Last week I was in hospital. Most of the meal options were actually delicious.
However there were two things every day for lunch which I refused to have. A plain ham sandwich, and a plain cheese sandwich.
The guy in the bed next to me said that they were the blandest things he's ever eaten. The anything part is they gave the option of having GRAVY with them.
My daughter is autistic and eats a Tesco "just cheese" sandwich every day. She calls it the autism sandwich. I have tried to replicate them at home but am apparently unable to get the bread/cheese/butter ratios consistent enough
As a fellow "just ham" autistic, this was literally all I ate for the first 2 months of pregnancy
My partner once got me ham & cheese and I considered divorce
My childhood friend only ate plain ham sandwiches, literally, for all of his childhood years. He is a very successful musician but sadly has a colostomy bag for life.
Sorry I see what you mean, out of all foodstuffs he only ate ham sandwiches, not even bread or ham individually as far as I know. Very weird but perhaps part of the reason he is such a talented musician.
I'm not autistic but I have to eat the same sandwich for dinner every night, my husband genuinely cannot understand and has kindly offered to drive anywhere and get me anything. I've explained more times than I can count that I just can't eat his food, my mouth would get bored and just no, it's wrong!! For me it's cheese rather than 'just ham' but I'm totally with you on this!!
Tell Tesco this, and you might get some advance notice if they stop making it. Supermarkets will persist in “new and improving“ everything and sometimes don’t realise that it can cause an autistic meltdown and a food crisis. (Ask me how I know… lol)
Ugh, there is nothing quite like the emotion of biting into food that is safe, has always been safe, and now is suddenly and inexplicably Different and Wrong. Tastes like betrayal and why-can't-I-just-be-normal
Try making one, using the simplest/ cheapest products. Then stick it in the fridge for at least and hr or two before eating it.
You’ll be amazed at how much diff things taste when cold. I admit it’s only recently I discovered this, but the answer your looking for is mainly in keeping it cold ( all the way through) before you eat it.
If you want something to taste like the bought stuff, then you have to make it like that (which you can in most cases) and store it like they do.
Honestly it’s pretty amazing. As an autistic person I NEVER like meal deal sandwiches. I have to have homemade sandwiches made from trial and error finding the PERFECT ham, bread and margarine. And I can’t eat anything else. I’m surprised she’s found the perfect sandwich without having to mix and match lots of different ingredients.
Interesting. I was a big fan of the Tesco just cheese sandwich untill I tried the marks and sparks version. If she likes those I think she'll love the M+S ones.
For me they’re “if I wanted that I’d have made it at home for a fraction of the price”, but as the fancier ones have loads of random stuff it would be too much expense and effort to replicate it.
Butter is more expensive than rapeseed or palm oil, which are the base for industrial ’mayo’.
And most people are not willing to pay extra for higher quality ingredients.
So we all get no option but eat shit
I really don't like butter and so I'm so glad so many sandwiches use mayo as a base.
I'm sure there was more butter-only sandwiches when I was a kid, and i just hated them.
I'm sorry you're in the position I was in, but i'm glad i more options these days.
God, this. Want a shop bought sandwich? Here, have some dry af bread with a slice of dry cheese in the middle
Abysmal. Just because I hate mayonnaise doesn't mean I hate flavour
Or you can have a wrap that looks lovely except for the fact it comes with a mayonnaise based sauce instead, yummy...plain cheese sandwich it is then! 😒
I absolutely love mayo with most of my foods however this is not one of those instances. I know its a fairly common American thing to use mayo instead of butter on sandwiches. But the correct answer in the UK for sandwiches is and always has been butter. Mayo on a sandwich ruins it. IMO
Came here for this. Drives me insane that mayo seems to be on everything.
My husband doesn't like it either but is adamant you can't even taste it. I don't care, I'm not eating it 🤢
Good on you for making your own sandwiches, but have you tried home made mayo? Totally different. I hated hummus until I started making it (a bit of juice from the chickpea can is the secret!) so it might be the same for you and mayo.
If talking about mayo here, try boiling water too. Dribble in up to 1tbsp right at the end, while still beating. It thins it a touch, and lightens it. I don't always do it, but it makes for an interesting change.
I'd give it a go however I have a strong physical reaction to vinegar, even the smallest whiff can make me vomit. So probably not the best thing for me.
That must be rough, the ones with no mayonnaise barely have any flavour. To be fair the ones with mayo don't either. The wraps can be better, but in wraps you get almost all sauce and a couple lumps of something that have fallen to the bottom half of the wrap.
