Since when did Marks and Spencer start calling sandwiches sandos?

[TheAverageJoanne]

I bought a sandwich from Marks and Spencer today. They advertised it as a sando.

Say what?

Sando? Dear Lord, what is happening to the British language?! First it was LOL in the dictionary, and now sando... I know that times change, but sandwich sounds far superior to sando!

Oh they look nice!

Maybe read the thread? Because it’s absolutely nothing to do with “British language” (whatever that is).

If you don't like the idea of Japanese-inspired sandwiches with fruit in them (and what about tomato?), don't look into the many varieties of Kit Kat that you can buy in Japan!

Green tea, baked potato, cheese, custard... horrific!!!

The green tea Kitkat is lovely. A colleague brought some back from a trip to Japan.

Haha, yeah I can't abide tomatoes either! And yeah, kitkats are crap and trying to jazz them up with bizarre flavours just makes it worse!

I love sushi and other Japanese food though. But only in moderation.

“Sando” is the transliterated word for this type of sandwich!

Omg, it’ll be Kathryn. She thinks she’s down with the kids since she blew up on TikTok. 😆. I might try a strawberry one if I see one in the shops mind.

I’m embarrassed at some of the narrow minded replies here.

In Japan, sandwiches are called sando. There is no “d” sound in Japanese so when you shorten the English word sandwich it becomes sando. Same reason why McDonalds becomes MakkuDo in Japanese.

Sando are crustless sandwiches made with very thick fluffy bread. The ones with cream and fruit have bread more like brioche so it’s like a cake really. Sando can be savoury as well as sweet eg egg mayo is a popular filling.

That'd be sanga.

I never liked Japanese sandwiches - worked there for a couple of years - and the 'sandos' were one of the least exciting things available to eat there. Love Japanese food otherwise!

I was quite overcome when I got home and could get a proper cheese and pickle sandwich on malted bread...

I know. It's like when people of Caribbean heritage talk about putting rice and peas on a roast and there's always lots of outraged 'rice! on a roast! how weird! posts. Likewise foods originating from northern England like pie and peas.

A lot of Mumsnetters like to think they're very worldy and cosmopolitan but quite often show themselves to be quite the opposite.

Worse - people calling Marks and Spencer ‘Markies’. Should be a criminal offence.

I thought it was rank!

Is it the strawberries and cream one?
I got addicted to them in Japan!
Its not like bread and Lurpak with strawberries and cream! Its a lovely sweet bread.
You buy them from the convience stores.

Why not just call them 'Japanese bread sandwiches' or something similar, or even find an authentic (transliterated) Japanese word for them to become commonly known by? probably Sandos is a lot snapper and wont take up as much room on the packaging as well as pretty accurate in describing what they are.

I use Hello Fresh and the dinner I had last night was called a ‘Sando’. It was just fried chicken in a roll but as it had South American spices I thought it was something related to that but is it just a trendy word? How weird.

Really? Why is it in Pedants' Corner then?

Again, if you read the thread you would realise it was posted out of ignorance.

Sando is a genuine word used as a shortening for sandwich in Japanese, which is where M&S got their inspiration.

I hope they'll start a range of authentic Dublin sambos and of Cork sangers.

and proper all-Ireland final hang sangwidges, sliced white pan, real butter and very thin ham, eaten after it's been tightly wrapped in tinfoil for at least 4 hours.