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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Which Wich?

Downtown Iowa City
December 2007
This is a unique chain restaurant that’s new to the Iowa City area. I had heard people raving about it before I decided to check it out myself. You walk in and look at a wall giving you many options. Then you grab a bag and a sharpie and check off the circles for which ingredients you want on your sandwich. For example, On the vegetarian bag, you choose the main ingredient: Hummus & Bell Peppers, Tomato & Avocado, Triple Cheese Melt, Black Bean Patty, Elvis Wich (Peanut Butter, Honey & Banana). Then you choose white or wheat bread, five different cheeses, four mustards, 4 mayos, 8 spreads/sauces, 3 onions, 13 veggies, 7 oils & spices, and for 75 cents extra, you can get bacon, avocado, pickle spears, more meat or more cheese. Write your name on the bag, walk around the wall, pay for it, and then your sandwich comes in the bag you filled out!
The sandwich I had was pretty good, and I would bring others to this place who haven’t been there before so that they could experience the different style of ordering the food. I also recommend the house chips, like Pancheros- they put chips in their own bag.
Environmentally: not so good. The sandwich comes in the paper bag you filled out, but it also comes wrapped in paper, then in tin foil in that bag, and it doesn’t matter whether you are eating in or taking it to go, it still creates a lot of waste.

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