“With the Italian sandwich, you want every bite to include everything. Because it’s sitting in perfect balance. There’s salt, there’s fat, there’s spice, there’s blandness, there’s tang, there’s bite, there’s sour… And you need all of those components. If you had a bite of this delicious pepperoni with a bite of delicious hot pepper, you’d think, fantastic! That was delicious! I can only have one bite. I cannot have five of these bites. Because your palate is being inundated with high notes. And you need some bass notes to carry the melody along.” — Gil