In about 6,500 words, British writer Sam Knight, writing in the Guardian, has published an entertaining and engaging account of why (and what and how and where) that packaged sandwich in the grocery store came to be. Oh, and who made it happen. He throws in the geography, the history, the psychology, the nationality and the mentality of packaged sandwiches. He's got the industrial processes explained and he's got both sides of how sandwiches changed consumers and consumers changed sandwiches. It's about as thorough a report as you will ever find about the lowly packaged sandwich. Don't worry, there is nothing ideological about it, given that it's published in the Guardian. Knight probably could only publish it there because it's one of the few papers that allows long, long, looong format stories, given the proclivities of leftists. But this story is not at all leftwing, not even a little. Since I remember buying some of those sandwiches when I lived in...(Read Full Post)