Are weddings a load of balls?

Super-Rush

So I'm getting hitched in 2015 and myself and the future Mrs Super were discussing the food for the evening reception. She casually said that she was thinking about just having hot food and no sandwiches.

This led to a mildly intense discussion about the importance of sandwiches at any form of function or party.

I'm of the opinion that no party is complete without numerous plates of triangularly cut sandwiches left on each table. Fillings should include, ham(bloody obviously) salad, chicken, beef, egg mayonnaise/egg and onion and maybe something involving cheese.

I then proceeded to confess to her that every party I've been to that was hosted by her side of the family has been a complete let down. Not one sandwich in sight. Sometimes there would be some rolls and various meats on offer but that's not the same as two fresh slices of Brennans bread liberally buttered and overflowing with your favourite filling and then with the sort of precision that an engineer can dream of, sliced into four triangles of equal measurement.

Am I the only one who thinks a good party is made great by the humble sandwich?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i am 100% on her side

i'd go further if it wasn't impossible

SV

Nobody really wants the sandwiches, they just want the good stuff. the chicken goujons, the sausages.
and you're always left with a load of coleslaw sandwiches anyway

danniemcq

its future Mrs Superer or mrs super gus.... wait no not gonna finish that one.

On topic a good sandwich is great for soakage plain ham with a heap of butter please and thank you

calfmuscle

Super-Rush wrote: »

So I'm getting hitched in 2015 and myself and the future Mrs Super were discussing the food for the evening reception. She casually said that she was thinking about just having hot food and no sandwiches.

This led to a mildly intense discussion about the importance of sandwiches at any form of function or party.

I'm of the opinion that no party is complete without numerous plates of triangularly cut sandwiches left on each table. Fillings should include, ham(bloody obviously) salad, chicken, beef, egg mayonnaise/egg and onion and maybe something involving cheese.

I then proceeded to confess to her that every party I've been to that was hosted by her side of the family has been a complete let down. Not one sandwich in sight. Sometimes there would be some rolls and various meats on offer but that's not the same as two fresh slices of Brennans bread liberally buttered and overflowing with your favourite filling and then with the sort of precision that an engineer can dream of, sliced into four triangles of equal measurement.

Am I the only one who thinks a good party is made great by the humble sandwich?

You put CHEESE at the end of that list!!!!!!!:mad:
Cheese goes first then everything else is added - Cheese and ham, cheese and salad, cheese and onion! Have some respect man!

Also yes you need sambos.

Micky Dolenz

The wife to be is clearly insane. Who doesn't like food wedged between more food.

Oh and trays where there are different selections of sandwiches. Like a pick and mix. Sandwiches make life better. Fact.

danniemcq

calfmuscle wrote: »

You put CHEESE at the end of that list!!!!!!!:mad:
Cheese goes first then everything else is added - Cheese and ham, cheese and salad, cheese and onion! Have some respect man!

Also yes you need sambos.

Cheese is overrated.

Its only nice when its melted on toasties or pizza

Mr Freeze

Super-Rush wrote: »

Am I the only one who thinks a good party is made great by the humble sandwich?

Got hitched this year.

Had the sambo's come out around 11 or half.

They were wolfed down, along with some chips, and wedding cake, and tea's and coffee's obviously.

Ah, you kinda have to have them I think. The plates are picked clean almost as soon as they are put on the table at most weddings.

Penn

Gotta have sandwiches. You need both. You need the option.

MonstaMash

Sandwiches are an essential food item under any circumstances IMHO

Amirani

Hot food is better, but having some selection of sandwiches is a good idea. Marriage and compromise and all that eh?

castletownman

Nothing perks me up more from the monotony of another wedding than the presence of a tray of sandwiches.

Yellow121

I'd just eat my ham hand and that would keep me going.

Daqster

Super-Rush wrote: »

Am I the only one who thinks a good party is made great by the humble sandwich?

Only if the plate containing said triangular cut sambos, also contains crisps.

minidazzler

You can sandwich if you want to.
You can leave your wife behind.
Because your wife don't sandwich and if she don't sandwich
well, she ain't no wife of mine.

