 The rumour in its familiar form appeared in Pierre-Jean Grosley's "Londres" (Neuchâtel, 1770), translated as "A Tour to London" in 1772; Grosley's impressions had been formed during a year in London in 1765.The sober alternative is provided by Sandwich's biographer, N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests Sandwich's commitments to the navy, and to politics and the arts, mean the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his desk.Before being known as sandwiches, this food combination seems to simply have been known as "bread and meat" or "bread and cheese."