'There’s nothing that gets me in a more festive spirit than seeing ‘pork sausage in a calcium alginate casing’ on a list of ingredients'
Is there truly anything more festive than a slab of turkey and cranberry wedged between two factory-prepared slices of bread and squashed into a plastic package?
With Christmas just around the corner, it was decided I would be tasked with taste testing a number of the Christmas sandwiches on offer at some of the leading supermarkets this year - marking two years in a row I have now ended up with the unenviable challenge. The elements on their own are fine, and the bread soaks things up much nicer than malted bread does, but yeah, gravy and coleslaw together is always going to be a big no for me. A cardinal sin wrapped up as a Christmas sandwich.To be fair, there’s something very Christmassy about Currywurst - and it’s perhaps all down to the Christmas Markets.
Straight off the bat, there’s a lot going on here. Amongst six halves of white and rye bread, there is Emmental cheese, formed cooked sliced smoked turkey , cranberry sauce, sage and onion mayonnaise, formed cured cooked oak smoked ham , lettuce, and Beechwood-smoked cooked streaky bacon. All for £2.39.
The cranberry chutney is delightful, and the stuffing is also marvellous. I will, however, say that I was completely oblivious to there being any fried onions in my sandwich until I read the ingredients list again. Maybe there’s too much going on for it to be noticeable, because I’m sure they were there.A Turkey Shawarma is certainly something a bit different - and perhaps too quirky of a choice to be able to avoid giving a try.
The insides of the cabbage, the stuffing, and the spinach, add a nice consistency and flavour to things, however, and make for a pleasingly well-rounded sandwich. A lot going on, but sort of works.I have to be completely open and honest here and reveal that, by this point, I was losing the will to live in terms of Christmas sandwich taste testing. Thankfully, my editor Jenna decided to help me out and tried the Pigs Under Blankets one.
Sadly, it was the bread that let the whole thing down - it was too dry, devoid of much taste to it and just a bit too much of a hassle to try to eat. The crusts were not eaten this time round.There’s nothing that gets me in a more festive spirit than seeing ‘pork sausage in a calcium alginate casing’ on a list of ingredients. But that’s what I got when I decided to switch things up with a wrap at Asda instead of a sandwich.
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