Well, if The Fourth Earl of Sandwich didn't literally invent the sandwich, what was it called before his name was given to it? If sandwiches were being eaten by the lower castes for hundreds of years before the Earl's ordering one during a card game, they must have been called something. What was it? Has that name been wiped from our collective memory? Or were our peasant ancestors really dumb enough to eat meat-and-cheese-between-two-slices-of-bread for eons and never assign a name to the concept?

And what would have happened if, instead of the Earl having been struck with a desire for easily eaten food, he had been overtaken by a strong need to move his bowels while remainging at the card table? If he had ordered a servant to bring him a chamber pot, would we now be calling that a "sandwich"?