I guess you might call me a Bread Lover. I really like bread, just about all kinds of breads and I enjoy a good sandwich. To me, the perfect lunch, even dinner is a cup of soup, side salad and a sandwich along with a piece of fruit and a beverage.

Making a really good sandwich is an art. It should not only taste good and be good for you but should be appealing to the eye as well. You should be able to look at a sandwich and hardly wait to chomp, chew, savor and swallow; and it should be healthy as well. This is what makes a sandwich, any sandwich great.

Two slices of cheap, store bought, highly processed, white bread with a slice of bologna slapped between them is a sandwich and it is edible, probably won't taste too badly, if you like bologna, and it probably won't kill you to eat it but it isn't a very appetizing meal and not very enjoyable to eat. It isn't going to do your body a whole lot of good either but you won't feel quite as hungry. However, this is one boring sandwich.

However; Let's recreate that sandwich and turn it into something more appealing and healthy; let's make it a GREAT sandwich...My bologna sandwich; Two slices of multi grain bread and spread spicy brown mustard lightly on one slice and mayonnaise lightly on the other, place a slice of bologna on each slice of bread, on the mayonnaise side add a few crisp leaves of lettuce, three slices of tomato, three thin slices of Vadalia onion, top the onion with a slice of cheddar cheese, five or six slices of bread and butter pickle. Now top all this with your other slice of bread, mustard and bologna, slice diagonally and place on a luncheon plate with a cup of your favorite soup and serve with a beverage. Now this is my idea of a great bologna sandwich.

When I was still pretty much a kid and living at home with my parents, Sunday night was usually sandwich night and common practice was to go to the kitchen and make your own (and clean up your own mess). My brother was a sandwich genius. He could create some of the most insane, I'd never put those items together between two slices of bread if you paid me to do it, sandwiches in the world. Here is one I still eat and it really is a great sandwich; Take two slices of bread and spread each slice with peanut butter with a little mustard stirred into it (I prefer honey mustard), not too thick, add some thin slices of cucumber, thin slices of onion, a few leaves of crisp lettuce, sprinkle that over with some shredded raw carrot

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