• papalonian
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    My POV while reading this post (I have not gone swimming today)

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      The chips go in the sandwich. Also I don’t know how to swim.

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        I thought I was the only one! You put them in the middle then press it slightly so they go “crunch” a little. Yum!

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          Less messy too when it’s white bread getting tacky in a ziplock baggy in a warm backpack. The chips adhere like glue.

          Summers at various lakes memories.

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    My dad: “The plain peanut butter sandwiches will continue until morale improves.”

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      My dad: “boiled hotdogs in store-brand white bread are what the real athletes eat.”

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      peanut butter sandwiches were one of my favorite things growing up. I’d still be eating them today, even though I have to make my own peanut butter here in Japan, except for my body declaring war on gluten (probably celiac since 1 parent has it, but not confirmed yet).

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          You can find it, but it’s rarer and typically quite expensive. I don’t know who carries it in my corner of rural Japan. I just make my own in the food processor (peanuts + salt + patience). Peanut Cream (which has a vaguely peanutty flavor but mostly a cream flavor and a ton of sugar) is quite popular, but I don’t care for it.

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            I wish asian bakeries understood that adding a bit of salt to the peanut cream makes it a whole lot better.

            Instead they add more sugar

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    And it was damn good. What’s that German saying? “Hunger makes the best sauce”? When you’re really hungry this is five Michelin star good.

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      In dutch they say: “Hunger makes raw beans taste sweet”!

      when packing up after windsurfing, they would advise against taking your trapeze off (a huge belly belt that can connect you to the sail, handsfree!) before you had access too food, because more often then not, it would unleash the hunger beast within. It was fun to have that power over your own hunger! GIMME THOSE SWEET BEANS!

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      In Poland we have “Hunger is the best condiment”, I guess it might be something similar

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      In English we say “hunger makes the best sauce” which is startlingly similar.

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    French fries is the standard German pool food. Like, nowhere else do you see stands selling nothing but fries (with ketchup and/or mayo, of course). And they just don’t taste as good anywhere else, I guess it’s the chlorine in the air making the salt taste extra special without actually tasting more salty.

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      As a swamp German, this is how we do it, too. Aside from ketchup/mayo we use curry gewurtz (Hela) and mayo on there, with some diced onion.

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            Ah, Frikandel then? Sorry, I was thinking about Austria, where Bosna is a similar snack. But yeah, swamp German should have tipped me off. 😅

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      I’m Dutch and I have similar memories. Fries, crisps, and/or ice cream used to be a quintessential part of the pool visit. Kinda makes me nostalgic thinking about it. After all that moving around the fries were an even better treat.

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    You put some of those chips in those sandwiches and youre cookin’

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    We had a fish and chip shop opposite the pool. I don’t think I have eaten anything better than those salty vinegary chips, the childish exhaustion and hunger made them absolutely magical.

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    Dude it still does. Try that shit man a big shitty sandwich and chips fucking goes hard

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      I just ate steak, but now I want a sandwich with Doritos on top.

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    For me it was vending machine peanuts, because that’s what they had in the swimming pool building

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    Is there a specific reason that type of food is only available after swimming?