Tommy Sandwich 🥪

Rambling and making sandwiches.

Opening Tommy's Sandwiches in King's Cross, London.

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@VinnysCorner1 Hawks!!

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@uxorious100 In my experience, there is very little broadly applicable advice when it comes to kids.

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@FreddyLA7

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Great method for a bangin sandwich

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Desde que aprendí a hacer así más tortillas, ya no quiero más omelettes.

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@SonicsRCP Hawks

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USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

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@HarryStebbings @nico_laqua Sad and cringe.

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@HeritageSparks Daily

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@drgurner When I was a kid, whenever there was a storm, my mom and I would drive to Ocean Shores in Washington State. Great memories.

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@culturaltutor Hell yeah

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@Polymarket Who wants this shit?

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@soupcanarchist Never try to make a happy baby happier

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@nikitabier Trump bobble head

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@isnit0 Lower VAT for hospitality :)

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@peduarte I think it's great.

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@justalexoki Drink beers at the lake 🤷‍♂️

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@KettlebellDan 7 days water fast

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Today in owning a sandwich shop:

My walk-in refrigerator, with all our stock, died 3 hrs before I was set to leave for a three day weekend.

I head to the shop and find a fridge man to take a look.

Compressor is dead.

It’s Friday so fridge man orders the compressor for same day delivery.

Saturday he starts working. It’s the wrong compressor…

It’s a holiday weekend in the UK so it’s going to be tough to get the correct compressor before Tuesday. It seems it’ll also be hard to find a fridge rental.

Luckily we do have some extra fridge capacity in the shop, so all is not lost.

But we’re closed today (Sunday) and will likely be closed Monday as well.

Hopefully we’ll open Tuesday…

Wish me luck.

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@OrevaZSN Without capitalism you’d likely be a subsistence farmer working dawn til dusk