I wasn’t very hungry today, so when Mom asked if I wanted her to buy anything for dinner, I told her I would just get a sandwich.

So we went to the Oriental deli in the Emporium as I was craving a real sandwich. I real sandwich with real bread, real cheese, real meat and stuff.

I went to the counter and since it was already 7pm most of the stuff were gone but this one box of ham and cheese baguette.

I mean it’s alright. I was aiming for something like a Swiss cheese and not cheddar, a salami and not a ham, but it was alright. It was nothing special but I mean I could do better going somewhere else instead.

I took a bite and I realized that it was missing something. All it had was some dashes of butter. It was rather bland.

I got home, looked through my kitchen, and I found only two sauces that I thought maybe could spice things up a little.

The mustard and the ketchup.

I cut the sandwich into three, one was for trying with the mustard, one for the ketchup, and the other one just in case I couldn’t stand any of the other two.

I tried the mustard one first. To be I think it’s a bold and daring sauce and I like it for that. It was OK when I took the first bite. It kinda went well with the cheese. But after taking more and more bites, it was just too sour to eat.

So I tried the one with the ketchup. Good old ketchup that was always that last-resort sauce when there was nothing else. It wasn’t too bad. It’s a familiar taste but tonight I didn’t want it. Ketchup is boring, and old, and but seriously it was time for a change.

Since the mustard is too sour, the ketchup is too boring, I took the third piece and but a little bit of both sauces together with an added mayo that was hiding at the back of the fridge, hoping that maybe it could create a little balance in the taste. I mean two opposites usually make a nice combination, and mayo could be the right catalyst between the two.

And it did. It was sour, it was sweet. The mustard brought the exciting sourness while the ketchup kept things familiar. Thanks to the mayo, it helped them cancel each other out and blended the extremes into a perfectly scrumptious flavor.

My boring sandwich finally made itself worthy of eating, even though I only had a third of it left to taste.