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Indignity Vol. 5, No. 50
UNRANKED LISTS DEP'T.
Things I Feel Irrationally Proprietary Toward
The 2/3 express from 72nd to 42nd
The view of Newark Airport from the Ikea cafeteria in Elizabeth
Chuck D saying the "eighty-NINE" in "Nineteen eighty-NINE"
WEATHER REVIEWS
New York City, March 18, 2025
★★★★ The sky had a sapphire gleam. A crow flew up onto the edge of a tilted solar panel clutching something pale and edible in its beak, then dropped down to a brownstone cornice for a more stable dining surface. Shadows were sharply stamped. In a skinny flowerbed, purple crocuses were up. The breeze still carried a chill even past noon, even as the ice cream truck played outside the locked and empty playground. The cables of a window-washing rig stretched bright white from the top of a tower, in steep straight lines and swooping curves.
EASY LISTENING DEP'T.
HERE IS TODAY'S Indignity Morning Podcast.
Tom Scocca
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TOM SCOCCA
ADVICE DEP'T.
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SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.
WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from For Luncheon And Supper Guests; Ten Menus, More Than One Hundred Recipes, Suitable For Company Luncheons, Sunday Night Suppers, Afternoon Parties, Automobile Picnics, Evening Spreads, And For Tea Rooms, Lunch Rooms, Coffee Shops, And Motor Inns, by Alice Bradley, Principal of Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, author of The Candy Cook Book and Cooking For Profit, published in 1922, and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
OPEN CHEESE AND BACON SANDWICH
Beat
3 eggs until light, add
3/4 pound soft cheese grated or put through food chopper
1 1/2 teaspoons table sauce
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon paprika
Few grains cayenne.
Mix well and spread on
8 slices bread cut one-third inch thick.
Cut
3/4 pound bacon in very thin slices the length of the slice of bread. Make bacon still thinner by pressing each strip on a board with a broad knife. Cover cheese with bacon and bake 8 or 10 minutes under gas flame, or in hot oven.
If you decide to prepare and attempt to enjoy a sandwich inspired by this offering, be sure to send a picture to indignity@indignity.net.
