11mo ago

What's your favourite sarnie/butty?

metro.co.uk This is the UK's favourite sandwich — where does your go-to sarnie rank?

Classics are classics for a reason.

The BLT has been crowned the UK’s favourite sandwich for 2024 in a recent poll, with 28% of respondents saying they were a fan.
The combination of bacon, lettuce and tomato between slices of bread can be traced back to an entry in Good Housekeeping Everyday cookbook in 1903.
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Britain's favourite sandwiches
BLT – 28%
Chicken salad – 24 %
Tuna mayonnaise/Fish finger – 23%
Cheese and pickle – 22%
Egg and cress – 19%
Coronation chicken – 18%
Prawn mayonnaise – 14%
Smoked salmon and cream cheese – 11%
Beef and horseradish – 10%

So what's your favourite sandwich?

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Was this just polled on fillings available in meal deals? Like, where is jam?
- I wonder if the sad truth is, that's how a lot of butties are consumed these days, as you might imagine the simple classic, the bacon butty, would rank higher.
  
  I honestly don't think that's it. I think something screwy happened with this poll, but I can't find it to verify. Seems Hovis only released this to the press.

Dunno if it's my favourite, but every time I have a banana sandwich I always think why don't I eat these more often. It's especially good with a very malty bread and salted butter.
- My Dad's favourite butty was a banana sarnie - just bread and lashings of butter.
  
  A wise man.

To me, this looks more like a list of "At an event with catering, after everyone's eaten all the cheese sandwiches and ham sandwiches, what's left on the table, completely untouched because it's vile?"

I like to mix it up, cheese and onion is a goodie if terrible for your breath
- I already tagged you as "butter sandwich maniac" from this thread, but I'm happy you mentioned cheese and onion, so I have to update that.
  
  I probably shouldn't admit that I have been known to eat slices of butter right out the fridge.

There’s something wrong with that list. It doesn’t contain the phrase “Egg Banjo” 🙂

85% of people literally can't enjoy a sandwich without butter? A nation of psychopaths.
- Every sandwich needs some lubrication, butter is a good choice , but not the only choice.
  
  My parents put butter on sandwiches that really don't need it and it drives me mad. Looks like I'm in the minority.
  Out of all of the sandwiches on that list, they all already have some moisture without the need for butter:
  BLT – Bacon grease/tomato juice & lettuce is mostly water
  Chicken salad – usually means slathered in mayo
  Tuna mayonnaise – mayonnaise & tuna is usually wet to begin with
  Fish finger –ketchup (maybe also mayonnaise), or just malt vinegar
  Cheese and pickle – if dry, you were stingy with the pickle
  Egg and cress – just a wet mess already
  Coronation chicken – in its own curry/creamy/mayo sauce
  Prawn mayonnaise – mayonnaise
  Smoked salmon and cream cheese – cream cheese
  Beef and horseradish – horseradish

A good BLT is top-tier, without a doubt but a BLT is really a tomato sandwich with bacon and lettuce, so it all rests on the quality of tomatoes and good tomatoes are hard to come by these days unless you grow your own.
Ham and tomato or cheese and tomato are also good. Make sure to use plenty of white pepper on the tomato though! Not black, and not freshly ground. The white pepper brings out the tomato flavour better.
I'm disappointed not to see the chip butty make an appearance.
Also disappointed, but not surprised, not to see the Sheffield fishcake butty in there. This, with lashings of salt and vinegar, is absolute god-tier levels of sarnie. I once drove a 280-mile round trip just to have a Sheffield fishcake butty for lunch. But most poor, unfortunate fools have never experienced the joy. The Sheffield fishcake makes other fishcakes ashamed and, in butty form, absolutely shits all over a fish finger sarnie.
Also, now I think about it, I used to enjoy the occasional roast pork butty with crackling and applesauce when I lived in Sheffield. Another glory that seems unavailable down south. Fuck, it's grim down south.
- I once drove a 280-mile round trip just to have a Sheffield fishcake butty for lunch.
  That's impressive levels of dedication!
  
  The craving had been building for some time and then work announced a 'well-being' day for everyone in the company. Obv., some people used theirs for a spa day, reconnecting with nature, or some intense physical exercise.
  Me, I drove to my favourite chippy in Sheffield and got a fishcake butty. No regrets, even though traffic was a bitch on the way home.
  
  That's an impressive lunch break!

Since I was 15 working in a bakery cheese and mayo is my goto.

Chips (that's not crisps for the 'Mercans). Cheese and tomato. BLT.

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