sandwich questions..

deleriumtremens

1) Do you think sandwiches taste nicer when somebody else makes them?!

Now I'm not talking about, say, one of your mates using a nicer type of bread or something. I'm on about, for example, if your mother (cue loads of stupid "your ma" comments!!) made you some ham sandwiches out of the same food items (brands included) that you would have used yourself, if you had to have made the ham sandwiches yourself.


2) Do you prefer triangular shaped sandwiches over rectangular shaped ones?!

I'm not sure why this is in my case! I think it might be because I always got rectangular ones for my lunch throughout school and, hence, triangular ones are more exotic! Or maybe its an optical illusion and they appear bigger?


3) Do any of you's eat "sauce sandwiches"?

That is, 2 slices of bread buttered and then red sauce (or brown or whatever you like!) put in between with nothing else. I think its dead nice!

MizzLolly

They're always nicer when made by someone else. I'm a krap sandwich maker..

SoWatchaWant

1. My mother generally puts the sandwich together better.

2. Triangular hold the content better, if it's a really big sambo.

3. No, that's disgusting!

Doctor DooM

MizzLolly wrote: »

They're always nicer when made by someone else. I'm a krap sandwich maker..

The Doom is also cursed with this sandwich restricting fate.

Oswald Osbourne

I have never made a sandwich so I have no basis for comparison.

InkSlinger67

I response to your "sauce only" comment - I love Salad Cream sandwiches! Would eat them and them alone for the rest of my life easily! Salad Cream is THE king of sauce!

SoWatchaWant

Oswald Osbourne wrote: »

I have never made a sandwich so I have no basis for comparison.

Really? Are you havin a laugh?

AlmightyCushion

Sauce sandwhiches are awesome. End of!

Holsten

The best sandwiches I have are the ones I make myself.

Yes they're better in triangular form.

And unless it's a chip sambo, no... no sauce other than mayo.

Shacklebolt

It is simply a bizarre fact of life that triangular sandwiches are better than square. Nobody knows why.

Whats everybodys favourite type of sandwich? Chicken for me or else cheese and crisp.

antodeco

MizzLolly wrote: »

I'm a krap sandwich maker..

Brown Sauce FTW

alan4cult

If the sauce is so nice what purpose does the bread serve?

Oswald Osbourne

SoWatchaWant wrote: »

Really? Are you havin a laugh?

Not really a big fan tbh. I made a burger once tho. Would that count for the purpose of this survey?

Steve

Sauce sandwiches are nothing without hot freshly cooked rashers.. mmmm

SoWatchaWant

Oswald Osbourne wrote: »

Not really a big fan tbh. I made a burger once tho. Would that count for the purpose of this survey?

No, that's a different thing entirely. Unless you cut it into triangles.

antodeco

Funnily enough, sauce was only created to hide the taste of rotting food back in the olden days! The food was still edible, but tasted rank, so they masked their food with various concoctions (mainly based around vinegar).

InkSlinger67

alan4cult wrote: »

If the sauce is so nice what purpose does the bread serve?

Keeps the sauce from outside your lips!

deleriumtremens

SteveC wrote: »

Sauce sandwiches are nothing without hot freshly cooked rashers.. mmmm

But they're not sauce sandwiches then!! :P

fonpokno

I've never had a sauce sandwich but sugar sandwiches are amazing.

deleriumtremens

fonpokno wrote: »

I've never had a sauce sandwich but sugar sandwiches are amazing.

Aye, used to love them till I got to about 12 years old!! Now I wouldnt try it!

Ross_Mahon

1. Other persons hands are not magic? If you make it yourself, You will probably appreciate it more.

2. I'll eat a sandwich uncut thank you, I don't know what is with all this fancy fine cut triangle nonsense, I just want to eat it? Not make the Triforce from Zelda!

3. I will put brown sauce on a turkey sandwich, Because turkey does not deliver, So i cover the taste up and eat it anyways, I think that's why they put stuffing in turkeys.