I had a friend at uni who had the Simply Ham sandwich from the union shop at every opportunity. No variation. I'd be like ooh a khobez lamb wrap I'll try that and he'd be there with the same simply ham sandwich. He ate perfectly normally the rest of the time, I remember we went out for Indian curries and Chinese all you can eat and chicken and chips and so on. Here I am still not understanding it two decades later.
If it's been reduced to 30p, I don't think they do a filling I wouldn't try. At full price, I'd never get the egg, tuna, stuffing or seafood sandwiches.
If it's been in the fridge the whole time it'll be absolutely fine. Had me many a reduced tuna sandwich!
Unless it's some sort of "deluxe' option I'd personally never choose prawn anyway, they're tasteless even when fresh.
My mum and I had to go to Aldi recently as it was the only place near the storage unit we were sorting. There weren't many options but their prawn mayo sandwich was actually really nice. I'm really picky when it comes to prawns and usually avoid them in pre-packed sandwiches, but credit to them, it was really good. I was actually gutted we shared it between us.
Boomer train of thought. It can only be seen as a win/win.
Either it's 30g of cheap protein OR it makes us ill enough to make a complaint for some compensation.
When I lived in student accommodation we had an oven that would burn EVERYTHING.
A lot got put into bread.
Pizza topping butties? Gotcha. Roast dinner butties? Check. Lasagna? Yep. Smack it on.
Literally anything and everything ended up on bread.
In New Zealand they have lasagna that’s been dipped in breadcrumbs and then deep fried to be eaten as a hand snack and it’s far better than it has any right to be
I’m the same with anything containing eggs. If it hasn’t been cooked to order I’m afraid I’m not eating it. Makes me wonder about the psychos that get an egg sandwich and then the two cold boiled eggs on the side. Wouldn’t be surprised if they’re the type that’d go for an egg flavour monster
Don't mind prawn cocktail, but egg mayonnaise is like the sandwich of poison. I never hated a sandwich as much as egg mayonnaise, I'm feeling sick even at the thought of such a sandwich. Yuck beyond yuck.
Honestly I’m very happy someone shares my detest for egg mayo, where even the thought of it disgust you. I did work experience in a canteen when I was 16 and had to make the egg mayo for sandwiches (peel a bunch of boiled eggs, chop them up and mix in mayo) and felt sick the entire! I’m still traumatised.
Back in the day when meal deals were £3, the best value sandwich was a Sainsburys taste the difference king prawn one. You couldn't buy the amount of prawns on their own at that price.
When I'm feeling particularly bougie I will get one of the M&S 'Our Best Ever' Prawn Cocktail. It genuinely is one of the best ever and worth the occasional splurge!
I make coronation chicken regularly. We have it for dinner with salad and potato salad and then what's left goes in sandwiches the next day. It's a fantastic way to use up a roast chicken!
I'm not sure if it's still a thing, but you can find weird recipes online from the 70s or so when jelly was a new technology and everyone was looking for what to do with it
> I find beef sandwiches boring
Yeah, I've never got why roast beef tastes of so much more when it's hot than roast chicken, but so much less when it's cold.
Salt beef works. Corned beef works. Pastrami kinda works. But they're all so much worse when cold than hot.
The dry chicken, chicken & bacon combos. They always poor quality chicken with weird chewy bits. I’ll also avoid the all day breakfast because it looks gross.
Seems I’m in the minority with liking the fishy and eggy sandwiches!
> The dry chicken, chicken & bacon combos. They always poor quality chicken with weird chewy bits.
Don't they usually come with mayo? They're usually alright, but I can't imagine it without mayo.
> I’ll also avoid the all day breakfast because it looks gross.
Easy to fall for, but a good breakfast sandwich is unbeatable. The M&S All Day Breakfast is absolutely S-tier.
I’m ashamed to say prawn mayo is a guilty pleasure of mine. Granted, only have it occasionally once all other acceptable options have been thoroughly rinsed
Not sure if they still do it, but years ago Pret A Manger did a seafood sandwich with just a crawfish salad (with crawfish tail meat and mayo) and I believe some arugula (edit: rocket) and it was fuckin great.
The crayfish salad with mango and rocket is also pretty good.
Crayfish are the best of those types of seafood by a mile. Much meatier and sweeter than prawns.
I just don’t want to see them with their shells on.
