Last year Sainsbury's failed miserably to impress me. I am sorry to admit that I didn't even finish their sandwich. So let's see if this Christmas they have managed to improve!
Normally I like Sainsbury's but for some reason their lunchtime fridge has never appealed to me. It just doesn't "look" appetising. Which is strange as I buy plenty of food and supplies from them most weeks of the year and rarely, if ever, have any complaints. Anyway, the display itself is a bit haphazard. Sandwiches vying for sitting room shoved in the corner of the top shelf literally falling over each other in desperation to be bought. I gingerly remove one half expecting the stack of boxes to ripple to the floor in a domino effect. Luckily I manage to pull it off.
The sandwich itself. Packaging. Well what can I say. It's a sandwich in a festively decorated cardboard box. No surprises there! Competitively priced at £2.70 I'm happy with that. It already looks a bit flat, and dare I say, squashed though. Maybe it was on the verge of suffocation on the over stuffed shelf?
Opening the sandwich it smells, well, like a turkey sandwich. Not a criticism but it isn't memorable. The bread is a bit thin and the filling looks mushy and wet. The overall taste of the sandwich, whilst edible and not unpleasant, is completely overwhelmed by pepper. Far. Too. Much. Pepper! Yet has only been kissed lightly by a smidgen of cranberry sauce. If it wasn't for the pack telling me this sandwich contained cranberry sauce I would be none the wiser. Minus points there then. The stuffing is very squishy. Almost like someone just made up a batch of ready made finest and shoved it between bread before letting it set. Personally I prefer my stuffing to be robust with body. Or at the very least look like stuffing rather than porridge. The turkey was hard to taste (that pepper again!) so it was difficult to tell whether it was moist or dry or perhaps even there. A very green looking lettuce leaf also graced the innards. While I am not adverse to my five a day, personally if I am eating a festive sandwich I would leave the salad back in the fridge.
The verdict: An edible sandwich overpowered by pepper but an improvement on last year (I ate all of this one so it can't be that bad, right?)
Rating: 6 out of 10
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