Flame sandwich
Friday, January 27th, 2006
A vertically-oriented flame sandwich.
Note how the unpleasantly hot flame is almost
completely obscured on both sides by fibery goodness.
This illustrates the value of the flame sandwich approach.
I was out of bread so I used Finn Crisp®.
Sometimes you are obliged to make children eat something that tastes bad, e.g. a medicine they need. How do you do that? You sneak it into food they like.
Sometimes you feel obliged to tell adults something that they don’t want to hear, e.g. the truth about their singing or their body odor. (Some people are overly eager to feel thus obliged, but that’s a subject for another blog entry.) How do you do that? You feed it to them in a flame sandwich. Stick a good thing before and after the bad thing.
You: Hi, you’re looking swell today. She: Hehe, well yeah, I … You: Too bad you smell so enormously bad. She: !! Wha— You: I love what you’ve done with your hair! She: —
Okay, the implementation still needs some care. But the idea is useful.
In fairly unrelated news, I just realized that the phrase “give up the ghost” exists in English. There is even a hardcore band with that name (link leads to an interview where the band leader pretentiously answers almost all questions with nonsense). I thought that phrase was Icelandic only; we have it as “gefa upp öndina,” which confuses everyone because “önd” is (I suppose) an archaic word for ghost/spirit/soul/breath but it’s the modern word for a duck.





