From: Alex Ferguson (abf@interzone.ucc.ie)
Date: Sat 21 Jun 1997 - 23:12:18 EEST
Pam Carlson worships at the graven image of a False Toastie:
> in England, a toasted cheese sandwich is just FRIED BREAD!
Nonono, in England (and I'm quite happy for the Celtic Fringe to be
left out here), "fried bread" is just _FRIED BREAD_. Which is
logical, if gross. ;-) (Then again, one could always think of it
as being French toast without the scambled avian.)
> So, you can see that even in the real world, even such a simple thing as
> a toasted cheese sandwich can take on different masks.
This is indeed true. I myself have witnessed the ritual preparation
and subsequent sacrifice of each of the following Manifestations
of the Primal Sarny:
1) A cheese sandwich, toasted. (Pause while audience gapes in
wonderment at the audacious simplicity of the idea.)
2) A cheese sandwich, put in a sort of plastic bag (a
thermosetting polymeric substance, my engineer colleague
informs me), and grilled with extreme prejudice.
3) Sandwich with the cheese where God intended, but the
butter/marge on the _outside_, and put in a "sandwich
maker", which cooks/seals/cuts the contents. This results
in triangular artifacts containing pressurised, liquified
and superheated cheese which cause third degree burns to the
soft palette, and suffocatation of the incautious eater.
Some food theorists (AKA, the Snack Learners), believe (not
unrelatedly) these to be an early precursor of the sacred
"Pop Tart".
These disparate sorts of Toasted Sandwich are obviously not to be
confused with either a) toast, with cheese; or b) "toasted cheese", both
of which also involve bread, cheese, and Much Toasting, but are
certainly not True Cheese Toasties.
While I don't wish to upset anyone, I have to say that _all_ of the
above seemed to be the creation of the human cultists attending their
altars of metal and molten dairy products (various sects of the Heat
Inside Matter god, I presume).
Ob. Glorantha -- You're kidding, right?
Cheesily,
Alex.
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