How Much is Inside a Sandwich?

Next, I needed to figure out the price of mayonnaise. How much is two knives-full of mayo? I prepared a sample measurement.

This sample of mayonaissed bread features 16.7 grams of mayonnaise. Dividing a $3.44 jar into 53 slices of mayonaissification comes at a cost of six and a half cents per slice or 13¢ per sandwich.

Miracle whip is the same price.

Plain yellow mustard is the next ingredient.

This sample cursive weighed 3.3 grams, 120th of a 396 gram bottle. That's 1¢ worth.

Dijon mustard is to yellow mustard as a Rolls Royce is to your Honda.

A 454 gram bottle sells for $6.99, and that is 5¢ per serving. I don't mustard up both slices of my sandwich bread, so your mileage may vary.

Ketchup isn't often used on sandwiches, but if it were, a 17 gram serving would cost 6¢, assuming you bought a 36 ounce bottle for $3.59

Ok. Mayonnaise and mustard are the cheapest parts of the sandwich. You aren't going to save much money by going without a condiment, but some sandwich lovers prefer them bareback.

Kraft singles are a very inexpensive source of processed "cheese", mostly because they are wafer-thin. Twenty-four slices cost $2.54, or 10.5¢ per slice. It seems a little odd that the cheese might be cheaper than your bread.

I'll measure some real cheese a little later.

Iceberg lettuce is cheap, but a challenge to estimate more accurately than that. I used 14 and a half grams of lettuce on my sample sandwich, which is one 47th of a head of lettuce by weight (2¢).

But not every leaf of the lettuce head is suitable for sandwiches.

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