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.

Britain’s favourite sandwiches

  1. BLT – 28%
  2. Chicken salad – 24 %
  3. Tuna mayonnaise/Fish finger – 23%
  4. Cheese and pickle – 22%
  5. Egg and cress – 19%
  6. Coronation chicken – 18%
  7. Prawn mayonnaise – 14%
  8. Smoked salmon and cream cheese – 11%
  9. Beef and horseradish – 10%

So what’s your favourite sandwich?

  • snaprails
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    8 months ago

    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.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPA
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      8 months ago

      That’s why cheese and/or beans on toast is a different beast to a cheese and/or bean toasted sandwich.