Sandwiches from the shop are too expensive
Like many office workers I don't take in sandwiches made at home, but prefer instead to buy one either from the local shop or the company run deli bar. Unfortunately I'm finding that I am increasingly dissatisfied with what is on offer and how much it costs.
My complaint is about two things really, first the cost and secondly what you actually get for your money. Depending on where you buy it a sandwich or baguette will cost between two and four pounds which I think isn't great value really.
The dearer ones are in actually fact usually tasty and often very satisfying but having to hand over that much cash just leaves a bad after taste.With the cheaper ones you'll either end up with a couple of limp bits of dodgy looking wholemeal bread and some thin and less than appetizing filling, or even worse the lettuce monster!!!
I think it's the lettuce monster that I hate the most. Why is it that sandwiches these days have to be 'filled out' with lettuce and salad stuff? Do they think that cramming the bread full of this cheap green stuff can really cover up the fact that there isn't really much of a sandwich there in the first place? Maybe the whole world bought into this healthy crap but I sure haven't and I'd rather see a couple of decent chunks of bread filled with something substantial.
You might well say that I should just make sandwiches at home and bring them in if Im not happy with what is on offer. Fair comment actually, however, the whole reason I don't is because I don't usually have the time to make them either the night before or in the morning. Besides, I'm not exactly organised enough to get the extra items with the shopping and you could say Im a bit lazy so I guess the only choice is to cough up, eat up and shut up!
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Billy no mates :( - 22-Apr-12 01:20
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The demand is there, so why would they lower their prices?
Don't like it, don't buy it.
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Cynical Boblet - 23-Feb-11 11:31
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dissatisfied - 23-Feb-11 10:41
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Ex Subway customer - 9-Jul-10 22:37
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Subway customer. - 12-Jun-10 23:32
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The Castle
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I don't like paying 10 buc - 26-Feb-10 19:23
Country Fayre = Dinner for country faeries.
Cider = Fermented rotten apples
Keg ale = Beer which has travelled a hundred miles in a can.
Most country pubs are fake, selling some olde world atmosphere that never was.
Ask for a full nutritional and food analysis of whatever you are served. Todays' meals contain about 50% of the protein they formerly did 30 years ago.
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Oh pur---leezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Just because the sandwich wasn't to your expectations, doesn't mean you never going to go there again
It be like saying, if I had a bad experience in a place, ie Scotland. Would I then say, because that happened, I'm not going there again? No I love Scotland, and don't care.
Get a grip!
I had a bad experience in a supermarket, would I say I'm not going there again NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I had a bad experience in a pub once, would I say oh because that happened, would I stop visiting pubs NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I enjoy a drink at t'local, forgetting what happened in that one 'said' pub
Enjoy the pub, no matter if you didn't like the food much, you can still have a drink
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Our sandwiches were served..each contained 3/4 thin slices of chicken breast and rocket, dry, then on the plate even more rocket. We asked for some tomato or something to make it more tastier and subsequently were given 2 sliced.
What a rip off....decided never to eat or drink there again.
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People need to go back to scho - 26-Aug-09 02:41
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People need to go back to scho - 26-Aug-09 00:19
News agents sells cheap soggy sandwiches two days old for 99p, mine costs £2.50 - £4 depending on size and contents made to order on the spot. A tin of Coke is sold for 50p in many places, in restaurants it costs £2 for a small glass filled with ice. I might rename my shop "The Rip-off-Cafe" I am sure I will get a lot of curious customers that will part with there cash to eat good healthy food. If I sell a sandwich for 40p no one will buy it because they will think it is cheap and there must be something wrong with it. Curiosity really ki11ed the cat.
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The Plain Truth - 25-Aug-09 20:48
The main reasons for me were quality, price, taste and healthiness.
On quality and price, I began to see uninspiring sandwiches with scant and run of the mill fillings, at prices two or even three times the price of a whole loaf of bread! I did a little maths and saw that with a little bit of effort, I could make a satisfying, tasty lunch-box which included sandwiches, snacks, yoghurt and a drink for about the same price as a pre-packed droopy sandwich.
On taste and healthiness, I switched to stoneground wholeameal bread, low calorie spread and tasty fillings. Grated cheese and pickle has fewer calories than sliced cheese and pickle, as you use less cheese for the same taste sensation. Tuna mix with sweetcorn, tomato flesh and diced pepper mixed with reduced fat mayo or salad cream is lighter in calories but tastier and healthier than any tuna mix from a shop's shelf!
I don't find it difficult to shop for or make my lunches. It's just something I've got used to over the years. There are the ocassional, days when I haven't made my lunch-box and have had to buy sandwiches and the like. But I have found that eating these foods so unpleasant, that not taking my own lunch is very rare!
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