5 Celebrating Sandwiches: Happy Sandwich Day!

Sandwiches are an American staple - especially for college students. The beauty of the sandwich is you can combine literally anything between two pieces of anything (bread has become interchangeable with lettuce or tortillas) and it can legitimately be called a sandwich. Let's take a moment to appreciate some of the iconic sandwiches of animation.

Scooby-Doo and Shaggy have a beautiful relationship that often humors the running gag of Scooby eating Shaggy's food. The most popular item on the menu? Crazy leaning tower sandwiches that are usually eaten in one bite. Or inhaled. Poor Shaggy. Maybe you could keep an eye on it better if it was short enough to actually hold onto.

Okay, so Muppets aren't animated. I'm the writer, I can bend the rules a little.

One of the most amazing sandwiches I can remember is the alien-communication-sandwich from Muppets From Space. The sandwich isn't talking, remember, it's just some sort of crazy telephone. Gonzo struggles with this notion as much as I did and has trouble working up to actually eating the sandwich, because omigod it's a talking sandwich. Talking or not, I'm not at all sure what's actually on the sandwich but Gonzo doesn't get to eat it anyway, and I'm ultimately glad sandwiches can't really talk. Talking food is the last thing we need (I'm looking at you, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs).

Rolly is the cutest dalmatian puppy and the most iconic, after Patch, simply because he's one of the only dogs we actually see eating. Not to mention, he might have instilled a fear of ghosts into poor Horace, who loses his sandwich to the eternally hungry pup. It's an exceptionally well-made sandwich, too: meat, cheese, lettuce, onion, tomato... Horace has the sandwich-making skills. If only he'd added a condiment to hold it all together.

Adventure Time is a crazy roller-coaster-ride of a television show. Every so often, though, it slows down and offers beautiful nuggets of relatable wisdom. Jake the Dog is a wonderful example of an animated version of me: laid-back, chill, and highly valuing food and sleep. Jake's food skills are legendary and sometimes we get moments that can only be called flashbacks to the classic Scooby-Doo-style of epic sandwiches of awesome. You keep doing you, Jake, you beautiful canine being.

And, of course, no sandwich post could be complete without one of the most iconic sandwich lines of the past decade. The charming duet between Princess Anna and Prince Hans from Disney's Frozen was the first duet between protagonist and villain, and it was a love song. It was so much of a love song, the audience was rightly left saying, "It's too good to be true." No, he wasn't going to say sandwiches. No, he doesn't love crazy - he is crazy. There are many theories behind Hans's behavior but nothing official. All I know is this line will not die for a long, long, (*sigh*) long time.

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How are you celebrating Sandwich Day?