You’re on a long train journey that lasts several hours, maybe most of the day. You brought simple food with you: slices of bread and slices of cheese, plus some ice tea to drink. Nothing fancy. You don’t count how many slices of either you brought. You don’t even think about it, because train journeys are cool and you’re just chilling out. You just assemble cheese sandwiches one by one, eat them during the trip, and enjoy the ride. Each sandwich uses exactly one slice of bread and one slice of cheese. When one of them runs out, the sandwich-making stops. You arrive at your destination and, naturally, the numbers didn’t line up perfectly. I mean, why would they…
Now you open your bag and discover that something is left over:
• either a few slices of bread with no cheese, or
• a few slices of cheese with no bread.
Which one would be worse? Standing there at the end of the trip, one of these outcomes just feels more annoying than the other, right?
Which leftover would bother you more, and why? Is it purely practical? Emotional? About mess, smell, value, or expectations? Or do you genuinely not care either way? I’m curious how different people experience this.
Leftover broad is worse. Leftover cheese is edible on its own.
Well, no one got raped and murdered to produce the bread.
Not only that, it’s also asbestos free!
I knew someone would figure it out. Top tier detective skill!
As i am blessed with really great bread here in Austria, the only thing more annoying about bread is the extra weight/bulk compared to cheese.
How can leftovers be annoying? They’re food and you have them in case you get hungry.
Together, they’re awesome, but one missing is a bit disappointing. There’s clearly a synergy between these ingredients, like peanut paired with chocolate. Each flavour is individually just fine, but together they create something far superior. Being forced to settle for fine is just disappointing when the memory of something far nicer is still fresh in your memory.
You guys get bread and cheese?
Leftover… cheese? I know what each of those words mean individually, but put them together like that and you’ve lost me.
Ok, so am I just supposed to eat the cheese without anything else?
Far preferable to plain bread without cheese.
Hello. As a former consumer of cheese, yes.
If it helps, think of it as a very unique form of cocoa-free chocolate, or better, a solid form of yoghurt.
(I developed a dairy intolerance a decade ago. I miss cheese.)
I’m sorry for your loss.
Bread.
Leftover cheese is not tolerated in my house, and is dealt with quickly and mercilessly by whoever is feeling a bit peckish.
But there’s not much one can do with a solo slice of bread outside of adding stuff to it.
Toast.
I don’t eat dry toast with nothing on it
Freak
The premise is flawed. I would not only count them properly in the first place, but continue to keep tabs whilst I supped, and adjust ratios as necessary in order to avoid unpaired leftovers.
That is a valid approach too.
We’re in Germany. There’s always more bread.
Cheese and a slice of sausage is a breakfast. Bread optional.
Yeah who needs those carbs anyway. Protein is where it’s at.
Neither is a problem, leftover cheese will just get eaten as a snack if it’s not enough to keep until I go to the shop next (I usually go every other day for something since it’s a 2 min walk)
Leftover bread just becomes a piece of toast with some butter (I basically always have it in, and get the replacement before I totally run out). Tbh with a coffee that’s just my normal breakfast some days anyway
You always have a toaster and butter on the train?
I’ve gotta be honest I somehow missed the entire context added to the body, but OP gave a good answer anyway
I screwed up the original post. It went to a pretty quiet community, and I tried to fix that by cross posting it here, but I screwed up that as well. Initially, it was just a title and a picture, with no extra details. As soon as I realized that, I quickly copied the original body here as well. However, many people had already replied by then. Oh well…
No need, if you have a normal kitchen at the destination.
Bread. Cheese never makes it
I don’t understand: leftover cheese? I always use exactly as much as I have at home.
What happens when you run out of bread, but you still have some cheese? Do you just eat all of it without adding anything to it?
The last slice of bread gets a special treat. A layer of cheese thicker than the bread itself!
LOL. Yeah that should work too.
Both are the same for me. YEET
Hold on … you could have made a grilled cheese and just ate both as is??
Do you bring a griddle with you on the train?
You don’t??
