Someone has left a Marmalade Sandwich outside Buckingham Palace...

[Elderflower14]

With a note attached saying "For later..." 😢 😢 😢 😢
As a MASSIVE Paddington fan this made me cry more than the taxis lined up in The Mall.... ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

How astonishingly joyless! It's clearly a homemade sandwich, likely wrapped in clingfilm. I assume you are also against all the plastic-wrapped flowers at this and every other memorial and have ensured that when you go, no one will express remorse or sorrow, except through specific charitable acts. Yet, somehow you still think that someone taking the time to make a personal tribute is virtue signalling in a way that posting about social injustice on a public forum is not.

While I get the connection and I'm sure it was done in good faith my first thought was it's attracting seagulls/foxes and rats etc. But if that's the case at least it'll get eaten I suppose.

Yes, Daniel Craig the actor, the one who joined the Queen in the big joke when she parachuted into the Olympics.

Of course not. But if instead of making up sandwiches or buying flowers etc to go to landfill each person who felt compelled to mark her passing had made a charitable donation in the queen’s name instead then that could certainly have done a lot of good for others.

@Noentrymeansnoentry the Queen presumably didn't ask for the sandwich. Perhaps it was mouldy bread... I really don't feel the need to question it tbh. It's not a hamper or a £100 towards her funeral costs. It's a gesture that someone (not me) felt was appropriate in memory to the Queen.

What a fitting tribute. Someone who was paid to hang out with her for four minutes.

But if instead of making up sandwiches or buying flowers etc to go to landfill each person who felt compelled to mark her passing had made a charitable donation in the queen’s name instead then that could certainly have done a lot of good for others

And how do you know they didn't? and what sodding business is it of yours anyway? bloody hell, there are some joy sucking po-faced puritans around.

I am. We know the planet is on its knees, having plastic-wrapped crap lying around for someone else to clean up is abhorrent.

If you think that took four minutes, you know nothing about filming.

Yes of course I am against the flowers. I’ve only been part of arranging funerals for two people (parent and grandparent) and at both we said no flowers and suggested donations people could leave instead. I’m confident when I go my family will know I don’t want anything like that, I’m involved in a number of charities so yes would expect them to instead donate to one or more of these if they feel they have to do anything at all. Obviously though I’ll be dead and blissfully unaware so if nobody wants to express any remorse or sorrow at all that’s absolutely fine too and preferable to wasting their money on flowers or other sentimental gestures.

How do YOU know that the person who made the one sandwich hasn't already given money this week to one of her charities? It's possible to do both.

What have you done this week to help hungry people? Have you bought anything this week which was in an unnecessary wrapper, something that you could have made at home and wrapped in a linen towel instead of using a polybag?

In some cultures people leave food at shines

How long did it take?

HM was solely to blame for several hundred years of history.

She was the head of the commonwealth.

As much my business to say I think it’s ridiculous as it is anyone else on here’s business to say they think it’s nice/ sweet/ fitting etc surely? She was as much my queen as anyone else’s and I’m entitled to my opinion on her passing as much as anyone else who lived under her reign.

Why a marmalade sandwich? I don't understand

I’m entitled to my opinion on her passing

of course you are, it’s just a shame you choose to use it to piss on other peoples chips.

I thought it was a lovely sentiment, god bless her

I'm definitely with @MolkosTeenageAngst on the broccoli. The sandwich thing I suppose is symbolic and meaningful, and I hate cling film but I can also be terribly sentimental. It's a tough call. Not keen on the waste of flowers either but good for the florists, I guess?

As one of the people struggling to eat/heat, I got a bit of joy from that marmalade sandwich. I don't begrudge someone spending about 15p to make possibly millions smile. Considering a bouquet of flowers costs about 20 quid and comes wrapped in plastic, I think the sandwich is rather lovely.

What a lovely idea, I hear the Queen loved doing the scene "with" Paddington. I know they played it in schools yesterday as well. I would have been in bits.

I assume you are also against all the plastic-wrapped flowers at this and every other memorial

To be honest, that is something I'm against. I thought that mound of rotting flowers wrapped in plastic when Diana died was hideous. I read that somewhere - Windsor? - they have a table set up where people can take the polythene off their flowers, so that ultimately they can be taken away for compost easily.

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Because she did a skit with Paddington for the Jubilee. And since she died people are posting really odd shit about Paddington taking her to meet Philip. And Paddington likes marmalade sandwiches.

My first thought on seeing the thread title was "but it'll attract some ants"