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@Luthor: Meiosis also requires replication of chomosomes. Mitosis is a replication (2n->4n) and split into two daughter cells (2n x2). Meiosis is a replication (2n->4n) and spliting into 4 cells (1n x4) eventually. It is not simply dividing a cell (2n) into two where each receives one set (1n x2).

If you really care to be precise, this process is more like budding probably. Where a bigger organism buds off smaller organisms that are genetically identical. Budding happens for unicellular and multicellular organisms. In this case, the big sandwich could of course be multicellular thus explaining the large amount of DNA (ie. pastrami) it contains as the collective DNA of many cells. It doesn't need to replicate the pastrami before the process starts...a bunch of it is just there. Then some of the cells bud off to start the new organism/sandwich thus taking some of the DNA/pastrami with it.

Sure, I was a biology major and now a medical student, but this information could easily have been found on Wikipedia and/or a high school biology text.

@people who think I look like Pam: This isn't the first time this has come up. I hope people are going up to Jenna Fischer and telling her she looks like Erin Zimmer.

THIS IS ON MY BUCKET LIST !

steveTV, yar... just got back from 3 wks in VN and my partner just reminded me she got us some bahn mi for our bus trip from SaiGon to Mui Ne. she corrects, tho; "Bahn mi pate," is what people should ask for. less than u$1, and with extra meat or pate half that again.

that said, altho none in the city have i tried, but in carroll gardens a fave is the sammich just off of bergen st F/G stop. YUM. its a different mood thing; i take guests to katz. bahn mi is for me, but sometimes with others.

On one fateful day, I ate a monster pastrami sandwich at Stage Deli for lunch and a monster pastrami sandwich at Katz's for dinner. Mmmm...

But I hate sandwiches at New York deli's, too much fuckin' meat on the sandwich. It's like a cow with a cracker on either side. "What would you like sir?" "A pastrami sandwich." "Anything else?" "Yeah, a loaf of bread and some other people." — Mitch Hedberg.

Mitosis? No. Desecration. Yes.

Why on earth would you want to clutter up all that pastrami with 8 extra slices of bread? That's CRAZY talk.

Did you contact Southern Living Magazine?