ANECDOTE 004: April 25, 2006 [listen]
Found Sandwich

I was asked today what I was eating for lunch. What composed my sandwich was:

• canned (in water) tuna fish
• mayonnaise
• hake (leftover from dinner two nights ago)
• honeydew melon (diced)
• shaved cheddar cheese (orange)
• multigrain bread

I was then asked if the recipe came from one of those cable television cooking shows.

"No," I replied. "I don't have cable. This recipe came from what was found in the refrigerator."

The explanation was received amusingly. The topic of discussion mused on to, for some reason, the Olympics and idol/pageant-like shows of talent.

On the way home, I mused about the lunchtime Q&A session, which reminded me of the DADA exhibit I had seen over the weekend. The sandwich was a collage--the juxtaposition of found objects, a montage of aftermath.

What were the demographically mediated influences, the socioeconomic sciences, the historic and current events that cultured the politics for this edible concoction?

Was my sandwich a bourgeois provocation, a trifle that stimulated conversation? Did the sandwich exemplify a denouncement of the prepared-food industry--a never-ending conflict with labratory-extracted, chemically preserved, amalgamated ingredients?

Like the anti-art tendencies of DADA, was my lunchtime mash-up anti-sandwich?

Whatever, a very tasty absurdity, indeed--served with extra-crispy potato chips, a golden apple, and (mineral) water.