tomato sandwiches
When I was growing up we had a garden every summer, and without fail we had TONS of tomatoes, along with corn, peas, leaf lettuce, cauliflower, carrots, radishes, etc. But what I liked best was tomatoes. My mom says I started eating them as a preschooler, I KNOW that in early elementary school I was eating them like apples, she used to have to limit my tomato intake.
I have three older brothers, but I can only remember one of them liking tomatoes anywhere near how much I liked them. In our teen years, when we were left alone to find our own lunches, Brian and I would go out to the garden, pick some leaf lettuce and a fresh tomato or two from the vine, and make a BLT without the B. This was the best meal ever. A few times when I went to visit him at his house in the summer, we’d relive those days and have a fresh lettuce and tomato sandwich in his adult kitchen.
I continued to eat tomato sandwiches (BLT without the BL) as I grew up, and eat them with WAY too much regularity these days. I think this might be my pregnancy craving food — last week alone I had three dinners of tomato sandwiches. I eat other things too in this pregnancy, don’t get me wrong. I snack on vegetables, cheese, nuts, and I always have a nice lunch of meat, starch and greens.
I told the Mr. the other day that I don’t know what I’ll do when we have to start eating as a family and I can’t have tomato sandwiches every other day.
The Mr., by the way, likes radishes. My dad is a radish man, having a snack of a radish sandwich about as many times a week during radish season as I have tomato sandwiches. No wonder where I learned it.
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August 4th, 2008 at
Wow what great memories. I, too, still eat BLT’s always without the “B” and sometime without the “L”. Sadly, I made up the “Tomato Sandwich Song” Sung to the tune of the old Houston Oilers theme song. Goes like this:
Tomato Sandwich, Tomato Sandwich, Tomato Sandwich number one!
My singing it drives my (Houston) Texas wife nuts!