{"id":13,"date":"2007-04-13T09:25:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T14:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2007\/04\/13\/okay-on-consideration-i-am-probably-going-back-after-a-while\/"},"modified":"2007-04-13T09:25:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T14:25:21","slug":"okay-on-consideration-i-am-probably-going-back-after-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2007\/04\/13\/okay-on-consideration-i-am-probably-going-back-after-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay on consideration I am probably going back, after a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent three years working at Trover and bringing my lunch in a plastic bag.  These lunches invariably contained sandwiches on whole-wheat bread, and though I went through phases regarding the filling (tuna, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and pickle), I generally came back to slices of turkey, on romaine lettuce or &#8220;spring mix,&#8221; with mayonnaise.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I started working from home every day nine months ago, leaving me a bit at a loss.  The constraints on my lunch (must tolerate refrigeration, must fit into reusable containers, must be edible on a half-hour break) were suddenly removed, but I continued to act as if they were still in place.  I put things on a plate and I sliced up the apple.<\/p>\n<p>Then I moved to London and found analogs to the American lunch ingredients, and <i>still<\/i> kept eating the same lunch.  Admittedly, some of this was a comfort-familiarity ritual, but I&#8217;m past that now and it&#8217;s about time lunch and I started mixing it up.<\/p>\n<p>To wit:  this week I bought some French bread, and salami, and a tomato.  <i>I have blown my own mind.<\/i>  I am tossed amidst the shattering waves like driftwood in the brainstorms this has unleashed!  On the ocean, I guess!  In the metaphor!<\/p>\n<p>So salami and turkey taste good together, especially on crusty bread.  Would you like me to share with you some of the other revolutionary sandwich innovations\/relevations?  Innelvations?  Revolevinnotrons.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using pepperoni instead of salami\n<\/li>\n<li>Toasting the bread\n<\/li>\n<li>Cutting it in half, for greater ease of gripping\n<\/li>\n<li>Cutting it in half <i>diagonally<\/i>\n<\/li>\n<li>Maybe get that lettuce with shredded carrots\n<\/li>\n<li>Shit, I know this is crazy\n<\/li>\n<li>Just hang on\n<\/li>\n<li>We are going into <i>flavor hyperspace<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course these sandwiches are not as healthy as the more fibrous, less-sausaged original version.  There is a price to pay for joy, my friends, and that price is paid in belt loops.  I&#8217;m never going back.  Those who say you can enjoy food and lose weight are chasing a fool&#8217;s dream, and anyone who acts like they aren&#8217;t is profiting by it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent three years working at Trover and bringing my lunch in a plastic bag. These lunches invariably contained sandwiches on whole-wheat bread, and though I went through phases regarding the filling (tuna, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and pickle), I generally came back to slices of turkey, on romaine lettuce or &#8220;spring mix,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-london","category-mild-lunacy","category-real-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}