MizzLolly

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

I just want to eat it? Not make the Triforce from Zelda!

Me 's Zelda.

Yer man's the hottest video game character ever!

bloodedrose

An Irish Mammy (tm) always makes better sammiches.

My sammich line up is like this. Made by Mammy > Made by the nice lady in the shop on the corner from me > Made by me > Made by people in Spar and all other people

And with a triangular sammich, you can eat long delicious pointy corners while compressing the contents with your hands so they are nicely formed for when you get to the dense inner contents.

deleriumtremens

bloodedrose wrote: »

And with a triangular sammich, you can eat long delicious pointy corners while compressing the contents with your hands so they are nicely formed for when you get to the dense inner contents.

I couldnt quite put my finger on it, but I think that might just be why triangular sandwiches are nicer!!

"Thumbs up"

Steve

fonpokno wrote: »

I've never had a sauce sandwich but sugar sandwiches are amazing.

Banana and sugar sandwiches ftw... mmmm wish I was a kid again!!

Sharpshooter

Ploughman's Lunch sambo's are the biz.
Most likely because the pickle used in them bears a close resemblance to HP brown sauce , which I love on a slice of bread and butter, an open slice , though.

Ross_Mahon

bloodedrose wrote: »

An Irish Mammy (tm) always makes better sammiches.

My sammich line up is like this. Made by Mammy > Made by the nice lady in the shop on the corner from me > Made by me > Made by people in Spar and all other people

And with a triangular sammich, you can eat long delicious pointy corners while compressing the contents with your hands so they are nicely formed for when you get to the dense inner contents.

Let me tell ya about my Mammy, She used to make the most of the peanut butter left in the jar, Long summers days sitting in primary school, Brown bread sandwich's with no butter and barely any peanut butter spread on it...

I used to be gasping for a drink after it and all we got was these tiny cartons of milk, So i took the leftover milk outside other classrooms

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

1) Yes

2) Triangles are best

3) Chocolate, honey or jam sambos, yes... tomato ketchup and mayo sambos? No.

Firetrap

Yes, other peoples' sandwiches are nicer. I've no idea why. I sometimes get a sandwich made up for myself in a local shop and it's lovely. Yet when I make up the same one for myself, it's not. I've never been able to put my finger on why when we're both using the same ingredients. Maybe if I paid myself €3

samhail

a sandwich you make your self always has that extra bit of satisfaction, i think cos your building up anticipation while your making it.

i had to read your explanation of your own sauce sandwich very carefully. hmmm.


does any one else feel like a sandwich right now ?

giggsy664

SDooM wrote: »

The Doom is also cursed with this sandwich restricting fate.

Hum. I got it. Does your name mean sandwich doom?

Sharpshooter

SDooM wrote: »

The Doom is also cursed with this sandwich restricting fate.

giggsy664 wrote: »

Hum. I got it. Does your name mean sandwich doom?

It's hard to make a mean sandwich , sitting in the dark , with only the PC to light your way.;)

phantom_lord

idk about the first question, possibly.

triangle are definitely better tho.

and don't forget to flip the sandwich a couple of times, esp. if it has sauces and stuff.

nomnom, gonna make one now.

Holsten

Flip the sandwich?!

What like a pancake?!

kerash

Question 1 - Sometimes.
Question 2 - Yes*
Question 3 - Yes, brown

*triangle cut sandwiches taste better - FACT*.
*according to the Brits
http://www.warburtons.presscentre.com/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=110518&NewsAreaID=2

500 Brits were surveyed and a focus group conducted with Dr Lewis, the results of which reveal that a whopping three quarters of the population (72%) prefer triangle cut sandwiches to those cut into squares. According to the results, there are several reasons why:
1. 41% of Brits think that triangle cut sandwiches taste better…
Dr David Lewis explains: “The triangle shape helps to provide a tastier meal because of the way we sample flavour. Our tongue is only capable of identifying five basic taste sensations so it is mainly our sense of smell that identifies flavours. This is where the triangle sandwich comes into its own: because a smaller amount of food is typically bitten off with each bite, the flavour molecules are released more effectively – making triangle sandwiches taste better.”