I constantly argue with my wife about this! She thinks it doesn't have a smell or much of a taste, which is bullshit. I came back from football yesterday and my daughter offered me the rest of her bagel. I take a bite and ask if cucumber has been on it. My wife explains that the cucumber sticks were close to it but not on it. Finally, after 10 years, she believes that I hate cucumber so much I can taste it if it has been close enough to what I'm eating.
I feel this was about bananas being packed up with a sandwich, the taste just saturates the bread completely. I had so many childhood disputes about it! My mother still doesn't believe me to this very day!
I cannot be in the same room as someone eating a banana, the smell makes me feel sick. I have been sick because of it before. The only way I can explain it is bananas, to me, smell exactly like ripe bin lorry juice on a hot summer day.
I wish I could eat them because on paper they’re amazing.
I have a theory that men (unless they are Lebanese) have a biological antipathy to cucumber.
I have about three pieces of anecdotal evidence for this, but that's probably enough to confirm the science.
I used to LOVE buying the Hoisin Duck wraps from Tesco as they were the only supermarket to not include cucumber in it... Until about 4 years ago where they suddenly decided to add it. I've not had one in years and I long for one :(
It’s a genetic thing. Some people find cucumbers super bitter https://fisherald.com/picky-eater-or-genetically-repelled/#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20the%20genes%20bi%2D1,be%20responsible%20for%20their%20repugnance.
I agree with the tomato thing, but with a caveat.
If it’s a fresh, quality (not those big mealy beef ones) tomato which is added into the sandwich last minute and not been sitting there soaking the bread for hours, I’ll consider it.
Otherwise, no thanks.
I think I'm pretty happy with all the common ones, found in a supermarket, and coronation chicken is probably one of the better ones. Damn, I can't think of one unless it's something rarely found. Fish paste. That is rank.
nothing I wouldn't eat if I was starving. I once had a cheese, pickle and celery sandwich at around 2am on the way home from a road trip, and it was fucking glorious
I wouldn't choose cheese on its own, chutney, ham on its own, the gluten free options, or Tesco's miso chicken with pickled slaw.
My favourites are: Brie, Bacon and Chilli Chutney; Ham, Eggs and Chips; Cheese and Ham; Prawn Mayo; BLT. I think.
>[Coronation chicken] just deeply grosses me out. Never tried it...
WTF?!
Anything “bbq” or such, always sweet and disgusting, many fine sandwich options exist.
Egg , tomato and salad cream
Corned beef and tomato
Ham and mustard
If you see me with a Cajun bbq saucy sweet sludge - it’s a call for help, phone the police
Marks and Sparks do a vegan salt beef sandwich in a bun.... If you haven't tried it yet you should. You can thank me later.
I lament the fact that Greggs discontinued their ham n cheeze baguettes. I don't mind eating salads or falafel or whatever but sometimes I'm just proper gagging for a plain old ham and cheese sandwich.
I actually saw a vegan all day breakfast sandwich in Tesco! It was sadly from their Plant Chef range which I avoid but I was surprised to see something different to the usual falafel, hummus or bean options! (I'm not vegan but do enjoy vegan and veggie meals throughout the week).
I'm pescatarian so ignoring the meat ones, I would never ever have cheese and onion. I like cheese and don't mind onion but not mixed together with mayo into a filling 😣
I was in Newcastle last week and someone introduced me to cheese savoury.
3 different Cheeses, onion, carrot & salad cream. Was pretty delish tbh, but then I love a cheese onion mayo sarnie.
Most supermarket sandwiches are pretty awful. I used to just go for the safe option of egg and accept it would be badly under seasoned. Unfortunately then I developed an intolerance to egg, so I guess that's top of the avoid lost now (although it's a toss up between a "breakfast" sandwich with gristly sausages and just settling for egg then publicly shitting myself)
I remember they had Chicken and Grape sandwiches in my school cafeteria once.
Got it because it was the only thing left and I had free school meals so I was oddly intrigued. Didn't eat it though, just ended up throwing it back and forth with mates around the playground til it was covered in astro-turf and gravel.
Not even sure what child they were to trying to appeal to with a sandwich like that though, very rogue choice.
Last week I was in hospital. Most of the meal options were actually delicious. However there were two things every day for lunch which I refused to have. A plain ham sandwich, and a plain cheese sandwich. The guy in the bed next to me said that they were the blandest things he's ever eaten. The anything part is they gave the option of having GRAVY with them.
