The Sandwich Brotherhood

in CCC2 days ago (edited)

When Mr. K was a student, he went through so many hardships that some of them left a mark on him that still lingers to this day.

He bore reasonably well having to get around everywhere on foot, instead of hiring a carriage like his classmates did.

Living in a run-down attic room in one of the worst boarding houses in the city couldn't break his spirit either, because he knew better days lay ahead.

But what did leave him with a lifelong trauma was the food. Since as a young man he couldn't afford to hire a cook — he didn't even have a kitchen — and eating at restaurants would have eaten up his meager scholarship, which barely covered his room and books, he had to make do living on tuna sandwiches.

That's why, in his mansion, it was forbidden to so much as utter that word, and everyone was warned that if he ever saw the next sandwich of tuna in his residence, it would go flying straight at the wall, and whoever had made it could consider themselves fired.

What Mr. K never knew was that this express prohibition generated such a craving for the forbidden food that all his employees held a clandestine monthly gathering in the basement, where the menu was, obviously, tuna sandwiches.


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Cuando el señor K era estudiante pasó tantas necesidades que algunas de ellas lo marcaron tanto que repercuten hasta el día de hoy.

Soportaba bastante bien el tener que desplazarse a pie a todas partes, en lugar de alquilar un carruaje como hacían sus compañeros.

Vivir en un altillo destartalado de una de las peores pensiones de la ciudad tampoco pudo quebrantar su espíritu, porque sabía que los días futuros serían mejores.

Pero lo que sí logró crearle un trauma de por vida fue la comida. Como de jóven no podía permitirse contratar una cocinera, ya que ni cocina tenía, y comer en restaurantes hubiera consumido su escasa beca que apenas cubría su habitación y libros, tuvo que conformarse con vivir a base de sandwiches de atún.

Por eso en su mansión estaba prohibido siquiera pronunciar esa palabra, y todos estaban advertidos que si alguna vez veía el próximo sándwich de atún en su residencia, éste saldría disparado hacia la pared, y quien lo hubiera preparado podría darse por despedido.

Lo que nunca supo el señor K es que esa prohibición expresa generó tanto deseo hacia la comida vetada, que todos sus empleados hacían una reunión clandestina mensual en el sótano en el que el menú era obviamente sándwiches de atún.


Texto original en español. Traducido al inglés por Claude (Anthropic). Ilustración generada con Ideogram AI.



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I wonder if a daily sandwich with tuna could be boring. The bread yes, the tuna?

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It's autobiographical, haha, I can assure you it's boring!

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Tuna sandwiches are yummyyyy! But too bad it has left a scar in Mr. K's memories of it. Although I would think that it would have made you appreciate it more since it helped him through life? Sometimes in movies, the character who became well to do, would look for the very simple foods or things that they grew up with as someone who was poor. Is this the same Mr. K as your previous story, the ex soldier artist?

The truth is, the tuna sandwich thing happened to me, haha...Let's just say that eating so much tuna made me develop a certain aversion. In fact, I only recently started eating tuna again after a 20-year Avoiding it!

Mr. K is a character I borrowed from Kafka. It's not always the same character, but he's usually the protagonist of my writings, hehe.

En la práctica, la prohibición absurda de Mr. K solo logró crear un mercado negro de sándwiches de atún en su propio sótano. Pasa exactamente igual en los negocios cuando imponés reglas por capricho o miedo en lugar de gestionar bien. Sin vueltas: lo que prohibís a la fuerza, la gente lo termina haciendo a tus espaldas.

Queridos hermanos, al notar que el señor K prohibía siquiera mencionar el “sándwich de atún” y que sus empleados organizaban clandestinos encuentros en el sótano, me vino a la mente la enseñanza de la Escritura sobre cómo lo prohibido aviva el deseo (Prov. 13:13). En mi experiencia, reconocer ese trauma y entregarlo al Señor nos abre al verdadero reposo interior. 🙏

Miren esto, la imagen vintage del grabado del sótano me transportó a los pasadizos de la antigua Casa de la Independencia. No se lo pierdan, la prohibición del sándwich de atún y la rebelión de los empleados crean una atmósfera digna de novela. Increíble cómo un detalle tan pequeño se vuelve motor de una historia.