Do you work in a Sandwich factory?

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Can someone explain why it's so hard to find a takeaway cheese and tomato sandwich?
I sometimes see them in a triple- where are the other halfs?

They’re old fashioned I guess. I love them too. It’s all about guacamole and slaw. Avocado and chorizo. Plus everything is over-sized these days. Portions, sandwiches, packets of crisps. Then they wonder why we have an obesity problem in this country.
It’s all down to those triple sandwiches.

Bit of sweeping generalisation. There always seems to be cheese and pickle or 'ploughmans' which I would have thought was more old fashioned.
I imagined it was a technical issue due to soggy tomatoes or something?

Presumably the other half of the sandwich is in one of the other triple packets.

They don't sell.well, Boots did one last year but it was discontinued due to low sales.

when people buy a sandwich meal deal they either want a cheap bargain so basic sandwich for £1-1.50 on its own or the biggest,most expensive sandwich, crisps & drink to maximise the (perceived) value for money

Marks and Spencer’s do a plain cheese and tomato in a soft white sub.

Tomatoes got expensive didn’t they? But aren’t perceived as high value?

sogginess factor I'd imagine

This was my first thought, too.

That’s sounds amazing!

Has no-one asked why you don't make your own yet? 😃

I want a foil wrapped cheese and tomato sandwich that's been sat in the back window of the car for hours.

It would make the bread soggy?

.... washed down with tea from a thermos that tastes a bit odd. Or warm squash.

Factory workers just make what's been ordered. They won't be privy to the retailers' buying decisions.... (tomato does make the bread soggy!)

I bloody love a cheese and tomato sandwich.

Wonderful sandwich freshly made, with plenty of black pepper. Has to be extra mature cheddar for me. Bread generously spread with butter.

I love a fresh ripe tomato in a homemade sandwich. But tomatoes in shop-bought sandwiches are under-ripe tasteless and generally unpleasant. If I find one, in the bin it goes.

When I worked, retired now, I made a pile of sandwiches on a Sunday and froze them. Easiest was cheese/ham/chicken. Then I'd take out in the morning and put the toppings (unsuitable for freezing) on at my desk. Had an insulated carry bag for this. By lunchtime all defrosted and I'd assemble my gourmet meal. 😀

Boring as hell, but hey it did the trick,
cheese and tomato
cream cheese and peppers
cheese and ham etc. etc.
cheese and pickle
chicken and salad and so on.

Just check what you can freeze in a sandwich and off you go. So much money saved by doing it this way. But I did like a Pret treat on a Friday though!

Not sure if this is true or not, they have to use a certain variety of tomato for prepackaged sandwiches. There is a lower water content so they don't go soggy.

Learnt it in food tech years and years ago.

Probably not enough call to grow them much now.

Because it would ruin a nice cheese sandwich.

Because it's the sandwich choice of a two year old? 😅

I'm playing though, I can't judge as I'd happily eat a cucumber and salad cream sandwich!

Had a summer job in a sandwich shop years ago. It was choose your own fillings. People only had cheese & tomato if it was toasted. Ham & tomato was the opposite - never toasted but popular cold
Most people who has cheese had salad & pickle as well as tomato.

Totally agree! Cheese and tomato toasties are actually divine.. especially with Emmental. Damn, now I want one

Omg one of the reasons it’s taken my 3 decades to trust tomatoes again is my mum committing one of the 7 deadly sins and putting a cheese and tomato sandwich in my lunch box for a school trip. Even now I can still remember biting in to it, wet and like a dish sponge 😫
First and last time she ever made me a school lunch!

Slice the tomato and salt it. Leave on some kitchen towel. Butter the dude of the bread it'll lay on, or sandwich it either side of the cheese. It's not rocket science.

It's sandwich science 😁