Secret Sandwich

It all started one day after school when Annabelle & her friend Faye couldn’t decide what to eat.

After much discussion, they invented a game called ‘secret sandwich’. Basically, it involved each of the girls going into the kitchen, taking two slices of bread and filling the sandwich with random ingredients that they found.

This obviously created some of the strangest combinations. Cheese and tulip leaves, ham and porridge oats, fish and chipsticks along with Annabelle’s favourite ever, a new take on BLT – Bacon, lettuce and tangerine peel.

So after school on a windy Thursday following a tiresome ballet class, the girls decided to play their favourite game.

 Annabelle’s first effort of cheese slice with chewy spaghetti went spectacularly wrong when a piece of spaghetti almost poked Faye’s eye out and the cheese slice still had the cellophane on it, which could have been very nasty.

Next it was Faye’s turn and she went into the kitchen to see what she could find.

She was proud of herself as she created her M&M sandwich. It’s marmalade, chocolate matchmaker and marshmellow.

Annabelle had the giggles as she took the first munch from the sandwich. It was probably the texture of the pink marshmellow with the bread that set her off giggling. She opened the sandwich to examine the contents and then took a second bite.

“I like the black pepper on it” she said, “Where did you find that?”

“It was on the windowsill next to a picture of a rat” Faye replied.

 Quite unexpectedly, Annabelle sprayed the contents of the sandwich from her mouth catching the cat Bubbles straight in the ear.

“That’s no rat” screamed Annabelle, “That was my brother Robbie’s pet gerbal. And that wasn’t black pepper, it was the gerbal’s ashes! Robbie was so upset when he died that Dad cremated him and put the ashes in a little pot".

Needless to say, ‘Secret sandwich was never played again and snacks after school reverted to eating jammy dodger biscuits.

©  Chris White