Here follows a little snippet of something I read today by Andy Hodgson.
Make yourself a meal. Something easy. OK, so you haven't got the time or the necessary ingredients. A sandwich then, at least. Can you do a sandwich? Everyone can do a sandwich. Good. Go on. Any kind of sandwich. A ham sandwich, maybe. Obviously not if you're Jewish or Muslim. Have you done it? OK. Put it on a plate. Now, contemplate your sandwich. You know what's in it? Ham, and bread, right, and maybe some margarine and mayonnaise?
Wrong.
What you've got on your plate is water, salt, modified potato starch, dextrose, gelatine, carboxymethylcellulose, paprika extract, tri- and poly-phosphates, sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, sodium ascorbate, and spice extracts. And that's just the ham, 'packaged in a protective atmosphere for freshness', if you're lucky.
You ever think of converting?
What is all this shit? Do you know? Are you interested? You're eating it every day. Have you ever even thought about it? No, probably not. It's like everything else. No one thinks about anything until that Thing comes up and hits them in the face with a piece of 2" x 4".
I have been trying to explain this to my social worker and my psychiatrist: a ham sandwich is not merely ham and bread.
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