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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2014
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      7. Sandwich introduced his mistress to a soldier, James Hackman, who started to court her.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2014
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      8. Hackman said, "I'll marry you unlike that cad, the Earl of Sandwich". But Martha Ray spurned his advances.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2014
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      9. In 1779 while Martha Ray was attending a play, Hackman shot her dead. He immediately confessed and was hanged.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2014
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      10. The Earl of Sandwich was grief-stricken. He had loved Ray. Surprisingly 18th century public opinion favored the killer, Hackman.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2014
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      11. Many people thought Hackman was driven mad by love. Although to be honest he seems like a stalker and a creep.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2014
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      12. Sympathy for Hackman was early instance of trying to apply psychology to crime. But like I said, misapplied. Guy was a creep.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2014
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      13. Anyways, the next time you enjoy a sandwich, give a moments thought to the tragedy of the Earl and his murdered mistress.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2014
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      14. POSTSCRIPT: Some readers have informed me of an alternative account of the invention of the sandwich. Earl of Sandwich was a gambler....

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2014
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      15. Earl of Sandwich by this account invented sandwich to eat while he played poker. His buddies saw invention and it caught on.

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    10. Mark Slutsky‏ @totallyslutsky 9 Nov 2014
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      @HeerJeet that’s what I heard, but wasn’t it a weird old-timey game like whist or baccarat

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2014
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      @totallyslutsky That makes sense -- but the account in biographies (he ate sandwiches at work) also makes sense.

      4:55 PM - 9 Nov 2014
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        1. Mark Slutsky‏ @totallyslutsky 9 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet my account comes from a much-loved edition of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, so take with a grain of salt

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        1. Ian Wightman‏ @torontomush 9 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet @totallyslutsky Many histories of food use the gambling story when discussing the evolution of the sandwich.

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