all talk and no action
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Channel 4 gives heads-up on tasty sandwich
This week's Channel 4 documentary, Dispatches: Sandwiches Unwrapped, named the British Oakham Chicken And Pancetta Caesar Sandwich from Marks and Spencer as an offender, packing around 45 grams of fat. So while at a motorway service station today, in a brave and selfless act of journalism, I bought and ate one.
It was good. But since it's got chicken AND cheese in it, you can hardly expect it to be the epitome of health foods.
And since I grabbed the last of this type of sandwich on the shelf, I wonder whether the documentary has actually helped to promote it.
It would be interesting to see the program test its conclusion, which was that you'd be better off making your own sandwiches. I think that once I'd loaded up my bread with butter, cheese, ham, mayonnaise and everything else that seemed like a good idea at the time, it'd probably be higher in salt and fat than almost any shop-purchased version.
It was good. But since it's got chicken AND cheese in it, you can hardly expect it to be the epitome of health foods.
And since I grabbed the last of this type of sandwich on the shelf, I wonder whether the documentary has actually helped to promote it.
It would be interesting to see the program test its conclusion, which was that you'd be better off making your own sandwiches. I think that once I'd loaded up my bread with butter, cheese, ham, mayonnaise and everything else that seemed like a good idea at the time, it'd probably be higher in salt and fat than almost any shop-purchased version.
posted by paul, 7:33 PM
