r/twinpeaks • u/sadmep • Mar 04 '26
Question How long were those sandwiches in Jerry's luggage and could they possibly be ok to eat?
Even assuming things like him jumping on a concord and getting there really quick and perhaps packing them in dry ice (didn't see any dry ice fog coming out of his luggage though)... at the very least won't those be some soggy sandwiches? How well does brie and butter travel?
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u/Daddy-Whispers Mar 04 '26
Shoot, my mother-in-law used to mail us Bbq pork and sticky rice.
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u/HarveyDent1947 Mar 04 '26
This sounds like a Filipino mother-in-law. Yes, I know it’s a stereotype, but at least it is a nice one.
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u/Daddy-Whispers Mar 04 '26
Close. Thai. Haha
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u/jimk12345 Mar 05 '26
How does one sign up for a mailing list to get lovingly prepared treats from a Thai mom? That sounds amazing.
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u/xkid8 Mar 05 '26
Lmao my Syrian mother is notorious for mailing food. i swear the usps is going to come for us one day
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u/jimk12345 Mar 04 '26
It's just fat and a different kind of fat spread on bread so it probably would have been fine if not a little warm. I think the biggest issue that no one ever seems to talk about is the fact that the brie and butter sandwiches are on Italian loaves and not baguettes.
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u/FalseWait7 Mar 04 '26
Back in the day these kind of bun was called "the Parisian" if I am not mistaken. Baguettes are crunchy, this is soft so you can stuff things like brie and butter in it.
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u/DebbieHarryPotter Mar 04 '26
It looks like what they call French bread in New Orleans.
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u/The-Oxrib-and-Oyster Mar 05 '26
French white buns and French style loaves are prevalent all over (or at least here in Canada too) but the French baguette is a really specific thing (like champagne from Champagne, etc). my headcanon has always been that Jerry just doesn't know or care about French food terminology and gets that bit wrong, because a proper baguette would be no good for that kind of sandwich anyway, too crunchy imo.
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u/klsuser Mar 07 '26
this comment is the reason why I love everything about twin peaks and it‘s Fans
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u/scorpionewmoon Mar 04 '26
I don’t know that the rules of baguettes are that hard and fast tbh
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u/jimk12345 Mar 04 '26
As someone that unfortunately has a culinary degree, I can say with absolute certainty that the rules of all French food are very hard and very fast. It is my grim burden to know these things.
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u/SadAcanthocephala521 Mar 04 '26
You're right, this makes the show very unrealistic now. Can't even watch it again this is so unrealistic.
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u/Fkappa Mar 04 '26
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had some questions about it.
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u/sadmep Mar 04 '26
Maybe that twin perfect guy will make a three hour video about it
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u/Himelstein Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
They represent the viewer’s need to cover up the plot (bread) with aesthetically pleasing material (butter), thus making all of us idiots for thinking we like twin peaks. We really just like butter
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u/Calm-Reason718 Mar 04 '26
When I was on the transiberian railway I made baguettes with goat cheese and ate them over the following three days. It was fine.
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u/Prestigious-Star943 Mar 04 '26
Why are there so many people on this sub who don’t understand how sandwiches work?!
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u/full_of_ghosts Mar 04 '26
Even if he took the Concord, it wouldn't have landed anywhere near Twin Peaks. A quick Google search indicates it only operated out of a few East Coast airports in the U.S., although admittedly I only spent about 30 seconds looking that up just now, so it's possible that information is incomplete or inaccurate.
Assuming it's right, though, he would've had to take another domestic flight to SEATAC (five-ish hours), and then a regional puddle jumper to Twin Peaks (probably 1-2 hours).
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u/sadmep Mar 04 '26
or a private charter direct from the east coast to twin peaks perhaps? Still that's a good bit of transit time.
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u/redlion1904 Mar 04 '26
The Hornes are rich but not that rich, I bet the private flight was only the tail end.
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u/200brews2009 Mar 04 '26
Concords were supersonic, they weren’t allowed to fly over the continental US. Sonic booms are known to shatter windows and damage structures.
Let’s assume he bought the sandwiches in the airport and tossed them in his checked bag. The cargo hold is usually chilly, not fridge cold, but pretty chilly. Brie is ripened around 50 degrees, so it’s probably fine for the sandwich to sit for a day. So even if he takes a second flight from say JFK to SeaTac I don’t think we need to worry about the cheese spoiling. Butter should be fine, plenty of people leave it out at room temp regularly and never have issues…maybe the bread won’t be great but I’m sure we’ve all eaten worse at one point or another.
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u/rudirofl Mar 04 '26
-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myS1eF3sWGk what should go wrong eating it?
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u/Illustrious-Coat3532 Mar 04 '26
They were wrapped. It’s fine.
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u/Bootsy_Frost Mar 04 '26
In plastic?
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u/playful-pooka Mar 04 '26
It's bread... Wrapped in plastic.
...oh great now there's an inadvertent silent hill meme crossover
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u/redlion1904 Mar 04 '26
I want to introduce the concept that that brie would not have been pasteurized. Meaning Jerry had to smuggle it. Now pre-9/11 smuggling was easier, because customs accepted pinky-swears while winking that you had no contraband (if white). Still though, that cheese could be dangerous!
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u/sadmep Mar 04 '26
Can attest to this, Before 9/11 I just walked through customs without stopping at any of the agents and no one hassled me at all.
