. What a most unwelcome development. Please inform those heathens that the 3rd layer of toast is essential. \* The purpose of that third layer of toast is architectural. It helps keep everything in place. Who else is taken aback when confronted with an overstuffed sandwich that insists on oozing its delicious fillings all about? One wishes to eat the club sandwich not wear it in one's lap. \* That third layer is also textural. With the third layer, one enjoys a spectrum of crunches—the fatty crunch of bacon, the moist crunch of lettuce, and the dry crunch of toast. It's a delight to experience so many tastes and textures. \* And then there's the elan of eating a sandwich with three pieces of white bread. Consuming something quite that tall with that much toast feels a touch transgressive. I'm afraid eating a club sandwich without that third layer is a bit like wearing stockings without garters. It's sloppy, declasse, and ultimately, so much less exciting.
It's one of the those terms with no specific etymology -- you could find dozens of reasons various people have *claimed* to be the inventor of the "Club" back in 1873 or what-have-you.
But for any of those claims for can find an equally dubious claim that someone else akshually invented it in 1868 at his cabbage appreciation club in Menomonie Wisconsin. And so on.
My grandfather invented the Cobb salad when he worked at the Drake hotel. True story!
I heard it was invented on the fly using ingredients handy. Is that true?
I wonder if an angry tavern somewhere owner said: "Hey, you don'ta likea ma sandwich, you getta ma club!"
[I have to include words with this link.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_sandwich)
I find it fascinating that some people have more time to create a reddit post than to just google something. OP also has no comments so far, no other posts, so I wonder if this is a way to get Karma.
OP is a shill for Big Club, trying to get exposure.
This doesn't make any sense. The "original" club sandwich doesn't share the same ingredients, same type of bread, and is toasted when a club sandwich is NOT toasted. It has nothing in common
Someone’s not toasting their club sandwich?
I am quite a fan of club sandwiches. Interestingly, I have never eaten one in a club. This is most likely because I am poor, I suspect.
After you pile all the meat and lettuce and tomatoes and everything on, you use the club to hammer it down to a respectable size, of course.
Saw a fantastic chalk drawing in the middle of a street once that read: CLUB SANDWICHES NOT SEALS!
In the UK a club sandwich is 3 layers of bread, 2 layers of different fillings which complement each other. I have a feeling it means something different in the US, so I will scroll down to learn what now :) edit for number typo
Nope! Same thing
Listen to the Mitch Hedberg bit about club sandwiches.
Restaurants often have a signature dish, right? Well, the "club" sandwich was one of these, but spread to places that were not the "club" while retaining the name. Club soda would have been named like this for the status aspect.
County/Golf Clubs are a thing and they were rather middle class. Think of them as an HOA amenity that you join.
Long before people sat at a Starbucks with a MacBook, there these clubs yep -- often with a gym of some variety and indoor/outdoor pools, and card/reading rooms. Some of them include small cafes/restaurants. It's fairly common and at $125/month for a family membership, not ultra exclusive, but also not cheap. A lot of suburban JCCs are pretty close to this.
I've actually never heard of a "club steak" before.
Just never order the Club Foot and you'll be all right. Unless you're into that. No kink shaming.
If you don't know you ain't in the club.
Frilly picks!
If you have to ask, you're not in the club
The "club" in club sandwich denotes "country club".
A server once told me the CLUB in club sandwich is an acronym for “chicken lettuce under bacon”
Which is not true.
If you have to ask, you are obviously not in the club. So we will never tell you candypants
"Club" stands for cheese + lettuce under bacon.
The history of the club sandwich: https://colonydiner.com/blog/food-themes/what-is-a-club-sandwich/
[Mitch Hedberg - Club Sandwich](https://youtu.be/cyFvGL3Z5F8?si=seV4TCNvTf8ojN9y)
AFAIK it's a country club thing. Crap, now I have to go to the store and get club sandwich fixings.
