Everything in Europe is a Sandwich

In Germany, in England, in France and beyond, sandwiches are for breakfast. The signs say ham or cheese, or tomato and cheese, or egg and tomato - only the main ingredients. Some are on baguettes and others on brown seeded country bread, but it doesn't matter because all of it is freshly baked. You can smell it. 

And there are definitely other things stuffed and spread inside like arugula, butter or cream cheese but you can't tell.

At home in the US pre-made sandwiches (which are for our rushed lunches) are meticulously labeled with every ingredient for allergy-health-gluten-who-knows-what-else-conscious folks, and if you want the turkey sandwich with everything except the mustard then you ask for a fresh one. Actually you'll take the mustard but on the side, in fact do you have honey mustard?

Yes my American brain thinks I'm absolutely eating too much bread, but my European body keeps shoveling sandwiches in. Because they're delicious! 

I'm in the middle of my Berlin Fill-in-the-Blank Residency and there are many things I don't understand - the language, the strange rules, the culture - but like the sandwiches I go for it. I make a choice and trust it. And that keeps me full. 

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