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How to Make a $1500 Sandwich in Only 6 Months
How To Make Everything
A man spends six months and $1500 making a chicken sandwich entirely from scratch: growing vegetables, making salt from seawater, milking a cow for cheese, grinding wheat, collecting honey and killing a chicken.
Used as a go-to example of how much hidden effort and infrastructure lies behind simple everyday things.
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