to eat one's way out of a sandwich house - meaning

[JACEK1]

Hello.

What does "to eat one's way out of a sandwich house" mean? I haven't the foggiest idea.

Thank you.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Looks like there's a TV show called New Girls. Here's some dialogue from it:

- Nick: Man, I gotta run with the bulls! I gotta kill a man with my bare hands after making sweet love to him, and then sleep on the warm belly of his horse. I gotta eat my way out of a sandwich house.

- Winston: How much you know about Hemingway?

- Nick: Not a lot, but I'm gonna learn! I'm becoming Ernest Hemingway, ya idiots.

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So it sounds like eating your way out of a house made of sandwiches is doing something challenging, flamboyant, and destructive. Very Hemingway.

 

[JACEK1]

No, I don't have any.