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This guy spent $1500 and six months making a sandwich from scratch

And it wasn’t even that tasty.

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MAKING A SANDWICH is perfectly simple, right?

You just take two slices of bread, add your favourite condiment, toss in the ingredients of your choice and voilà.

The whole thing should take maybe 3 minutes max — 5 minutes if you’re being really fastidious.

This guy, however, spent 6 months of his life and $1500 (€1313) making a sandwich from scratch.

Why? Presumably because he has too much time and money on his hands.

I spent 6 months and $1500 to completely make a sandwich from scratch. Including growing my own vegetables, making my own salt from ocean water, milking a cow to make cheese, grinding my own flour from wheat, collecting my own honey, and killing a chicken myself.

He made a short video outlining the whole process.

We see him grow vegetables.

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Then he goes out in a boat, collects sea water, makes salt and poses with a bag of said salt.

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He milks a poor cow that probably doesn’t even know it’s starring in a ~viral~ video.

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He harvests wheat, because of course he does.

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He makes honey.

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He makes bread.

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And finally, he kills a chicken with his own bare hands. (And yes, you basically see the chicken being killed.)

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Before he makes the $1500 sandwich.

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The sandwich looks grand, but nothing more.

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And when he bites into it, the disappointment is palpable.

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It’s not bad. That’s about it.

Six months. $1500. Down the drain.

The lesson here? There’s nothing wrong with a plain ol’ hang sandwich.

At least it won’t disappoint you, right?

Watch the full video below, but be warned, a chicken does get killed.

How To Make Everything / YouTube

Written by Amy O’Connor and originally published on DailyEdge.ie

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    Mute Uncle Monty
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    Sep 17th 2015, 9:45 PM

    He’s one sandwich short of a picnic basket.

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    Mute Joanna
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    Sep 17th 2015, 9:57 PM

    But wait, did he raise the chicken since it hatched? If not he needs to do it all over again.

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    Sep 17th 2015, 10:46 PM

    He probably fckd the chickens mother trying to get it pregant.

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    Sep 18th 2015, 2:41 AM

    he’s been choking the chicken for a while new if that counts.

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    Sep 17th 2015, 9:46 PM

    I would hate to wait for a Sunday roast from that clown.

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    Sep 17th 2015, 10:44 PM

    If you look up hipster in the dictionary you’ll find no txt, just a picture of this tosser.

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    Mute Dennis Collins
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    Sep 17th 2015, 9:44 PM

    How did it cost him $1500? Unless he bought the boat to go out to sea to get the salt. Not that I’d be bothered, but I’m sure I could do the same thing for free. I know someone who owns a cow, a chicken and some bees. I’m sure if I asked nicely I could get it for free for such a project, or at least under a tenner. I know where the sea is. That’s full of salt, which is free I hear. Where’s the cost?

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    Sep 17th 2015, 11:03 PM

    Someone should have told him that the sea comes right up to the coast – would have saved him a boat trip.

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    Mute Life in no motion
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    Sep 18th 2015, 7:51 AM

    He had to fly somewhere to get to the sea

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    Sep 17th 2015, 9:47 PM

    this man is basically a gobsh!te

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    Sep 17th 2015, 9:49 PM

    Someone needs to make this guy aware of ‘Sandwich Shops’.

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    Sep 17th 2015, 10:25 PM

    Pretty interesting really, we are so disconnected from our food source and preparation that we don’t realise the work that’s needed to make your ol ham and cheese sambo..

    Food doesn’t come from supermarkets.

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    Mute Mary Lyons
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    Sep 17th 2015, 10:54 PM

    I’d love to taste it though!

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    Sep 18th 2015, 9:42 AM

    I thought sandwiches grew in spars?

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    Sep 17th 2015, 9:50 PM

    What a complete donkey, jaysus

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    Sep 18th 2015, 3:08 AM

    In order to create a sandwich from scratch, one must first create the entire universe.

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    Mute Caoimhe O'Flaherty
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    Sep 17th 2015, 9:53 PM

    Now that’s a new diet!

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    Mute jenni
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    Sep 17th 2015, 9:52 PM

    I love these guys that post a world changing new sandwich. How many have we seen now? ah well bless their cotton hearts for trying. They’ll eventually realise ham and cheese. Thats the favourite

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    Sep 17th 2015, 10:01 PM

    How did he kill the chicken? Did he pull its head off?

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    Sep 17th 2015, 11:45 PM

    Choked it

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    Sep 18th 2015, 12:38 AM

    My nan used to snap their necks then chop the head off, then hung in the parlour overnight.

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    Sep 18th 2015, 1:02 AM

    Jesus Christ, what have I just read ? why?

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    Sep 18th 2015, 6:05 AM

    eh why some people will do anything to get a mention on social media

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    Sep 18th 2015, 12:28 AM

    Whats his point in doing all that?

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    Sep 17th 2015, 11:36 PM

    So What?

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    Sep 18th 2015, 11:14 AM

    Did he make is own flour for the bread ?

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