A bite of someone else’s sandwich
Jun 9th, 2008 by satisfyte
My best friend and I have this theory about how the deliciousness level of food goes up significantly when it’s not yours. This manifests itself in two ways:
1. You’re over someone’s house and they have/their family has cooked you a meal. This could be something as simple (yet monumental) as a grilled cheese sandwich, and is especially prominent when in a cookout environment. It never tastes as good when you make it, even if you have the recipe. This is known as other people’s food (OPF).
2. You’re eating something. Your friend/relative/complete stranger is eating something different. They offer you a bite. You have one, and it’s indescribably delicious, even if it’s a food that you’re not usually that excited about. Somehow having a limited supply of that food makes you want it all the more. French fries, nachos, or cookies are particularly dangerous in this situation because you can ask for them one at a time, but you don’t want to push your luck and have too many and make the person hate you, but you also have an unstoppable need to satiate your craving for just “one more bite”.
This entry focuses primarily on the sandwich. Someone else’s sandwich always looks better than yours. You both go out for subs. You get your usual turkey with lettuce, and your friend gets ham. You’d never get ham. But suddenly you start thinking back to that delicious Easter dinner and you have to have a bite of that sandwich. “Want a bite of my sandwich?” they say to you. “Oh are you sure?” you feign slight disinterest. You could take it or leave it, honestly. Right?….. but then you’re like “well if you insist.”
Then comes the sandwich trade. If you’re lucky, they will have eaten off of a couple of the corners and left you with a slightly squashed, protruding bite that beckons you to its chewy bread and perfectly assembled contents. You leave a lovely scallop-edged arc where your teeth have pulled away, revealing more sandwich peninsulas for the following bites you won’t be having (unless you ask nicely, right?).
Little do you know your friend is feeling the same way about your sandwich. Your sandwich is alright, but you have so much left, there’s no sense of urgency. Maybe you both tune into each other’s sandwich satisfaction and decide to trade half for half. But be forewarned — this could either be fantastic, or make the whole experience rather ordinary. After all, what’s the fun in other people’s food if it’s not theirs anymore?
A delicious sandwich = satisfying. Covert annihilation of someone else’s food = wicked satisfying.
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