I know, shocking.
View their (his) comments here.
If you'll click the link, you'll see some lovely craftwork made out of items commonly found in sandwiches.
One of them being this thing:
Is this a sandwich?
Without a doubt, No. Listen, Dan-o and I aren't some sandwich nazis trying to force rigid rules and make and uber-sando world of perfectly formed sandwiches that all fit a myopic sandwichworldview.
Other than the two crucial (yet loosely defined) sandwich ingredients, bread and filling, two important factors come into play.
Firstly, Intent.
Did the sandwich maker intend to make a sandwich? Or were they attempting something else, like a wrap, a piece of art, a sushi roll, or whatever?
Secondly, in the words of Harry Caray, Would you eat it?
Does it look tasty? Does it contain ingredients that please your senses?
In the case of these sando-animal creations, the answer to both is a resounding no.
The person who crafted them, as creative as they are, didn't intend them to be sandwiches. It's an artwork, not an edible.
Secondly, I won't eat a sando made of bologna and wonderbread. It's an insult to the memory of the eponymous Earl.
That said, I would never accuse a person who likes bologna in between two slices of bread of not eating a sandwich (heathens), unless of course, they made it into a a mouse or a cat first, then they should just go back to art school or pre-school, wherever they teach such horrible things.
I understand this is a loose definition, and it may not satisfy some. It's hard to accept, I know, that some things just aren't sandwiches.
Oh, one other thing. Though the address of this blog may mislead you, meat is not a requirement for a sandwich. There's plently of delicious veggie sandos out there that fully qaulify.
Anyway,
This is a man who knows about sandwiches.
