to ask when the memo went out to say that no one eats sandwiches anymore

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and that we all have such delicate constitutions that eating bread gives us an attack of the vapours and means we need a lie down.

I can only assume that it was on the same memo that said that we can only eat quinoa that we have knitted ourselves or organic home grown couscous.

I can empathise with the intolerant etc folk - bread not a problem for me (unlike my coeliac dm) but I do have ibs and when it is triggered it is painful and cramps and uncomfortable - so Yabu to be so arsey and derogatory about other people's experiences with intolerances and allergies

I knew someone whose husband would only eat his Sunday dinner in a sandwich. On the same housing estate (where we lived in 1970 something) was someone whose husband had a whole sliced loaf in sandwiches for his "snap".
We have rolls most days but OH uses 30% spelt in his bread.

I bought a loaf of imported English white sliced earlier. It cost £6. We have had most of it toasted already and the rest got scoffed on the car journey home.

I just don't really like sandwiches. Never had, it was a nightmare for my mum to figure out what to put in my pack lunches as a kid. Of course, now I feed my dd a sandwich pretty much every lunchtime! I still don't at them if I can avoid them.

We eat loads of bread here, homemade, sliced, brown, white, the lot. Sandwiches every day - must have missed the memo.

I have IBS and if I'm having a flare up then so much as a bread crumb will make me so bloated that I look 9 months pregnant with twins and not be able to go further than 5m from a toilet. Wheat has changed a lot over the last 30-40 years due to intensive selective breeding which is why so many people have problems with it now - most people would feel a lot better if they didn't eat any of the stuff.

I had a bought tuna sandwich yesterday. I spent the night and today with food poisoning. I love sandwiches but think it's going to be a while before buying ready made ones again. I'll stick with making them myself

Hmmm...time for a big doorstop me thinks. Love bread, love sarnies.

Hmmm...time for a big doorstop me thinks. Love bread, love sarnies.

I'm trying to lose weight so bread is banned. I love it :( and cake and carby deliciousness.

I still remember the most amazing rolls we used to order in for lunch at work - full roast meal (sliced meat, stuffing, roast potatoes, cranberry sauce & gravy) inside a baguette. They were amazing. And probably partly why I need to shift 25kg now :)

I just had a cheese and pickle sarnie all because of this thread.

I eat the occasional sandwich (usually a panini, pitta or wrap rather than a typical sandwich) and love toast. I can eat lots of bread and don't notice any ill effects but do find if I don't eat it for a while when I then have it I do often feel very bloated or sick. I do seem to have more energy if I avoid gluten but it's not something I tend to do consciously.

But I have noticed people where I work don't tend to eat sandwiches any more, people mostly seem to eat salads and soup or couscous plus things like pot noodle or instant rice. There is always always a queue for the microwave. Beans and tinned fish on toasted very popular too as are ryvita/ crackers. Recently more people seem to be bringing in leftovers like pasta, curry or casseroles in Tupperware too. Very very few people (if any) eating sandwiches every day.

I knew someone who used to get a butter pie (lancs delicacy) and have it in a sandwich, and good on her I say

Like a chip butty only better methinks.

I too have yet to meet a carb I didn't like, so amen sister! We've all got to die of something, so you might as well put me down for some type 2 diabetes with a side order of heart disease and a nice crispy bread roll. But mostly I would just like to say how happy it makes me that there are so many typos in this thread about a thread about bread in which gluten has been substituted for glutton . Whatever would Dr Freud make of that?

i love sandwiches and eat them every day.
I am highly skeptical about people not tolerating this , that and the other. Occasional folks yes but everyone....what would they have done in times gone by or in less food aplenty locations?
if you want to eat sandwiches , go ahead!

I love bread, especially white bread.

Unfortunately I'm one of those poor souls who is triggered by wheat (not IBS, bowel issues relating to previous surgery), and now being tested for coeliac.

Sometimes, just sometimes, I risk it for the joys of a dinosaur turkey sandwich on white bread. Worth it. I wish

What on earth is a butter pie?

I have sandwiches most days for lunch at work. I'll vary it with a salad if the stall has any salad veg left. By the time I go out for my daily constitutional, most of the veg has gone and they don't usually refill after 1.30.

I rarely eat them at home but when I do I love Brie/bacon/cranberry/spinach combo.

I have to say that despite my earlier facetious comment, I am similar to other posters in that I do have a glucose intolerance. However I know its an intolerance and not an allergy, so I don't need vapours if anyone wafts a sarnie in front of me. I tend to have homemade spelt bread or gluten free bread at home. And that, combined with realising that most of my issues are lactose (again intolerance not allergy) related, has meant my ibs is very controlled now and I can very occasionally devour a whole baguette with minimal issue.

However I was never going to give up sarnies. Or bread. I need it in some form goddammit

But why on earth does the cause of the problem matter - intolerance can probably be as painful as allergy and even if it is less painful why should you not avoid foods that cause discomfort incase some twat feels it isn't a real issue and you are just being faddy - it isn't fun lying on a bed squirming in pain or have bouts of the shits - and if you are at work or out in public it's fucking awful.

Perhaps the fact that we are no longer undergoing natural selection as a species at the sake rate as even 50 years ago, the way our food is farmed and grown - the science that has changed our crops etc.
the change to the ways imfant dc were fed in the 70's and 80's can all.mean that possibly just because something was one way in the 50's - 80's it doesn't mean things will be the same now.

Ps has anyone heard of a pie barm?

Just had a bacon roll after reading this thread. Mmmmm!

However, having low carbed for a month (& lost fuck all ) I have gone back to my usual carby twattishness and instantly bloated and constantly hungry again.

I know it's not good for me, DP avoids gluten as it allegedly makes him feel dizzy and ill, so it's not a big feature of our meals together anyway, but you can't beat good bread. Standard bread sandwiches I'm happy to live without though.

I love bread but it doesn't love me. If I avoid it for a few days my rings get looser so it definitely bloats me. So no I don't have sandwiches every day. I do have them sometimes though and bloody love them when I do.

Tried making spelt bread in bread maker but find it too yeasty and I get horrible heartburn from it.

Just back from Australia and am missing sourdough. Yum. I know I could buy it here but I will just eat it all if I do.

No carbs here for me next week to try lose the 5lbs I have gained in last month eating bread.