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.

I'm eating chicken sambos for donkeys years and I'm very old, it's lovely with stuffing and mayo or lettuce and coleslaw. And don't forget the chicken fillet roll, every shop, hot counter sells them 🐥🥪

A 'woke' sandwich

Presumably it's a member of Extinction Rebellion and gives money to BLM. Glues itself to planes and stuff. Has they/them pronouns. Goes to therapy. Wears Lucy & Yak.

It's not so much that the fillings themselves are "woke" it's more that woke people want different fillings to normal people. It's a fashion thing, the same as how the woke dress and talk differently. It's pretty easy to compile a list of sandwiches that the woke wouldn't touch with a bargepole eg

• cheese
• ham
• ham and cheese
• ham and mustard
• chicken and bacon
• chicken and stuffing
• chicken, stuffing and bacon
• corned beef
• all day breakfast
• egg and bacon

Meh, lots of trad sandwiches are a bit cancery for me - ham, corned beef, fish paste etc. highly processed.

Some of the trad sandwiches were probably fancy pants in their time, I bet old people in the 70s condemned adding cress to egg, tuna mayo etc

Sorry, but you're incorrect.

Chicken is woke according to the article.

Time to bring back fish paste and potted meat sandwiches!

Note, that's two seperate sandwich fillings. The two together may be woke, I'm not sure, though I'm confident it would be if they were in sourdough together.

This made me laugh. Look around the world, there are so many different types of sandwiches with many different fillings! I’m partial to a cheese and pickle, but I’ll also make something Italian with pesto and cheese in, does that make me woke?

This is the maddest thing I've ever read on MN and I've been here 12 years. Woke people like different sandwiches to normal people? 🤣🤣🤣

woke is not use properly
avo grow in other countrys

"woke people"
"normal people"

😂
Define normal. Please.
In the case of the DM I think it's people who are in pinnies with rollers in their hair, with some Vera Lynn playing on the wireless.
They lose their tiny minds thinking of anything other than fish paste sandwiches or spam.
Anyway, chicken's woke. Apparently. Hand in your "normal" badge on your way out please and slink off to the "wokies."

😁

Urk! Avocado! Like eating Fairy Toilet soap. Don't ask me how I know!

Peanut butter, Marmite and cheese sandwiches are where its at!

It's the Mail being twattish. People have been eating fancy sandwiches forever. Pret was quite the thing at one time (no idea now as there's not one nearby).

The word "woke" only appears in the headline - it seems to be a bit of a weird use of the word like the headline was written by someone else. The rest of the article refers to the sandwich fillings as "fancy" or "exotic" or "classic".

It's basically comparing sandwich preferences of "boomers" with "Gen Z" (apparently nobody else exists or they didn't take part in the survey). Leaving aside the language choices, it's actually pretty interesting how food preferences change over time. It's not exactly a highbrow paper or section so it is what it is... a survey conducted by a bread manufacturer. A different newspaper would presumably have reported it differently.

In the late 80s mum made me summer sandwiches of ham and cheese salad in pitta bread. She was considered a trailblazer moving away from sliced white bread. She keeps watching GB News now so I will tease her about her previous wokeness!

Oh, the DM. Anything other than luncheon meat or pressed tongue in extremis probably qualifies as woke.

I think calling it a 'story' is pushing it OP. Just column filling fluff, probably written by AI!

Gen X just eat chewed up band tshirts. Millennials can't eat anything which is not brunch.

Sounds like you're holding some anger there. Have you considered therapy?

Why has no one mentioned sardines? Have they been cancelled?

I read that as being a joke, as that's what DM readers tend to usually get in.a froth about 😁
Hence it being a "woke" sandwich.

Remember HS2 is considered "woke"

Joking aside, it does make for a quite interesting point about trends in thought and language – how ‘woke’ was a fashionable idea about 10 or so years ago, enjoyed a crest about 5 years ago, and has now reached the point where it attracts nothing but ridicule. It’s pretty funny to see the woke themselves trying to disown the word; they know what side history is now on.

All you need to know is it's the Daily Mail, left hating nonsense.