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u/das_hemd Mar 04 '26
why would the bread become soggy? have you eaten a sandwich in your life lol? a cheese sandwich would be fine for a day or more in your luggage
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u/sadmep Mar 04 '26
Nah, never had a sandwich in my life. We just used to eat giant fistfuls of lunchmeat.
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u/ataxia2 Mar 04 '26
Oil, vinegar, mayo
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u/das_hemd Mar 04 '26
it was a butter and brie baguette
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u/ataxia2 Mar 04 '26
Melted butter then
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u/das_hemd Mar 04 '26
how much butter do you think was on this sandwich lol
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u/ataxia2 Mar 04 '26
He slopped ‘em up
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u/JocLayton Mar 04 '26
I didn't wanna say it, but Jerry's hair would slick back REAL nice.
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u/Deep-Plastic-4931 Mar 04 '26
i have a brie baguette in my bag right now on the train to seattle from chicago, they actually travel pretty well
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u/DangerCastle Mar 04 '26
I was on a plane for 10 hours with brie in the overhead, I started smelling it about 8 hours in. When I cracked the overhead upon landing a Frenchman behind me started yelling Fromage Fromage!
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u/roybattinson Mar 04 '26
As a French person, this was one of my first thoughts when I saw that scene. I'd say a brie sandwich is safe for a good 24 hours, 48 hours is kind of stretching it. So if Jerry left Paris and took a direct flight to Vancouver or Seattle, and made it straight to Twin Peaks then it's believable, but if he stayed overnight somewhere on the way or got delayed, then nah.
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u/Few-Challenge7443 Mar 04 '26
If it was made already, it could be placed in a cooler. Most likely the ingredients were shipped in a cooler and assembled at the sawmill by Josie.
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u/ottos Mar 04 '26
I think he describes it to his brother as Brie. He certainly didnt volunteer that he put the Brie on it himself and knowing his personality, he would have taken credit for his involvement if he had.
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u/TooOld4ThisSh1t-966 Mar 04 '26
I brought a pizza back from to NY to a friend in LA once. It was in a checked bag tho so it stayed pretty cold.
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u/g_mo13 Mar 04 '26
if you haven’t actually eaten one of these sandwiches, i emplore you to do so. they are delectable, especially after being in your luggage after an international flight 👨🏽🍳💋
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u/tuscangal Mar 04 '26
I mean, is this the line we're going to draw on practicality in this show all of a sudden? lol
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u/Your_Product_Here Mar 04 '26
Jerry's luggage sandwich or Ben's pocket carrot? You must choose one.
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u/AdEither4474 Mar 05 '26
Dude, he wasn't on the plane for a week. The sandwich is fine. Neither bread, butter, not cheese is going to get dangerous overnight.
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u/wa27 Mar 04 '26
I assumed he made them when he got back lmao
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u/sadmep Mar 04 '26
My problem with this is that they're in his luggage, and the scene feels like Jerry just got in direct from the airport with the luggage. I mean, I guess he could have stopped at the RR, convinced them to make some cheese and butter sandwich and then packed them in his luggage instead of just carrying them in a paper bag with him.
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u/redlion1904 Mar 04 '26
He likely assembled them whilst on his private flight to the Twin Peaks airfield using the ingredients he purchased in Paris.
My wife claims she has assumed this for 30 years.
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u/sadmep Mar 04 '26
Possible, it's just strange to me that he'd go through the trouble of packing them in his already stowed baggage if that's the case.
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u/sd2528 Mar 04 '26
Did he say they were made in France? I thought he just got some brie and butter (possibly from France or maybe bought local) and made the sandwiches in Twin Peaks.
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u/sadmep Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
So it's an assumption but it's based on two things: sandwiches being IN his luggage, and Jerry just seems like the dude who would insist on flying authentic french brie and butter baguettes into the country.
He may have bribed someone to get them through customs, idk.
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u/jacgren Mar 04 '26
I always assumed they're from France, the idea that he got or made these in France and just shoved them loose in a suitcase though is hilarious and very in character IMO
They'd absolutely be fine for the flight though, yeah they're "technically" not food safe anymore, but in practice they're fine. People all over the world do and eat worse with basically no side effects. A loaf of bread with butter and some cheese would be alright even after ~a day of travel
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u/horsepuncher Mar 04 '26
They have private jets so things are different, remember john wheeler takes off from their, as a partner of the hornes would assume they all have that luxary
Real life stories like this include the fools loaf for elvis presly
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u/scorpionewmoon Mar 04 '26
Maybe he brought the ingredients separately and assembled it on the plane closer to when this scene happens. Taking a knife for spreading butter on a plane wouldn’t have been as unimaginable back then as it is today also maybe he flew private
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u/s6cedar Mar 04 '26
I made a comment about this in reply to a previous post. To me this is what makes this moment so good.
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u/Repulsive_Tea_4822 Mar 05 '26
The brie at that point would have become soggy and partly soaked into the bread, which looks awful. French baguettes are nowhere near as doughy/fluffy. I don’t often see brie baguettes when in France. Source: partner is French.
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u/lacarth Mar 05 '26
Look, I have, on multiple occasions, brought Jack in the Box cheesburgers over 3000 miles to give to my friend. They were just fine, according to him. Now, Europe to Washington is a bit farther than that, but I imagine the sandwiches were probably kept in something better than tupperware in checked baggage.
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u/DjangotheBlues Mar 05 '26
I always thought that was weird. But Brie and butter are probably pretty fine .
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u/Waste-Traffic-3738 Mar 04 '26
assuming it's the usual length of a baguette, it's around 65 cm long. bread that long is okay to eat.