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to ask if a sandwich filling can be "woke"?

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OonaStubbs · 21/11/2024 00:06

I noticed this story in the Mail today Gen Z are ditching traditional sandwich fillings such as ham & mustard or cheddar in favour of "woke" fillings such as chicken, foreign cheeses or avocado. But how can a sandwich filling be "woke"? IMO the word is now used to describe anything that people don't like.

Now Gen Z are waging war on our sandwiches!

Popular bread manufacturer Allinson's launched its Great British Sandwich Study to lift the lids on the nation's lunchboxes and reveal their changing tastes for the beloved snack.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14086091/gen-z-waging-war-sandwiches-ditching-classic-flavours.html

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MarketValveForks · 21/11/2024 08:04

M& S do a woke sandwich

to ask if a sandwich filling can be "woke"?
Sskka · 21/11/2024 08:01

The article is garbage but M&S did wokeify their BLTs a couple of years ago by adding guacamole—making it ‘LGBT’—so if there’s a woke ingredient then yes, avocado is it.

Sandwich was nice but oh how I hated them for politicising my lunch.

Neurodiversitydoctor · 21/11/2024 07:55

Ham os a cacinogen absolutely should not be a daily food. Glad it's fading out tbh.

Thepeopleversuswork · 21/11/2024 07:01

I pretty much can guarantee you the kids writing this clickbait will be feasting on a buffalo mozzarella focaccia with nduja and samphire as they write from the Daily Mail’s office

Fiis · 21/11/2024 06:52

DM journalists - please stop using woke.

In this article -they mean old fashioned, classic.

Headingtowardsdivorce · 21/11/2024 06:34

It's just click bait

Beezknees · 21/11/2024 06:32

God, I hate the word "woke". So embarrassing when people say it trying to sound cool.

Mustard is rank anyway, I'd rather have a chicken sandwich.

ChocolateTelephone · 21/11/2024 06:28

It’s just stupid daily mail bullshit. They make a lot of money from taking completely neutral or even benign consumer trends and pretending they're evidence of an apocalyptic moral shift in the values of younger generations.

WellOwlBeDamned · 21/11/2024 06:26

Is this how the world finally ends?

Zombie chickens wrapped in satanic sourdough….

Numsmetty · 21/11/2024 06:24

I’d have an egg sandwich but I think it would be too yoke

SadSandwich · 21/11/2024 06:18

Phew thanks for the heads up - I will defo will now only eat egg or cheese or ham sandwiches on plain from now on. All those pesky woke sandwiches coming round here stealing our traditional lunchtime snacks.

roastiepotato · 21/11/2024 05:58

Avocados are linked to drug cartels in Mexico ,environmental damage, and some people boycott the ones grown in Israel.

Couldn't think of a less "woke" fruit/vegetable

Gingerlingerlonger · 21/11/2024 05:43

Please. I actually read that shite. A wasted three minutes. It's a bloody advertisement feature for Allison with the word "woke" in the title as clickbait. It makes zero sense and the numbers are an utter load of made up bollocks.

Laserwho · 21/11/2024 05:31

I eat chicken sandwiches in the 70s. No it's not woke.

Nogaxeh · 21/11/2024 01:25

I had cheese and salt and vinegar crisps in my sandwich today. Anyone know if that is Daily Mail approved?

I'm guessing the brown sourdough bread is beyond the Daily Mail pale.

IThinkImGonnaBeSadIThinkItsToday · 21/11/2024 01:25

Nogaxeh · 21/11/2024 01:23

I'd imagine that a woke sandwich filling would still be wriggling...

Is coronation chicken now a woke sandwich filling?

How far back does woke go?

Coronation chicken would surely be considered too colonial to be woke!

Nogaxeh · 21/11/2024 01:23

I'd imagine that a woke sandwich filling would still be wriggling...

Is coronation chicken now a woke sandwich filling?

How far back does woke go?

IThinkImGonnaBeSadIThinkItsToday · 21/11/2024 01:22

tolerable · 21/11/2024 00:44

our french teacher used to say "one egg is un eouf

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Well, that's better than Cadburys who in my childhood claimed "a finger of fudge is just enough." They lied to me. it was never enough. I always wanted another one straight after..They LIED. I'm still not over it, decades later! 😂

ForGreyKoala · 21/11/2024 01:11

They sound like perfectly normal sandwich fillings here, not just Gen Z people eating them!

TofuTart · 21/11/2024 00:56

My username is probably too woke for the DM 😁

TofuTart · 21/11/2024 00:55

It's the Daily Mail, and they're absolutely ridiculous.
Basically "woke" seems to mean anything they don't like. Or anything that's not traditional and war time 1940s era.

AvidOpalBee · 21/11/2024 00:53

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SnowFrogJelly · 21/11/2024 00:53

Only if it's asleep..

RosieBurdock · 21/11/2024 00:48

Let's face it. You'd have to be a snowflake to be offended by a sandwich.

RosieBurdock · 21/11/2024 00:47

Sorry, I don't read the Mail. It's too woke for me and the readers are snowflakes.

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