MDDM23: The Sacrament of the Eating

[David Morris]

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=sciencenews&StoryID=796880

LONDON (Reuters) - Picnics and packed school lunches may never be the same 
again, thanks to the latest breakthrough by military science -- the 
non-soggy sandwich.

Spurred on by rather unappetizing U.S. battlefield fodder known as Meals 
Ready to Eat, scientists at the Army Soldier Systems Center in Nantick, 
Massachusetts, have devised a vacuum sealed sandwich that stays edible for 
up to three years.

"The water activity of the different sandwich components needs to complement 
each other," project officer Michelle Richardson told New Scientist 
magazine. "If the water activity of the meat is too high you might get soggy 
bread."

Using an array of chemicals to seal the meat and inhibit bacterial growth, 
the scientists have already produced pepperoni and barbecue chicken 
indestructible sandwiches, which have been given a cautious welcome by 
soldiers who agreed to try them.

Inspired by their apparent breakthrough, the scientists are now 
experimenting with pizzas, bagels, burritos and even the staple peanut 
butter sandwich.

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0203&msg=65343&keywords=sandwich

Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 07:45:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Dave Monroe

   "His pleasure at being able to utter a recently
minted word, is at once much curtialed by the volatile
Chef de Cusine Armand Allegre, who rushes from the
Kitchen screaming.  'Sond-weech-uh!  Sond-weech-uh!,'
gesticulating as well, 'To the Sacrament of the
Eating, it is ever the grand Insult!'" (M&D, Ch. 36,
p. 366)

"'... the birth of the "Sandwich," at this exact
moment in Christianity,-- one of the Noble and Fallen
for its Angel!  Disks of secular Bread,-- enclosing
whilst concealing slices of real Flesh, yet a-sop with
Blood, under the earthly guise of British Beef, all,--
but for the Species of course,-- Consubstantiate,
thus...the Sandwich, Eucharist of this our Age.'"
(M&D, Ch. 36, p. 367)

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