I Just Had A Terrible Thought About Supermarket Sandwiches

[Mysterian]

What if the 2 triangles enclosed in their card and cellophane coffin are from 2 different square whole sandwiches?! I feel very uneasy thinking that my 2 christmassy sandwich triangles that I ate by a river earlier weren't related in any way. Has anybody checked this out by trying to reassemble the parts?

[quote IcedCoffeeAlways]@Mysterian I hate to break it to you OP - but it’s 100% the case 😓 grabbed a quick M&S sandwich for a train journey one day with DH and on opening mine I had two bottom triangles 😳

I’m not sure what was more outrageous - the fact that I had 2 unrelated sandwiches or the fact DH didn’t know there was any difference between the top and bottom crust on a slice of bread 😐 he genuinely had no idea what I was talking about![/quote]

Ahh man I would pay extra for two bottom triangles! That's living the dream!!!!

Sliced bread?

OH GOD

I remember a scandal years ago about garage sandwiches that were out of date being opened up and the filling taken out and new filling put in. There could be four unrelated triangles that maybe had a different filling originally

@JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon I feel the same way about the top triangles 🤣 we really should be lunch friends!

That's awful @Hecates. And I hadn't thought about triple packets. I suppose the triples with 3 different flavours should have alerted me to the practice too.

I also had Salt n Vinegar Quavers which seemed unnatural as well. All that natural cheesy flavour washed off and replaced with stingy sourness. (Every few years I forget I'm not keen on the flavour and give them a shot at redemption.)

I wish I hadn't read this thread The sandwich question has made me feel quite queasy and I don't even understand why! I told DS about the sandwiches being unrelated and he shivered and said 'I don't like that idea'.
So thanks OP, if we're both awake having nightmares about sandwiches tonight, I'm messaging you

@makelovenotpetrol

I'm not sure this is as funny to other people as it maybe was in your head OP

Stop being such a miserable bag

I think about bottles of milk.... How many different cows has that 4 pints come from? Can't be just 1 cow, they mix all the milk from different cows from different farms...

I was inexplicably horrified when a work colleague (who had worked on a chicken packing factory) explained that the giblets in a chicken would not have come from said chicken.
They just took packs of giblets from a crate and shoved them in the carcass.

[quote chickeneggy]@Mysterian I have this same thought about triple sandwiches ! Where has its twin gone ? Are the other two twins ? Or are they all unrelated ?

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Mind blown.
thanks so much OP for making me think about such things. I will never buy a triple again. Just makes me queasy at the thought.

@VsgKitt

Actually... Are shoes even really pairs? Or are all the left and rights made separately and they're just put in a box with no real relationship Does being put in the box make them a pair.

I used to work at Greggs, so we would make the sandwiches then put one on top of the other and cut them diagonally leaving 2 'piles' and each 'pile' went into a box. So yes different sandwiches.

I think we all need to-

Buy sandwiches from places where they make them in front of you

Get shoes handmade. Costs thousands I think but worth it.

This could be the beginning of a quirky romance as two sandwich lovers seek to find the real second half of their sarnies. Of course there will be a debate, lots of childish tantrums and declarations of lust as the sarnie lovers try to decide which sandwich is their destiny.

@doodlejump1980

Also, the milk in your tea comes from more than one cow. See also, mince.

I buy mince from the butcher.

He cuts the meat off the larger pieces and then puts it through the machine.
So it's all from the same animal, though there may be residue from the machine.

AAAAAAAHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOO

I can never unthink this now

You need some so you pass out sooner

@vsgKitt oh. my. god. Its obvious but it's so not right is it? Just like a pint of milk being a mix of a load of cows' milk....

So every pair of sandwiches has a twin box!

I shall make it my life's work......

I've been to a dairy farm and seen milking. It was a friend of a friend in Devon and all looked v clean and cows looked after etc. I mean. It's still grim and having bf I felt v empathetic.. But anyway.

Yes all goes into big thing for... Erm. Processes? And big tank at farm then tanker for transport.

That doesn't freak me out about the mixing!

Fyi I found out that their milk went for lurpak! Which I thought was Danish or... Something.

The other was anchor iifc.

So if you buy them you are getting Devon milk props... Anyway I buy lurpak now!

I worked for a dairy farm and all 200 cows milk went into the tanker to go off to the dairy to be mixed with many other tankers in a silo..... mind blowing.

Oh, this makes me so sad. I like to think of my shoes being together.

And socks. I don't mean to be cruel but generally I just grab 2 from a multipack and don't stop to think about sock relationships.

Never forget that you were the one who brought them together in the end, merged together as one. In the pits of your stomach.

Also, if you put a sock on inside out, the whole of the entire universe is wearing it except you.

DH didn’t know there was any difference between the top and bottom crust on a slice of bread

Neither did I, @IcedCoffeeAlways

You're going to have to put me out of my misery and explain now ... how can two ends be different? Surely they're just a bit more rounded and brown on one side?