This week’s secret menu was not a spur-of-the-moment, I’m-hungry kind of decision. No, this item has a backstory.

In case you’re wondering (before you get bored with this story), this sandwich is good, not great. It tastes good, but it also takes a lot of work to make. And it’s messy. And it will make you feel like you just ate an entire pouch of hot cocoa mix raw (possibly because you did).

But as for the story, it all began two years ago.

Our swim team was on training trip in Cocoa, Fla., over winter break. We stayed in six-person villas and were pretty much left to fend for ourselves.

If I remember correctly, our coaches took care of supper for two or three nights, but it was just us and the fully-furnished kitchens for the rest.

We went grocery shopping on the first day. Only once, on the first day.

We were at the resort for eight days. This happened on about day six.

As you can imagine, a person with perpetual hunger—like me—ran out of food very quickly. I didn’t think about what I would eat once I started running out, either.

Thus, I reached a point where the only foods that I had left were a loaf of wheat bread, mint hot cocoa mix, cinnamon graham crackers and peanut butter.

Obviously, it would have been too simple to make a cup of hot cocoa, a peanut butter sandwich and snack on the graham crackers. I’m creative, so I didn’t do that.

My old roommate, and one of my roommates on the trip, was Chewy Vogele. And he was familiar with my habit of doing weird things.

Especially mixing weird foods. That really set him off.

When he saw me buttering up the graham crackers and wheat bread and pouring a pouch of cococoa over the top, he went on a rampage.

“Hey Remmel!” he stammered. “Why don’t you put some mustard on that sandwich?”

There was mustard in the fridge. For a second, I thought about trying it.

A second later, I laughed and realized that was crazy.

It was probably the last time I said no to fixing absurd food.