Brazilian Food: The Classic Bauru Sandwich
The bauru sandwich is a Brazilian classic. One blogger compared it to the American BLT in terms of its fame. At its most basic, it’s a French bread roll (without the soft white interior) with melted cheese, roast beef and tomatoes in it. It’s the invention of a Brazilian law student named Casemiro Pinto Neto (aka “Bauru”, after his hometown) who, in the 1930s, walked into his favorite eatery in São Paulo and told the cook to make a sandwich just for him. Once he and another customer tasted it, everyone was saying, “Me vê um do Bauru!” (to say “me vê” is an informal way of ordering food).
