I violated the First Law of Sandwiches

The First Law of Sandwiches:

A sandwich made by a given person will not taste good to that same person.

Check this... I toasted an Einstein's asiago cheese bagel, spread on some goat cheese and Trader Joe's basil pesto. I then followed with Trader Joe's roasted chicken breast strips. It was close to gastronomic nirvana.

I think I can improve upon it. Next time, I'll bake or toast it open face a second time after putting on the pesto, cheese, and chicken. Stay tuned!

T-shirt

This is my kind of shirt.

A hero from a hero?

From Defamer:

Dania "The One Who Drove AJ Soprano To Suicide" Ramirez will join Heroes as a series regular. (Hey, she's got mutant experience from X-Men 3.) While her "powers are being kept under wraps," producers are rumored to still be deciding between superhuman Rollerblading skills and the ability to make the world's most delicious sandwiches.

Nothing doing

Sandwiches have been few and far between of late, as have chunks of free time to devote to this blog, but I still love all zero of you who read this. This week I revisited the beauty that is the JoJo.

I think I've listened to Great Northern's "Home" about 7,415 since downloading it for free from iTunes last week. (I'm going to purchase at least the more recommended tracks from their debut album, Trading Twilight for Daylight, I swear.) Repeat play of songs is what put me in trouble with some of my roommates in college. It might not have been as bad if iTunes and iPod were available in the mid 1990's, which is the last time I was devouring music in large quantities. Needless to say, my iPod is a bit stuffed with U2 and Collective Soul.

Where was I going with this? Oh, yeah... Great Northern's bassist is hot.

Taste Test

I'm certain McDonalds, Subway, and Starbucks don't mind how their brands transcend their respective markets. But I find it a bit weird that each offers a product with a unique set of flavors and textures. McDonalds tastes like McDonalds, Subway like Subway, and Starbucks like Starbucks.

I'm not saying we should shun uniqueness, brand success, or variety, but the ubiquity of these three companies have skewed consumers' expectations of food. When I want a real hamburger, I don't go to McDonalds. The same goes for real sandwiches and McDonalds and real coffee and Starbucks.

Splinter, rafter

Politics tickles my funny bone when it's not tickling my angry bone.

Our newly blued House of Representatives, channeling public (or, rather, publicized) frustration as gasoline prices might soon surpass their inflation-adjusted highs of the early 1980s, narrowly passed a bill that would somehow protect us all from price gouging in the energy market. I find this whole exercise a waste of time.

I'm shocked - SHOCKED - the House didn't turn its attention to the taxes federal, state, county, and city governments add to every gallon of gasoline sold. I imagine it's easier and quicker to fold to the pro-government lobby than to the pro-oil and pro-auto lobbies.

Sandwich Report: Tuesday, 2007-05-22

Jimmy John's (Loop: Monroe)

Beach Club (#12) on Wheat
Sweet & Sour Chips

How can you beat fresh sandwiches with great bread? Jimmy Johns has been my de facto lunch for a while, supplanting Potbelly's for the time being. I only wish I could get the wheat bread after 1:00pm. The french roll is good and soft, but the wheat is something else.

Pushing the sandwiches over the edge are the fresh trimmings like tomatoes and avocado spread. Jimmy John's doesn't use the same pitiful pale tomatoes manhandled by those "sandwich artists" at Subway.

I recommend any of their chips. Their cookies are decent, but not quite as good (or as fresh) as Potbelly's.