Marks & Spencer to sell 75p jam sandwiches

Rach2007_2

wharty wrote: »

When i was a boy i used to live in a village called Barnton near Northwich, and all through my childhood the older generation used to refer to Barnton as Jam Town. Why you may ask? well because during the 1st and 2nd world wars when rationing was the norm, Jam buttys were a very popular source of food. This was the time when you would walk at the side of the road and pick blackberrys and rasberrys, or grow them in your allotment(Allotments came to fruition because of the wars). Now we are in a recession we decide to keep wasting money on stupid things like jam buttys and bottled water, instead of saving money in the current climate.
You can get good bread makers now for £70 or £80 so you have a nice fresh loaf waiting for you when you get home from work, and guess what, most of them can make jam too. Its an outlay at the start but worth it in the long run.
Saving for something and appreciating it, has long been forgotten with the majority of people these days, so is it any wonder we find ourselves in a recession when everything we buy is bought with money we dont have or dont need to spend.
Hope i got my point over.

Flippin heck maybe first thing in the morning I'll have the chance to whip up a quick casserole and put it in the slow cooker too!?? That's after the alarm goes off at 5.30am, I've showered and dressed, and got two pre-school children ready for nursery before making the 50 min commute to work.
Life these days is not also conducive to making one's own bread and I certainly won't feel guilty about nipping to M&S a couple of times a week to get a ready meal/pre-packed sarnie.

lynnexxxo

Just think Rach2007, you could stop by the roadside on your commute and pick some raspberrys and blackberrys and make you own jam too!!

brightonman123

i think i have found my niche (or should that be quiche?) job..
selling sandwiches direct to office/factory staff - with manager's permission, naturally!
- they dont waste time or get get cold/wet going out for food, bosses get more work time.. i get an easy(?) profit by reselling sani'smade at gome, or even bought in bulk at the local shop - many do from 99p, maybe less if i bought them out, or got from their wholesaler?

another intruiging idea i heard about was offering to dig a veg patch in people's gardens, and prepare a selection (or their choice) of veggies- for £50 a go, homeowners get all the hard work done, and cheap veg forever !

(upkeep/watering required, the value of your spuds may go up and down etc..!)

poppysarah

chriz1000 wrote: »

I’m surprised no-where sells peanut butter and jelly (jam) sandwiches, there one of the most popular snacks in America maybe it would kick start people over hear to try it

Delic.

Also chocolate spread and peanut butter. mmm


75p for a sandwich that's about as easy as it gets. Shocking...40p a loaf anf 40p for a jar of red jam... and a whole pile of them.....

amcluesent

As the economy slumps in Brown's busted Britain, what's the next depression indicator? Fish-paste sandwiches next?

ixwood

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Theres a place for everything.

I live on my own, work longish hours some weeks, have the house to clean up, work to do, a life to live. I don't neccesarily want to go home after working all day and start cooking from scratch, creating a heap of mess, and then having to tidy all of that up.

Add to that the fact I actually need to have bread in, so will often have to pop to the shops to get that and a 75p sandwich, even a £2 sandwich is worth paying, to keep my time doing other things I enjoy, even if thats posting on here while watching the TV, doing a bit of DIY etc.

I do make sandwiches for work a lot, but sometimes I just cannot be bothered. Especially as I tend to make them at night, which means leaving them in the fridge, then leaving them to get warm all day.

Come the weekend, and I'm quite happy, given the time to start cooking from scratch and often do, but the attitude of no one should be buying things like this, that its ridiculous etc is a bit holier than thou.

75p is cheaper than buying the bread etc, which, in my case, often goes mouldy or stale before I have eaten even a third of the loaf.

As an aside, why don't you freeze bread when you get it? it's lasts for ages frozen and you can just take what you need out at the time.

Jennifer_Jane

I've been through this whole thread, and the very last one says what I was going to LOL. I buy lovely sliced bread - seeded is what I like, take what I need from the freezer, and it lasts for ages and ages. Lovely butter, and some super cheese, what else you need.

Also, I cannot afford to buy M&S sandwiches, but for those who can, good luck to them. But jam butties? What a laugh. No wonder British eating habits/cooking are laughed at by the rest of the world. Well, to each his own.

Jen
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Jennifer_Jane

amcluesent wrote: »

As the economy slumps in Brown's busted Britain, what's the next depression indicator? Fish-paste sandwiches next?

No, white bread sandwiches with margarine, and nothing else.

mewbie_2

Word of warning. Bought one yesterday. Didn't really want it, so took it back today hoping to exchange for a different one. They wouldn't take it back - even though still in wrapper and with receipt. I have been on phone to Watchdog but they said they weren't interested in halfwits and cut me off. Not a good day.

olly300

ixwood wrote: »

As an aside, why don't you freeze bread when you get it? it's lasts for ages frozen and you can just take what you need out at the time.

Because to eat it as bread after it's frozen tastes disgusting.*

However to have it as toast is fine.

*There is only one type of bread that I found tastes ok to do that but to go to the particular type of bakery that sells it means making an extra shopping trip on Saturday.