My son has a simple English book called, “Sandwich, Sandwich.”
The book describes how to make a simple sandwich, including steps such as selecting fluffy bread, slicing a tomato, adding some lettuce, etc.
It struck me as a good, short topic to use in an English lesson: Tell me how to make the perfect sandwich. So recently I have been asking many of my students this question.
One student came up with an interesting answer. Her husband likes an “Elvis sandwich.” Apparently, Elvis Presley liked to fill a sandwich with banana, bacon and peanut butter. So that is an Elvis sandwich.
How about this for a business idea?: The Celebrity Sandwich Shop!
The shop only sells sandwiches, and all are named after celebrities. Preferably the celebrities are dead, in order to avoid legal troubles. I’m not much of a chef, but even I can make a sandwich. Now I just need some ideas for some other celebrity sandwich fillings.
The Karl Marx sandwich? The bread is the cheapest available, suitable for the oppressed proletariat. The fillings are tomato, red pepper and red meat, all drenched in the blood of the capitalist oppressors – sorry, I mean chili sauce.
The Margaret Thatcher sandwich? (for
political balance)
The filling is liver, chickpeas, and dried apricot. All ingredients are good sources of iron.
If you have any other suggestions for
celebrity sandwich fillings, please send them my way!
Vocabulary:
fluffy – light and soft like loosely
connected strands of wool (eg. “It is so nice to stroke the fluffy fur of my
cat.”)
an oppressor – a group or person who treats
people harshly and holds them down in an inferior position
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