Well attestedNamed through a historical place-name
Bombay sandwich
noun · first attested 20th century
Bombay became Mumbai in 1995; the sandwich kept the old name anyway.
A layered street sandwich of potato, beet, cucumber and tomato with green chutney, often grilled.
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- Named through a historical place-name
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 20th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Mumbai
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Bombay sandwich
Cart vendors in the city have sold the stacked, chutney-smeared version since the mid-20th century, and menus across India and abroad still print it as Bombay. Food names travel more slowly than maps do, so the sandwich preserves a city name the city itself retired.
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