Friday, April 29, 2016

I Refuse To Put The Store On Notice, Though



I’ll never again know if my sandwich has tomatoes or not.  The world is chaos  


It's always a safe bet to assume that your sandwich has tomatoes.  If it turns out there are no tomatoes, you're really not out all that much.  


My issue here lies not in the presence (or lack thereof) of tomatoes, it's with trustworthiness.  See, I like tomatoes.  I've eaten many tomatoes in my lifetime, and will certainly eat many more, on sandwiches or otherwise.  But when I'm told there are tomatoes, and then told that there are not, and I find tomatoes...I just don't know who or what to believe anymore.  Perhaps I should explain.   

So not long ago, I stopped off at a grocery store/farm market place in the Greater Jeremy Area.  I won't say the name here, since I happen to very much like this store and intend to return there frequently, so I'm going to actively avoid badmouthing them too much.  For strictly Blag Purposes, we'll call them, "Eve's Reasonablehectare Farm Market."  Anyway, I stopped in briefly to pick up a sandwich and a snack for dinner, since time was in short supply that day and I was in the neighborhood.  In the deli area, I managed to secure a small container of marinated mozzarella balls (which were amazing, BTW), and a ham wrap sandwich.  For the record, I don't want to get into YET ANOTHER debate as to whether or not wraps are sandwiches and vice versa.  I'm calling it a sandwich, so just suck up and deal. 

Anyway, later on, as I happened to look at the container in which my sandwich came, the ingredients clearly stated that the sandwich not only came with tomatoes, but on a hard roll.  Now, argue all you want about wraps being sandwiches, but the actual wrap part is clearly not the same as a hard roll.  I'm already being lied to by my sandwich.  What's also important to note here is that the ingredients list included tomatoes.  On the side of the container was a yellow sticker which proclaimed in large red letters "NO TOMATOES."  

What's going on here?  

There's a discontinuity in my sandwich labeling.  The ingredients label says tomatoes, but the sticker next to it says none.  Do stickers supersede labels?  Was there a misprint on the label or the sticker?  I'm already at odds with the label, so maybe at least I can have a little faith in the sticker?  Only one way to find out!  I bite into the sandwich, and get a big, juicy bite of tomato.  I just don't know which end is up anymore.  All I ask is for a little sanity in my sandwich, and I can't even get that.  Chaos, I tell you.  Pure chaos! 

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