World of the Bizarre

Man spends 6 months making $1500 sandwich

By T.K. Randall
September 20, 2015 ·  27 comments

How difficult can it be to make a sandwich ? Image Credit: CC BY-SA 2.0 Katrin Morenz Under normal circumstances when someone wants to make a sandwich all they have to do is go in to the kitchen, grab two slices of bread and then add the other ingredients straight from the fridge.

Unsatisfied with this arrangement however, Andy George decided to take things one step further by demonstrating how difficult it is to create a sandwich when it is necessary to create every single ingredient - from the slices of bread to the filling inside - completely from scratch.

To accomplish this feat George set up his own vegetable garden to grow the wheat and vegetables, traveled to the Pacific Ocean to retrieve water that he could extract salt from, milked a cow to make cheese and even butchered a chicken himself to obtain the meat.

Every single part of the sandwich was painstakingly prepared in his kitchen - a process that ultimately took him more than six months to complete with a cost of over $1500.And the verdict ? According to George his hand-made sandwich was "not bad".

"That's about it," he said. "Six months of my life for not bad. Yeah."

His experiment might be a strange one - but what it does do is emphasise just how much we take things for granted when we visit the supermarket to pick up the food that we eat.

Manufacturing food items by hand is certainly no easy task.

Source: Independent | Comments (27)

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