Comments on: I ate a cheese sandwich

Question: I ate a cheese sandwich

Nikolai — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 14:36:13 -0800

Where was the quintessential boring weblog post example of "I ate a cheese sandwich" first mentioned?

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:13:45 -0800

I'm curious about the origins of the phrase too, but a ton of Googling revealed very little.

By: Fupped Duck

Fupped Duck — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:14:04 -0800

www.feedster.com

By: Danelope

Danelope — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:14:17 -0800

Probably right after that post about the girl on the bike.

By: Aaorn

Aaorn — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:53:10 -0800

This is the earliest version I recall seeing -- I know because I remember the line "I too had a cheese sandwich", which still makes me chuckle.

Then again Joey claims that the "original" cheese sandwich entry is "probably apocryphal."

By: heather

heather — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:25:50 -0800

my first memory was from this zeldman piece dated 2001.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:00:45 -0800

OK, what's the post about the girl on the bike?

By: heather

heather — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:06:41 -0800

oh no! not the girl on a bike!

By: damnitkage

damnitkage — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:47:15 -0800

pocketpig. No, probably not first, but still. For some reason I was hooked on the pig.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:16:32 -0800

the bicycle story is mentioned here and meta-ed here.

By: beth

beth — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 19:21:12 -0800

I heard Zeldman say this in a panel at SXSW 2001. (March)

By: shepd

shepd — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 23:42:51 -0800

I don't know, but I do recall a book, Codgerspace, starting out with someone eating a cheese sandwich. In fact, the entire book was based on that event (oh, that and a toaster).

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:54:36 -0800

Thanks, jessamyn. Now I can sleep at night.

I just ate a ham and cheese sandwich.