The Cuban sandwich is roast pork, ham, Swiss cheese, yellow mustard and dill pickles pressed on a buttered Cuban loaf until the cheese melts and the bread crackles.

The Cuban sandwich originated in the late 19th-century Cuban cigar-worker communities of Ybor City, Tampa, and Key West, where Cuban immigrants combined Spanish, German, Italian and Cuban deli traditions on a single pressed loaf. Tampa Cubans add Genoa salami reflecting Italian neighbors; Miami Cubans skip it. Central Florida absorbed Cuban migration through the 1960s Mariel exodus and the 1970s mass Puerto Rican settlement, and Orlando's Black Bean Deli has pressed the canonical Miami-style Cuban since 2001. La Lechonera El Jibarito in Kissimmee and the Pio Pio counters round out the Latin map.

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