Nostalgic Sandwich

When I was a kid, my mom would send us to our Grandmother's house on Long Island for a few weeks in the summer. Each kid took a turn, but it wasn't like my Grannie was stuck with three kids for the entire summer. No. It would be one kid per year for two weeks or so. Anyway, I think I only spent three summers with my Grannie due to the rotation and the fact that I was the oldest of three kids. Once I turned 15 I had to get a job and all that crap, so summers with my Grannie stopped when I was a sophomore in High School. That was a bummer.

Whenever I stayed with my Grannie, I was guaranteed to have the following meals:

• Pot Roast
  
• Kielbasa with Mac-n-Cheese
  
• Lasagna
  
• Tuna Salad

And of course, her famous BLT sandwich. It's not a normal BLT sandwich, as hers was made of Lettuce, Tomato, and Butter on Wonder Bread. Sounds prettu gross, but man, it sure was tasty. Especially on a super hot, super muggy Long Island summer day. This sandwich takes no time to make and there is little clean-up. I decided to make myself one today, only I used rye bread instead of Wonder Bread. I mean, I am 30 and know that Wonder Bread is made of space-age polymer.



It was good, but didn't taste like the sandwich I ate in my Grannie's breakfast nook 20 years ago. Maybe it really is the Wonder Bread that made the difference. Or maybe it's because I ate it with my Grannie while we listened to her tiny radio play songs from when she was a girl. Those were the days.