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i thought i had a meeting so i didn't have time to go outside to get something. I managed to postpone the meeting until tomorrow, but by that point I'd already eaten the crisps, to give me the minimal sustinance that I'd have needed for the now-postponed meeting.
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I had a Triple Favourite sandwich from M&S. Coming in at a suspiciously preiswertes £2.00, and containing one sandwich each of tuna and sweetcorn, ham and mustard and cheese and onion, I thought this might be a bargain lunch. Alas, M&S have obviously built this pack to a price. The fillings, although reasonably plentiful, were rather dry and lacking in flavour.
After reminding myself of the experience, I feel it's also worth commenting about the disappointment inherent in the triple pack sandwich. With a twin pack (of the same filling), the first half allows you time to get into the flavour, knowing that as soon as this triangle of food is finished, there's another to be enjoyed. The triple selection box offers none of this comfort. Three mouthfuls in and you've almost finished with that flavour. The mind and palate expect the sensation to continue, but before they've even got to grips with the taste of cheese for example, cheese is gone, to be replaced by the not necessarily complementary tuna, or ham. The taste buds are left reeling, at once craving more of the favoured flavour, yet being forced to adapt to the characteristics of the next wedge.
I only bought this pack because I'd never before seen a 'triple' that didn't contain egg. I will not make this mistake again.
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I'm getting pretty sick of dry, stodgy bread used in packet sandwiches, so I think I'll be heading back to The Baker's Oven tomorrow. If they could be trained to be a bit more conservative with the mayo, that shop would have a damn fine selection of sandwiches.
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Apparently you enjoy flavours more for the first few bites than you do for the last few. So the first time you take a bite of something it's like "Holy fuck! This is amazing!" and by the end you're like "Meh". So it sounds like the Triple is actually pitched about right, and by leaving you wanting more it's giving you the best possible sandwich experience.
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I don't think anyone is disputing the quality of sandwich experience, just the amount. If you get three half sandwiches you do not have three sandwiches. That is all that is being suggested. Nobody is saying that anyone who has three different flavours for their lunch is sick.
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quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: I was just saying that I find the triple pack sandwich experience unfulfilling, if not unfilling.
Maybe you needed to begin with ham, middle with the cheese, and end with the tuna. Perhaps the flavours in complementary succession would have been better.
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Sandwich again today. Smoked wild salmon and philly, with basil, salt and black pepper. Seeded grannary bread of course. Sizzlin' Prawn flavour McCoys and the obligatory apple.
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Medium salad. Includes grated carrot, sweetcorn, jalapenos, lemony avocado with olives (odd), potato and sausage salad, roasted vegetables and cous cous with chickpeas.
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It was pretty good that salad until the end. I was eating at my desk like some sort of savage and I'd saved up a bit of potato, a bit of avocado, a small piece of jalapeno and and bit of roasted aubergine for my last mouthful and I had it all on the fork and was raising it to my mouth and then I wobbled and my last mouthful that I'd been looking forward to fell on the desk and then most of it rolled onto the carpet :cry:
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Dust off the fluff and eat it anyway.
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Doesn't Pain au Chocolat literally translate as 'bread with chocolate'?
Anyway, I feel a bit bummed because I made myself quite a fancy sandwich today and was specifically looking forward to getting some positive feedback on here (literally even when I picked up the salmon in Tesco at the weekend I was thinking "Man, people on TMO are going to be well impressed by this") but nobody has even acknowledged it, let alone said anything like "well done" or "nice sandwich".
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That does sound like a really nice sandwich Ringo. Could have gone for a squeeze of lemon juice as well to give it a bit of a zing.
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Yeah I could have done, and probably would have but you have to consider how it's going to fare sitting in a plastic bag for a good four or five hours before consumption.
It probably could have done with a bit of salad but I don't have a lot left over and I wanted to make sure I had some to go with my pumpkin ravioli I'm having for dinner tonight.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: nobody has even acknowledged it, let alone said anything like "well done" or "nice sandwich".
That's because Lunch Club is a vehicle for Dr Benway's vanity, not yours. I imagine he was quite angry that you had a more impressive lunch than him today. One of the main rules of lunch club is that members' lunches shouldn't upstage that of the host, which will often have a foreign name or sound like something you can only get if you know where to shop. With that in mind, you're lucky that all you got was ignored. Lunch Club is to Dr Benway what Harlem Nights is to Eddie Murphy.
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That sounds like a great sandwich, Ringo. Glad you went for the wild smoked salmon - farmed stuff is so fatty. Cherry is right about the squeeze of lemon, but Philadelphia is quite lemony anyway, so no harm done. Good work on the black pepper, too - was it freshly ground in a mill/pestle-and-mortar, or was it pre-ground?
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Milled, naturally. Quite large pepper fragments. Reema curiously always used pre-powdered pepper before I met her. That stuff is horrible though. There's a pot of it in our cupboard which will never get used.
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I was impressed by your sandwich ringo, I read it and thought, he must have bought it at a shop - no way he made that himself. So kudos to you.
I made my best sandwich today which is mozzarella, tomato, fresh basil leaves, Hellmans Mayonaise in a toasted giant pitta bread.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Reema curiously always used pre-powdered pepper before I met her. That stuff is horrible though.
When you discovered that, you must have been tempted to just call off the moving in together and realise that she wasn't the person you had fallen in love with. Pre-powdered pepper. What is she, some sort of animal?
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Anyway. I've got a bit of my salad caught right in my top back teeth and it's really annoying me. I'm having no joy loosening it with my tongue and I feel a bit weird about shoving my hand deep into my mouth in the office to try to retrieve it. I might go and get some gum to see if that will help get it out.
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Well it was a long time before we moved in together that I discovered she wasn't into properly milled/crushed pepper. She actually said to me "it just seems like a bit of a faff. They're both the same thing anyway" which took me a little while to get over. But I don't think she was using enough of it.
The only time it's ever even marginally acceptable to use powdered pepper is when you're in a greasy spoon and you want to add a bit of colour to your polystyrene dish of chips swimming in vinegar.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: The only time it's ever even marginally acceptable to use powdered pepper is when you're in a greasy spoon and you want to add a bit of colour to your polystyrene dish of chips swimming in vinegar.
Or when cats are shitting in your garden and you want them to stop.
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