This particular 2nd Birthday edition of GUS is so named in part because it's sandwiched in between flumptytail's AM diary and bgblcklab1's PM diary (thanks for hosting, guys!), and also because sandwiches are generally pretty awesome, as food options go. Everyone's got their favorites, and the variety of sandwiches out there is darn near infinite. They even make them out of ice cream! Who doesn't love a sandwich?
(I know, I know. It's the internet, someone out there is bound to hate 'em. Don't worry, all you sandwich-haters have a place in GUS too, and you are welcome to add your [possibly irrational]anti-sandwich sentiments to the diary below. But I just gotta ask...what did sandwiches ever do to you?)
After all, they're portable, easy to make, and nearly every culture's cuisine includes a local variant of the format, from Thai lettuce wraps and Vietnamese Bánh mì
to American Po' Boys and burgers. Our melting pot cuisine ensures that we have access to tacos and burritos, shawarma and gyros, from sea to shining sea.
Sandwiches can be hot, warm, cold or frozen. They're the ultimate Road Food; you can nuke 'em in a convenience store microwave or buy them at a drive-through and eat them behind the wheel.
They come rolled up or open-faced, flattened and grilled or piled high and held together in a complex structure involving layered fillings and carefully deployed giant toothpicks. Some of them even come on a stick (behold the humble corndog, a modern marvel of stick-based sandwich engineering)!
Some sandwiches are so simple a four year-old can make one (PB&J!); others are fancy enough to require expert hands and hard-to-find gourmet ingredients (give it up for artisanal bakery bread, goat cheese, fresh herbs, heirloom tomatoes and truffle oil!). It's all good.
Same goes for quitting...there's a method out there for nearly everyone, and as many methods as there are individuals looking to quit. To all would-be quitters discouraged by a failed quit, if you've tried one method and it didn't work, don't assume all methods will fail. That's like eating a cold, greasy, congealed White Castle slider and assuming that every burger you eat henceforth will taste that way (and do the same unspeakable things to your digestive tract), but it's just not so. Maybe a Morningstar Farms Garden Veggie Burger or a Panini is more your speed? Fear not, the delicious Quitburger of your dreams is out there with your name on it, just waiting for you to find it.
Hey now! Just look at all these lovely quitters! (and not a former Alaskan Governor in the bunch, also.)
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