August is national sandwich month. Here’s a good story from my undergraduate days. In 1985 the Syracuse University Men's Lacrosse team made the NCAA tournament. When the spring semester ended the campus student cafeterias all closed. As a result the university feed us in the Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center on campus. Food is an indicator of one’s class and status and the faculty dining center proved that. We had breakfast, lunch, and dinner served to us in an elegant white table cloth setting with a wait staff. The food looked superb. I say it looked great because I could not eat it. At the time I was suffering from an ulcer and the team doctor restricted me to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and other no frills on the menu. My eating experience reminded me of the ESPN documentary on Bo Jackson, The Best There Never Was.
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