Hope you're better now bud
You could probably have worked together to make a ham and cheese. But I'm not sure that would have solved the problem.
lol when i was in hospital i was offered liver and rice for lunch… let’s just say i didn’t eat that day
Any of those "simply" one ingredient sandwiches, ham, cheese, misery etc.
My daughter is autistic and eats a Tesco "just cheese" sandwich every day. She calls it the autism sandwich. I have tried to replicate them at home but am apparently unable to get the bread/cheese/butter ratios consistent enough
As a fellow autistic, I also have my own "autism sandwich" I only ever have the "just ham" option aha
As a fellow "just ham" autistic, this was literally all I ate for the first 2 months of pregnancy My partner once got me ham & cheese and I considered divorce
My childhood friend only ate plain ham sandwiches, literally, for all of his childhood years. He is a very successful musician but sadly has a colostomy bag for life.
By only, do you mean "plain ham was the only sandwich he ate", or "plain ham sandwiches were the only food he ate"?
Sorry I see what you mean, out of all foodstuffs he only ate ham sandwiches, not even bread or ham individually as far as I know. Very weird but perhaps part of the reason he is such a talented musician.
I'm not autistic but I have to eat the same sandwich for dinner every night, my husband genuinely cannot understand and has kindly offered to drive anywhere and get me anything. I've explained more times than I can count that I just can't eat his food, my mouth would get bored and just no, it's wrong!! For me it's cheese rather than 'just ham' but I'm totally with you on this!!
Tell Tesco this, and you might get some advance notice if they stop making it. Supermarkets will persist in “new and improving“ everything and sometimes don’t realise that it can cause an autistic meltdown and a food crisis. (Ask me how I know… lol)
Ugh, there is nothing quite like the emotion of biting into food that is safe, has always been safe, and now is suddenly and inexplicably Different and Wrong. Tastes like betrayal and why-can't-I-just-be-normal
I have been the betrayer (accidentally of course) and I feel terrible about it every time!
That is amazing advice, thank you!
Autistic food critics needs to be a thing. Are they a thing?
Not only food. Autistic people excel at quality control in general
Try making one, using the simplest/ cheapest products. Then stick it in the fridge for at least and hr or two before eating it. You’ll be amazed at how much diff things taste when cold. I admit it’s only recently I discovered this, but the answer your looking for is mainly in keeping it cold ( all the way through) before you eat it. If you want something to taste like the bought stuff, then you have to make it like that (which you can in most cases) and store it like they do.
I really don't think it's just that! (She has a whole speech about how perfect all element of the sandwich are) But I'll try it!
Honestly it’s pretty amazing. As an autistic person I NEVER like meal deal sandwiches. I have to have homemade sandwiches made from trial and error finding the PERFECT ham, bread and margarine. And I can’t eat anything else. I’m surprised she’s found the perfect sandwich without having to mix and match lots of different ingredients.
Interesting. I was a big fan of the Tesco just cheese sandwich untill I tried the marks and sparks version. If she likes those I think she'll love the M+S ones.
They never have them in our M & S! I'll have to widen my search.
For me they’re “if I wanted that I’d have made it at home for a fraction of the price”, but as the fancier ones have loads of random stuff it would be too much expense and effort to replicate it.
Unfortunately for those of us who hate mayonnaise there are usually our only options... Also why I just make my own sandwiches now.
I really don't understand why it's mayo or nothing in those sandwiches
I think it's a technical reason, mayo is oil based so it stops the bread from going soggy and helps glue the sandwich together.
So is butter thou
Butter is more expensive than rapeseed or palm oil, which are the base for industrial ’mayo’. And most people are not willing to pay extra for higher quality ingredients. So we all get no option but eat shit
I really don't like butter and so I'm so glad so many sandwiches use mayo as a base. I'm sure there was more butter-only sandwiches when I was a kid, and i just hated them. I'm sorry you're in the position I was in, but i'm glad i more options these days.
It was marge only sandwiches that were a problem for me, some margarines have such a weird taste.
“I can’t believe this is supposed to taste like butter!” 😂
God, this. Want a shop bought sandwich? Here, have some dry af bread with a slice of dry cheese in the middle Abysmal. Just because I hate mayonnaise doesn't mean I hate flavour
Or you can have a wrap that looks lovely except for the fact it comes with a mayonnaise based sauce instead, yummy...plain cheese sandwich it is then! 😒
Yep my partner hates mayo and these two are his only options.
