When we were in New York the other week, we went with a friend for a sandwich at Katz's Deli. It's a great touristy thing to do. We were lucky that we got there at just the right time to avoid any queue to get in, but had enough time to understand the arcane ordering and payment system - it's old skool!
The sandwiches are HUGE. I can (for reasons of professional training) open my mouth quite wide, but even at its widest, the sandwich needed a squidge to fit between my teeth. I posted a picture online and one friend commented something about "Americans not understanding the purpose of a sandwich". It struck me that that was not the way I'd thought about sandwiches before, that they might have a purpose that was clear enough and well understood (at least by us over in the UK) that it could be possible to not understand that purpose.
So I asked my new friend Chat-GPT to explain what the purpose of a sandwich might be. Reading the above, I could see nothing in my experience that was inconvenient, unportable or unsatisfying - it was definitely a meal and I think it could easily (if embarrassingly) have been eaten on-the-go.
So now, I had to ask: "In what ways do the sandwiches at Katz's Deli in New York fall short of fulfilling the original purpose of a sandwich.
The bot demurs with its usual disclaimer about being a bot. But goes on to basically support my findings. I retire, vindicated and with an inch added to my waist.