lots of mayonnaise, no mustard

i seem to have developed some addiction to sourdough bread.

recently, as a part of my effort to cut down my cost of living, i have been buying cooked ham/bologna/salami/turkey slices from albertson's, as well as some bread to eat the sliced cooked meat with. it started sometimes early july when i bought 3 loaves of bread (multi-grain, 12grains, and wheat) because they were on a discount. not long after i got home i realized that there is no way i could finish all 3 loaves before they started growing mold even if i eat one or two sandwiches a day, so i decided to eat a sandwich everytime i felt hungry, and ended up eating about five to six sandwiches a day, with 2-3 hours of time interval between sandwiches. but even with this eating habit, i could only kill the multigrain and the 12grains, and was forced to throw away the wheat since i started seeing green hairy stuff on it.

after that first experiment of living off sandwiches, i realized that it's not so bad living off sandwiches. all i needed to do is put 2-3 slices of meat and microwave the sandwich for 30 seconds, then take it out and toast it with a frying pan for about 5-6 minutes. put in some lettuce and stuff it with mayonnaise, and it's good to go. it's not very time-consuming, it tastes decent, and it does not cost much. so with this new eating habit, i started trying out different kinds of bread from albertson's.

one that caught my attention was the sourdough.

the name, "sourdough," peaked my interest. i wanted to find out whether or not that thing is really sour, so i ate it by itself, untoasted. the result of this experiment was the realization that sourdough bread is not really sour, but it does taste awful when eaten as is. i had already bought a loaf, and i would feel bad throwing it away, so i toasted it and ate it with my sliced meat.

to my surprise, the awful taste of it disappeared. toasted sourdough bread is very different from regular sourdough bread. i have no clue why, but since that day, i've only been buying sourdough bread from albertson's

i'm also running out of the kewpie that aby got me. i should pick up a large bottle the next time i go to mitsuwa.