吃那塊三明治的時候我不小心吃掉了一些別的東西。

這是一塊典型的工廠預制三明治：三片面包片有著不屬於它們的蒼白，褶皺的塑料包裝被一截印有“由此撕開”的透明膠收好。打開包裝——所幸，在膠帶的指導下我沒拆錯地方，每一次吃三角飯團我都吃不上海苔——後，潮氣的滋味先於包裝上生成的肉松與芝士襲來，肉松和沙拉醬的混合物同早已融化成醬料的芝士——保質期是90天，距離它被撤下貨架還有數月——被分別包裹在三片面包的兩條夾縫之中。

旋轉著，面包邊永遠是被最先吃掉的。這些不帶任何餡料的邊角會最先吸幹你嘴里的口水，留過於自信而總不提前準備的你幹著急。但接下來的享受絕對值得這樣的犧牲。隨後的每一口，肉松，沙拉醬，芝士連同被它們浸濕表層的面包會在你的舌頭上遊行，最後戀戀不舍地隨著唾液劃入食道。

你記得嗎？以前吃這樣的面包時我們總是很開心。但那些為顛簸中在汽車後座上毀容的蛋糕流的眼淚現在都不重要了，吃那塊三明治的時候我不小心吃掉了一些別的東西。

I accidentally ate something else while eating that sandwich.

It was a typical factory-prepared sandwich: three slices of bread with an unearthly pallor, and a crumpled plastic wrapper held together by a piece of clear tape with ‘tear here’ printed on it. After opening the package – fortunately, I was guided by the tape to the right place, and every time I ate the triangles I couldn’t eat the seaweed – the dampness hit me before the meat floss and cheese that had been generated on the package, a mixture of meat floss and salsa together with the cheese – the shelf-life of which had long since been melted into a sauce – and the cheese – the shelf-life of which had been reduced by a few days – was a little too long.The mixture of meat loaf and salsa and the cheese – with a shelf life of 90 days, months before it was pulled from the shelves – was wrapped around two of the three slices of bread.

Swirling around, the bread edges are always the first to be eaten. These unadorned edges will be the first to suck the saliva out of your mouth, leaving the overconfident, unprepared you in a hurry.But the enjoyment that follows is definitely worth the sacrifice. With each subsequent bite, the meat floss, salsa, cheese and the bread soaked with them will parade around your tongue, and finally, with great reluctance, your saliva will be swept up into your oesophagus.

Do you remember? We used to be so happy when we ate bread like this. But those tears over the cake that disfigured me in the back seat of the car during the bumpy ride don’t matter now, I accidentally ate something else while eating that sandwich.