“No, we're in a hurry. Hagrid, I've got to ask you something. You know that night you won Norbert? What did the stranger you were playing cards with look like? ”
Early sandwiches stayed close to the original idea, they were designed for quick eating initially by men doing business at coffee houses or playing cards, and then for more mixed tea parties, ball buffets, and light suppers.
By my careful planning I made it seem that it was chance that started us playing cards. In fact, it was Glendinning himself who first spoke of a card game.
The sandwich as we know it originated in the 1700s with John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who has such a degenerate gambler that he needed a convenient way to eat a meal while playing cards and getting drunk.