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?

@EveningOverRooftops

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.

I think they need to be vegan.

And live somewhere a bit countryside but with high power fancy jobs where go to eg new York a lot.

There could be a mix up where one has friend look after sandwich and other finds that friend in... Fancy office. thinks soul mate. Lots of angst and misunderstanding before true loves meet.

I want to have Michael Caine and Maggie Smith in there as side story. She has a small deli she comes in for cuppas. They fall in love slowly after shared love of sandwiches.

It was indeed from one of Tesco's establishments. Brown bread, turkey, little sausages, cranberry sauce, and a smear of stuffing. £2.80 but can be included in their £3 meal deal.

@starfishmummy

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.

The sock situation in this house is bad enough without getting emotionally involved about are they with their pair...!

I'm always sad when I see one swan on a lake

I imagine Mr Swan is just doing the shopping or tidying up the home while Mrs Swan has a break from the kids.

@doodlejump1980

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

Oh god why

@SusannaRowan

I'm always sad when I see one swan on a lake, because swans mate for life and should come in pairs. I don't want swans to be lonely. Although I confess aim drunk, but it's still something I think about when I'm sober.

Probably young and not met 'the one' yet.

Also noticed one can go off eg with kids all day and come back later so if waited would be happy ending!

Don't cry!

Did you not put them together to see if they matched?

@Rovinonmars

Did you not put them together to see if they matched?

Eat first, ponder life's mysteries second.

I remember when I ate meat wondering if the meat I was eating was from a male or female animal.

@justasking111

I'm more concerned that my M&S SANDWICH is assembled in Thailand by immigrant workers to be honest

Does Thailand have many immigrants?

I’m always too busy worrying whether the lettuce has been properly washed to think about sandwiches in pairs.

I also worked in a sandwich factory as I summer job many years ago and can confirm the 2 half's are unrelated. What annoyed me was that the sandwiches were made and supplied to many different shops and events, exactly the same sandwich just a different price label depending on where it was going. Some very cheap think corner shop, some very expensive, think Chelsea flower show etc. Maybe the person who's eating the other half of your sandwich paid twice as much!

It's honestly the last thing you need to worry about when eating pre packaged sandwiches...

Years ago I used to be funny about mixing milks in my cereal if I just had a little bit left in one bottle and needed to top it off with another. Then realised of course the milk isn’t just from one cow and it’s all mixed already!!! Idiot 😂

@Hecates

Hate to tell you this, but in a past life worked at the factory which produces all the main brands two sandwiches are stacked one on top of another, that is cut in half with each half going into a pack. They are never the same half's of one sandwich.

Tell us, @Hecates, are the sandwiches all the same or did the ones destined for more expensive shops have more or better quality fillings than the ones which would be sold more cheaply?

@doodlejump1980

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

Well this is obviously true but it’s also just blown my mind 🤯

Thanks. The kids are crying now.

Now I’m thinking about sweetcorn kernels being de-corncobbed and then getting separated from all their siblings (cobblings??) and all going their separate ways into different tins. 🌽😫

Why would you even put this out into the world? Now that's all I can think about, and I've just eaten a possibly unrelated/switched at making sandwich.

Can anyone send an email to the CEO of sandwiches and ask please.

Omg only on MN! Related sandwiches!

Oh no, and NOW i’m thinking about all the different cows’ milk going into the butter and cheese in each of the unrelated sandwich halves. What if they ran out of butter after sandwich A and used an entirely different one for sandwich B, from a whole nother farm or something. Your sandwich butters would be complete strangers.

@sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea

One of my teenage summer jobs was making sandwiches. 1,500 of the bastards every day for six weeks. I promise you OP, I buttered every slice, filled every filling, and kept those slices together as a pair until they went to their new guardian.

New slices together? Not on my watch.

You’re a good person. Thank you for your service.

Now my mind is blown by this, why can’t they do mixed options. They are already unrelated.

[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]

They're always bottom triangles in prepacked sandwiches aren't they? So sorry OP, I guess they're not related.

The ones that pretend to be fancy by being cut rectangular (WRONG!) and in a fancy paper bag could potentially be related?

How sandwiches are made

Just as I was going to bed tonight I went to look for my roasty toasty bed socks (thrown willy-nilly on the floor next to my bed earlier today). Only one was there, so I got out my torch to hunt for the other one, which I found half-stuffed under the bed. All good until I realised one of the socks I was holding was actually 2 socks tucked into each other, so I now had one pair and a totally random extra matching fluffy sock with no partner. Which got me wondering whether a) there is a poor lonely sock somewhere about to spend the night alone, or b) 2 socks have mated and had a sock child. I managed to tell myself to pull myself together and stop wasting brain space on a totally ridiculous non-problem, and then I read this thread...