So there I was on Friday, in Whole Foods, getting sun-dried tomatoes for the flatbread pizza one post down, when I decided to also get lunch. I decided to get lunch because, while I had plenty of Weird Curry leftovers, I was sick of rice. I'd had rice in all my lunches all week, and I couldn't take one more day of it.

But Whole Foods, to my dismay, was not selling the awesome roast beef sandwich, the one I find inexplicably good despite just being roast beef, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and mayo squished down in a shrinkwrap. I don't know why I love it so much, but I do. And they didn't have it, the bastards. But they did have something new, shipped in by refrigerated truck all the way from California: Naanwiches.

It's a sandwich, but with Indian flavors, and on naan. This immediately raised certain questions in my mind. Is naan a good idea for a sandwich? Is it even good naan? Why does every single variety come topped with mint chutney? If I eat this, can I get a blog post out of it? The answers, respectively, were maybe, maybe, no idea, and fuck yeah.

I got the Chicken Kebab sandwich, which of course the website doesn't list or have a picture of. It is always the way. The other varieties at Whole Foods were chicken tikka masala, chicken curry, and spinach and tofu. The website proclaims the existence of chana masala, but I have to take their word for it. The naan is.. grocery store style. You probably know what I mean. You've probably all bought naan from a grocery store hoping to replicate the stretchy, fluffy, charred bread that everyone orders too much of at Indian restaurants. You know what I mean.

The naan is good, and a bit buttery, but dense. Which, to be fair, it needs to be if it's going to be used as sandwich bread. Good luck making a sandwich with restaurant naan. The filling was a slab of well-seasoned ground chicken, with some stray bits of onion and only a slight hint of the aforementioned mint chutney. I ate it cold, which is contrary to the package directions but not contrary to me being hungry, lazy, and not particularly enjoying microwaved sandwiches.

The nutrition label and ingredients are nice, though - worst thing in it is some xanthan gum in the chutney, and all the bad numbers are well below average for processed food. Makes for a perfectly reasonable lunch if you happen to have them available.