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?

Maybe the person who's eating the other half of your sandwich paid twice as much!

I find the thought of some random stranger eating the other half of my sandwich really unnerving for some reason!

@FreshFancyFrogglette

This is so interesting. I don't know how I thought that shoes were made, but not this way. Wow, knowledge that I didn't realise i needed in my life. wonder who I can pass this pearl on to tomorrow...

Also, laughing at the poster who gave op a biscuit . Can imagine it being the final straw in a very long day...
"Not got time for this shit today", moment.

I always call this my Michael Douglas moment. Remember that film 'Falling Down' where he just flipped in the fast food place?

This is how I felt about meat and milk when I ate it. The idea of eating mince or a burger made from multiple cows was very disturbing to me. (Now vegan...this may have been a small factor!)

They are made in a huge stack and then cut vertically down the stack and then all the sandwich halves on the same side are picked up and packed in one box. They aren't related except by the fact they are bread, contain the same fillings and are stuck in card and plastic packaging.

@Peacocking

This is how I felt about meat and milk when I ate it. The idea of eating mince or a burger made from multiple cows was very disturbing to me. (Now vegan...this may have been a small factor!)

I have similar thoughts about eating chicken mayonnaise sandwiches. It's a bit mean serving chicken in a sauce made from their unhatched young (I know, not fertilised, but could have been). Even more cruel serving it with sweetcorn, which is what a chicken possibly eats.

[quote TyneTeas]How sandwiches are made

[/quote] OMG. !!

Quote from that video "for this sandwich, a JIZZ of mayonnaise is added"
Around 55 seconds in.

Why did you have to say that? 😟 I know it's true but it totally ruined so many sandwich options for me. On the other hand, you made me see the light and now I can do the right thing (and abstain)

@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.

I suppose that makes sense, I don't generally buy packaged sandwiches because to me they're the food of last resort and I'd only get one if there wasn't another option, but now I need to know if this is true and if you get two top halves or two bottom halves.

Having said that, I did get an M&S Boxing Day triple the other day, and it was OK and here you'd definitely get different halves of 3 different sandwiches. Christmas triple fans might like to try it, there was a cheese and chutney one, a turkey one and a ham and picalli one I think.

I also wonder if it's different in Morrisons compared to other supermarkets as all their sandwiches are made in store rather than a factory, so the smaller scale might mean you do get matching pairs. You might want to check this out OP if it makes a more comfortable sandwich experience for you .

@Wheeliebinsoutinthemorning where I worked you would make the number of sandwiches ordered by a particular retailer e.g 1000 chicken salad for Tesco. Each retailer would have a different recipes for their sandwiche e.g different bread, weight of chicken, number and placement of tomatoes. There is variety in quality and amounts.

That video is hilarious. Jizz of mayonnaise, 'miscellaneous salad', traditional ham logs that look about just as far from naice ham as you can get, slicing coffin, spanking, security checkpoint to look for contraband fingernails

Opened this thread expecting a light-hearted one. Bit of a laugh for a Sunday morning. Now I'm depressed.

Would they at least be loaf neighbours, though?

Rather than splitting up a pair, it's more like halving 2 individuals and sticking the upper torsos together. That's what you get when making a single sandwich at home anyway.

It's a freak either way.

I work in a factory where we make prepacked sandwiches for supermarkets and depending on how they're packed the 2 triangles are usually from 2 different sandwiches.
Also in our factory your sandwich has been touched by 22 pairs of hands before you get it.
(a manager said this in a promotional piece and didn't realise how that sounds)
Don't worry though we have very high cleanliness standards. We wore PPE before the world knew what that was.

@spudjulia

Opened this thread expecting a light-hearted one. Bit of a laugh for a Sunday morning. Now I'm depressed.

Julia.

The footage is probably genuine, but the voiceover most certainly isn't.

I can image a decline in the sales of supermarket sandwiches and a lot of head scratching in management meetings until someone gives an exec the link to this thread….

I think you are right, they likely make a pile, slice down the middle and take two from the same side!

@NiceGerbil

Oh god I hadn't even thought of triples!

That concerns me. My initial optimism may have been... Optimistic!

What does this mean for wraps?

I think wraps are more likely to be a pair. They aren't stackable like a sandwich.

Re shoes DC's have a harsh life of solitary anyway. They can never be found together in a pair.

Looking at this video they are related!!!

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

There are mixed options, usually come in a 3 though which I'm not sure why if they are all different anyway surely there could be 2 mixed options as well

@GlitterSquid

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

Oh. My. God.

You are right.

@DPotter

A million years ago I worked in a cafe and part of the job was making sandwiches. And I'm sorry I have to tell you we made sandwiches by stacking them on top of each other.

That's how I make my husband's sandwiches; one round of meat and one of cheese;, stack and cut, then pack the halves in separate sandwich cases.

[quote Hecates]@Wheeliebinsoutinthemorning where I worked you would make the number of sandwiches ordered by a particular retailer e.g 1000 chicken salad for Tesco. Each retailer would have a different recipes for their sandwiche e.g different bread, weight of chicken, number and placement of tomatoes. There is variety in quality and amounts.[/quote]
Interesting to know. Thank you.

Obviously the solution is to make your own packed lunch if something this irrelevant is worrying :D

You're insane. How do you cope if you buy the variety sandwich where there's eg one triangle each of egg and cress, cheese and tomato, tuna mayo? Do you have a complete and instant breakdown at the sight of these unrelated sarnies? Maybe the shops that sell them should set up a counselling phone line for those affected and all the reckless people that buy them and eat them with joy should be forcibly sent to sarnie rehab.