An Antisocial Sandwich

You walk into a Subway, get in line, order a sandwich, pay for it and leave. What if, however, someone upset this familiar aspect of our lives? That someone happened to be me. I decided to break the wasteful social norm of not individualizing the restaurant experience by bringing my own plate and glass to a Subway restaurant.

Subway demonstrates the efficiency of method standardization, but it uses too much wasteful paper in its packaging. At the start of the line an employee places the bread on a small piece of paper. He or she then uses this piece of paper to drag your sandwich across the troughed mini-counter, filling your sandwich until it arrives at the end station. There, the employee places your sandwich upon another big piece of wax paper, wraps it up, little paper and all, and puts the white and yellow construction of crinkled paper and logos into a similarly branded and shaped plastic bag. Later, as I would eat my sandwich at home, I always wondered why a sandwich, eaten with the hands and leaving zero remains, would need so much packaging. At the same time, however, I ad...