my grilled cheese needed better bread, not a personal brand

Illustrative photograph: Mack Male, “Simple grilled cheese” · CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized for display.

this week’s life-changing hack is to buy a sliced loaf from the bakery section and make grilled cheese with it. that’s the hack. we can all go home.

the internet would like every minor improvement to arrive with a methodology, a specialized appliance, and a man explaining why you’ve been doing lunch wrong. sometimes the answer is just different bread.

i’m not starting a bread discourse. sandwich bread has done nothing wrong and remains employed. i just made one small upgrade to a thing i already liked, without turning it into a new hobby.

there is a useful category of improvement between “change nothing” and “become a different person.” move one aisle over. make the sandwich. enjoy your extremely local renaissance.

From my Bluesky: Original post.