SANDWICH CONTEMPLATION

 A man contemplates a big sandwich

 

Photo by Caroline Gannon

 

It's a New Yorker from the caff at the Wellcome Collection, run by Benugo - cheese, turkey, bacon, in small quantities with a positively minute quantity of salad, though no shortage of bread.

 

The man knows it is by no means the world’s biggest sandwich, which according to the Guinness Book of Records would be this one:

 

from Wild Willy’s Chill and Grill, in Michigan which weighed over 5000 pounds,  but of course that's not a sandwich that anybody could buy and eat.  It was sold off in pieces - and a piece of a giant sandwich is just a small sandwich.

 

Nevertheless the man thinks he has never before bought a sandwich like the New Yorker, with such a ridiculously high bread-to-filling ratio.  Much of the bread remains uneaten.

 

Later that same weekend the man watches a video of the Queen and Paddington Bear comparing marmalade sandwiches.  The Queen keeps hers in her handbag.  

He keeps his in his hat.  

 

Neither sees the need for wrappings. Are her handbag and his hat full of leaked marmalade?  We don’t know, and we can only guess at the bread-to-filling ratio.