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what people usually ate at that hour when they went to a café after the movies or the theater.

Other popular sandwiches are pan con lechón (bread and pork sandwich made with mojo), sándwich Cubano (sandwich made with ham, roast pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard), and a croqueta preparada (basically, a Cuban sandwich garnished with ham croquettes).

And then, of course, there is the frita, which is a Cuban sandwich very similar to a hamburger or cheeseburger. Unlike a hamburger, the meat is made with ground beef and ground pork or chorizo, and cooked with pimentón, a sort of paprika, which gives it a distinctive flavor.