The eleventh Christmas Munch

Oh my god i just wet my pants!!!!! This sandwich is the piste de résistance, the dogs bollocks, supreme, the ultimate sandwich you're ever gonna have. The name, well, looking at the photo you would think maybe I would of created it, but no. These are specialists in freshly roasted meats which has become an institution in the City and West End. They're called Fuzzy's Grub and they have 8 shops (go to www.fuzzysgrub.com). Now its basically walking into a cafe which has a small carvery of most meats. Unfortunately they had no Turkey at the time, so I chose Beef. But, upon paying £4.95 for this munchmeister of a sarnie the Turkey was being added. But the beef turned out to be one of the best of all-time, no fat just pure manly meatiness!!!! Once you have chosen your weapon, I mean meat, they ask what bread and one of the many condiments to moisten the fillings. Then you can add even more british meat, bacon and cumberland sausage at an extra cost, but I passed. But you can have pea and carrots, weird, so I skipped these, but accepted the offerings of  Stuffing, Yorkshire Pudding, Roast potatoes or Mash and topped it off by pouring thick gravy, the final orgasm I think I'll call it!!! If you had to choose what would be your final meal before you're 6 feet under then this is it. So for the unfortunate who may live outside London, I would recommend this Christmas to make this sandwich yourselves from your leftovers or have it as your actual Christmas dinner while your Gran looks on in bemusement and says something like, "Where has all the tradition gone, in my day a sandwich was just a means to eat spam" So, I now feel full as I ever will and so with great pleasure I rate this a Top-Tastic-TEN OUT OF TEN. No nutritional values but who cares, it has got to be the winner...or is it? The twelfth Christmas sandwich will be the last and so I hope I have some left overs to make one of the best sandwiches that Christmas time brings on Boxing Day. Merry Christmas and Happy Munching.

The tenth Christmas Munch

So, here I am, sitting at my work desk eating a wholemeal bread sarnie and no turkey!! I just couldn't take myself to Budgens or Londis, because I am a snob, so I have opted for the Brie and Cranberry Pret a Manger Sandwich. Yes, I know no meat, so I have tried to counter balance this with a large pack of Smoky Bacon Crisps!!! Anyway, there was a gernerous helping of brie, which is one of my favourite cheeses and cranberry (not wild I don't think), with salad and that magic ingredient that pushes the Pret sandwich to another level! Like the previous Pret sandwich which incidently is still currently topping the charts with 9.5/10, they had the magic crispy onions, which made the sarnie. In this veggie option they do have roasted pine nuts that offer a flavour of hmmmm!!!!! The packaging is the same as the meaty one, so this veggie could easily be mistaken for the turkey option, like my friend from work did (silly fool), you know who you are!!! Cannot give the nutrional values today due to the pret server, but may try to add at later date.Now for the rating, I have to put aside that this is a veggie sandwich, it was tasty soI will rate this a solid 7/10. Thanks for all your comments, keep them coming as there is no need to register now! 

The ninth Christmas Lunch

Apologies for taking a short break from the turkey, but I needed a break!!! Anyway, today I'm munching on a Boots "The Collection" Turkey, stuffing and Cranberry sandwich. The packaging is of a clean design using such typefaces as Helvetica. This font is a widely used sans serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss designer Max Miedinger. Sorry my love of graphic design overwhelmed me then, back to munching! It has Turkey with sage, WILD cranberry sauce, mayo, sage and onion stuffing, smoky sweetcure bacon, rocket and spinach on malted bread. Its all good baby, very nice balance of ingredients, but maybe lacking a little quality but definitely better than most. The turkey was thickly sliced and could actually be real!!!! Just to give you more important FREE information on sandwiches, Boots are currently selling "Pub Gourmet Sandwiches", check them out before me and set up a blog!!!!! The nutritional values are 405 Calories and 2.7g sat fat. Wow, 2.7g that beats the Lunch @ Bermondsey sandwich by 0.6g this is very good and so for the health conscious I recommend to go to Boots. I rate this 8/10

No munching again!!!

Sorry munchers I went to pub today for lunch, well it is a festive time after all. It's the Woolpack on Bermondsey street, and the food is very good, but I didn't have anything christmassy. So for the eager readers of my blog, I hope to update tomorrow with another xmas sarnie. But for now with all the turkey I been eating, my guts need a break!!!!!!

No munching today!

No sarnie review today, I not at my desk, instead I'm going Go-Karting and then followed by beer and christmas dinner. But next week will bring some more festive feasts. Feel free to make any comments, as this is taking over my every working lunch hour!!!! 

The eighth Sandwich Munch

I hate Starbucks, so for me to step inside and give the yanks my dosh for a piece of overpriced crap, well, it just shows how committed I am to finishing my very first blog. On every fucking street corner they have pushed out the small independent coffee shops that bring a sense of community to the area. OK that's my little rant over, let's get down to business. Starting with the packaging, these squeeky ass fuckers cannot even create a new design for xmas, instead they place a sticker on the front which is just a little bigger than a postage stamp. It say "Christmas favourite", well it ain't mine!!!! I had to really search to find it on their chiller cabinet, along with the rest of the overpriced crap. Its called the Starbucks Turkey Feast Club, well it aint real turkey, it ain't a feast and where does the club come into it. My thoughts on a club sandwich are usually that you have bacon and turkey or chicken. Again they short sell you and charge you a figure that they pick out of thin air...Bastards!!!! I have one positive for this sandwich and that is that it has rocket salad, which I like. However, this is the dryest sarnie, it has the usual christmas ingredients and apparently does include butter and stuffing mayo, but they fucked us over again by putting in the minimal amount. Ian Beale in the BBC Tv soap 'Eastenders' who has the role of cafe owner has copied the ethos of Starfucks, as he is tighter than my dad (and that's saying something), and will just put enough butter on the bread because he is cutting costs!!! So, with 435 calories and 4.9g of sat fats, its one of the lower calorie sarnies and at £2.95 I guess that's not too bad, I wish it was higher so I could rant a little more! Although to have the privilege of sitting in one of there millions of coffee shops you have to pay £3.45!!!! I must stop now, I could carry on argueing my case against starfuckers though, but I rate this sandwich at a paltry 5/10.

The seventh Sandwich Munch

I'm hoping doing this blog won't effect christmas day when I sit down to a home cooked Christmas Dinner made by my lovely misses and I say, "I don't fancy turkey, can we have goose instead?!!? So to keep you guessing, today I have not gone for turkey but the M&S Aberdeen Angus rare roast beef & ale chutney. Now, to me it doesn't sound christmassy, but it is in christmas packaging sponsored heavily buy Help Shelter. The Ingredients are the beef with red onion & Arron ale chutney, mustard mayonnaise, caramalised shallots and mixed salad leaves on white bread. I love all the ingredients in this sandwich, but I think they went a step too far in putting in the mustard mayo. Why do sandwich makers always have to add mustard or horseradish to a beef sarnie, a good red onion marmalade does the job just nicely! I've a good mind to set up another blog titled "NO more horseradish or mustard in sandwiches"!!! On a dinner plate you can obviously have it on the side, but there is no getting past the overpowering flavour of the horseradish or mustard in a sarnie is there...is there!!! I must admit I got used to the flavours in the second part and enjoyed it more so I'll give this 8/10 and it certainly filled me up. It has 565 calories and 4.6 sat fat, so quite high, but hey its christmas!!!!! One other thing on the pull tab it says "pull the tab to open this pack up into a handy tray" I like this, they know what their market wants and mostly its us people who grab a quick sarnie and eat at the desk (less washing up to do)!