If you gave me 1.8 million you would own me.

Damn right I own you a favor or two. At least fetch a ham sandwich.

*promote
My promote is some what biased due to topic.

I truly desire to see Hillary wearing an orange suit doing the perp walk.

Ah, Pacifica. I used to work in the area and would head there on my lunch break. Grab a sandwich from the deli at Safeway and sit on the beach watching the waves roll in while I ate. Water is cold as fuck though. I made the mistake of paddling out without a wetsuit one summer during a heatwave and got hypothermia even though the air temp was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

They've always had problems with erosion there, so this is kinda unsurprising to me. There's really nothing they can do. In the video you can see PCH (Highway 1, the Pacific Coast Highway) and I wonder how many years it'll be before the erosion is creeping up to that point. I know that just south of Pacifica they've had to close PCH a couple of times to shore up the road because it was in danger of collapsing, and during rain storms it sometimes gets closed due to landslides from the hills next to it.

All work and no play makes Jack want a sandwich.

That is just plate swapping. I saw a guy walk up to a giant bowl of chicken wings, one small plate in each hand, and then sandwich about 150 of them with the plates, and then walk off.

Ok, this is bullshit. Great job explaining why cooking is important for human evolution but they're not answering the question, which is stupid to begin with. I had a ham sandwich this morning and it tasted great. So does ice cream. Two things that aren't hot food but both cooked. Being hot and being cooked aren't the same thing. I clearly prefer cold Pizza over uncooked one.

My question is: Why? He could have supported local farmers/bakers/cheese makers etc and had a better sandwich to boot. If he has that kind of time/money/energy, he should share the wealth.

To me the chicken looked really bland...he just pan fried it with nothing. I would have slightly salted it, then put rosemary and butter in the pan and slow fried it in that, much more flavor (EDIT:funny enough, that's exactly what I'm having for dinner, but I baked it with tatos and carrots). Between the bland chicken and complete lack of condiments, I could totally understand why he didn't rate it high.
Great concept IMO, but poorly executed. Just a few more easy steps could make all the difference. He probably should have started with a good sandwich, deconstructed it, and then re-recreated it from scratch with help from knowledgeable people (or at least books) telling him how to do each step properly.

Also....BACON!

Interesting to watch - reminds me of the video where the guy hand builds a toaster.
http://videosift.com/video/How-I-built-a-toaster-from-scratch

He didn't rate the sandwich very high, but it looked delicious.

I think he's probably including all the labour in that cost too. I can imagine how that could very easily come to $1500.

However, we don't work like that in the real world and he's made easily enough for more than one sandwich. The garden has grown a huge amount more than that, and for very little extra time he could have got a lot more of pretty much everything.

Aside from the money, I think this would be a very interesting project to do with my kids some day. They're both less than two years old at the moment, but I could see this being a very worthwhile thing to do with them in six or seven years or so. Everyone should understand the food they eat.

He needs another 1500$ in cooking lessons to make that sandwich fly.

Step 1 - Don't pay 1500$ for a sandwich
Step 2 - Use the 1500$ to put a downpayment on a house
Step 3 - Follow newtboys advice

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He really should have grown some mustard.

As someone who grows and makes much of his own food, including until recently having bee hives, I can't help but wonder, where did he spend the $1500? Airfare? Sourced locally, and with the produce grown at home with manure instead of expensive fertilizers, that should have been about a $30-$50 sandwich (not accounting for the untold labor), including gas to drive to a farm for milk/chicken and to the ocean to get your salt water (OK, add another $50 if you have to rent a boat to get to clean water)...but for that, you probably get around 8-10 sandwiches before needing more chicken, making it really just a $10-$12 sandwich. I'm confused.

Dude, I'm not dissing deskjobs here. It's just that for the vast majority of jobs, a 32 hour week can't work unless you have more employees. Yeah, in his company that works and it's brilliant but as soon as you get into jobs that require actual physical labor (let's say construction work) or physical presence (for example sales clerks or cops) it doesn't. It's a huge upside of his company, it's just unrealistic for 80% of every other job.
I can have as many sandwiches as I like at my job. All the fucking time. I can eat Creme Brûlée till I puke my guts out. Cops get to beat up people and pornstars get to have earth-shattering orgasms. Every job has an upside.
This dude acts as if he just found out something amazing. Or as if he just made a commercial for his company.

PORKCHOP SANDWICHES!