I wish I had known about these apple sandwiches when I was growing up. I wasn’t much of a sandwich eater. At least not the kind of sandwiches most people would bring for lunch. You know, like ham and cheese or peanut butter and jelly. Nope, not me. I think I took a croissant with melted cheese everyday for about 10 years. Maybe more? If it was a really special day I might get mushrooms on that cheese croissant. If we were out of cheese or croissants I would take a peanut butter sandwich. No jelly. I was a pretty picky eater back then. I remember at our grade school they would have special days when they would get Subway or McDonalds or something. I dreaded those days. You could not specify how you would like your sandwich. They were all the same. And it was never a plain cheese “sub,” which would be the only thing I would ever eat from Subway. And when they ordered hamburgers from McDonalds there were never any plain hamburgers. They all had mustard and pickles on them. And I do not go near mustard or pickles. So on those special days, I just ate my cheese croissant while everyone else had subs and hamburgers. Poor me.

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