The Courageous Story of Sandy the Sub Our story begins in the little town of Mayville where all different kinds of food individuals thrive, although in this tale, we will follow along on an amazing adventure with a sandwich who aren’t like the others. Sandy the Sub Sandwich, has lived in Mayville all her life, but through all that time, she struggled to make friends and connect with others. She has always looked different to the other food friends which caused her to become very timid and introverted. While Sandy feels lonely all the time, luckily it comes with a major advantage as Sandy has never been chosen to be the one to get swallowed; whereas all of her subbie buddies are leaving her sight daily due to famished humans. However, Sandy did not …show more content…
know this fact and is always jealous whenever the others depart as she is a very curious sandwich. Due to her unending curiosity, Sandy decides to decorate and make herself appear more eye-catching and tasty with the help of a friendly worker at her store in hopes of getting chosen by a human. She settles on the idea of finally discovering the mystery to where all the other food adventures take off. Fortunately with a handful of work, Sandy glams up by one of the very talented sub-creators and becomes a fabulous footlong turkey breast sub who is a concoction with whole grain bread, lettuce, ranch dressing, cheddar cheese, tomatoes, pickles, and cucumbers. Sandy is so happy with how she looks. She has never been more content. Sandy gains a huge boost of confidence and is determined to become the chosen one the next time a human comes looking for a sub. Sure enough, a little girl comes along and chooses Sandy the very next day! Sandy feels extremely awakened and excited to go on this adventure as she finally gets to see where the past sandwiches disappeared to. Unfortunately, poor Sandy is not ready for what she is about to uncover... As Sandy is being taken to her new home by the kind little girl she learns the horrible truth when they finally reach the little girl's shelter. As a result of the little girl purchasing Sandy, Sandy realizes she is being lifted up to the human’s lips. She is being eaten! Sandy closes her eyes and prepares her fate which is swiftly delivered with an almighty CHOMP! This marks the beginning of Sandy the Sub Sandwiches’ journey through the digestive system! Sandy starts her journey as she enters the little girl’s mouth. As Sandy looks around at her surroundings, she notices that the lipase next to her begins to melt! This includes all of her expensive dressing, cheese and all of the other veggies. Furthermore, the bread is being attacked by the salivary amylase enzyme produced in the salivary glands. Sandy notices that she begins to taste different as she requires a slightly different taste and begins to taste a sweet flavour resulting in maltose. As Sandy continues getting chewed, Sandy cannot help but notice that she is turning into a form of a small bolus, right before descending and entering the throat/pharynx. She then realizes that from the throat/pharynx, she is forced into the esophagus! Sandy soon remembers the one word that her local sub friends would chant. “PERISTALSIS!!”, which finally makes sense as to what is happening at that moment. Sandy mentally prepares for her “greatest” adventure through the human’s body as she travels down the esophagus. As Sandy descends, she recognizes the 3 main food groups that she is made of which consists of Carbohydrates in her bread, protein, which is in the cheese and turkey breast, as well as the rest of the fat. The bolus eventually comes to a stop at the stomach as it starts to merge rapidly with hydrochloric acid in order to kill any existing bacteria and pepsin, in order to start the chemical digestion of Sandy’s protein. As the ingredients reach the stomach, this is where all the nutrients are forced to go their separate ways. The cheese clings to the ranch, who clings to the sauce and everything is sticking together.
This is one out of the three macronutrients, fat. Sandy notices that the fats contain no double bond between molecules, meaning most of her fat is saturated as she notices there are no gaps and the fat is saturated with hydrogen molecules.The worst thing for a fat is hydrogenation as it is happening to Sandy! The triglycerides are being broken down and the stomach begins churning. The lipids all turn into a mixture of acid and water. Sandy is brave and embraces herself in the stomach, the proteins from the turkey breast are greeted by pepsin where it’s structure begins to uncoil, as the stomach enzymes are activated and begin to denature. The turkey breast eventually becomes smaller polypeptides. At this point, fibers and carbohydrates are much better off than the others. When entering the stomach, the salivary enzymes are inactivated by the stomach acid, putting a stop to the digestion of the starch. Fiber is also safe. Upon the arrival to the stomach, fiber is not turned, tossed or lost, but, miraculously strong. Sandy feels extremely grateful. In the esophagus sandy is pushed into the stomach where she slides into the small intestine where she is mixed with the stomach
acid as the muscular wall contract. “AHH THE SCARY SMALL INTESTINE” screeches Sandy as the acid (pepsin) breaks down her proteins. “HELP ME!!” Sandy yells in the loudest voice she could muster, but it is very difficult because she is now reduced to chyme, a thin soupy liquid. As time carries on, Sandy moves through the small intestine and at this point she is in bad condition. Sandy starts to reminisce all the good times she has had in her life as her nutrients are absorbed through the walls of the small intestine. At this stage of Sandy’s long journey through the little girl’s body, Sandy is now being mixed with the other things from the human body, like the pancreatic juices made by the pancreas, which contains digestive enzymes, and her worst enemy...the bile produced in the liver! Intestinal juice, which contains peptidase and maltase enzymes starts to really melt in what is left of Sandy. The pancreatic and small intestinal enzymes goes straight to the polypeptides and further breaks them down. Sandy realizes how traumatizing and scary it is to be