A wedding without sandwiches is statistically 100% proven to end in separation.

Daqster wrote: »

Only if the plate containing said triangular cut sambos, also contains crisps.

THIS, Do this!

Skid X

Yes, definitely have sandwiches at the end of the night. It always goes down well. There will be grumblings and empty stomachs if you don't.

You know it makes sense. Congrats to you and Mrs S-R.

Splat Strawberry Jam

Whatever happened to the strong silent types? Gary Cooper etc.

Teyla Emmagan

danniemcq wrote: »

Cheese is overrated.

Its only nice when its melted on toasties or pizza

Of all the sick and inaccurate drivel I've heard on AH over the years this WINS THE PRIZE!

Cheese is one of the best things in the universe, in any manifestation. Grilled, baked, hot, cold, in cakes, on crackers, with grapes, on meat, it makes almost everything better!!!

ElleEm

I reckon it's probably the older crew who would prefer a sambo. I much prefer the hot food selection at the evening reception.
The hot food has become so varied over the past few years, with the option of sliders, fish and chip cones etc.
I have never seen any hot food left at a wedding but I have seen plenty of bendy sambos leftover!

Bog Standard User

Super-Rush wrote: »

So I'm getting hitched in 2015 and myself and the future Mrs Super were discussing the food for the evening reception. She casually said that she was thinking about just having hot food and no sandwiches.

This led to a mildly intense discussion about the importance of sandwiches at any form of function or party.

I'm of the opinion that no party is complete without numerous plates of triangularly cut sandwiches left on each table. Fillings should include, ham(bloody obviously) salad, chicken, beef, egg mayonnaise/egg and onion and maybe something involving cheese.

I then proceeded to confess to her that every party I've been to that was hosted by her side of the family has been a complete let down. Not one sandwich in sight. Sometimes there would be some rolls and various meats on offer but that's not the same as two fresh slices of Brennans bread liberally buttered and overflowing with your favourite filling and then with the sort of precision that an engineer can dream of, sliced into four triangles of equal measurement.

Am I the only one who thinks a good party is made great by the humble sandwich?

dont forget the food for the vegetarians

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Super-Rush wrote: »

So I'm getting hitched in 2015 and myself and the future Mrs Super were discussing the food for the evening reception. She casually said that she was thinking about just having hot food and no sandwiches.

This led to a mildly intense discussion about the importance of sandwiches at any form of function or party.

I'm of the opinion that no party is complete without numerous plates of triangularly cut sandwiches left on each table. Fillings should include, ham(bloody obviously) salad, chicken, beef, egg mayonnaise/egg and onion and maybe something involving cheese.

Was with you up until here.

I then proceeded to confess to her that every party I've been to that was hosted by her side of the family has been a complete let down. Not one sandwich in sight. Sometimes there would be some rolls and various meats on offer but that's not the same as two fresh slices of Brennans bread liberally buttered and overflowing with your favourite filling and then with the sort of precision that an engineer can dream of, sliced into four triangles of equal measurement.

I'm against you here.

Am I the only one who thinks a good party is made great by the humble sandwich?

And I'm kind of with you here. Not essential, but a damn bloody good idea.

EDIT - having rephrased the question - yes.

danniemcq

Bog Standard User wrote: »

dont forget the food for the vegetarians

sure isn't there bread and candles

Specialun

surely she is trolling you OP? Sandwiches are a must for all occassions

Obvious troll I reckon. 2 week ban from the house

whatdoicare

Some people cant stomach the greasy sausages and goujons, I know I cant! If there was no sandwhiches I'd be going hungry or buying my own.

Links234

You need to have cheddar cheese and pineapple on a stick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEsFtiruIok

Ciaran_B

Essential, literally essential for a wedding. Don't take no for an answer.

D1stant

A tray of Bacon butties. 1:30am. Let the fighting commence!

SuperGrover

Can you do a tray or two without butter? Butter haters are always excluded from sambo fests.

