I’m still learning the words required for life in 21st century Britain. Latest one that caused me to do a double-take was learning that the guy behind the counter at Subway is a “sandwich artist”. Now, I’ve only eaten at Subway once (and call me picky about food, but it’s only ever going to be the once), but the word before “artist” in my description of the obnoxious Johnny No Stars behind the counter certainly wasn’t “Sandwich.”
German Words For Today: “15 oder 30cm” - 6 or 12 inches
Song playing as this was published: The Strokes “Ize Of The World”
Six-inch or footlong, I think it is. Although I don’t know who’d buy a footlong Subway sandwich; a six-inch one certainly makes me feel as full as a McDonalds meal, and the bread is almost as bad.
They do work with some artistic licence, though, as I discovered the last time I went - or else I don’t know how my order of a ham sandwich turned into chicken breast.
Stefan: “Six-inch or footlong” Ah, you can see the hard research that goes into this blog, and also that I’ve only been to a Subway in Germany. Where the term is Sandwich Spezialist, rather than Kunstler. It was pretty awful though - and the menus were in mostly English - the place was full of German familes (and some American servicemen) with blank faces trying to work out if they wanted “Dijon Horseradish Sose” on their “Honey Oat Sub” with one of 12 “teilweise warme Fleischvariationen”. My personal experience was that teilweise warm, meant hot on the outside, still frozen in the middle….
I think the term is from Douglas Adams in Hitchhiker through the Galaxy.
10 points and a complimentary soft drink for that man! It’s from “Mostly Harmless” I think (can’t check as my books are all in cardboard boxes in storage), but Arthur Dent is definetly a sandwich artist. That however is a completely surreal world, whereas the people at Subway corporate headquarters are based in Connecticut. (Why oh why couldn’t it be California?)
Perhaps Adams’ estate could sue? Although that doesn’t sound like a very Douglas Adams kind of thing to do….