The first post on this blog is a picture compilation in Chicago of some sandies I ate once. Most of them I made myself, thank you very much, and some of them I didn’t (que ice cream sandwich).
Since that post I’ve moved to Ann Arbor, MI where I am attending school to become a MASTER in Social Work. Kind of funny to think about what that might mean literally, but figuratively it means that I’m better than you.
I’m sitting at Cafe Verde in Ann Arbor’s very cute and famous (thanks to a deli around the corner that’s well-known for its $16,000 $16 corned beef sandie) Kerrytown neighborhood and this cafe is also a co-op food grocery/salad bar/sandwich/peanut noodle/beet humus place. Why am I here? It’s simple. I had a sandwich craving. Now, being a graduate school student, I don’t have much money at all so I have to DIYGlamorize my sandwiches. Honestly, I love that!
So I picked up the fattest “Chicken and Dried Cranberry”sandwich after contemplating for about six and a half minutes what it would feel like in my mouth if I bit into a tempeh reuben (heated and unheated). Now. Before buying this sandwich I hesitated. Was I going to be able to get a plate on which and a knife by which to cut this sandwich in half? This sandwich needed to be eaten half by half. Are there napkins? Am I sure I don’t want the classic turkey sandie? Yea, I didn’t want it, plus the taste is so predictable. I’m in the mood for something classic, yet relative. Does the chicken sandwich need pepper slash is there pepper available? Yes please, sometimes even sandwiches could use a little pepper. Pepper adds a little extra pep to anything you’re eating and it’s free and super easy to apply. Don’t be afraid to open a premade sandwich to rearrange, add or subtract ingredients.
The point I am trying to make is this. ANY sandwich can be glamorized a la ________ (insert glamorous deli here), you just need to add the right umph and mindfully frame the sandwich so that you, the eaterperson, is fully prepared to enjoy the sandwich to its greatest potential and this is what The Anal I is all about.
Oh and my sandwich? It was deeelish. I cut it in half, I ate it slowly, I picked up the excess chicken salad with the chips I bought an ate a few finger chip-chicken salad sandwiches. Those were goood.
More to come
….let the sandwich ease your soul….
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