Flavour molecules

BraziliaNZ

i've seen big fat maoris making "pie sandwiches" in NZ, a big greasy meat pie between 2 slices of bread, a heart attack in a sandwich.

I put avocado in sandwiches now having been introduced to them down here, and my favourite filling is tuna, a whole can of it between 2 slices, mmmm. Brown bread ftw, white bread is ghey.

dSTAR

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

i've seen big fat maoris making "pie sandwiches" in NZ, a big greasy meat pie between 2 slices of bread, a heart attack in a sandwich...

Actually sounds appetizing in an Aussie bloke non ghey kinda way :pac:

Mahatma coat

MMMM Pie Sammich, would one ad Bacon and Ketchup??

also Deffo better to have someone else make your triangly sandwiches

BraziliaNZ

yeah they always put ketchup on pies down under, ewwwwww

speaking of pies - are there any good pie places in Dublin? You can get some really good ones in oz/nz

exiot

im starving reading this...

1) Yes
2) Yes
3) No, I could never eat a sambo with just sauce in it, wheres the sense of adventure in sandwich making??

marti101

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

yeah they always put ketchup on pies down under, ewwwwww

speaking of pies - are there any good pie places in Dublin? You can get some really good ones in oz/nz

Yes the Woolshed do amazing pies.Lovely they are.

Xavi6

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

yeah they always put ketchup on pies down under, ewwwwww

What's wrong with that? I've always put ketchup on pies, even when I was a kid back home.

phantom_lord

Holsten wrote: »

Flip the sandwich?!

What like a pancake?!

no, turn it over when you're eating it. it can be like eating a whole new sandwich!

kerash

Enjoy every sandwich

hunter164

samhail wrote: »

does any one else feel like a sandwich right now ?

No I don't feel like I'm about to be eaten.

Fallen Buckshot

sounds kinda crazy but Ive made myself a Ham and peanut butter sambo prolly could use good crisp rashers instead that might bee good as well

BroomBurner

1. Yes, they taste better when someone else makes them, especially my sister, she has a knack for finding delicious things in the kitchen that make lovely sambos

2. Triangles are the best! Easier to eat than rectangles aswell, seems to minimise the crustage.

3. Not a big fan of sauce sandwiches

4. Favourite sandwiches =

• chocolate spread (toasted or untoasted)
• banana (toasted)
• Ham, cheese and pineapple (toasted)
• Cheese toastie with ketchup and mayo for dipping
• sloppy joes (with plenty of cheese...)

Toasted beats untoasted EVERY time!

Azureus

definately nicer when somebody else makes em.. just a weird phenomenon i think!
same with nicking a few sweets/chips/etc on people.. always nicer than if you got yer own!
triangles all the way as well!
best sandwich ever;smoked salmon, cheese, onion and tomato, can give or take a bitta beetroot as well.
yummy!

Eric Cartman

the sandwich was invented so women could feel somewhat useful by making them for us

PurpleBerry

I prefer sandwiches when i make them myself, that way I can make 'em exactly how I like 'em.

I used to prefer triangles when I was a kid but these days it's rectangles all the way. Perhaps for similiar reasons to yours. The only sandwich I would eat in triangular form is chicken.

Sauce? Very seldom.

lovemypinkhat

1: Aha, I love a sandwich that has been made (well) by someone else. I can never really make nice ones. It's usually my mam who makes the nicest or else a really good sandwich maker person in a shop/restaurant (try Scott's in Cork...had one there today *drool*). I used to work in a deli and I would really like my sandwiches that I would make for myself at lunch...I think it's also got to do with the ingredients or the lack of effort preparing said ingredients (peppers sliced, cheese grated etc).

Anyhoo, question 2: Triangular ftw.

3: Sauce sandwiches...no thanks!