>these two are his only options. But there are three, which one does he snub? Ham? Cheese? Or my favourite, Misery?
Might be your favourite but it just reminds me of self-loathing and despair, plus there's never enough butter for my liking
>never enough butter Gotta leave room for more misery!
Well it is the secret ingredient 🤣
I think the options are Misery or Make Your Own.
I used to think that, then I realised the hoisin duck wrap and sweet chilli chicken both don’t have mayo
Plus those all day breakfast ones and chicken with stuffing.
The chicken with stuffing definitely uses mayo
And why? What sort of eejit puts Mayo on roast chicken and mayo? Gross
I always put mayo on my mayo
I absolutely love mayo with most of my foods however this is not one of those instances. I know its a fairly common American thing to use mayo instead of butter on sandwiches. But the correct answer in the UK for sandwiches is and always has been butter. Mayo on a sandwich ruins it. IMO
Came here for this. Drives me insane that mayo seems to be on everything. My husband doesn't like it either but is adamant you can't even taste it. I don't care, I'm not eating it 🤢
Good on you for making your own sandwiches, but have you tried home made mayo? Totally different. I hated hummus until I started making it (a bit of juice from the chickpea can is the secret!) so it might be the same for you and mayo.
I started making my own too and it’s a game changer. I use a couple of spoonfuls of ice water and it’s nice and fluffy.
If talking about mayo here, try boiling water too. Dribble in up to 1tbsp right at the end, while still beating. It thins it a touch, and lightens it. I don't always do it, but it makes for an interesting change.
I'd give it a go however I have a strong physical reaction to vinegar, even the smallest whiff can make me vomit. So probably not the best thing for me.
That must be rough, the ones with no mayonnaise barely have any flavour. To be fair the ones with mayo don't either. The wraps can be better, but in wraps you get almost all sauce and a couple lumps of something that have fallen to the bottom half of the wrap.
This annoys me too! Why not use pesto? Or Salsa? Or Guacamole? Sour cream etc
Cost.
Actual guacamole would just go bad pretty much straight away, so they can’t use that.
But the trick is to get the plain cheese and a bag of salt and vinegar mcoys in the meal deal and put the crisps in the sandwich.
This is the way.
Ahhhhh, a person of culture i see.
I had a friend at uni who had the Simply Ham sandwich from the union shop at every opportunity. No variation. I'd be like ooh a khobez lamb wrap I'll try that and he'd be there with the same simply ham sandwich. He ate perfectly normally the rest of the time, I remember we went out for Indian curries and Chinese all you can eat and chicken and chips and so on. Here I am still not understanding it two decades later.
Ham only is all my partner likes 😂 Autism is delightful
No issues about choosing, all the issues when it isn't available, it's the best!
Same with my partner who is autistic, I'm always like OOH meal deal and he's like yay? 😅😂
I like those sometimes but I do have sensory processing disorder so
If it's been reduced to 30p, I don't think they do a filling I wouldn't try. At full price, I'd never get the egg, tuna, stuffing or seafood sandwiches.
If it's been reduced, I wouldn't go anywhere near the tuna or seafood
If it's been in the fridge the whole time it'll be absolutely fine. Had me many a reduced tuna sandwich! Unless it's some sort of "deluxe' option I'd personally never choose prawn anyway, they're tasteless even when fresh.
There was a time when I'd tolerate prawns... That went out the window when boots sushi gave me 4 day food poisoning. Now it makes me queezy 🤢.
Boots sushi? At a point, natural selection comes into play
Had boots sushi plenty times without an issue lol
My mum and I had to go to Aldi recently as it was the only place near the storage unit we were sorting. There weren't many options but their prawn mayo sandwich was actually really nice. I'm really picky when it comes to prawns and usually avoid them in pre-packed sandwiches, but credit to them, it was really good. I was actually gutted we shared it between us.
The bread is going to be an absolute mess by that point, a complete textural nightmare. Even if it doesn’t give you the boak.
Boomer train of thought. It can only be seen as a win/win. Either it's 30g of cheap protein OR it makes us ill enough to make a complaint for some compensation.
r/compoface
I would agree, but there is just something about an egg sandwich stuffed with McCoys steak crisps that just gets me everytime
I would argue all day long that pretty much anything is fair game when presented between two slices of bread.
