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mrsbrown For the past 35 years, I have asked the small children in my life, "do you want your sandwich/toast cut into squares or triangles?" After a beat I follow up with, "or rectangles". And if they ask for triangles, I then ask, "big triangles or small triangles?" I always love it, and I enjoy the interesting curve balls they sometimes throw and I have to work out how to do squares and triangles, or stars, or circles.
Last weekend the eldest grandchild asked me what my favourite shape was and I answered, "big triangles." They asked "why?" and this is how I answered.
When I was 5 my mum sister and I went to Europe and we went driving through France and Italy. On the trip, I remember that we had stopped for lunch in a roadside cafe. It felt like a largish room and I remember the waiter bringing me a toasted cheese sandwich. That sandwich which was the best sandwich I had ever eaten. It's the toasted cheese sandwich I measure all the others by and I remember that sandwich whenever I make a toasted cheese sandwich for myself. That sandwich, the best sandwich of my life, was cut in "big triangles" and whenever I eat a sandwich cut in big triangles, I have a momentary flash of the joy I felt eating that toasted cheese sandwich in that obscure French cafe.
Last weekend the eldest grandchild asked me what my favourite shape was and I answered, "big triangles." They asked "why?" and this is how I answered.
When I was 5 my mum sister and I went to Europe and we went driving through France and Italy. On the trip, I remember that we had stopped for lunch in a roadside cafe. It felt like a largish room and I remember the waiter bringing me a toasted cheese sandwich. That sandwich which was the best sandwich I had ever eaten. It's the toasted cheese sandwich I measure all the others by and I remember that sandwich whenever I make a toasted cheese sandwich for myself. That sandwich, the best sandwich of my life, was cut in "big triangles" and whenever I eat a sandwich cut in big triangles, I have a momentary flash of the joy I felt eating that toasted cheese sandwich in that obscure French cafe.
