Shallow Thought Wednesday
Clearly we haven't exhausted the sandwich theme yet. I should have had a Sandwich Week this summer instead of Crab Week. Who knew?
Anyway, Multimedia Editor Etc. John Lindner has taken this opportunity to weigh in on the subject by sending me a few Shallow Thoughts about his favorite places to eat...yes...sandwiches. (He was, by the way, the first person I ever heard refer to them as "sammies.") ...
"My favorite places to eat sandwiches
(brought to mind by EL’s recent sandwich post)
It was our 25th anniversary celebration: a 3,000 mile motorcycle ride. After a week of touring various mountain ranges, we shot down to Savannah then up the coast. The morning we left for the Outer Banks, it was raining lightly. We hoped to make it to the ferry in a half hour but my inner GPS miscalculated how far we were from the landing. Once we were on the road, the rain cut loose in earnest. It took about an hour and a half to reach the landing. Once we were inside the shelter of the ferry, the rain stopped.
We disembarked just as the rain returned, rode to the next ferry landing, and it stopped raining. It was maybe 2 or 3 p.m.when we got off the last ferry. We were soaked, cold, hungry -- hadn’t eaten all day. We passed a few restaurants that looked touristy and maybe too nice and family-ish for two weathered bikers. So we pushed on until we couldn’t stand it anymore.
We stopped at a strip mall where our choices were a pizza joint and a Food Lion. We decided we didn’t want to chance a long wait (more than five minutes) at the pizza place, so we popped into the Food Lion and grabbed the best-looking sandwiches we could find and a bag of jerky.
Bad as the sandwich was, it worked. I remember it well to this day. So that Food Lion in the Outer Banks is one of my favorite places to eat a sandwich. Here are some others:
1. At my desk (I eat at my desk so often, I must like it, right?)
2. In my truck (I know, I know, if you eat and and talk on your cell while you’re driving, you risk spilling your wine. I like to live on the edge. Sue me.)
3. Alone in a park while squirrels look on in envy.
4. Standing over the sink in my kitchen. (It’s a carry-over from my bachelor salad days. A bachelor salad ensues when you stand over the sink and alternately take bites from a head of lettuce and then slurp from a bottle of salad dressing. Oh man, those were the days.)"
(Photo courtesy of Bonnie Lindner)
Categories: Shallow Thought Wednesdays
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Once again Mr. Lindner takes over first place on the Highlights of My Week (So Far) List. No small accomplishment in a week that includes the Police reunion tour concert at Red Rocks and a two-headed snake the little kid next door found in their garden.
Posted by: Bucky | July 23, 2008 8:09 AM
If I'm not mistaken the Food Lion he's referring to is in Avon on Hatteras Island, NC...If I am right then he should have gone to the pizza joint - Topper's. Even though it's an ordinary looking strip mall pizza place in a fairly remote part of the Outer Banks, they have great pizza, pastas AND sandwiches. Maybe next time JL...
Posted by: Greg S | July 23, 2008 10:57 AM
I'll be at that Food Lion next week so I'll be sure to look for the commemorative plaque.
Posted by: matt hudock | July 23, 2008 11:15 AM
#2, I cant stop laughing
Posted by: Jason | July 23, 2008 1:16 PM
JL
It looks like you also got a can of Stax. Why not Pringles or even real potato chips?
Posted by: LEC | July 23, 2008 2:24 PM
The Police AND a 2-headed snake? I hope you got pictures.
Toppers. Yeah, it figures. But again, there was the latency issue. If I had to wait for them to make it, I might have passed out from hunger. Or worse, I might have caused a scene. I get a little beary when I've been wet and cold and hungry all day.
Stax? I have no idea. As for Pringles, I find they stick to the inside of my mouth. Bon tells me that wouldn't happen if I put only 20 or so in my mouth at a time rather than the usual amount. (I personally feel it's rude to count.)
Posted by: jl | July 23, 2008 5:25 PM
Ah, the joys of motorcycle touring. I had a bike whilst I was courting my now DW. Traded it in on an MG. Last weekend I had the bike we rode from D.C. to Skyline Drive and back. Nothing like riding through some great scenery in the open air. Got her back to where she was living and as I unpacked a thermos bottle she had brought I mentioned "Wow this is a good thermos. Your ice water still has ice in it." "Ice water? I didn't bring any ice water." The glass liner had broken. Glad I didn't open it and take a swig!
I still gaze in envy as I drive past Daniel's in the summer.
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | July 23, 2008 6:50 PM
#3 animals looking on in envy - great feeling. reminds me of a moment in the colorado wilderness when my DBF and I were hiking and we stopped to sit on a rock and eat some mixed nuts and a chipmunk came right up to him and started chewing his shoe and looking at our food. DBF kept saying "No......No."
then the next day hiking we stopped on a rock again for a snack of peaches and mixed nuts and a very curious blue jay was about to swoop down on our little picnic any second and DBF kept saying "No.... No."
i laughed at him, as if saying "no" to a wild animal would actually work. but it did. both times. he is the chipmunk/blue jay whisperer.
Posted by: LJ | July 23, 2008 7:23 PM
Oh John, your bachelor salad had me in stitches! Did you really DO that?
#3 reminds me of when I sometimes ate lunch in a nearby park. No squirrels, but anybody who had the temerity to sit there had to fight off the birds who were very accustomed to being fed by hand.
Posted by: Dottie | July 23, 2008 9:55 PM