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?
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.
Do we need our own poll?
Yes! We need to uncover the truth Big Bread is hiding from us!
Bastards! I’m on it!
I’m excited to see this. I also got the feeling it was a loaded question because there a a ton of classics not represented: bacon butties, chip butties, cheese and onion, ham and mustard, sausage, baked bean toasties, cucumber, jam, peanut butter. I guess they could be lower ranking but I doubt that about the first few at least.
Misread your list and wondered deeply at ‘cucumber jam’. Not prepared to try it on the off-chance, mind you.
Sugar butties.
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.
One slice, wrapping the banana like a hot dog bun.
Errr, you’re losing me a bit there - are we still in sandwich territory with this version? It’s like a weird sausage roll now.
It has bread on both sides, so…
And that, despite what the ‘merkins might tell you, is essential for a sandwich. There’s no such thing as an open sandwich. That’s just stuff on a bit of bread.
That’s why cheese and/or beans on toast is a different beast to a cheese and/or bean toasted sandwich.
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All the major B feed groups.
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.
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
Perhaps you, and others in this thread, misunderstand.
The point of butter, or mayonnaise, in most sandwiches is to protect the bread from sog. Any sarnie involving tomato, for example, that doesn’t have a protective layer between the to’s (I’m trying this out as a contraction of tomatoes) and the bread will end up with soggy, soggy bread. And no one wants soggy, soggy bread,
Oh I totally get that. But where there’s mayo, there’s no need for butter. And if you slightly toast the bread first it will mostly hold off the sogginess. And it’s only really a problem with basic sliced bread, some nice crusty or dense grainy bread will often hold up anyway.
To me, it’s the equivalent of something like deep frying bacon. Probably still delicious but not really necessary.
I would like to get behind To’s, but it’s a bit too similar to toes. I like the idea of toes in my sandwiches less than butter.
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!
One of my friends used to go to the cinema in his lunch break.
Ok, that’s an impressive lunch break :o
Yeah, the firm he worked for wasn’t too bothered about tracking people’s hours and there was a cinema next door, so he could just wander in and pick a film that had recently started (which saves you 20-30 minutes).
There’s something wrong with that list. It doesn’t contain the phrase “Egg Banjo” 🙂
I’ve made chicken salad sandwiches before!
But I live in the USA instead of the UK.
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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