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Sandwich of the week this is week is festive themed.
Turkey and Stuffing sandwich is approximately 300 calories. However if you like to add cranberry sauce that is about 190 calories per ½ cup, I can’t do the maths but it’s probably another 20 or so calories added to your sandwich. This sandwich is great to make you feel Christmassy and is a great teaser for the real thing on Christmas day! I love a turkey sandwiches (but funnily enough only at Christmas). Also turkey is much better for you than chicken as it is a leaner meat with less fat. My suggestion is try it hot with a dipping of gravy on the side! Perfect to warm you up on a weekday lunchtime at the office.

Subway is one of the most recognisable and popular sandwich shops ever invented. It could be argued as American’s largest. At over 40 years old it is one of the longest running chains too.
Subway facts:
Subway was started by college student Fred DeLuca and his friend Dr Peter Buck, the first shop was opened in 1965 in Connecticut but it was called ‘Pete’s Super Submarines’. In fact Fred DeLuca is still President of the company now.
There are now 27,989 franchises of Subway in 87 countries of the world and they employ over 150,000 people. In fact there are more Subway restaurants in America than McDonald’s.
In 2007 an American called Jared Fogel lost 245 pounds by eating a subway calorie controlled diet. He ate a 6” sub for lunch and a foot long for dinner for one whole year losing over 17 stone.

What do you call yours?? There are lots of different names for sandwiches, often the difference in names can depend on your regional accent. You might call it a barm cake whilst others call it a butty. Below are just a few varieties of names for sandwiches. Let me know what you call yours? I’m sure there are weird, wonderful and obscure names for sandwiches out there.
•    Sarney or Sarnie
•    Butty
•    Bap
•    Barmcake
•    Brotwanger – Germany
•    Grainy Bread Trap – Tasmania
•    Malty Doorstep – New Zealand
•    Sanger – Australia
•    Le Sand – France
•    Sanduba – Brazil

With the weather turning really cold and with the fast approach of Christmas I thought Sandwich of the Week could be themed this week.
Hot Pork and Apple Sauce sandwich.
This has to be one of my all time favourite sandwiches. I only treat myself on special occasions though! Like the German Christmas Markets in Manchester, or on Bonfire Night (bit disappointed this year when there were only burgers and hot dogs on offer).
It has to be one of the best comfort foods, warm pork from proper Hog Roast and lovely apple sauce to accompany. It needs to be served on a warm, slightly toasted bap with a small bit of butter on.
Lovely.
However the calories are not. A pork sandwich is approximately 323 calories and with apple sauce it bumps it up to 518 calories.

In the Guinness Book of Records the largest recorded sandwich was made by Wild Woody’s Chill and Grill in Roseville, Michigan in the USA. The record was documented in March 17th 2005. The sandwich weighed 5,440 lbs

The world’s largest hamburger (commercially available!!!) was recorded in Southgate, Michigan in the USA in Mallie’s Sports Grill & Bar on 29th August 2008. It weighs a whopping 74.75kg and if you wish to purchase it and try to eat it, it will only set you back $399!!!! Bargain. And the Americans wonder why they have an obesity problem!

And there must be something in the water in Michigan – why are they making such large items of food??

What does your sandwich choice say about you?
Apparently your choice in sandwich filling can be subconsciously revealing your inner most thoughts, it is a display of your personality traits and lets everyone around you know exactly what mood you are in!!!! Here are a couple of examples:
Cheese Sandwich = you enjoy the simple things in life and take pleasure from them.
Hard cheese means you are a pragmatic, conservative person.
Soft cheese (Brie) means you have self belief and wish for advances in a social context (however on its own means you probably won’t meet these desires!).
Cheese spread means low expectations, but if eaten with another filling means you want to get out of this situation.
Strong cheese such as Blue cheese means you are a cynical person (don’t trust someone who eats this kind of sandwich on a regular basis!)
More than one type of cheese on a sandwich means that you are a fickle person.
Meat and Fish Sandwiches
Beef shows signs of over-indulgence and heartiness.
Bacon on its own shows lack of self consciousness and a lack of regard for consequences.
Pork means you are content and your desires have been fulfilled, with apple sauce to accompany means these desires are spiritual.
Rationality is displayed by a ham sandwich.
Chicken or Turkey shows the emotional side to your personality. If you have poultry and ham it shows that you are a clear thinker the right balance between emotion and rationality.
More exotic meats like pepperoni or pastrami show a want to travel further afield.
However if Spam is your sandwich choice this shows childish mind.
Prawn sandwich means you are a risk taker – (and in some shops prawns are a risk!!!)

