I don't mind mayo' and the like, but I have to agree some of the fillin's are just daft...I mean if ya put enough tomatoes in a sarnie, unless you're gonna eat it there and then, ya got soggy bread...and there are loads of people who don't eat mayo, and why is limp lettuce an obligatory between 2 slices of bread.
I once asked, in a cafe where sarnies were made to order, if I could have a cheese sandwich, the girl said "we don't do cheese, we do cheese and pickle, cheese and tomato, or cheese and onion." ffs. she was reciting the menu. So I says I'll have a cheese and tomato without the tomato.
I dont particularly like salad in sandwhiches so that rules out 50% of them right off the bat. The other thing that really annoys me as someone who at various times has weight watched is how the hell they manage to get so many calories into one sandwhich. I have made sandwhiches at home following advice from slimming programmes. On average one piece of bread is 100 Calories, some ham 40 calories and some cheese 60 calories (Not talking giant portions). There you have a 300 calorie sandwhich. Try and buy a cheese and ham sandwhich out anywhere and it will be 450+ calories minimum. Thats actually not bad for a sandwhich too, some can be 500-600 calories plus it rediculous! One standard sausage 100 calories, some bacon 50 calories, one egg 100 calories, hash brown 150 calories, piece of bread 100 calories, small portion of beans 70 calories and the you have tweekys Breakfast for 570 calories, shuve your sandwhich up your ass :lol2:
Blimey and there was MrM thinking he was the only one, he doesn't like mayo, dressings, tomatoes and seems to have the same problem as you, he was in a well known bakers in this part of the world, asking, does that have mayo, and this one and what about that, actually do you have any sandwiches without mayo?, No,?.. typical
We were in the local having a meal last week end, he smelt the mayo they had snuk in the bun before he'd even cut or bitten into it, the meal went straight back to the kitchen.
I teach adults so the fillings in sandwiches are limted for me so to summarise:
NO
raw onion - it makes everyone's breath stink - why do they put it on/in anything?
eggs - makes for smelly wind
fish (tuna, salmon etc) - smelly breath
cheese - why the FFFFFF do they insist on grating it????? It just FALLS OUT all over your desk!
Tomato - makes the bread soggy
Curry/tikka - the breath thing
YES
non-soggy salad
humus
ham - you remember, proper ham - not pink slush with water seeping out of it
beef - but MUST have horseradish with it
chicken - again, proper chicken, not that plastic circular white stuff, even if it has 'stuffing' in it.
Prawns - LOADS of prawns with just enough dressing to hold them in - not 2 tiny shreds in a soggy dollop of artifically coloured salad cream.
Filling that is the same thickness from crust to middle. Not a teaspoon of filling in at the cut edge to nothing at the edges.
BUTTER - yes, that's right - real butter in my sandwiches please.
Bread - decent bread, ok people like white bread it doesn't have to be the spineless mush that sticks to the roof of your mouth. There is such a things as good white bread.
I seriously think there are people out there (in sandwich suppliers) who have no concept that a lunchtime sandwich is supposed to be a meal.
/rant
I will not eat any sandwich with 'and' in the title. White bread only, no goop, just one filling.
simples !
I rarely eat pre-packed sarnies but when I do, they have to have some kind of dressing. I don't really like totally dry food.
Asda used to do a yummy all day breakfast sandwich but they changed it. M&S used to do a fab prawn mayo (and I don't usually like any kind of fishy stuff) sandwich but they changed it.
Sometimes change is bad. For you, Meeko it could be good .. write to your preferred retailer and insist they meet your needs! While you're at it, ask Batchelor's to bring back the mushroom and wine flavour and not with that shitty wholegrain bollocks pasta either, I want the unhealthy stuff, that's why I bought crap in a packet!
I don't mind sandwiches as long as they don't have bread in them......
