Sandwich Week
A Portland food event running annually in late winter / early spring, observed by the Newfound Glory Hole intermittently from **2022-06-11** through **2026-03-06**, with [[Kyle Derrick]] serving as the chat's de facto Sandwich Week correspondent across multiple editions.
Sandwich Week
A Portland-area food event running annually in late winter / early spring, observed by the Newfound Glory Hole intermittently from 2022-06-11 through 2026-03-06, with Kyle Derrick serving as the chat's de facto Sandwich Week correspondent across multiple editions.
Sandwich Week is a Portland-area dining promotion in which participating restaurants offer special sandwich menus for a limited window. The corpus contains 13 distinct messages mentioning the event by name, spanning four years and four members. The original 2022 mention is by Kyle Derrick reading off the schedule ("Sandwich week June 20-26"); subsequent years have shifted the event to late February / early March, and Kyle remains the most consistent Sandwich Week correspondent across the chat's full history.
Earliest mention
The earliest in-chat mention of Sandwich Week is by Kyle Derrick on 2022-06-11:
"Sandwich week June 20-26" — Kyle Derrick, 2022-06-11
The post received no immediate engagement, but Sandwich Week was thereafter on the chat's calendar.
2024 — adoption by Evan
Two years later, the event re-surfaces in two messages four days apart, both with operational intent:
"Take em around town slamming sandwiches for sandwich week" — Kyle Derrick, 2024-02-18
"Anyone wanna get a sammy or two for sandwich week tomorrow for lunch" — Evan Bbbender, 2024-02-22
This is the corpus's first attested cross-member Sandwich Week proposal — Kyle is no longer the sole correspondent.
2025 — the bike edition
By 2025, Sandwich Week has been merged with the Hoen Lunch format. Cullen Conway, 2025-03-06:
"Friday sandwich week hoen lunch bike edition?" — Cullen Conway, 2025-03-06
The proposal received an immediate 💦 tapback from Matt and was ratified the next day with two further messages from Matt ("Sandwich week"; "Sandwich week offering looks dank"). The 2025 edition is the corpus's high-water mark for Sandwich Week as a participatory event rather than as a calendar fact reported by Kyle.
2026 — Kyle's solo run
The 2026 edition reverts to Kyle's solo correspondence, with six consecutive Kyle posts and no engagement from any other member:
"Since this is my last week of unemployment, should I go HAM and eat as many sandwich week sandwich's as I can?" — Kyle Derrick, 2026-02-28
"I was planning my Monday sandwich week / mushrooms adventure hike" — Kyle Derrick, 2026-03-01
"Play date pdx doing sandwich week?" — Kyle Derrick, 2026-03-02
"March is wild. Portland dining month, sandwich week, espresso martini month" — Kyle Derrick, 2026-03-04
"We could try and sandwich week place? That may not qualify as our best though" — Kyle Derrick, 2026-03-06
"Here is a few sandwich week places that seem fuckable" — Kyle Derrick, 2026-03-06
The 2026 messages received only a single love-tapback (from Evan Bbbender on the first), which Kyle correctly interpreted as institutional sanction to proceed unilaterally.