The Horrendous: Yesterday, I wrote about my current feelings on the war going on in Gaza, expressing my “enough is more than enough” philosophy, and showing how I felt that Israeli actions now were making things worse for themselves, not better. Today, we wake up to news that over 100 died and hundreds more were injured when IDF troops apparently opened fire on civilians in a food line. I don’t know all of the details, and that may not be important. But my opinions, expressed yesterday, are that much stronger today.

I started off today with a talk (at my Thursday morning breakfast group) about Free Will – does it exist, or are our actions all a product of our neurons and our previous experiences? A very provocative talk, extremely interesting. But, whichever it is, can not anyone’s free will determination, or neurological makeup and experience, find a way out of the mess in Gaza? The Israelis can’t? The Americans can’t? And clearly Hamas, which does have the ability to take actions to stop the Israeli incursion and end the fighting, can’t. Is this the fault of the parties involved? Or is everyone doing just what their unconscious brain is requiring them to do? This is an important question.

The Ridiculous: I am not sure what to call the series of articles that Google sends me continually on my smartphone. I call it my Google-feed, but I have no idea if I made that up, or if I am calling it by its proper name. In any event…….

As you know, the Google algorithm sends you articles based on what you look for and open up. If I look at an article about Taylor Swift (for example), I will be inundated with other articles about Taylor Swift. I have never looked up anything about Taylor Swift, as you might guess, but I do look up a lot of things about St. Louis, my home town. And consequently, I received a lot of articles about goings-on there.

Last evening I received an article that someone wrote about where to get the best St. Paul sandwich in St. Louis. Now, I have never heard of a St. Paul sandwich, although the article made it sound like it’s as popular in St. Louis as St. Louis ribs, gooey butter cake or Imo’s pizza with processed provel cheese.

So I looked it up. Here’s a picture.

Yes, it’s an egg foo yung (with onion and mung bean sprouts) sandwich with bacon, lettuce, tomato, pickle and mayonnaise on white bread. It’s for those folks who go to a Chinese restaurant and want a sandwich.

And it isn’t new. It was created by the owner of a Chinese restaurant in the Lafayette Square neighborhood of St. Louis about 75 years ago. According to Wikipedia (yes, it has a Wikipedia page), it is only found in the St. Louis Metro area and in a few other Chinese restaurants in Missouri whose owners come from St. Louis. It was named for the creator’s home town of St. Paul, but apparently never served there.

I certainly don’t remember ever seeing it on a menu, but maybe I have just been blind to it. They best place to get it today, according to the article Google thought important enough to share with me is Stukey’s Chinese Restaurant in Wood River IL. Have never been to Wood River either.