A SANDWICH SURPRISE

By Dan Miller
November 20, 2007

If it concerns fashion or food, I trust whatever my wife tells me.

When I'm ready to leave the house, if Karen says, "You might want to consider other shoes with that outfit"... I'll usually change, even though -- in my heart -- I might feel the brown shoes work just fine with the tuxedo.

If she points out that some particular food isn't, nutritionally, what's best for me, I'll at least take her advice into consideration.
Just this week, she taught me something wonderful about food that I never even suspected.

We met at a sandwich shop for a quick lunch as I was heading to work.
I ordered tuna salad with lots of mayonnaise.
(She says I use too much mayo, and I probably do.)
Karen ordered the veggie sandwich on wheat.
She told them she wanted lettuce, tomatoes, some sort of sprouts, green peppers, oregano and cucumber slices.

When the guy said they were out of cucumbers, she said, "OK, then put bacon on it."

"Bacon!" I said.
"I thought you were getting a veggie sandwich."

"I am" she nonchalantly assured me.

This is terrific.

I had no idea that bacon was a vegetable.
Now that I think about it, many times at restaurants I do find bacon bits in my green salad.
So I guess it's true.

Next time I'm in a garden store, I think I'll buy some bacon seed so Karen can grow bacon right there in her garden next spring.
She'll like that.

I'll bet homegrown bacon is delicious!

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