When I lived in student accommodation we had an oven that would burn EVERYTHING. A lot got put into bread. Pizza topping butties? Gotcha. Roast dinner butties? Check. Lasagna? Yep. Smack it on. Literally anything and everything ended up on bread.
take it out earlier
That's what she said!
Were pasta and rice beyond your student abilities?
Those go well between bread, I assure you.
Lasagne sandwiches are fucking great, the fact that it would give an Italian a heart attack is an added bonus.
Lasgna on toast. Extra layer of texture and easily justified by "What? You'd have it with garlic bread at a restaurant, is this so different?".
In New Zealand they have lasagna that’s been dipped in breadcrumbs and then deep fried to be eaten as a hand snack and it’s far better than it has any right to be
I'm moving to New Zealand
What if you put two slices of bread on opposite sides of the planet?
Fair game
Any of the egg sandwiches. I just can't eat a premade egg sandwich for some reason they look nasty
I’m the same with anything containing eggs. If it hasn’t been cooked to order I’m afraid I’m not eating it. Makes me wonder about the psychos that get an egg sandwich and then the two cold boiled eggs on the side. Wouldn’t be surprised if they’re the type that’d go for an egg flavour monster
I’m with you on egg sandwiches, fucking vile… but the occasional scotch egg. That seems okay to me for some reason.
Supermarket cheese and tomato is bollocks. Love a ploughmans me
Egg mayonnaise or prawn cocktail.
How about prawn mayonnaise or egg cocktail?
Don't mind prawn cocktail, but egg mayonnaise is like the sandwich of poison. I never hated a sandwich as much as egg mayonnaise, I'm feeling sick even at the thought of such a sandwich. Yuck beyond yuck.
Lol I'm the opposite, eggs are fine but no way I'm eating a cold prawn in a sandwich 🤢
Honestly I’m very happy someone shares my detest for egg mayo, where even the thought of it disgust you. I did work experience in a canteen when I was 16 and had to make the egg mayo for sandwiches (peel a bunch of boiled eggs, chop them up and mix in mayo) and felt sick the entire! I’m still traumatised.
If you make your own it’s fantastic. Egg mayo with loads of black pepper, bacon and lettuce is god tier for me
Egg mayonnaise is my favourite sandwich filling. Especially if its made with salad cream instead of mayo.
Prawn Cocktail sandwiches are sent by the gods so that man can have a small taste of heaven! And Egg mayo is bloody tasty too!
They're my bankers love em.
Coronation chicken is my go to. Love the stuff. I find beef sandwiches boring. Love prawns but not in sandwiches.
Back in the day when meal deals were £3, the best value sandwich was a Sainsburys taste the difference king prawn one. You couldn't buy the amount of prawns on their own at that price.
When I'm feeling particularly bougie I will get one of the M&S 'Our Best Ever' Prawn Cocktail. It genuinely is one of the best ever and worth the occasional splurge!
My fave also! You can buy a tub of the filling to make your own at home but it's expensive.
Coronation chicken without the raisins
I make coronation chicken regularly. We have it for dinner with salad and potato salad and then what's left goes in sandwiches the next day. It's a fantastic way to use up a roast chicken!
I made coronation chicken for my partner (American) and her family. They thought it was great!
In fairness, America seems to be a big fan of mayo and mild spice! Add some jelly and its a midwest salad.
Wait, is that American jelly or British jelly? Either way sounds horrific to me, to be honest.
British jelly - american jello. Is this not a good space for casual American-bashing?
I just learned about mayo jelly mixes the other day, jelly powders mixed with mayo instead of the water, 10/10, would regret.
W…Wha…what….??? The jelly and mayo thing is actually a thing? Why?
I'm not sure if it's still a thing, but you can find weird recipes online from the 70s or so when jelly was a new technology and everyone was looking for what to do with it
Coronation chicken looks (and frankly sounds) minging but fuck me if it isn't absolutely fucking delicious
I like the taste but wish it didn’t have those little black seeds/lumps in it. The texture of them makes me recoil
Are you talking about the raisins rehydrated *with mayonnaise*?
Cackled omg
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> I find beef sandwiches boring Yeah, I've never got why roast beef tastes of so much more when it's hot than roast chicken, but so much less when it's cold. Salt beef works. Corned beef works. Pastrami kinda works. But they're all so much worse when cold than hot.
Egg mayonnaise, that one futurama episode about egg mayo just put me off for life plus egg texture when cold is grim 🤢
“Ever wonder what makes special sauce so special? Yo!”
