Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Breaking the Sandwich Barrier.









Somewhere in Texas...This is an appetizer.



The Abbot in full effect.


Risky Brisket post-sandwich. He did not stand for another half hour.

High quality layering and exact compression elevate sandwichery to the next level.

Rockefeller demonstrating the o qualities of meat.

Breaking the Sandwich Barrier
     It was on February 17th, 2012 that research and testing began at an undisclosed location to break the Sandwich Barrier using the latest in snack technology. The following researchers and sandwich-testers were on hand to experience this never before achieved level of sandwich construction.
Call signs: Nasty, Dick Dastardly, The Abbot, Rockefeller and Risky Brisket where all on hand to participate in the construction and subsequent consumption of the forerunning meal advancement project.
     Construction began with the searing of ground beef patties that had been blended with (Censored for National Security) seasonings for maximum meat absorption. Simultaneously, a comparable fleet of bacon and tomato were pan-seared to perfection in compliment to the rich, carnivorous centerpiece. While burgers grizzled and bacon sizzled, a greasy and fantastic griddle was covered in a layer of butter-painted white bread, referred to in France as “Le Pain Au Biscuits Blanches.” The upper layers of this stratus were then interlaced with a complicated and classified latticework of alternating Pepper jack and American or “Honkey” cheese singles.
     Following the initial base layer of cheese, bacon was added in a single layer to the first bracketing foundation of sandwich. This first contingent of bacon-grilled cheese sandwiches (hereby referred to as sandwich layer one or SL1) was then removed from the freak-nasty griddle and placed under a heating lamp for freshness. Immediately after the griddle became free, a second sandwich layer (SL2) was then constructed on the well-buttered plain of griddle. Similar in composition to SL1, SL2 received a heavier portion of cheese and replaced the bacon component with blackened tomato slices. After completion of SL2 the final stages of sandwich construction began.
     Beginning with a foundation of SL1, the burger patties (Primary Sandwich Layer or PSL) were then added to the individual man-stacks atop the initial layer of intermediate cheese added to SL1. Another layer of cohesive cheese-matter was then applied to ensure the safety of all testing personnel, as it is not the practice of this country and its researchers to endanger brave scientists with a potential breakdown of sandwich stability. Finally SL2 was added to the sandwich stack to complete the fabrication process and usher in a new era of man’s relationship to sandwich.
   It is of note that at this point, Callsign Nasty attempted (at great peril to himself and the research team) the construction and consumption of a prototypical sandwich model designed to break the proceeding barrier of sandwich. Safe to say, none were injured in the testing of such devices though its practicality of consumption leaves much to be desired and studied at a later date.
     Successfully established as the forerunners of sandwich technology, the team retired to their laurels and bowel impactions before moving on to the next stage: actually working.

2 comments:

  1. My first reaction was "Oh My GOD!!" I was laughing at the same time. I really liked the technique of writing it in a way that it read more of a technical manual. Each step is written out with tech terms (SL1, and such). I found it very amusing, but also to the point in how boring life can be at times that we need to totally mix it up now and then. This burger/sandwich goes against all norms of calorie watching plain jane deli sandwiches. I think that's what I liked about it the most. I really like the technical style it was written in and the humor was a great plus! Now I am hungry...

    One question would be: what made you go from the sincere, often emotional ties to the albums, to this heart-attack causing sandwich?

    Second question(s): are they actually for sale, and how much?

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  2. Riley –

    I enjoyed reading this, and I like the pictures too. I think there’s a bit of a tone problem that comes from the attempt to, as Kevin put it, write it like a technical manual. That part is fine, but even so the relentless sort of passive construction sentences really do get a bit heavy and laden – they take away some of the humor of the attempt (even though I think they are an attempt, by close parody, to add to the humor of the piece).
    This is a bit of a trick with parody like this – you’ve got at once to deal the “sound” of the piece, but you’ve also got to have something in the piece that pushes against that, especially when the “sound” is like this. I think you’re aiming for that to come from content and diction, especially from names and process images – but somehow you’ll want to stretch it, mostly because you are aiming at humor, and that syntactical structure after multiple repetition finally breaks pulls away from the humor.
    One aspect that creates humor in the piece so far is the narrative, and it’s likely that’s how you’ll find greater humor. But the narrative is a little hard to follow as well (because the actors get lost in the syntax, by necessity)- probably your piece will get funnier if you can play up the tension between an easier to follow story and the non-narrative form of the genre you seem to by playing with.
    Really, I just want it to be funnier.

    Notes while reading:

    “on hand” twice in 2 sentences – bit of a cliché

    Complement/compliment 2 different words

    I can’t tell if you mean to have so much passive construction in your piece – is that intentional? It can distance the actor, of course, but sometimes it can distance the reader as well! You should probably put some sort of check on this.

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