Sandwich

The ubiquitous food snack comprising slices of bread between which a variety of fillings are placed is named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792) who once spent twenty fours at the card tables eating nothing but bread and beef slices. The OED dates the word sandwich from 1762 and the town of Sandwich in Kent, after whom the earls are titled, celebrated the 250th anniversary of the sandwich in 2012. The fourth Earl was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1775-81 and the explorer Captain James Cook named the Sandwich Islands (later Hawaii) after him in 1778.