Marks & Spencer to sell 75p jam sandwiches

lostinrates

techno12 wrote: »

What a load of rot! Some of us live alone, and don't want to buy a loaf of bread each day - 90% of it would go in the bin. They always go off a day after they've been opened (only good for toasting), so I'd rather go to Tesco on my way into work and buy a fresh £1 sarnie - done this for 5+ years now...

...the knack is to get the newest sarnies at the back as the bread is lovely and fresh (best before 2 days ahead, if it's only 1 day the bread is stale round the edges. urgh)

Thank you for reading the whole thread and noticing my later comment about the circumstances it does make sense to buy a sandwhich in :rolleyes:

However, I don't think just living alone is one of them necessarily. As mentioned before in this thread bread does freeze very well...both home made and bought bread. in fact, I gather, some bought sandwhiches are transported to point of sale very deeply chilled and feel frozen if you feel them first thing in the morning! As it happens, I don't live alone, but five days a week shop and eat for myself as if I were, so I have the best of both worlds. .

Incidently, I tend to agree with Any, that if I were going to buy a sandwich as someone who rarely eats bread I'd go for something that wouldn't make sense to buy the ingrediants for just one sandwhich for me

I'd certainly be in favour buying a sandwhich over lots of other fast food options FWIW.

A_fiend_for_life

I'm waiting for pre-packed bread-and-pull-it.

sportbeth

bo_drinker wrote: »

lazy B Astard Britain More Like. Bread +jam + Knife= Easy.

Easy? Yes. Lazy? Depends on what your definition of lazy is. I call it prioritising my time and spending it doing things that give me pleasure.

When I have more than 1 hour a day of what I would count as free time then it will qualify as lazy. Doing the 12 hours I already have to be able to afford a 75p jam sandwich does not count in my book as lazy. Its a matter of choice.

And lets face it. A jam sandwich is hardly going to save the country or M&S from recession, but it may save a good few commuters like me the time and effort of carting a sandwich box for 2 hours each way so where's the laziness in that?

And if I take sandwiches in they won't fit in any of my designer handbags, so there's the girly argument taken care of

Jennifer_Jane

digipeep wrote: »

I can just imagine the M&S boardroom now.

"Right troops we are going down the pan and we need a new idea on the highstreet to revive our fortunes".

Someone from the back looking sheepishly pipes up

"How about selling Jam sandwiches for the poor now that we are in a depression, 75p a go, we'll make millions"

Hi - this was exactly my thought. I used to be a Food Selector (not on sandwiches) for M&S's sister company in South Africa (called 'Woolworths' as it happens), and this brought back the Monday mornings when we had to stand behind the prep tables with our new products and tell the Food Director what, why, and how much we were selling the new product for.

Something along the lines of 'current recession'; 'getting back to the classics' (LOL), 'the spirit of Dunkirk' - can anyone else think of how this got accepted by M&S management? Would love to hear your ideas.

Jen
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mewbie_2

Jennifer_Jane wrote: »

think of how this got accepted by M&S management? Would love to hear your ideas.

Monday meeting. Sales down. Rose in v. bad mood. "Foods being hit badly because you bunch of wasters have no idea. Why are we selling salmon sandwich that costs more to make than it takes in profit?" Hacked off junior (lost bonus, crap train ride in) says sarcastically "We could make jam sandwiches" and winks at the accounts girl who he fancies. One of those strange management events happens when Rose to everyone's surprise misses sarcasm and says "great idea, at least someone still has them", promotes junior, who marries accounts girl.

Two years later Ratner is selling earrings that will last longer than an M&S Jam sandwich.

techno12

JoolzS wrote: »

I'm guessing you haven't bought a loaf of bread for a few years. The shelf life of bread has come on considerably during that time. A simple loaf of white or wholemeal bread will now last for at least 5 or 6 days. I've no idea how they make it seem fresh that long, but I've decided not to care

Julie

Nope, I buy a loaf each week. If it's fluffy white it's going dark and stale round the edges after a day. The wholemeal types do as well I'd imagine, but you don't notice it as they're rough to begin with so they normally last me 3 days before the remnants get lobbed in the bin ;-)

Nowt worse than sarnies made with skanky bread!

olly300

Jennifer_Jane wrote: »

Maybe there's something wrong with my palate - but the seeded bread I buy is delicious when defrosted. Get it from any supermarket. Prefer Warburton's or Somerfield seeded.

Jen
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Yep there is something wrong with your palate.:p

As that's the type of bread I buy. I tend to freeze 2/3rds of it and use the third that I don't freeze for sandwiches.

Graham_Devon

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.

Becuase, when you live alone, you tend to buy stuff that you can freeze anyway. A load of bread simply does not fit in the freezer.

The best thing for me is those part baked things, love them!!

amcluesent

As things get worse, I expect 'Eat' will start offering a cup of gruel and a spam sandwich on plain white bread. 99p

Spendless

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have a friend who travels daily from her house within a 60 mile radius (it used to be 120 miles) as a trainer. She has in the boot of her car a box full of snack foods, like snack bars, cereal bars and individual cartons of fruit juice, just in case she gets caught short as her days/breaks/journey delays are unpredictable. They're just always in there so wherever she is, she can grab something out of the boot instantly.

My husband would eat the lot in 2 days.:rolleyes:

He keeps a plug in 'fridge' (coolbox) in his car during warmer months for his snacks but a standard one with icepacks would work just as well.

It's often hard to judge when he does need to take something from home. He spent a fortune on lunch 1 day this week when I thought he'd be bought it and took pack up today and fetched it home uneaten cos he was treated to lunch (drives me nutty!)