I am late on this. I ate this sandwich Saturday afternoon. Usually I get the post written within a couple of hours, but I am late this time.
Part of me wants to blame the lateness on my being on vacation. Part of me wants to blame it on the bout of depression caused by eating this sandwich. I was just lazy about it and I admit it.
I am reminded of the grilled cheese sandwich from the old Infocom game Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It is a sad hard stale thing. Not really worth eating. In the game, you even lost points for trying to eat it. In the game you fed it to the dog to keep him from eating the microscopic space fleet.
I should have known better than to order it. It is museum food. Museums, like airplanes and hospitals use their hostage situation to coerce you into buying over priced food. Since the food is so overpriced, it doesn't sell well. Since it doesn't sell well, it goes stale. Since it goes stale, bloggers end up waiting 3 days to tell people don't eat this. Since I imagine even in a museum dedicated to gourmet cuisine the food would be atrocious.
It was stale. It was bland. The meat was bland and tasteless. The sauerkraut was bland and tasteless, the dressing was almost tasteless. The bread was a crime against humanity. It was tough and chewy and hard and tasteless.
The sandwiches were premade and sitting out in a display case. When I ordered mine the pulled it out of the case and put it dry into a sandwich press. I should have known how it was going to turn out when the thickness of the sandwich didn't change when the person heaved the handle of the death machine down and the handle didn't fully go down.
On the plus side the museum was awesome. They had several Mold-O-Ramas. I also thoroughly enjoyed the Mythbusters exhibit. It was awesome to see actual things built on/for the show.
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