To think freshly made should mean freshly made.

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Was out yesterday afternoon with dd. Had loads of running around to do, but that's another story, any way we goes into a well established and quite faultless tbh cafe for a small bite to eat.
So dd let's me know that she wants a sandwich and goes up to order 2 sandwiches, now on the board it has written in bold letters Freshly made sandwiches, so the cashier who I have to say was lovely proceeded to take my order. I asked for a chicken and egg mayonnaise sandwich with drinks, anyway she says to me, sorry there's no sandwiches left. So I said well can you not make one up for us, and she said again very politely sorry no, and my reply was, but it says up there that the sandwiches are freshly made but clearly they're not. If they're made in the morning theyre not fresh by 3.30 are tgey. That is misleading.
The cashier just looked at me, anyway I ordered something else and took the drinks over to the table and as I walking away i heard someone mutter. There's always one., isn't there. It made me laugh to be honest.
I'm not going to fall out with the place, as its very cheap, and I'm as tight as a duck's arse.

I would think freshly made as being made on the premises with fresh ingredients that day. So if the cafe made up fresh sandwiches with fresh ingredients all day and had run out of said fresh ingredients by 3.30 (after breakfast and lunch) that is perfectly reasonable and YABU. In fact it's even more likely that a place that serves sandwiches freshly made would run out of the ingredients, it's the ones that have freezers and fridges full of ready made that don't run out. You have totally got the wrong end of the stick and whinged at staff for selling their food at lunch time!

In fact most sandwich shops and cafes that make up fresh stuff shut mid afternoon or around 4.30-5, it's the places that churn out stuff later that have clearly pre made stuff. I'm amazed you are looking at this backwards?!

i read freshly prepared as to-order

Buglife I agree that OP has got it backwards and you explained much more eloquently than I did.

Everything was freshly made once upon a time. Not always clear exactly when that time was though

I guess at that stage of the day you do just have to ask exactly what they actually have left, as it may no longer be the full menu, or they may be moving on to the evening menu.

To me, freshly made means that day.

I didn't whinge Bug. I made a point, which whether you agree with that point or not. I had every right to voice his I feel. Up to now as long as it is not derogatory we still have freedom to speak our minds

I assumed because someone saw fit to comment on you in saying 'there's always one' that you'd been in a bit of a strop rather than 'just speaking your mind'. Also I would question if the people who run this lovely small cafe that keeps charges low that you say you find so nice saw your 'freedom of speech' as a whinge against them? Of course you have the right to speak your mind, but the cafe (and the customer who commented) most likely saw it as having a bit of a go because you misinterpreted their lack of sandwiches at the end of the day as some vile trickery

Because my point was that your point about freshly made could be a moot one seeing as that it's likely they do freshly make the sandwiches but had simply run out of sandwich stuff... Had they slapped a Tesco own brand sandwich in plastic down in front of you and claimed it to be freshly made is certainly agree with you! But AYBU to not want two days old sandwiches? No, that's reasonable, if they say freshly made I'd assume within a couple of hours (because running up a few extra chicken sarnies pre lunchtime time rush is perfectly reasonable for a cafe to do, especially if they are a small cafe with 2 staff members) AYBU to decide that's what this cafe do based on your OP? Yes.