This is an extensive list and some combinations would lead to contradictory results but if you have any other ideas please feel free to post them!

Wonder what crusts or no crusts mean??

Sandwich of the week is BLT
BLT (Bacon, lettuce and tomato) is an old classic. Rumoured to have been of invented in Victorian times as a ‘tea sandwich’ the BLT became more popular after the 2nd World War with the increased popularity of the Supermarket. The growth of the supermarket made the ingredients of the BLT more accessible all year round. The shorthand abbreviation is most likely to be an Americanism.
Classically the BLT is a couple of slices of bacon (crispy), lettuce leaves, slices of tomatoes usually with mayonnaise to accompany. It is usually served on toasted bread. In cook books in the 1930s and 50s is shown as being served with cheese also.
It is listed as being one of the most popular sandwiches in the USA, coming 2nd to the ham sandwich.
Watch out though because the BLT packs a whopping 550 calories(approximately)!

Unfortunately we have just missed National Sandwich Day. It is on November 3rd every year and marks the birthday of John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, the inventor of the sandwich. Mainly an Americanism, it is not simply an excuse for Subway to sell more butties! All over America there are events most of which include sandwich eating contests and showdowns for the best sandwich recipes.
Not surprisingly the Americans love their sandwiches. Even though the sandwich was invented in Britain by and English Lord the Americans have adopted the sandwich as their own.
In Britain over 11 billion sandwiches are consumed in a year, the favourites being chicken, tuna and BLT. This is compared to 40 billion that are consumed in the USA and when voted for, the favourite sandwich in the States was Peanut Butter and Jelly!!! Beats our classic of cucumber sandwiches but not nearly as healthy!!!!

In March the Telegraph newspaper published the 50 best lunchtime sandwiches. They ranked Asda’s Salmon and Cucumber sandwich as number one. And we can see why… it only has 267 calories, it is low in salt, low in sugar and at £1.10 it is very inexpensive for a sandwich. The salmon produces a good amount of Omega 3 fish oils and is high in fibre and protein.
The lowest ranked sandwich was Sainsbury’s Jam sandwich. At 75p is it by far the cheapest sandwich on the list but this is because it has absolutely no nutritional value! In fact it is possibly the worst on the nutritional stakes. It has 350 calories in it, and as it is made from jam and white bread it is also purely empty calories. The sugar high would be very quickly followed by a energy crash – I suggest you keep well away from this beauty!!
My advice on the lunchtime sandwich – (if you haven’t got the time to make your own) go for the fish or chicken option, on brown bread, with salad (try avoiding the mayo).

The History of the sandwich can be traced back as far as the Middle Ages. Slabs of bread were used instead of plates, they were called ‘trenchers’ and were fed to dogs or beggars afterwards. Is this possibly were the Open sandwich came from? The other connection to what we now know as the sandwich is from the Netherlands in the 17th century when taverns would serve up meat layered on bread and butter.
However the inventor of the sandwich is widely perceived as the Earl of Sandwich in the 18th century. During this time men liked to eat supper whilst playing cards, the Earl developed the ‘sandwich’ as a method of eating whilst still holding onto his cards. He placed cooked meat between two slices of bread and since then the sandwich has been pretty much unchanged. The Victorians removed the crusts and later in Scandinavia and the USA the invention of the filled roll appeared. In the 20th century we such the introduction of the club sandwich and the ‘sub’ (sandwich using a French stick).
It is now an everyday feature in the Western world, and to think that only 250 years ago it didn’t even exist! It is now one of the most popular snack foods next to crisps!