I ate a cheese sandwich

March 2, 2004 2:36 PM

Where was the quintessential boring weblog post example of "I ate a cheese sandwich" first mentioned?
posted by Nikolai to Computers & Internet (12 answers total)

I'm curious about the origins of the phrase too, but a ton of Googling revealed very little.
posted by waxpancake at 3:13 PM on March 2, 2004

www.feedster.com
posted by Fupped Duck at 3:14 PM on March 2, 2004

Probably right after that post about the girl on the bike.
posted by Danelope at 3:14 PM on March 2, 2004

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."
posted by Aaorn at 3:53 PM on March 2, 2004

my first memory was from this zeldman piece dated 2001.
posted by heather at 4:25 PM on March 2, 2004

OK, what's the post about the girl on the bike?
posted by languagehat at 5:00 PM on March 2, 2004

oh no! not the girl on a bike!
posted by heather at 5:06 PM on March 2, 2004

pocketpig. No, probably not first, but still. For some reason I was hooked on the pig.
posted by damnitkage at 5:47 PM on March 2, 2004

the bicycle story is mentioned here and meta-ed here.
posted by jessamyn at 6:16 PM on March 2, 2004

I heard Zeldman say this in a panel at SXSW 2001. (March)
posted by beth at 7:21 PM on March 2, 2004

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).
posted by shepd at 11:42 PM on March 2, 2004

Thanks, jessamyn. Now I can sleep at night.

I just ate a ham and cheese sandwich.
posted by languagehat at 9:54 AM on March 3, 2004