one of the “chosen” ones and now realizes exactly what the others went through. Poor Sandy is clueless to the sight and her friends does a very good job of keeping the secret from her. As Sandy comes back to reality, she realizes that finally, carbohydrates are left. The carbohydrates left in Sandy are with fiber as all the other ingredients seemed like they have gone. The pancreas produces more amylase, which makes its way through the pancreatic duct into the small intestine. Since starch turns into smaller polysaccharides and disaccharides, the carbs in Sandy are now in deep fear as they know what’s coming for them. Eventually, the intestinal cells absorbs all these monosaccharides. All that is left is the courageous fiber. Now that fiber is all alone, that part of Sandy is scared. She has no idea what is going to happen to her. She starts to worry and has never been more livid. She starts to feel regret thinking to herself, “Why did I go through this horrific journey just to get eaten? This is cruel, why did I do this to myself. I was better off where I was in the beginning. A plain bread with cheese on top”. Sandy holds tightly of what is left of her, as well as water, bile, cholesterol what is left of the fat and as many minerals as she possibly could. Everything, including the turkey breast is all melted as the protein denatures. Finally, the final part of the digestive tract is the large intestine. During her time in the large intestine, Sandy is dehydrated because all of her water is absorbed by its walls, even though most digestion and nutrient absorption has already taken place. She finally makes her way out of the large intestine and through the rectum. Sandy knows where she is ending up as she starts remembering and gaining flashbacks of what her sub friends speaks about. The scary dark room! The last part of Sandy’s journey, however even though she does not live sadly, are the faeces stored in the rectum as Sandy is secreted out. Finally, Sandy is pushed out of the human body by the rectum and goes out of the anus. Ultimately, Sandy is flushed away. Tragic. So very tragic... R.I.P Sandy, You will forever be in our hearts.
At a housekeeping job, Ehrenreich works with Carlie, and Ehrenreich thinks that the bag of hot dog buns that Carlie carries around is something she finds in one of the rooms while cleaning. Ehrenreich later discovers it is, “not trash salvaged from a checkout” (44), but it is Carlie’s lunch for the day. Ehrenreich displays how the reality of low working class can be unimaginable, based on Carlie’s lunch of hot dog buns. Working at The Maids, Ehrenreich often experiences similar situations. Ehrenreich notes, “we grab lunch - Doritos for Rosalie” (80). Rosalie does not have an actual lunch, she could only afford a bag of doritos. What she didn’t eat that day of the Doritos will be her lunch for the next day. Ehrenreich creates sympathy for Rosalie, because she spreads out one small bag of doritos for her lunch for two days. The same day, Ehrenreich encounters young women whose “lunch consists of a “pizza pocket”” (78). The pizza pocket was not an actual pizza, it was dough with some tomato sauce on it. It’s devastating that people who are putting in hard back breaking work do not have enough to eat. Ehrenreich would not consider Doritos or “pizza pocket” as her lunch, but as a snack during a break. Other than food expenses, employees have to think about health
“At lunchtime, when other kids unwrapped their sandwiches or brought their hot meals, Brian and I would get out a book and read…..I told people that I had forgotten my lunch {but} no one believed me, so I started hiding in the bathroom {stall} during lunch hour….When other girls came in and threw away their lunch bags in the garbage pail, I’d retrieved them and return to the stall and polished of my tasty finds ”
During digestion, the body breaks down food into smaller molecules that could then be used by the body’s cells and tissues in order to perform functions. This starts off in the mouth with the physical movements of chewing and the chemical breakdown by saliva. Enzymes in the stomach break food down further after traveling from the mouth through the esophagus. The food from here then moves into the small intestine, where pancreatic juices and enzymes dissolve proteins, carbohydrates, and fibers, and bile from the liver breaks down fats into these small molecules. Any portion of the fibers or food that were unable to be broken down are passed from the small intestine to the large intestine, which is where the digestive tract transitions into the excretory tract, then the colon and out of the rectum. Any liquids that have been stripped of their nutrients by the body proceed from the stomach to the kidneys. In the kidneys, sodium ions (Na+), uric acid, and urea are exchanged with water, which moves urinary bladder and is excreted through the
In a seaside city, on the same block as “It’s Your Funeral” Crematorium and “The Petalphile” florist, sits the greasy burger joint “Bob’s Burgers”. Bob’s Burgers follows the Belchers, the family that runs this all-American restaurant. Bob and Linda Belcher have three kids: Tina, Gene, and Louise. Each character on the show is vastly different and dynamic. Bob’s Burgers has been on Fox since January of 2011 and has become a prime animated show loved by millions. Because it has such a large audience, the messages Bob’s Burgers portrays are important to examine. Bob 's Burgers is a progressive television show by showing appropriate gender roles and conveys the message that the audience can excel in life no matter their background.
lots of oxygen in it (coming from the lungs), and the oxygen is one of
The essayist intends to draw his audience’s attention to the fact that eating is an interaction with the natural world. The writer discloses a story about his son to illustrate the degradation of the definition of food in society today. He prefers to reason with his audience purely through logic. He strives to make his audience see that they both literally and metaphorically digest the planet through food. Shapiros’ chosen title for his essay, while moderately appropriate, is unclear unless the readers’ concentration is centered around finding the relation.
