Hi I am Katie Brown
Today, I want to point out the gifts that can be delivered when children participate in the simple act of preparing a sandwich.
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SEGWAY:
The sandwich is such an easy go-to staple during this time of COVID 19. You can turn a meal into a sandwich or a sandwich into a meal.
I mean let’s be honest coming up with 3 squares a day while working, cleaning, gardening, homeschooling, and a WHOLE LOT MORE, can really make someone question their culinary talents. So the sandwich can be a welcome easy dinner reprieve from the hour by hour demands of family feedings. I mean I have heard from and seen more than a few people’s posts about how they feel they have turned into short-order cooks during this lockdown.
Today, I want to show you how you can get a rest from the job of head chef, have some family fun as well as deliver a valuable life lesson…..All through the simple act of serving up DIY sandwiches.
SET UP:
Here is a fun fact. The sandwich is named after it’s supposed inventor 4th Earl of Sandwich. Rumor has it that the Earl ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread because this would allow him to continue to play cards while eating.
If you ever want to have a lively discussion with someone ask them what makes a sandwich? Is the taco a sandwich? Is a wrap a sandwich? How about a hamburger?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture gets quite technical, saying the “product must contain at least 35% cooked meat and no more than 50% bread. To prove how serious this foodie splitting debate is, none other than Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ruled that the hot dog is, in fact, a sandwich on the Stephen Colbert Show.
THE FAMILY DOING:
So how about you invite your whole family to step up to the cutting board and join into the discussion and creation of their own sandwich meal?
And as they do, that is when you can explain how the simple sandwich delivers one of life’s great lessons.
Yep, I said that a sandwich could deliver an important life lesson.
Steve O’Brien, a formally trained chef and owner of Chicago’s BeefBelly, weighed in with a perspective as beautiful as it is profound when it comes to the life lessons that can be found in sandwich :
He said ……
Sandwiches can push you back to childhood. As you bite into a simple peanut butter and jelly on butternut bread, the peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth, you feel the emotions of days gone by. Or you can have an explosive sandwich experience, where it takes you around the world because it is the ultimate street food. Whether it be a ban mi, a Croque monsieur, a crispy Cuban pork, the sandwich reminds you of places you’ve been and places you want to go. The sandwich is like life, the more you add to it the better it becomes.”
But I have a different life lesson that I` want to highlight today.
I am sure you have said or at least heard, that sandwiches taste better when someone else makes it for you.
It turns out, there's a scientific reason for that weird little quirk.
After a series of experiments, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University affirmed that people prefer the taste of sandwiches made by other people to ones that they made themselves, and found that the reason is most likely that when making their own sandwich, people spend more time thinking about the ingredients and how it will taste so when it comes time to dig in it is not quite as exciting because their brain feels it has already experienced it, hence they enjoy it less
However I digress,
Back to the life lesson..
The Bible says, in Acts 20:35 , It is better to give than to receive
Do you see where I am going with this?
When you make a sandwich it is literally better to GIVE IT AWAY……
It is a scientific fact!
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