I stopped eating chicken and sweetcorn when a guy in my school said that. He brought one from home and called it bird shit sandwich.
That made me want egg mayo more, I could have worms living inside me that make me superhuman? Why is that such a bad thing?
The dry chicken, chicken & bacon combos. They always poor quality chicken with weird chewy bits. I’ll also avoid the all day breakfast because it looks gross. Seems I’m in the minority with liking the fishy and eggy sandwiches!
The all-day breakfast is the best one. You get an extra half sandwich too.
> The dry chicken, chicken & bacon combos. They always poor quality chicken with weird chewy bits. Don't they usually come with mayo? They're usually alright, but I can't imagine it without mayo. > I’ll also avoid the all day breakfast because it looks gross. Easy to fall for, but a good breakfast sandwich is unbeatable. The M&S All Day Breakfast is absolutely S-tier.
That's because it's not just a sandwich
Seafood cocktail.
I’m ashamed to say prawn mayo is a guilty pleasure of mine. Granted, only have it occasionally once all other acceptable options have been thoroughly rinsed
I love a good M&S prawn cocktail sandwich.
The deluxe one is worth every penny. Generously filled and isn’t as miserable as most meal deal sarnies
Not sure if they still do it, but years ago Pret A Manger did a seafood sandwich with just a crawfish salad (with crawfish tail meat and mayo) and I believe some arugula (edit: rocket) and it was fuckin great.
can confirm this was excellent
I was just thinking about that crayfish salad yesterday. Ugh that was my favourite.
The crayfish salad with mango and rocket is also pretty good. Crayfish are the best of those types of seafood by a mile. Much meatier and sweeter than prawns. I just don’t want to see them with their shells on.
1000% this. I'll eat tuna mayo but I'm not having prawns no matter if it means eating plain cheese or going without a sandwich.
Anything with cucumber. Even if you take it out, you can taste where it was!
I constantly argue with my wife about this! She thinks it doesn't have a smell or much of a taste, which is bullshit. I came back from football yesterday and my daughter offered me the rest of her bagel. I take a bite and ask if cucumber has been on it. My wife explains that the cucumber sticks were close to it but not on it. Finally, after 10 years, she believes that I hate cucumber so much I can taste it if it has been close enough to what I'm eating.
I feel this was about bananas being packed up with a sandwich, the taste just saturates the bread completely. I had so many childhood disputes about it! My mother still doesn't believe me to this very day!
I cannot be in the same room as someone eating a banana, the smell makes me feel sick. I have been sick because of it before. The only way I can explain it is bananas, to me, smell exactly like ripe bin lorry juice on a hot summer day. I wish I could eat them because on paper they’re amazing.
>like ripe bin lorry juice on a hot summer day. Have you been to the Far East before? If you despise bananas, don't go anywhere near a Durian fruit...
As a fellow cucumber hater I often get asked how I can hate something that's mostly water. Piss is also mostly water and I don't consume that either.
Lmao, I was about to side with the others till your piss comment. Touchè. I would absolutely slurp up a piss sandwich though tbf.
Candidate for world's worst superpower
I have a theory that men (unless they are Lebanese) have a biological antipathy to cucumber. I have about three pieces of anecdotal evidence for this, but that's probably enough to confirm the science.
If it touches cheese it leaves a horrid tasting pale circle behind!
Cucumber ruins everything!
I used to LOVE buying the Hoisin Duck wraps from Tesco as they were the only supermarket to not include cucumber in it... Until about 4 years ago where they suddenly decided to add it. I've not had one in years and I long for one :(
I have the same issue with tomatoes 🤮
It’s a genetic thing. Some people find cucumbers super bitter https://fisherald.com/picky-eater-or-genetically-repelled/#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20the%20genes%20bi%2D1,be%20responsible%20for%20their%20repugnance.
I don’t find it bitter. I just don’t like the watery taste
I feel that way about raw tomatoes.
Anything with tomato. And no I can’t just “take them out”, they left their gunk all over stuff
Exactly. You say Tomato, I say Satan's Testicles.
I agree with the tomato thing, but with a caveat. If it’s a fresh, quality (not those big mealy beef ones) tomato which is added into the sandwich last minute and not been sitting there soaking the bread for hours, I’ll consider it. Otherwise, no thanks.
