Turkey with pork, sage and onion stuffing, cranberry sauce and mayonnaise on stone-baked ciabatta

A BONUS REVIEW! WRITTEN EXCLUSIVELY ON MY PHONE! You lucky buggers. I am in Bath for Christmas and it’s Christmas Eve and I am currently being dragged around the same women’s clothes shops and coffee shops that are in London but here they are completely different! Oh wait no they’re not. Oh well, you all get something out of it. I think. You’re probably not reading this anymore because work has finished, and my one email subscriber is in Bath with me. Oh well let’s get on with it.

You know how every panini tastes like boiling hot cheese and crunchy bread? No matter what the filling is? Well imagine that with a bit of cranberry. Boring. UNLESS you get a mouthful with stuffing in. Then it tastes like cheesy stuffing, which isn’t right but is pretty good. Like that website you look at when your wife is out. No not that one, the one you only look at occasionally and then try not to look at again for a few months because if you look at it too much there’s definitely something wrong you. 

Okay, okay, here’s a big list of the sandwiches ranked in order. I know the more autistic readers among you will not enjoy Christmas without it. And just to be clear, this is the definitive list. No arguing. Don’t @ me.

1. Festive Full Works Bloomer by EAT
2. Waitrose Christmas Turkey, Stuffing & Bacon by Waitrose
3. Turkey & Trimmings by Co-op
4. Pret’s Christmas Lunch by Pret
5. British Turkey Feast by Costa
6. Turkey Dinner by Asda
7. Christmas Lunch Toastie by Greggs
8. Turkey & Trimmings by Tesco
9. Turkey Feast by M&S
10. Turkey Feast by Sainsbury’s
11. Turkey and Maple Bacon by Starbucks
    

Highly Commended: Christmas Turkey Wrap by M&S
DNQ: The Colonel’s Christmas Burger by KFC

And so for another year, I just wanna say…good…bye…

Well the fun is over. And I think it’s fair to call the blog international now, look at these stats for December:

Thank you everyone!

Now, because millennials who grew up with Labour government sports days where every one is a winner might be using this sandwich blog as a safe space, this year I will not be ranking the sandwiches, but granting every sandwich an award so no one gets left out.

Trigger warning: contains bread.

Best Overall Sandwich:

Winner: Festive Full Works Bloomer by EAT

Runner up: Waitrose Christmas Turkey, Stuffing & Bacon by Waitrose

Least Original Sandwich Name:

Winner: Turkey Feast by Sainsbury’s, Turkey Feast by M&S, British Turkey Feast by Costa (tied)

Runner up: Turkey & Trimmings by Co-op, Turkey & Trimmings by Tesco (tied)

Smokiest Bacon Award:

Turkey & Trimmings by Co-op

Trying Too Hard Award:

Turkey and Maple Bacon by Starbucks

The Popeye Award for Too Much Fucking Spinach:

Turkey Feast by Sainsbury’s

The “It Doesn’t Look Like The Photo” Award:

Christmas Lunch Toastie by Greggs

The “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Bacon” Award:

Pret’s Christmas Lunch by Pret

Longest Distance Traveled:

Turkey Dinner by Asda (48 miles)

The “Might Have Won If It Was A Sandwich” Award:

Christmas Turkey Wrap by M&S

Most Shameless Attempt to Cash in on Christmas:

The Colonel’s Christmas Burger by KFC

£6.19 (Colonel’s Christmas Box Meal) – Original Recipe fillet, hashbrown, cranberry sauce and sage & onion stuffing mayo.

WAIT A MINUTE, WHO’S THAT? IT’S THE COLONEL’S CHRISTMAS BURGER! WHAT IN THE BLUE THE HELL IS THAT DOING HERE?! OH NO! GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY! RING THE BELL, STOP THE DAMN BLOG!!

Pulled turkey, maple-cured bacon, pork, sage & onion stuffing, potato hash, sweet potato & pumpkin purée, cranberry & real ale chutney and spinach on rye bread.

Add another ‘fake news’ story to your list! Today I am actually out on my Christmas work do and I lined this up yesterday. Yes, it was another double sandwich day for you, my loyal readers. I was actually only buying this sandwich, but I popped into Tesco on the off chance and they had Christmas sandwiches, so that went up yesterday. Lucky for you guys, huh? Although now I have officially reviewed all sandwiches in the local vicinity so maybe your luck just ran out punks. Or maybe I have something planned for next week. You’ll just have to wait and see.

DISCLAIMER: I don’t like maple syrup. There I  said it. I don’t know why, I just don’t. Which is a fine reason for not liking something, so stick it up your chuff. Nonetheless, I am eating this for you. Yes, you. Not any of the other readers, it’s just you and me baby, riding off into the sunset shoving sandwiches in each other’s mouths you sexy pig.

Go over them ingredients again. Potato hash? Sweet potato & pumpkin purée? RYE BREAD?! Are Starbucks trying too hard, like a male feminist on Twitter? Let’s find out.

Well the first thing I noticed is how fucking sweaty it is! There’s a further level of packaging in the box and the sandwich is sweating it’s bollocks off in little individual plastic cases for each half of the sandwich. But strangely it isn’t soggy.

The next thing I noticed is that the outlandish combination of ingredients tastes different to anything else I’ve had this festive holiday period. And to be honest, I don’t get it. It’s not horrible, but it definitely tastes like someone rammed the leftovers from a thanksgiving dinner into a sandwich. But that’s not a good old fashionsed British Brexit Christmas dinner is it tho? In fact this is the opposite of the Tesco sandwich. And nothing says ‘Britain in December’ quite like a sandwich that hardly makes any effort and somehow gets away with it because everyone will have forgotten come January now let’s go get pissed.

£2.20 – Sliced turkey breast, mayonnaise, pork sausage, cranberry sauce, sage and onion stuffing and cooked diced bacon in malted brown bread.

After yesterday’s M&S selection round-up, some loyal readers accused me of running out of ideas and turning into an old hack. Well hack on this, jerk offs! My Tesco had some Christmas sandwiches in stock today. Why didn’t they have any Christmas sandwiches or any evidence of stocking Christmas sandwiches the other day? I guess this is another one of those questions that man is not supposed to answer.

So I have to admit, I’m disappointed that Tesco have also called their sandwich Turkey & Trimmings. I thought the Co-op was a shoe-in for the Best Name Award. Once again, there are no original ideas.

It’s a bit grey and this is reflected in the pretty simple taste. In fact it feels like quite a lazy effort from Tesco. It’s not a terrible sandwich, but it really does feel like they’ve done the bare minimum. And some people are happy with that, coasting through life with no real aspirations or goals, accepting life as it comes to them. And you know what? I imagine they are some of the happiest people on the planet. You can push yourself, try to reach the top and create a legacy that will be remembered, but all you get is a novelty sandwich blog that you end up putting far too much effort into.