If you ever visited Cuba and wondered why Cuban sandwich or Cubano is not sold at every street corner, that might be because its origin is disputable. Maybe the historian Loy Glenn Westfall described it the best when he said that the sandwich was "born in Cuba and educated in Key West."
Although first traces of the sandwich can be tracked back 500 years ago and accredited to the original islanders, the Cuban sandwich as we know it today first appeared in the early 1900s, when many Cubans immigrated to Florida. However, it is almost impossible to determine whether Cubano was first made in cigar factories in Florida or sugar mills in Cuba.
Entirely another, but maybe even hotter question is whether the addition of the Italian salami no longer makes it a true Cuban sandwich?
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