Food has been a great part of how he has grown up. He was always interested in how food was prepared. He wanted to learn, even if his mother didn’t want him to be there. “I would enter the kitchen quietly and stand behind her, my chin lodging upon the point of the hip. Peering through...
On the first day of school, finding a spot to sit is often the biggest obstacle one can encounter. You cannot sit with just anyone. It has to be with someone we know, and if not, we ask for their permission because we are technically intruding on their meal. It might seem silly, but it is true. Food is a part of life; essential, and we cannot share a meal with just anyone. Alfred Hitchcock illustrates the intimacy that a meal brings to the plot within his films Rope and The Man Who Knew Too Much. Thomas C. Foster in “Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion.” claims that meals are forms of communion that function as catalysts in a storyline to expose relationships among people. He argues that a “mundane, overused, fairly boring situation” of a meal must have an additional motive for the author, because the meal by itself is simply a meal.
In the article “Unhappy Meals,” Michael Pollan gives an ordinary person an overview of what food really is. Pollan starts out by saying, “If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims.” I feel like Americans today go out of their way to find foods that make health claims, because they truly believe what the food distributors are marketing. So many people trust everything that health food distributors say and don’t take time to actually read the labels and understand nutritional facts. Pollan, throughout the whole article, points out that almost everything we eat is nutrient enhanced food. He said that he believes that the food people are eating now days are worse for you than past generations.
...ve eaten, to break down the food into a liquid mixture and to slowly empty that liquid mixture into the small intestine. Once the bolus has entered your stomach it begins to be broken down with the help of the strong muscles and gastric juices which are located in the walls of your stomach. The gastric juices are made up of hydrochloric acid, water, and mucus- and the main enzyme inside of your stomach is what is known as pepsin, which needs to be surrounded in an acidic setting in order to do its job, that is to break down protein. Once the bolus has been inside of your stomach for long enough it begins to form into a liquid called chyme, and what keeps the chyme from flowing back into our esophagus are ring shaped muscles known as sphincters located at the beginnings and ends of the stomach and they have the task of controlling the flow of solids and liquids.
As I look at the ham sandwich sitting on the plate before me, I start to feel queasy with disgust. The slab of ham is laced with fat. The white solid stuff is just sitting there, taunting me. Daring me to eat it. The bread is stale, crumbling, falling apart. I know that as soon as I pick up the sandwich, the bread is going to disintegrate in my fingers, leaving me with nothing but the malicious ham. No, I think to myself. I will not eat this sandwich.
Pollan, Michael. "An Animal's Place." The Norton Mix: A Custom Publication: Food Writing: A Readymix. Ed. Jeffrey Andelora, Melissa Goldthwaite, Charles Hood, Katharine N. Ings, Angela L. Jones, and Christopher Keller. 13th ed. Vol. 13. New York: W.W. Norton, 2013. 361-77. Print.
The digestion of this macronutrient occurs in the mouth with salivary amylase which breaks down disaccharides and polysaccharides through the process of mastification. It is important to understand that disaccharides are digested by brush border enzymes, and monosaccharides are absorbed. When chewing, saliva is then mixed with food to form bolus going from the esophagus to the stomach. Once the whole wheat bread and peanut butter enter the stomach, salivary amylase is then inhibited by HCL. The food then moves to the small intestine (duodenum), where pancreatic amylase furthers the process of digestion. Brush border enzymes then digest the disaccharides, trisaccharides, and alpha dextrins in the small intestine. The major site of absorption of carbohydrates occurs in the small intestine along microvilli (brush border). Located along the brush border are monosaccharide transporters. Carbohydrates are the main source for fuel intake through glucose, and glucose is used for energy. When not used, the excess glucose from the peanut butter and jelly is stored as glycogen in the liver and muscle; and extreme excess can be converted to fat through lipogenesis in the
The enzymes in the juices are stimulated by hormone and nerve regulators which help them mix with the large pieces of food and breaks it down into smaller molecules. Then the body absorbs the smaller molecules through the walls of the small intestine into the bloodstream, and delivers them to the rest of the body (NDDIC).
In her book Semiotics and Communication: Signs, Codes, Cultures, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz describes the wide use of food as signs, and also as social codes. The reason foods are so useful as signs and social codes is because they are separable, easily adaptive to new environments, and it is not difficult to cook, or eat for that matter. Food is a major part of our daily lives, Not only for survival, but it plays a substantial social role in our lives. We will look deeper into the semiotics of food, how food is used as identity markers, and also the role that foods play in social change in our lives. First let us start with the semiotics of food.