Does anyone still shop at HMV?

A sandwich must not ever involve soggy bread.

there is nothing better than a proper cheese salad sandwich with salad cream not mayo on a summer day

Marks are doing egg tomato and salad cream at the mo which is pretty dope but doesn't make up for the disappearance of their pastrami and pickle

The best sandwich is full of bacon.

i can't stop thinking about egg mayo. i think i might have to have a lie down under my desk for the next 15 minutes.

Tomato is worse than cucumber for making bread soggy and ruining sandwiches. Really if you insist on having either cucumber or tomato in sandwiches you need a protective layer of lettuce in between it and the bread.

They still have signs up saying "Skyfall, 12th February"

Tomato doesn't go near my sandwiches.

unless you like make your sandwich and eat it there and then

I'm guessing I won't be able to get the Matthew E White album from HMV on Monday, right?

This is true, Noodle, but part of the platonic purpose of a sandwich is portability. Tomato and cucumber both make this an obsolete property.

i got little ish with soggy bread tbh, tho if i was pre-preparing a sandwich with salad in i'd make sure i wrapped it tight to avoid the worst problems

Tomato and Cucumber = fine if you're going to eat the sandwich right away. The only time I'd ever prepare a tomato or cucumber sandwich to eat later, I'd have to butter it well and make sure I wrap a paper napkin round it before packing it away #protip

or what everyone else just said

XP When I worked as a cook in a big nursing home I had to make hundreds of egg and mayo sarnies from scratch - from huge pans to boil the eggs to shelling the bastards and mashing the fuck out of them - and quite frankly after that I never wanted to see an egg and mayo sarnie again. The stench of the eggs lingered for hours, it was disgusting. So I do kind of sympathise with Nick S.

i did 3 months on a chocolate biscuit line once and never touched a biscuit for 5 years after that but it wore off

I worked behind a bar for years and I fucking love beer.

since working in FE i've decided i hate teenagers

In non-sandwich news, Sister Ray have said that they'll trade a HMV voucher of any size for 20% in-store discount which might help anyone in London stuck with one.

You can go back to talking about egg sandwiches now (which, for the record, Nick S has right, they're vile).

something something HMV staff hate music something

bit of mustard, spring onion, w/w vinegar, tarragon, salad leaves and you got yourself a banging egg mayo sandwich

leave your cucumber slices in some w/w vinegar & sugar for a bit to extract the water, add some chopped mint to your butter and you got yourself a banging cucumber sandwich

signed, a poncey superior being

throw some capers on that egg bitch too

also cress is peppery duh. they just never put enough of it in

sounds a bit too much like ~cooking~ for me

I'm guessing I won't be able to get the Matthew E White album from HMV on Monday, right?

maybe order it from domino direct? it's a wonderful album...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/18/big-record-companies-shun-hmv

Sony & co too busy going down the shitter themselves I guess.

I hate cucumber. Unless it's pickled, or in tzatziki.

If we're getting fancy with sandwiches then fuck sandwiches, we ought to get into serious territory and talk about rarebit. The other week I made the most amazing rarebit, with caramelised onion, pulled ham hock, proper real ale, dijon mustard, and a good mature cheddar on a proper granary bread from a real baker. It was literally one of the best things I've ever eaten in my entire life.

in the summer, i love eating cucumbers just as they are - i cut off half of one and eat it like a chocolate bar. the most delicious, refreshing chocolate bar ever.

beyond "why would you cook", if you're gonna take the time to cook why would you make a fucking sandwich?

sandwiches are probably HARDER to make than just baking stuff or whatever, i've never managed to do it

My girlfriend's mum made me a next-level croque madame on boxing day. It was sort of like a little egg'n'cheese'n'ham pie made from hollowed out french bread or something. amazing.

sandwiches are probably HARDER to make than just baking stuff or whatever, i've never managed to do it

― lex pretend, Friday, 18 January 2013 15:08 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wait what? What could possibly go wrong??

Lex, are you serious? You can make a delicious bespoke sandwich in less than a minute.

You put something you like between two pieces of bread? How can you not manage that? I know you're a kitchenphobe, but that's actually insane.

Bread can come pre-sliced. Meats and cheeses can come pre-sliced. Lettuce naturally comes in useful sandwich-sized leaves.

the stuff falls out or the bread splits apart or i can't chop things or i spill everything or you pick it up and it just disintegrates and everything goes everywhere

i would never inflict the process of making a sandwich on myself

why would you ever buy bread that WASN'T pre-sliced, i tried to slice a non-sliced loaf before and everything just went wrong

it disintegrates because you've put fucking cucumber and lettuce in it, you idiot.

And tomato. And fucking EGG.

We keep a sliced loaf in the freezer so Em can have beans on toast when I'm out, but other than that I never, ever, ever buy a pre-sliced loaf.

i've never attempted to put egg in a sandwich (see: difficulties with boiling eggs passim)

lex, can you make toast?

not really

i mean, not so it's nice. it's always either overdone or underdone and i swear the settings on the toaster change by themselves

Not surprised.

when you eat cucumbers like chocolate bars, do you slice them up first?

that would be eating cucumbers like cucumbers

no, i try to avoid slicing things because it never ends well

do you not burp loads after eating a whole raw cucumber?

I'm literally explaining to Lex (and Mike) what bread is and how to slice it, on twitter.