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

[OonaStubbs]

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.

Phew thanks for the heads up - I will defo will now only eat egg or cheese or ham sandwiches on plain from now on. All those pesky woke sandwiches coming round here stealing our traditional lunchtime snacks.

I’d have an egg sandwich but I think it would be too yoke

Is this how the world finally ends?

Zombie chickens wrapped in satanic sourdough….

It’s just stupid daily mail bullshit. They make a lot of money from taking completely neutral or even benign consumer trends and pretending they're evidence of an apocalyptic moral shift in the values of younger generations.

God, I hate the word "woke". So embarrassing when people say it trying to sound cool.

Mustard is rank anyway, I'd rather have a chicken sandwich.

It's just click bait

DM journalists - please stop using woke.

In this article -they mean old fashioned, classic.

I pretty much can guarantee you the kids writing this clickbait will be feasting on a buffalo mozzarella focaccia with nduja and samphire as they write from the Daily Mail’s office

Ham os a cacinogen absolutely should not be a daily food. Glad it's fading out tbh.

The article is garbage but M&S did wokeify their BLTs a couple of years ago by adding guacamole—making it ‘LGBT’—so if there’s a woke ingredient then yes, avocado is it.

Sandwich was nice but oh how I hated them for politicising my lunch.

M& S do a woke sandwich

I've been eating these "woke" sandwiches since the 80's.

It's a ridiculous way to frame this "story".

I wonder what the Mail’s stance on turkey sandwiches would be because that’s surely a post-Christmas staple up and down the country for decades?

I would consider chicken salad sandwiches a classic that is surely available in every meal deal shop. Coronation chicken is definitely not a Gen Z filling.

Fashionable, is what I’d call them. There are fashions in just about everything.

What a bizarre article and use of the word wokr! I'd expect a woke sandwich to be vegan, and locally sourced so there was no risk of child labour or envirinmentsl damage.

Avocado is quite a controversial filling if it comes from Mexico.

God, I loved it when M&S did that LGBT sandwich - classic bit of rainbow washing marketing strategy, yet everyone who reads the Daily Mail totally missed that and thought the alphabet mafia were trying to put gay sex in their sandwiches. Or something.
Surprised they had time to write this, shouldn't they be concentrating on the 'war on free speech' (which looks an awful lot like 'people are telling me im horrible when im saying horrible unacceptable things now, and i dont like it, why cant they just be quiet and let me be horrible instead of challenging my twatty views')

Load of balls. I remember buying similar sandwiches when I started working in the 1990s. It's not being 'woke' - it's realising that working life is boring and finding little ways to jazz your days up.

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Chicken can't be woke?!!

When I read the title I thought yeah, bbq jackfruit and alfalfa sprout sandwiches would, in my opinion, be intended to appeal to the blue haired vegan non binaries.

I'd only consider it a 'woke' sandwich if it had a label saying 'no white people are allowed to colonise/eat this sandwich' and top surgery scars scrawled across it in ketchup.

Chicken sandwiches are woke??!! 😂😂😂😂

"the alphabet mafia were trying to put gay sex in their sandwiches. Or something."

Wait a minute... Aren't we?! Who doesn't love a bit of sausage in their bun?

Every ageing generation looks at the one before it and complains about how society is going to shit with the classic "in my day...". At least with that you had to offer some sort of explanation for comparison. Now woke has been co-opted instead for every change in society people don't like to the point it's lost all meaning and and using it tells people nothing about what your actual issue is. To be fair, most of the people who would be inclined to use it for something like this probably couldn't actually articulate their issue if they tried.

I'll say one thing for the Daily Mail, they know their audience and they do a bang up job of catering to them.

Given how horrific the poultry industry is, even compared to other meat production, I'd say that if you had to rank sandwich fillings by "wokeness" then chicken would be pretty near the bottom.