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    Cool National Cuban Sandwich Day started as a reporter's attempt at a hoax...

    National Cuban Sandwich Day started as a reporter's attempt at a hoax...


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    National Cuban Sandwich Day, an annual Aug. 23 celebration of the popular food item, was started in 2016 by a Tampa Bay Times reporter who set out to conduct a "hoax" but ended up with a holiday.

    Christopher Spata, a staff reporter for the Tampa Bay Times, said he became fascinated by food holidays in 2016 and set out to see if he could create one of his own and have it spread across the country.


    Spata said he chose the Cuban sandwich -- a Tampa-native sandwich consisting of ham, roasted pork, pickles and mustard on Cuban bread -- as the subject of his holiday, and Aug. 23 as the date. He said the date coincided with National Sponge Cake Day, which he considers to be a food of less importance.


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    Ive eaten cubans I loved and cubans that were lousy, its like anything else you have to have a genuine cuban, not those sucky imitations.
    LETS GO BRANDON
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    Cuban sandwiches are right up there with Vienna Sausage as Food of the Gods. The very best Cuban Sandwiches are made in Miami (just as the best Philly Cheese Steaks are made in Philadelphia and the best Crab Cakes in Baltimore MD)

    Real Cuban Sandwiches are truly something requiring its own Feast Day.
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    Sounds good to me!
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    Luckily, people move and bring their food talents with them.

    You just have to find out where they originally came from. Crabcakes from a guy who lived in Montana probably is not going to understand what they are supposed to taste like.
    Let's go Brandon !!!

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