The BLT has been crowned the UK’s favourite sandwich for 2024 in a recent poll, with 28% of respondents saying they were a fan.

The combination of bacon, lettuce and tomato between slices of bread can be traced back to an entry in Good Housekeeping Everyday cookbook in 1903.

Britain’s favourite sandwiches

  1. BLT – 28%
  2. Chicken salad – 24 %
  3. Tuna mayonnaise/Fish finger – 23%
  4. Cheese and pickle – 22%
  5. Egg and cress – 19%
  6. Coronation chicken – 18%
  7. Prawn mayonnaise – 14%
  8. Smoked salmon and cream cheese – 11%
  9. Beef and horseradish – 10%

So what’s your favourite sandwich?

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    Perhaps you, and others in this thread, misunderstand.

    The point of butter, or mayonnaise, in most sandwiches is to protect the bread from sog. Any sarnie involving tomato, for example, that doesn’t have a protective layer between the to’s (I’m trying this out as a contraction of tomatoes) and the bread will end up with soggy, soggy bread. And no one wants soggy, soggy bread,