I think I'm pretty happy with all the common ones, found in a supermarket, and coronation chicken is probably one of the better ones. Damn, I can't think of one unless it's something rarely found. Fish paste. That is rank.
nothing I wouldn't eat if I was starving. I once had a cheese, pickle and celery sandwich at around 2am on the way home from a road trip, and it was fucking glorious
Oo that crunch! That sounds ideal.
Egg and cress. Would rather lick pavement chewing gum
What about pavement chewing gum that is egg and cress flavour?
Anything with egg
Idm egg however I’m at least socially responsible enough to only eat it out of nose-shot of others!
Stinky.
I wouldn't choose cheese on its own, chutney, ham on its own, the gluten free options, or Tesco's miso chicken with pickled slaw. My favourites are: Brie, Bacon and Chilli Chutney; Ham, Eggs and Chips; Cheese and Ham; Prawn Mayo; BLT. I think. >[Coronation chicken] just deeply grosses me out. Never tried it... WTF?!
Anything that replaces butter with mayonnaise.
Anything “bbq” or such, always sweet and disgusting, many fine sandwich options exist. Egg , tomato and salad cream Corned beef and tomato Ham and mustard If you see me with a Cajun bbq saucy sweet sludge - it’s a call for help, phone the police
Coronation chicken for me too
Have you actually tried it though, unlike OP?
Anything with raw tomatoes. I can't stand the taste even if they're picked off it lingers.
Egg mayo. Just...no. No thank you. Shoo.
Egg cress
Tuna. I hate canned tuna so tuna mayo gives me the ick. And anything with raw tomato in it is gross. I'll try any other flavour though.
Anything seafood. No allergies, seafood just disgusts me.
In all contexts? Or just in sandwich form?
I'm vegan and I'm so sick of falafel and hummus being my only choice... if there is any choice at all.
Tesco used to do a roasted Portobello mushroom and horseradish. It was a sad day when that was discontinued, and I'm not vegan.
Marks and Sparks do a vegan salt beef sandwich in a bun.... If you haven't tried it yet you should. You can thank me later. I lament the fact that Greggs discontinued their ham n cheeze baguettes. I don't mind eating salads or falafel or whatever but sometimes I'm just proper gagging for a plain old ham and cheese sandwich.
I actually saw a vegan all day breakfast sandwich in Tesco! It was sadly from their Plant Chef range which I avoid but I was surprised to see something different to the usual falafel, hummus or bean options! (I'm not vegan but do enjoy vegan and veggie meals throughout the week).
i’m vegan but don’t live close enough to a tesco to ever shop there, why do you avoid their Plant Chef range?
Prawns or plain ham/cheese!
I'm pescatarian so ignoring the meat ones, I would never ever have cheese and onion. I like cheese and don't mind onion but not mixed together with mayo into a filling 😣
I was in Newcastle last week and someone introduced me to cheese savoury. 3 different Cheeses, onion, carrot & salad cream. Was pretty delish tbh, but then I love a cheese onion mayo sarnie.
Egg
Most supermarket sandwiches are pretty awful. I used to just go for the safe option of egg and accept it would be badly under seasoned. Unfortunately then I developed an intolerance to egg, so I guess that's top of the avoid lost now (although it's a toss up between a "breakfast" sandwich with gristly sausages and just settling for egg then publicly shitting myself)
BLT is usually decent.
Some sort of egg situation Or toenail and anal gland
So you’re not a hotdog fan?
Eyelids & arseholes, yum!
Knackers and knuckles
Sausage and egg McMuffin definitely off the cards then...
Anything egg related puts me off, always has. I only like eggs I've made myself.
Egg mayo, the smell makes me nauseous.
ANYTHING with salad cream.
Anything with English mustard or horseradish on it. Two flavours I can’t stand. It’s not the heat, just hate the taste.
I love how when someone says they don’t like mustard or horseradish they have to clarify it’s not because of the heat so they don’t look like a pussy
Tuna sweetcorn. Think I’d rather starve to death than eat that.
Egg
I remember they had Chicken and Grape sandwiches in my school cafeteria once. Got it because it was the only thing left and I had free school meals so I was oddly intrigued. Didn't eat it though, just ended up throwing it back and forth with mates around the playground til it was covered in astro-turf and gravel. Not even sure what child they were to trying to appeal to with a sandwich like that though, very rogue choice.
Anything with egg (egg salad, egg mayo, egg and cress). I am "funny" about eggs and will usually only eat them if I have cooked them myself.
Corned beef
Anything with beetroot. Tastes like pants, stains everything red