I am invited, yeah? Clearly a relative, like.

magicmushroom

I'm with you OP - a party's not a party without a Cheese or Egg sambo for a bit of soakage towards the end of the night.

cherryghost

No to sandwiches. There's always loads left over and sandwiches aren't all that great when comparing to hot food :P

seamus

Nobody eats the bloody sandwiches, they sit there and go stale. Unless I'm there when the platter is put down on the table, I have images of everyone else's dirty paws being all over the sandwiches, so I can't bring myself to take one.

Hot food is better. I was at a wedding where they brought a chip cart out at midnight when we were all plastered. It was awesome.

Daqster

What people really want to eat at a wedding, after sitting in a church for hours, then crammed in cars to get to the reception, which is rarely anywhere bloody near the church, is a big fray up with pots of tae, and pans of Boxty, heaps of melted butter and toast. Washed downwith a handful of cream frosted wedding caked and pints of yer only man, while they watch two newly related family members argue about GAA matches from the 90s. Loose bridesmaids would be a bonus.

calfmuscle

danniemcq wrote: »

Cheese is overrated.

Its only nice when its melted on toasties or pizza

Obama says it all MAD:mad::mad::mad:

WilyCoyote

Super-Rush
JFT96

While a mildly heated discussion about culinary delicacies can help the auld endorphins to jiggle about, once you ate your hang sangwidge I hope you lifted her over your shoulder, ran upstairs hastily undoing your trousers, flung her on the bed, tore off her clothes and gave her the father and mother of a seeing to.
Ahhh, the power of triangulated hang sangwidges

Best wishes for the future!

Bog Standard User

seamus wrote: »

Nobody eats the bloody sandwiches, they sit there and go stale. Unless I'm there when the platter is put down on the table, I have images of everyone else's dirty paws being all over the sandwiches, so I can't bring myself to take one.

Hot food is better. I was at a wedding where they brought a chip cart out at midnight when we were all plastered. It was awesome.

hotdog carts is where it is all at

Ficheall

Will your guests be the type to not wash their hands and paw all the sandwiches looking for ones they might like?

If not, sandwiches are the way forward.

Dravokivich

No cucumber sambos goin' no?

Eeden

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Cheese is one of the best things in the universe, in any manifestation. Grilled, baked, hot, cold, in cakes, on crackers, with grapes, on meat, it makes almost everything better!!!

Yes! (Unless it comes from a goat.)

MadYaker

You definitely need something to come out around 1 or 2am as its been a few hours since dinner and everyone's been drinking like there's no tomorrow. The last wedding I was at there was almost a stampede when the light night food appeared. It was a godsend and allowed us to keep going until 5 or 6am.

Cienciano

Combine them both, chip sandwiches.

K-9

The ultimate compromise is jam, everybody loves jam sandwiches.

Ruu

Make sure you stack them like Ferrero Roche! [hearty chuckle] "Oh Super Rush, you shouldnt have!" A build your own sandwich station is another option.

seamus

Cienciano wrote: »

Combine them both, chip sandwiches.

Seriously. Stick out twenty pans of fresh brennan's bread, blocks of fresh butter and give everyone a plate full of chips.

I would pay to attend that wedding.

Frank Black

Sandwiches are for lunchtime in work.

Weddings are special occasions and require something a bit more fancy like cocktail sausages.

u_c_thesecond

Thanks lads in sitting in class now with 2 hours left and im starving thinking about a plate of sambos

Your future wife plans on starting married life with no sandwiches. Um, Super-Rush - can't you see what's happening here? NO SANDWICHES.

Run. Run as fast as you can.

OldGoat

Without sammiches at the wedding feast you're not really married. You've just indulged in some kind of uncivil ceremony and all your friends mock your sammichless folly when the recover from their hunger pangs and drunken excess due to poor quality soakage.

Also sammiches taste better when you mispronounce them. FACT!

Micky Dolenz

Meat ball sandwiches. Mmmmmmmmmh

Micky Dolenz

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Meat ball sandwiches. Mmmmmmmmmh

Heh

On her wedding night?

crockholm

The Celtic tiger is well and truely dead if wedding food now consists of hang sangwitches and a plate of chips.Maybe ask the admins for a raise,like , mod one of the more important counties that surround Carlow?

Sleepy

Don't the hotel usually provide the sandwiches for nowt anyway?