Stopped by Whole Foods for dinner and some shopping. What an extravaganza. Their salad bar is an 8th wonder of the world.
TODAY WAS SANDWICH DAY. Build your own and freshly grilled. I was beside myself. Fresh bread, and anything else I wanted! It was Christmas in February.
I started naming off some ingredients to the “sandwich wizard” behind the counter. Before I got halfway through my list, she cried out “oh my god…..I just had the same thing for lunch!”
This was no small coincidence given that the first three ingredients were Ciabatta bread, Vegan Field Roast Cutlets (I mean…how many people actually order that?) and avocado. I figured I’d let it ride…..I’d have whatever she had. Turns out she had lettuce, mustard, grilled peppers and onions on hers. I did the same.
Seeing the thing on the grill…..I started to get nervous.
THIS WAS A REALLY BAD MOVE.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY eat a sandwich with grilled peppers and onions. Everything slid all over the place. I tried putting the peppers on the Field-Roast side of the bread, no luck. I tried the lettuce side….even worse. I tried burying it into the bread…..hopeless.
Every bite and the damn sandwich would disembowel itself.
I adopted a strategy of eating the thing in a circular fashion….taking bites at 90 degree angles to one another. This at least kept the cutlet fairly well contained. It is all just took far too much work.
I eventually ABANDONED the grilled onions and peppers. They made a nice topping for my salad.
If you have ideas on proper strategy for eating a grilled onion and pepper sandwich, I would LOVE TO HEAR THEM. Meanwhile, I’ll be sticking to less exotic toppings.
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start from the center until you have a doughnut type ring.
I tried. This was actually worse than the 90 degree method. After 4-5 bites, the entire backside of the sadnwich would fall apart. You need to cover the circumference of the sandiwch in fewer bites.
Hey Ravi,
Maybe next time you’ll get a wrap? =)
Hey Alex…problem is….I absolutely love really good fresh bread!!!!!
A wrap just don’t cut it :)
Perhaps pita pockets would be a good comprise?
I guess the only real option left is to make it a platter and forget the processed bread carbs.
What do you say about that compromise?
Ravi, man, that is hilarious.
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