Ingredients

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I honestly have no idea how to make a good sandwich. Sure, I am able to slap some ham, cheese, and lettuce on a piece of bread and then sandwich it with another piece of bread, but it is never anything like what I could get at a restaurant or what my mom would make. It always tastes bland and too much like a cold slab of cheese. Meh, I'll force it down because its healthier for me than the chips and cookies that I also have available, but it really isn't any good. See, I simply do not know enough about sandwich ingredients to make a good sandwich. So my sandwich never has any kind of flavor behind it besides starch and moldy lactose, and it is a chore to force down.

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By contrast, very tasty sandwiches use all kinds of fancy ingredients, from nice veggies to nice sauces to just the right amount of cheese. When Schlotzsky's makes a sandwich, they know what they are doing. Their sandwiches are amazing pieces of awesomeness. Ingredients are very important in making a food good; the right ingredients can make the difference between a crappy fake and a authentic representation of a cultural food.

What makes Wuthering Heights different from Harry Potter, that we study one in Literature class but not the other? What makes Frankenstein that much more noteworthy than A Song of Ice and Fire? It is the ingredients of the books. While all are arguably good books (some more than others though), only Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein have the the right ingredients, the right theme, diction, tone, syntax that they are preservatives of a culture, of a society. They are what you get when you go and eat authentic Mexican food, instead of going to Qdoba, what you get when go and each authentic Italian food, not Fazolis. Furthermore, this analogy is a great representation of why not everybody can be expected to be a great writer. Nobody should expect me to make them a good sandwich; society can not expect everybody to be able to right well. Sure, I could be taught how to make a better sandwich, but I am never going to found the next Schlotzsky's. Only certain people can make phenomenal sandwiches, and only certain people can write phenomenal stories.