Friday, 5 December 2008

The fourth Sandwich Munch


Afternoon munchers! Today I have tried Sainsbury's again, with their traditionally named "classic turkey feast". The pack says " A traditional turkey sandwich with all the trimmings combining turkey, honey sweet cure bacon, crumbly sage and onion stuffing and wild cranberry sauce". The turkey may be traditional but it certainly ain't real!!! It's like the processed crap that you get finely sliced in packs from Bernard Matthews. Am I allowed to say this, are their rules in what you can and not say on blogs!!! I love bacon but dry cure bacon, there isn't a need for sweet cure. Now here's is the science bit...they state crumbly stuffing, well, that ain't true. In their ingredients panel they say Stuffing Mayonnaise, so how can that be crumbly. They haved mixed the stuffing and mayo together, which in hindsight is a great idea, as this keeps everything moist, (who hates the word moist?!?!?!?). Last thing, Wild, wild cranberry sauce, I don't think so, they must grow it in fields especially for Sainsbury's. It's not like it's handpicked by girls in slow motion with a soft focus and skipping in the english country meadows with Heidi the cow girl music in the background!!!!! At £2.70 Sainbury's is good value but notice how it is more expensive than the organic. Calories 472 with sat fat 5.4g so not bad on calories, look back to the first munch and M&S are very very bad on healthy bit (who would of thought)!!!! The packaging is OK with the red, but as a designer using a tint of the red that creates a pink is very much a NO NO! SO they could of tried better on the xmas icons. Again no christmas charity donation. So to summarise an Ok sarnie, good balance of flavours but let down by quality. I rate this sarnie 7/10. I'm running out of shops near were I work, I have Londis, Budgens, Tescos (although they didn't sell xmas sarnies) and other varieties from M&S and Veggie option in Pret.

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