Stephanie Smith's New York Post piece, 'I'm 124 sandwiches away from an engagement ring,' is quickly being tagged as controversial, inviting criticism from various quarters of the press.

Enstars rounded up a list of the best -- from the snide to the outrightly acerbic -- reactions to Smith's undertaking.

Smith, who is a senior reporter at the New York Post, wrote about her plight -- which she seems to have embraced without any resistance -- of committing to make 300 sandwiches to get engaged to her boyfriend. Smith's boyfriend, Eric, who is a computer programmer and a gourmet cook, jokingly suggested if she were to make him 300 sandwiches, she'd earn an engagement ring.

In the piece, Smith talks about how Eric would demand she make him a sandwich when he woke up in the morning and also said that the meal was symbolic of her love for him.

"To him, sandwiches are like kisses or hugs. Or sex. 'Sandwiches are love,' he says, 'Especially when you make them. You can't get a sandwich with love from the deli,"' Smith wrote.

Smith wrote the piece for the Post after she was done making 166 sandwiches, with 124 to go. She is documenting the exercise of whipping up elaborate gastro-delights for her boyfriend on her blog, 300sandwiches.

Many, mostly women, writers were quite riled up by the piece, with most of them viewing Smith's agreeing to do this as an affront to the modern-day feminist, subjugating the career woman, and regressing to age-old roles defined for women.

Here are some of the best reactions so far:

1. Caity Weaver of Gawker ("B***h, make me 300 Sandwiches"):

"The story is like something out of a fairytale, one of those weird old German ones you can't read to kids, where an peasant girl's stepmother forces her to make 300 sandwiches for the Devil, and then a series of horrible things happen to the girl, and at the end of the story she freezes to death."

2. Amanda Hess of Slate ("300 Blog Ruins Love, Sandwiches"):

"How do we make sense of love in the time of "I'm 124 Sandwiches Away From an Engagement Ring"? The traditional romantic structures that previously organized our physical and emotional connections to other people are crumbling fast. Nobody buys one another root beer floats anymore. Everybody's touching everybody else before they marry anyone. There are no boyfriends here. In the face of all this romantic disruption, some lovers are frantically constructing new frameworks-diamond-fishing sandwich blogs, for example-in a desperate attempt to reduce our strange and wonderful human experiences into another rote mechanical exercise. Stop. Love each other. Eat sandwiches. Don't trade either of them for anything.

"Is "I'm 124 Sandwiches Away From an Engagement Ring" a chauvinist exercise? Ha, ha. If only we had the luxury of grappling with such advanced questions here. No. We are in "plant or animal?" territory now. Is "I'm 124 Sandwiches Away From an Engagement Ring" even human?"

3. Katie McDonough of Salon:

"So what we have here, essentially, is a pretty traditionally gendered relationship in which the couple has turned their probably-would-have-happened-anyway engagement into a gimmick to elevate Smith's media profile. Obviously, the premise of the thing itself is sexist. Smith must "do" something to "earn" Schulte's proposal, but still, based on that alone, I say, "Cool. You do you. Whatever."

"But it's Smith's chronicle of the experience that reveals just how weirdly sexist the sandwich experiment is in practice rather than just in name."

4. Maureen O'Connor of New York Magazine:

"Now, before you get all upset about a modern woman living the punch line of a sexist joke, remember that Stephanie still has 124 sandwiches to go. She could still be radicalized, somewhere around sandwich 172. And then when she gets to sandwich 297, she reveals that she has been poisoning him, slowly and steadily, all this time. But now that he has entered this ironclad agreement of nuptial sandwiches, he has no choice but to marry her! After she force-feeds him the final three sandwiches, she inherits his vast fortune of sandwich-making supplies, his palace made of bologna, and its moat of yellow mustard. She will be the Black Widow of Sandwiches, and then you will all regret teasing her."

5. Emma Gray of the Huffington Post: 

"As of this week, the senior reporter at Page Six has 124 more sandwiches to make before he'll put a rock on her ring finger. But after reading Smith's plea for a book and/or movie deal ... er ... piece in the New York Post, we mostly learned that one should never learn about love from people who trade diamond rings and lifelong commitments for sandwiches."

6. Erin Gloria-Ryan of Jezebel:

"So why isn't this already a terrible straight-to-Blockbuster movie starring overgrown Disney Channel stars? Probably because a movie about Stephanie Smith's arrangement with her boyfriend sounds - how do I put this gently - like a bit of a sh*t sandwich" 

7. Megan Willet of Business Insider: 

"In what sounds like a weird throwback to the 1950s, a senior reporter for The New York Post's Page Six section is on mission to make her boyfriend 300 sandwiches - and get engaged."

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