It was the sweet sixteen party for someone special and these sandwiches are a crowd pleaser - so many options!
She arrived and got hit with surprise birthday presents. See the squishy kitty light screenshot below. . .
On to the sandwiches. Why are they so crumby?
They are actually quite good. It is the name and mass production of them that is a cultural phenomenon here in South America.
These are called "Miga Sandwiches", which begs the question, "What does the word miga mean anyway?" Miga = Crumb, as my title suggests.
birthday shot
When this pile is finished, there will nothing there but a bunch of migas.
The sandwiches are more middle-oriented that crumby, but I guess the middle leaves more crumbs that the crust. I don't know. My mom never cut the crust off of my sandwiches when I was in school, so I just learned to eat the crust. But here, they sell these by the dozen and they come in so many varieties; ham and cheese, egg salad, olives, lettuce & tomato, and on and on.
I am pretty sure they don't have these in North America, unless a particular deli has decided to mommify normal white bread sandwiches. I have eaten these so many times since moving here but it never dawned on me to tell the world about them - until now.
Cheers