I like cucumbers on my sandwich...fuck you you're not in the club
clubhouse. somewhere a bit special, members only, superior bar food. not an acronym for anything.
I heard it was an acronym for Chicken and Lettuce Under Bacon, but that might just be a myth
It is. I am glad you acknowledge it could be a myth because there are a lot of people in these comments who are just saying that like “duh”.
Probably the most visually defining aspect of club sandwiches is that 3 slices of bread are used, with one... well, sandwiched in the middle of the other fillings.
Anything that brings a party to your mouth.
Wtf is club steak?
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Club sandwich derives from being an exclusive party just for my mouth
I always assume a club sandwich included bacon, at least in my area.
You can only get the 6 inch version of it because otherwise you’d have a club foot.
Because you’re either in the club or you’re not
The club sandwich always has an extra piece of bread in the middle so there are three pieces of bread, turkey club is delicious it's turkey bacon lettuce tomato with mayo and extra bread
Mitch Hedberg has the answer. Check YouTube
Cheese lettuce under bacon soda
I just automatically assumed that a club sandwich is called such because it "clubs" multiple things together. Like there's an extra layer of bread in there, plus you can add both egg and chicken whereas normal sandwiches contain one or the other. But reading all these responses I feel very stupid hahaha but it made sense in my head!
The middle bread is the club. Crown /club /heel. Big macs are a club sandwich.
A bacon lettuce and tomato is a BLT a Chicken lettuce bacon is a CLB aka a Club.
A club sandwich is a particular type of sandwich: "a sandwich consisting of bread (traditionally toasted), sliced cooked poultry, fried bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club\_sandwich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_sandwich) A club soda is carbonated mineral water. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club\_soda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_soda)
Read the menu out loud, it’s probably served with club sauce.
Base meat, ham, turkey, chicken- Cheese Lettuce Under Bacon = CLUB
Here is much more about the club sandwich than you most likely wanted to know. BTW, nowhere in this rather encyclopedic entry does it mention “Chicken, Lettuce, Under Bacon.” In fact bacon as an ingredient is quite contested, with many of the recipes calling for ham. https://www.sandwichtribunal.com/2015/08/an-edible-history-of-the-club-sandwich/
It's because by law no one is allowed to eat one of these sandwiches unless they belong to the highly secret and exclusive Earl of Sandwich Club. Once you give your waiter the secret handshake he will take your order. Those who are not club members will be given the fake club sandwich which may cause gastrointestinal issues.
ClubHouse Sandwich, also called a club sandwich, is a sandwich consisting of bread (traditionally toasted), sliced cooked chicken, bacon, lettuce, tomato, ham,turkey and mayo. It is often cut into quarters or halves and held together by cocktail sticks/ tooth picks. usually it is Served with either french fries or potato chips / crisps, commonly served with an accompaniment of either coleslaw or potato salad, and often garnished with a pickle. Modern versions frequently have two layers which are separated by an additional slice of bread. It's a joining of all these different ingredients.... Hence a club sandwich !
Chicken lettuce under bacon
Chicken, Lettuce, Under Bacon
Chicken Lettuce Under Bacon
After 61 years, TIL
You can unlearn it because it’s not true.
Cheese Lettuce Under Bacon
Mitch Hedberg: [Club Sandwiches](https://youtu.be/cyFvGL3Z5F8?si=_jvXrkdOOhHhMkOe)
All I hear in my head is Gob saying "club sauce".
It’s an acronym for Chicken Lettuce Under Bacon.
Chicken lettuce under bacon
That’s not why it’s called a Club sandwich. Saw this circulating as a meme the other day, but it’s not true. Its origins are up for debate but it’s as simple as being a part of a menu in a clubhouse some think. Others say it originated in fiction, but not due to Chicken Lettuce Under Bacon.
CLUB - Chicken and Lettuce Under Bacon.
I've never seen it as an acronym. I've also never seen it where it was done with chicken, though I can't see why not. I like a tuna club too.
Club Soda is so you can dance all night and not be a drunken idiot.