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UK’S 15 best sandwiches of all time

HAM and cheese has been voted by Britons in a recent survey as the No.1 sandwich filling of all time.

The study also revealed how Britain likes its sandwiches prepared: with mayonnaise, not salad cream, on medium-sliced bread cut horizontally — accompanied by a packet of cheese and onion crisps — the optimum presentation.

The winning cheese-and-ham combo received a resounding 55% of the vote from British workers in the nationwide poll by Hovis.

In second place is egg mayonnaise with cress (41%), followed by the BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato) in third place (35%).

Tuna mayonnaise ranks fourth (33%) and ham salad is in joint fifth place with cheese and pickle (32%).

Several other fillings were also sandwiched in a joint place.

Four fillings make the cut in joint sixth place, including two meaty fillings, one vegetarian combo, and a vegan option — chicken mayo, chicken and avocado, cheese and tomato, and vegan BLT. They all garnered 31% of votes.

Vegan BLT is not the only plant-based filling to make the list, with vegan cheese coming in seventh place (30%). It beats ham and coleslaw, which comes in joint eighth place with the lunchbox staple tuna and sweetcorn (28%).

Rounding off the list is salmon and cream cheese in joint ninth place with coronation chicken (26%) – which sold out in supermarkets ahead of the King’s coronation on May 6.

In the condiment stakes, mayo was voted the clear winner (40%), while salad cream, in second position, was only chosen by 18% of Britons.

The result also shows that just less than one in five Britons prefer a tang to their sandwich, with 17% voting for pickle as their favourite condiment, in third place, and 15% voting for mustard, in fourth.

Almost half of Britons, meanwhile, believe the best way to cut a sandwich is in half horizontally (46%), followed by diagonally in half (26%) and then in triangular quarters (13%), while six percent do not slice it at all. Medium thickness is the ideal bread to use for 50% of voters, while 49% say it has to be a classic white loaf every time. When it comes to crisps, cheese and onion garnered 36% of the vote as the best flavour to eat with – or inside – a sandwich.

Next comes ready salted (29%), salt and vinegar (27%), prawn cocktail (20%) and roast chicken (19%).

Almost seven in 10 people (69%) are now making a sarnie for lunch every day with the nation’s workers sitting down at 12.30pm and taking just 35 minutes to devour their meal.

Thirty-eight percent say sandwiches are a frugal and easy choice, the poll revealed.

Whatever Britons choose for lunch, the joy that it brings starts two hours earlier at 10.30am when they start thinking about what they are going to eat.

Almost one in three (30%) confess they get so excited that they end up eating some or all of their packed lunch before lunchtime.

As the cost-of-living crisis continues to bite, it’s no surprise that they are also cutting back on shop-bought items.

The favourites for this list? Sandwiches (32%), coffees and teas (30%), take-out burgers (27%), pastries (23%), takeout wraps (19%), fruit (19%) and salad bowls (16%).

Hovis's head of marketing, Claire Parlour, said: “The unassuming yet scrumptious sandwich has been around for over 250 years and over that time has seen off many challenges as a lunchtime staple.

“No matter what fillings you choose, whichever way you like to cut it, and whether you can wait until lunchtime or not, it is great to see the nation’s renewed enthusiasm and love for packed lunches and timeless fillings.

“Hovis has championed the quality and taste of the classic sandwich since we started baking bread back in 1886, so it’s no surprise to us that the Great British public look forward to a delicious homemade sandwich for lunch.” — Mail Online.

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