This is another recipe that's really just shopping.

What is it about a meat and tomato and bread sandwich?

You read these foodies, and they always say to use "good bread" and usually mention some very specific kind of bread like the olive-rosemary sprouted-wheat bread or some such effete treat.

But it doesn't have to be "good" bread, it could be Wonder Bread. I mean, when was the last time you tasted Wonder Bread? It's been many years for me, but I bet it's actually still good for a meat and tomato sandwich.

And the bread could be slathered with Miracle Whip Salad Dressing®, which you ate as a kid, remember, and liked better than real mayonnaise until some point during adulthood when Miracle Whip was not found in your host's refrigerator and you developed a taste for the Other White Spread.

Or maybe instead of the mayonnaise a swipe of Dijon mustard or that good Dutch mosterd or that Trader Joe's yummy Aioli Garlic Mustard Sauce®.

And the meat. It can be San Daniele prosciutto, a fine pastrami, herb-poached chicken breast, flaky warm-smoked wild salmon....or Safeway prison-grade bologna.

The tomato is less negotiable. It really ought to be an heirloom grown outdoors, which makes this recipe seasonal.

What it's all about is the synergy of bread-meat-tomato in which the sum of the parts nowhere approaches the total gustatory satisfaction gained from one bite of the whole.

Did I mention I'm trying to figure out some kind of diet as part of my rejuvenation? I mean, I've weaned myself off 2% milk down to 1% well enough that by now the 1% tastes good. And today they were out of the 1% so I had to buy the 2%, and when I mixed in a little no-sugar Nesquik it tasted like a milk shake. So I had to try another glass with a little less Nesquik, and it still tasted thick and creamy. Everything tastes rich and delicious now.

I need to come up with a better diet situation. I picture myself scampering around the cage doing backflips for joy when I hear the distant can opener.

PS - And OK, I tried Wonder Bread and can say that it and Safeway bologna are not as good as I thought they were as a child. The Miracle Whip® I'll try later.