This is how I imagine Americans compile a sandwich, via Stockard Channing.
This is a parody thread, mirroring a recent thread asking if Japanese eat sushi at home. As parody threads belong in the pit, and we no longer move threads to the pit without the blessing of the OP, I’m closing this thread.
@TriPolar , if you want this thread moved to the pit, DM me (or another mod).
Moved to the pit.
Yeah… American here, but much the same sentiment.
The store I work at certainly does sell “sandwich kits”. There are kits for all sorts of things. There’s probably a “kit” for blowing your nose. I guess there’s a market for people who really need their hands held.
That said - sandwich making, both simple and elaborate, are actually done in American homes. Just last night I assembled a sandwich with a filling that required brief cooking, two different condiments, grilled mushrooms and onions, pickles and some lettuce. Other times I just slap something cold between two slices of bread and call it done. No kit required for me, but maybe someone else might require one.
Sure, I do that routinely for cheese sandwiches from block cheese. Two slices bread. Slice a slab of cheese off the block of your chosen thickness. Put between the two slice of bread. Done.
A decent cheese slicer makes it easier, but a knife will also work.
Did you bake and slice the bread yourself? Americans don’t make sandwiches at home so much as they assemble them.
I make my own. I make exactly the sandwich I want with the ingredients that I choose, and I do it for a fraction of the cost. Panera gives you a sandwich with a bag of chips, and they want something like $14 for it plus a tip, of course. I can make an Egg McMuffin, which qualifies as a breakfast sandwich, for 1/3 of the cost with a bigger egg and better cheese.
So somebody walk my age-addled brain into what exactly the parody is here? Is it that it’s making fun of how stupid the question of do Japanese make sushi at home sounds, or something like that? Because it seems like in that thread, a lot have responded that, indeed, many Japanese don’t make sushi at home. Or is it that making sushi is as simple as making a sandwich? Which, I guess it kind of is if you’re good at the rice part. I’d argue it’s a little more complicated, but I guess not that much unless you want to perfect your craft.
Bake? Only in lockdown when I’m bored. Slice? Of course, it’s hardly a specialist skill. Don’t you guys own bread knives?
Making a sandwich does not require baking your own bread. How silly,.
Yeah, I’m not seeing it either
My friends started a sandwich making group. I got some bacon, bread and cheese and joined the club.
It’s bad parody unless you actually think making sushi is as easy as making slapping together a sandwich.
What is the point of this pedantic bullshit?
That is making them. People talk of making food without starting from the most basic ingredients all the time. Most people couldn’t do it that way if they wanted to; they lack the expertise and knowledge to make all the components in the first place.
And how many people want to do a research program to figure out how to make a sandwich, anyway?
The point is that preparing sushi requires actual kitchen skills not universally known by home chefs (even in Japan). Making a sandwich out of factory prepped ingredients does not.
Although making a sandwich at home does require that one have the ingredients (bread, cold cuts, condiments, lettuce, tomato, etc.). Many don’t keep those because they don’t make sandwiches often enough that the extra ingredients would spoil before the next occasion, particularly those without children at home.
This what happens when we bake our own bread
I started a thread a couple years ago called “‘Simple’ things that are surprisingly difficult”, and I used sandwich making as the prime example:
Doesn’t stop me from making sandwiches at home. I bravely soldier on and push through the pain and heartache of home sandwich assembly. I’m a hero-making hero!
Thank you, Carl Sagan.