Damn, that's deep.

I don't know but now I really want a sandwich. Somebody please pop out and make me a sandwich. I'm not picky. PB&J will do.

I, uh, have heard this sandwich thing before and always puzzled over it. My own sandwiches always taste better to me than one someone else made, because I made it exactly how I wanted it.

I suppose that's a blessing of a sort. Also, it means I'm always happy to be the one who makes the sandwiches.

Not sure about the sandwich thing, but I remember the best cup of coffee I ever had was made by someone else. I went to see a movie with a lady I wasn't particularly interested in (everybody that knew us said we should go out and we finally did). She went to the snack bar and brought me a cup of coffee, I usually don't take cream and sugar, but she put it in there. It was just the best f*cking cup of coffee I ever had. We never went out again and since lost track of each other. I'm starting to wonder if I let someone special get away...

A friend of mine said you are getting old when you have this conversation with your wife:

Wife: Do you want to have sex with me, or shall I make you a sandwich?

Husband: *pause* What kind of sandwich?

The sandwich thing is very true. Restaurant/deli sandwiches always taste better when they make them. There's one restaurant that makes the simplest sandwich: pita bread, spinach, tomatoes, cucumbers, muenster cheese and French dressing and yet somehow I cannot duplicate it exactly. Theirs just tastes better. There's also a deli that makes the best Reuben on earth - and they have a counter where you can buy the same ingredients yet I can't make it taste the same at home.

Salads. . .a salad you get in a restaurant is always better than one made at home, or at least so thinks my wife.

I swear, even a can of soup that's been heated by someone else tastes better than the exact same brand I've heated myself. Maybe the joy of companionship that we're wired for somehow makes its way into the food.

Jeez I want a sandwich.

To me, everything tastes better when someone else makes it. Especially if it's the tiniest bit complicated or has strange ingredients. When I don't know what's in it, I can enjoy the flavor as a whole. (What an unusual combination! Yum!) When I make it, all I taste are the individual components. (There is cinnamon on this meat! Cinnamon is for baked goods! WTF!) Or I get all concerned about how healthy it is and can't enjoy it. (There is a stick of butter in this sauce! There are two cups of sugar in this lemonade!)

Plus, I just kind of hate cooking and find it really stressful.

I had a sandwich. But, as it was, I made it. Therefore, it was not as enjoyable as it could have been.

I have finally discovered that I like bananas.

But do you know the RIGHT way to peel a banana?

I just had a sandwich. It wasn't bad (made it myself--ham, melted cheddar, tomato & lettuce; I should have used better bread but I wanted to use this bread up first.) Lots of people make better coffee than I do (but usually not random diners) Sometimes it's nice to feel taken care of--that someone made something just for you.

If someone offers me coffee, I like asking them to fix it the way they like it.

Here's my theory: if you make the sandwich yourself, you're exposed to the smell of the ingredients for a little while before you start eating, so you're already getting tired of them before you even take the first bite.

I'm with jrossi4r, everything tastes better when other people make it. I'm also with danf's wife because especially salads do. But I don't drink coffee. Well, much, but when I do it's the summertime and it's iced and it's like 100 parts heavy cream to 1 part coffee and god I love it and it helps keep me shoveling dirt and pruning crap and baking in the hot sun. Mmmm coffee.

But do you know the RIGHT way to peel a banana?

So using the potato peeler was wrong? Ooops.

But do you know the RIGHT way to peel a banana?

This actually just came up between me and the partner just this morning... I eat have a banana almost every morning at work with breakfast, and somewhere in the last two or three years I learned the right way to peel a banana. This morning we were at a (lousy) breakfast buffet and I got a banana and peeled it like this. He looked at me and said, "I've never seen anybody peel a banana from THAT end." I looked all cool and shit and said, "Well, this is how monkeys do it."

If you think about how flowers and such are built, it totally makes sense. I wonder why humans started trying to rip bananas open from the wrong end in the first place... maybe because the stem looks like a little handle?

I think it's because sometimes humans overthink things. Thankfully, we still have plates of beans, which really don't have any ENDS to speak of. Heh heh.

Richat, we ALL know how a plate of beans ends.

I, uh, have heard this sandwich thing before and always puzzled over it. My own sandwiches always taste better to me than one someone else made, because I made it exactly how I wanted it.

I generally agree! I've heard the sandwich thing and always been a little confused. It's true that sometimes, someone makes me an awesome sandwich, and I'm in admiration because they did something differently than I habitually do, and it tastes great. It might be the combination of ingredients, the layering, choice of bread, etc. And yet, I still make some pretty good sandwiches, and I've had sandwiches other people make that are only so-so or even downright lame. Deli sandwiches are sometimes better, but sometimes not better at all, than sandwiches I make myself.

As for coffee, I make coffee at home that I love, but sometimes a cup of classic restaurant coffee at the end of a meal, or at breakfast out, kicks my coffee's ass. Sometimes it's just the mug shape that does it - the curvy diner-style mug or white restaurant dinnerware - and the way it's hotter than your home coffee warmer will let you have it.

I rarely make sandwiches, so other people's sandwiches are generally more expert than mine, and therefore better.

Things I do make often generally taste better (in that they're better suited to me) than similar things made by other people.

When I go to a restaurant, it's usually to get something that I can't or don't make at all, so there's no comparison. And when I go to friends' houses, the things they make are rarely the same things I make, so no comparison there either.

But occasionally someone will make something that surprises me. And I agree with Miko about mug shapes.

Beans, though? I do make them often, so I like my own the best.

I like my sandwiches better, and that's because I usually use better cheese I think.
Don't drink coffee, but tea out is fun. It's hard to get the right timing and color and flavor myself.

Depends on how tired I am. I love making my own sandwiches and coffee, but if i'm dog tired I'll take any crap in a disposable container.