to have only just found out that....

[spacepyramid]

....when you buy a sandwich in a shop you are getting the halves of two different sandwiches because they are made, put in a pile and sliced in half. I eat my two halves and somebody else is eating the other two halves.

I need to get a life don't i?

What silly things have you never realised?

@Cam77

I never realized that my Ryan Air flight traversing the Milky Way is going to take 200 billion years. In hindsight I probably should have paid for more legroom.

Wrong thread ???

I am verrrry curious to know which thread you meant to put this on!

I'm not going to watch the sandwich link as it will put me off. Anyone who presses their bare hand down while making my sandwich puts me off too.

I really want to press the sandwich video link.

Seemed to be less food fingering in that factory than you get on an average episode of Masterchef tbh.

anyone else with some intresting info like this?i love these threads.and being about food aswell....
i also love those how stuffs made videos.
watching the mr kipling factory program the other day was right up my alley

i used to work in a restaurant at the pleasure beach in blackpool making the sandwiches for the cold cabinet and yes i used to do a run of bread buttered filling, top bread and then repeat as when cut in half one sandwich went in one plastic triangle the other half went in another triangle

And buttering the bread with a spoon instead of a knife, seemed to be a "trick of the trade" in a small outlet.

But at the end of the video (around 4.32) the man is putting them together as you would if you made one sandwich.

I am sure the egg mayo ones in the second half of that video look like it all the same sandwich and not two random halves??

The ham and cheese ones were def different halves - but I was more put off by the amount of people mauling the sanwiches without gloves..... ewww.

Next up: factory cake making -

If you give up milk from multiple cows, how about butter and cheese?

The only solution to this is - get your own cow .

I used to work at Greggs, can confirm the sandwiches there are from different halves

Too add, it's much easier to pick them up when they're doubled up compared to flipping a single sandwich over to put them in the box.

The only solution to this is - get your own cow smile.

Perfect. Then you can sell it and have a huge house.

I want a cow called Daisy but I think the neighbours would have a fit.

so if your sat in a cfe and tehy got an order for several tables of the same sandwich.do you think we would all be getting each others halves!?

Noooo stop it, I don't like it! I want my whole sandwich and I'm not sharing!

Has noone ever bought a sandwich that was two of the same half before? Annoys me as I always get two bottom halves.

@SheilaBruce you are my sandwich twin

I realised it years ago.. but that’s because I was being weird n attempted to plate up my work lunch sandwich, salad n crisps.. they didn’t fit together properly. I sounded mad showing the rest of the staff but it did weird me out a little like why not just put one in one box.

Milk n butter not being from the one cow though I’ve never actually thought about that. I wonder if it’s even from the same farm.

I would be so happy to get two "bottom" sandwich halves. It has never happened to me.

That said; I've never had two tops either; so maybe they don't do this near me.

@SheilaBruce yes! I hate getting the 2 bottom halves, the bottom is the worst!

Milk n butter not being from the one cow though I’ve never actually thought about that. I wonder if it’s even from the same farm.

Depends - if you're buying a big brand then it would probably be from one place (think super-dairy) but if it is organic/niche brand it's possible it comes from 5-10 farms. A tanker takes up to 28,000 litres so for small producers who get 2-3000 litres each milking you'd take a few different farms to fill it up!

I'm told that our local Wisemans milk is from the one local farm (so Wisemans claim) but they only have 30 cows. That is either some very intensive milking (quite possible, poor cows) or some creative explaining.

We need more random facts on this thread this is brilliant.

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