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My favorite line is the one about British sandwiches.. [1] > There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in
by studentrob 10y ago
My favorite line is the one about British sandwiches.. [1]
> There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.
> “Make ’em dry” is the instruction buried somewhere in the collective national consciousness, “make ’em rubbery. If you have to keep the buggers fresh, do it by washing ’em once a week.”
I ate some sandwiches in the UK. They were dry and rubbery
[1] https://norighttobelieve.wordpress.com/tag/douglas-adams/ https://norighttobelieve.wordpress.com/tag/douglas-adams/
- jeffwass 10y agoOne of my favourite lines from the first book : "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
- nlh 10y agoSimilarly, my favorite line of all is: "The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." (I've forgotten which book it's from)
- milkey_mouse 10y agoMight as well be from Toy Story
- vidarh 10y agoHaving lived in the UK for 16 years now, it is exceedingly rare to find sandwiches here that are not made by sadists that you might imagine escaped from a prison kitchen where any attempt at making anything edible was punished by flogging.