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          But wait! I thought you had to create the universe first!

$1,500 for a sandwich might seem an exorbitant amount of money for just a
sandwich, but perhaps not, if you make it from scratch. And by scratch, I
mean starting with wheat seeds and spending the next six months growing and
collecting the rest of the ingredients [1] (link via Jason Kottke [2]). I
think most of us would know where to get salt from (he gets it from three
gallons of ocean water) but what about rennet [3] to make the cheese? Or how
to properly kill [4] and dress a chicken?

The series [5] makes me appreciate the modern food supply chain that exists.
And the $1,500 price tag not only included the raw materials (about $500
worth) but his time (at minimum wage) spent directly making this sandwich.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URvWSsAgtJE
[2] http://kottke.org/15/09/how-to-make-a-1500-sandwich
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennet
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_662175355&feature=iv&list=PLLXfVEsLI-qSO5XzEa0pOJyXlNVZJBupK&src_vid=URvWSsAgtJE&v=k2kOeZ0KZkA

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