My 7-Point Pastrami Sandwich

nobody@vox.com(Eileen) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:47:31 -0400

I like big sandwiches. I've liked big sandwiches since I was at least 10. Thankfully, lettuce has zero points so I can still enjoy a big sandwich. Sadly, the bread and the mayonnaise (other favorite parts) are what drive the point value of this sandwich so high. I just can't bring myself to eat lettuce and pastrami as a meal. Call me crazy.

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More than a Scooby Snack

nobody@vox.com(Eileen) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:08:33 -0400

It began in the fifth grade.

One morning in the spring of '85, I asked my mother to please pack two sandwiches in my lunch bag that day. She seemed a bit skeptical, but she was also never one to deny me food, so she complied. And from that day on, I had two sandwiches in my lunch bag whenever she packed my lunch.

Now, 22 years later, I still have to eat multiple sandwiches. Or, at the very least, a footlong sub.

No one could ever accuse me of being a fat child, or even slightly overweight. (I could find fat on me, of course, but that's a different story for a different post.) In fact, my weight didn't hit the triple digit mark until I moved to the east coast. (I blame it all on Florida's humidity.)

As I was building my sandwiches today (because one doesn't make a sandwich; they're constructed), one of my coworkers stopped at my cube and gawked at my creation.

"Oh, my God!" she exclaimed. "That's like a Scooby sandwich!"

Another coworker prarie dogged over my cubicle wall and looked down at my desk. "No, that's a Shaggy sandwich!" he said.

I honestly don't know why people make such a fuss over my appetite.

In all fairness (I should have taken a picture of my plate before I ate my lunch), I already built one sandwich and had stacked the bottom half of my second sandwich atop the first completed one. So, to the average passerby, it may have looked like a gargantuan Dagwood. Additionally, my sandwiches often contain more lettuce or sprouts than deli meat, and that always makes the sandwich look bigger than it really is, too.

But I have to confess that I do have a healthy appetite. I always have.

So if anyone's genes are to blame for Baby C's ability to consume massive quantities of food, they would have to be mine.

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