The most subtle of my creations, the Columbo sandwich solidifies my legacy. It is made with generous slices of cheddar cheese and summer sausage on a dinner roll spread with mayonnaise. It sounds a bit base, I know, but the interactions of the couple tastes are complex, and it turns out to be surprisingly delicious.

Perhaps you feel this description explains the name. Everybody's favorite detective, Columbo, that little man in the rumpled raincoat, comes off base, but is deceptively acute.

But that is not why the Columbo sandwich is a Columbo Sandwich.

It is a Columbo sandwich because in my first year of university, when I would come home after classes at 2pm, this is the sandwich that I created to eat while watching Columbo on A&E.

There is no summer sausage in Korea. Korea doesn't have a sausage culture. Half the time you say 'sausage', people thing you mean this awful tube of flour that is coloured to look like sausage. Perhaps you can find a bratwurst at Costco, or an imported salami at the E-mart, but the only thing that approaches a sausage in most stores is garlic sausage.

Fortunately, garlic sausage is a pretty good substitute for summer sausage. Unfortunately, there are no substitutes for dinner rolls. You can't make a Columbo sandwich on a bagel. Too much chewing. I just doesn't work. And so I don't have anything to eat while I am watching Columbo.

Doesn't mean I can't watch it though.

Indeed, I'm great at watching Columbo. I got a great way to do it.

An episode of Columbo starts with the murder. We see who did it and how they did it. The story is how Columbo figures it out.

This works fine. It's a great formula. That is why Columbo is the most beloved detective on TV. That and the sandwiches. That is how you watch Columbo on A&E.

But I am not watching it on A&E. I'm watching it on Plex. And I don't have Columbo sandwiches, so I have the freedom to watch it according to my prerogative.

I skip the first 15 minutes, so I don't know who did the murder. It puts me and Columbo on an even playing field. I am competing with him to figure out who the murderer is. He always gets there first. After he figures it out, I go back to watch the first 15 minutes to see if he was right. He always is.

It's a difficult competition. Columbo always seems to know who the murderer is from the get go. It's like he has seen the first 15 minutes of the program.

Here is how he figures it out, though. He tells everyone what he is thinking, what he is confused about. The murderer, always, thinking they are smarter than Columbo, offers answers to his questions. They offer suggestions as to why or how there are no footprints on the floor if the murderer had to walk through a muddy garden to enter by a window.

Columbo will always beat me in an episode of Columbo. But in real life, if he is investigating a murder that I commit. I will answer all his questions with: "Yeah, good question, Lieutenant. That doesn't make sense!"

I would celebrate that unsolved case with generous slices of garlic sausage and cheddar on top of rice. A Columbo topp-bap.