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to ask if a sandwich filling can be "woke"?

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OonaStubbs · 21/11/2024 00:06

I noticed this story in the Mail today Gen Z are ditching traditional sandwich fillings such as ham & mustard or cheddar in favour of "woke" fillings such as chicken, foreign cheeses or avocado. But how can a sandwich filling be "woke"? IMO the word is now used to describe anything that people don't like.

Now Gen Z are waging war on our sandwiches!

Popular bread manufacturer Allinson's launched its Great British Sandwich Study to lift the lids on the nation's lunchboxes and reveal their changing tastes for the beloved snack.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14086091/gen-z-waging-war-sandwiches-ditching-classic-flavours.html

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ODFOx · 21/11/2024 00:21

Avocado sandwiches aren't woke. They're hipster 🤣🤣🤣.

Ringpeace · 21/11/2024 00:21

Or more specifically anything the Daily Mail don't like.

Which is a lot of things.

No33 · 21/11/2024 00:22

The woke sandwich is chicken!

username358 · 21/11/2024 00:25

IMO the word is now used to describe anything that people don't like.

It's been like that for a while. It's a right wing word used to express contempt for anything.

MrsBennetsPoorNerves · 21/11/2024 00:25

I absolutely bloody love avocado but I think they're pretty bad for the environment so not sure why they would count as "woke"?!

Bloody daily mail spouting shit as usual...

DaftyLass · 21/11/2024 00:28

Apple and smoked Gouda with arugula , on crusty bread , is just the thing

Wahoobafoo · 21/11/2024 00:30

I’m pretty sure I ate chicken sandwiches at sixth form from the cheapo sandwich shop over 20 years ago …and avocado wraps from Pret not long after

These sandwich fillings are not new.

What a ridiculous article!

ThatAgileGoldMoose · 21/11/2024 00:31

If I were to guess at what a woke sandwich filling would be, it would involve air fried chickpeas or tofu, and some combination of vegetables.

Sounds delicious to be fair!

SantoriniSunrise · 21/11/2024 00:33

A local cafe I was in last week had a goats cheese with balsamic onion jam toasted sandwich. It looked delicious but I don't like goats cheese.

Toastandbutterand · 21/11/2024 00:36

Half an avocado is the same price as an egg.

tolerable · 21/11/2024 00:44

Toastandbutterand · 21/11/2024 00:36

Half an avocado is the same price as an egg.

our french teacher used to say "one egg is un eouf

RosieBurdock · 21/11/2024 00:47

Sorry, I don't read the Mail. It's too woke for me and the readers are snowflakes.

RosieBurdock · 21/11/2024 00:48

Let's face it. You'd have to be a snowflake to be offended by a sandwich.

SnowFrogJelly · 21/11/2024 00:53

Only if it's asleep..

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TofuTart · 21/11/2024 00:55

It's the Daily Mail, and they're absolutely ridiculous.
Basically "woke" seems to mean anything they don't like. Or anything that's not traditional and war time 1940s era.

TofuTart · 21/11/2024 00:56

My username is probably too woke for the DM 😁

ForGreyKoala · 21/11/2024 01:11

They sound like perfectly normal sandwich fillings here, not just Gen Z people eating them!

IThinkImGonnaBeSadIThinkItsToday · 21/11/2024 01:22

tolerable · 21/11/2024 00:44

our french teacher used to say "one egg is un eouf

Well, that's better than Cadburys who in my childhood claimed "a finger of fudge is just enough." They lied to me. it was never enough. I always wanted another one straight after..They LIED. I'm still not over it, decades later! 😂

Nogaxeh · 21/11/2024 01:23

I'd imagine that a woke sandwich filling would still be wriggling...

Is coronation chicken now a woke sandwich filling?

How far back does woke go?

Nogaxeh · 21/11/2024 01:25

I had cheese and salt and vinegar crisps in my sandwich today. Anyone know if that is Daily Mail approved?

I'm guessing the brown sourdough bread is beyond the Daily Mail pale.

IThinkImGonnaBeSadIThinkItsToday · 21/11/2024 01:25

Nogaxeh · 21/11/2024 01:23

I'd imagine that a woke sandwich filling would still be wriggling...

Is coronation chicken now a woke sandwich filling?

How far back does woke go?

Coronation chicken would surely be considered too colonial to be woke!

Laserwho · 21/11/2024 05:31

I eat chicken sandwiches in the 70s. No it's not woke.

Gingerlingerlonger · 21/11/2024 05:43

Please. I actually read that shite. A wasted three minutes. It's a bloody advertisement feature for Allison with the word "woke" in the title as clickbait. It makes zero sense and the numbers are an utter load of made up bollocks.

roastiepotato · 21/11/2024 05:58

Avocados are linked to drug cartels in Mexico ,environmental damage, and some people boycott the ones grown in Israel.

Couldn't think of a less "woke" fruit/vegetable