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HM Wraps
A wrap is a food dish made with a soft flatbread (usually a type of tortilla) rolled around a filling.
The modern-day wrap goes back to 1982 when a Seattle Mariners baseball player, Bobby Valentine, who owned and operated a Sports Gallery Café had an investment banker, that supplied the funds to start the Café, as a regular client that always ordered a turkey club sandwich off the lunch menu.
As Bobby’s luck would have it the day, the toaster was broken (and if you know anything about a club sandwich, you know that a key part is the golden crumb of the toasted bread).
“I was cooking and I looked over at the tortillas that were sitting there. I grabbed one and put all the ingredients of a club sandwich into the tortilla. I rolled it up and I melted a little cheese on the top to keep the tortilla from opening up, and I told the waitress, Tell him we don’t have club sandwiches today, but this is a club Mex.”
The banker was not disappointed – in fact, he loved the new spin on his old favourite.
While Bobby V. knows that he didn’t invent the first sandwich, nor did he originate the concept of food wrapped in flatbread, he believes he was the first to put American ingredients inside a tortilla. And so, the modern-day wrap was born. Who knew!