Polish breakfast sandwich
Me: I am going to have to take a picture of this sandwich.
Prussian bride: That is going to cause a huge problem.
Me: But it’s THE SANDWICH PARTY this weekend!
PB: You don’t understand what a huge problem this is going to cause.
The Polish breakfast sandwich is essentially a sandwich much like many other sandwiches. It happens to be prepared and eaten at the breakfast hour, more or less. The essential difference between the Polish breakfast sandwich and your average sandwich obtained at, say, a well-stocked delicatessen, lies in the far broader choice of preserved meats available in your average Polish home and therefore as options for your Polish breakfast sandwich.
Within moments of consuming this particular Polish breakfast sandwich, just one of many such sandwiches to be discussed, constructed, and eaten since we arrived in Pomerania a few days ago, I was offered a half kilo of pickled herring, which, while tempting, might have been going a bit too far.
Maybe tomorrow.
How huge a problem did it cause, after all? Huge huge, or just huge?
It’s up, so at least your dreadful family conflict was wellllllll worth it.
Comment by Elsa — Monday 6 April 09 @ 01.47 MDT+2.00
You wouldn’t believe what a HUGE HUGE problem it was. I got up from the table, walked to the hallway where the camera was, returned with it to the table and took three pictures. Then I replaced the camera and methodically ate the sandwich. HUGE HUGE problem.
I did think my mother-in-law might think I was insane for photographing a sandwich, but that was a
ship that had long since sailedrisk I was willing to take. She didn’t even appear to notice the HUGE HUGE problem of my sandwich photography.Comment by jds — Tuesday 7 April 09 @ 00.20 MDT+2.00
Thank you for risking marital discord in order to participate.
Comment by simon — Monday 20 April 09 @ 15.09 MDT+2.00
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