Oh, and he spent $1,500 (about €1,300) on it

Sep 16, 2015 21:35 GMT  ·  By

Except for toast, sandwiches are about the simplest things ever to come out of a kitchen. Just grab a couple of slices of bread, shove some pastrami and tomato cubes between them and you're pretty much done. 

Sure, you can add some cheese if you're in the mood to go around pretending you're a proper chef, but the entire endeavor still counts as basic - and quite poor, some might add - cooking.

How was it then that it took YouTuber Andy George a whopping 6 months to fix himself a sandwich, and one that didn't even taste all that great and came with a mind-boggling price tag at that?

Well, he made it from scratch

Rather than pay a visit to the nearest supermarket and buy all the right ingredients to fashion himself the most delicious sandwich that ever was, Andy George made his snack entirely from scratch. And we do mean entirely.

He grew his own vegetables and then turned the cucumbers into pickles, he collected ocean water and extracted salt from it, he milked a cow to get the milk he needed to make cheese and he ground his own flour from wheat that he himself gathered.

He even killed a chicken, plucked its feathers, butchered it and only then cooked it to get the perfect meat slices. Yup, that's how committed he was to this project. No wonder it took him 6 months to get around to eating.

Even more impressive, the YouTuber says he spent $1,500 (some €1,300) on making the sandwich. Safe to assume nobody would ever pay this much money on a meal they'd have to wait 6 months to sink their teeth into.

Perhaps next time he'll order in

As it turns out, the sandwich that Andy George spent 6 months putting together didn't even taste all that great. Apparently, homemade cheese and bread aren't exactly a delight for the taste buds.

Then again, he says he didn't do it because he expected the sandwich would turn out positively divine. Rather, he simply wanted to remind people that the things we take for granted can prove a bit tricky to come by and don't just magically appear in supermarkets.