@@AdventuresAndNaps to be honest. If someone asked me to describe Tesco Meal Deal Sandwiches I'd have to go with "Condensed Sadness with a Sprinkle of Manic Energy" this kinda covers all the bland, sad sandwiches with the odd mix of "weird" ones thrown in.
Used to work with a lad who bought to work three or more packets of Sainsburys sandwiches daily. We commented on what it must cost him and he said his mother lived very near the supermarket and she went in at the end of the day when they had been greatly reduced in price. he picked them up from his mums house on the way to work!
Last time I was in the UK I bought a sandwich filled with "chicken tikka masala" the bread was malted with additional seeds and it was lovely. I bought it in Scotland where I was living. Sandwiches were sold almost everywhere. It saved you worrying about food when going out - just buy a sandwich!
I'm in England. A sandwich shop is different 2 our supermarket sandwich here. Wld not recommend any sandwiches in supermarkets. The wraps r ok but sandwich shops r good on the fillings
'Coronation chicken' is a classic British sandwich filling, created for the Queen's coronation in 1953, cooked chicken in (usually bright yellow) curry-flavour mayonnaise, not everyone's cup of tea but I quite like it from time to time. Like the grandpappy of present-day chicken tikka sarnies, I suppose!
@@dilligaf73 we don't all have a sandwich shop old chap, we've got an industrial estate with, S & M, Greggs, shops near by with a Tesco express, and an ASDA superstore near by.
Hi, Alanna, that was brilliant I felt as if I needed cheering up this afternoon and this certainly cheered me up. It was great fun. Not sure which I'd select probably your favourite, most of them didn't look very appetising but the video was very entertaining. I could watch more of them.
@@AdventuresAndNaps tesco food is grim, anyway. but their sarnies, are often dry AF, the bread is dry and the butter/marg is so thin, it makes it stick in your mouth. please try boots next
Another enjoyable video, Alana. I'm sure i'm not alone, viewer-wise, in joining in , on every post, wth your "let;s go" and "byee", together witn corresponding gesticulations! Keep 'em coming!
As you gallantly discovered, Tesco are exponents of the literal sandwich. Bread - check, spread - check, ingredients matching list on packet - check. Flavour.......we'll get back to you on that one. Many's the time I've double-checked the packet, after I'd eaten the sandwich, to work out what it was.
The reason for the "no mayo" option is that many Brits, particularly those aged 50+, were not brought up with mayonnaise, and have not acquired a taste for it. Maybe things have changed since I was last a visitor to the UK for more than a few days, which would be over 20 yrs ago, but back then a staple sandwich would be corned beef and pickle.
My fave is cheese and Branston on wholewheat, it's sinful that Tesco doesn't offer this option. It's always pleasant ( and funny) when you undertake these taste tests and giving an honest evaluation, keep it up Alana.
@@AdventuresAndNaps I should write a strongly worded letter to the Algorithms department in that case 😆 I suppose it will be a treat that I will have to go back through your recent uploads and binge them when I have some time off work next week. Thanks for the super fast response 👍
I just have to say that watching your facial expressions as you try something new you have not had before, is pricelessly funny. I appreciate you allowing us to be a part of those experiences. lol
That’s such a cool idea for a video! I haven’t heard of anyone doing a video like this before, it’s such a good idea! Hope the video does really well for you! You always have such cool ideas for your videos, it makes your channel a lot of fun to watch! You made the video really funny too! Thanks so much for the video! I really liked it!
I've had a few supermarket sandwiches (not all Tesco) over the years, and I'm usually a bit disappointed. I generally make my own sandwich with my favourites being sausage or bacon with HP sauce.
"Security to the Sandwich aisle, security to the Sandwich aisle, she's back". 😀 All these fancy Tesco meal deals are ok but you still cant beat a good old fashioned chip butty.
@@r1nc3w1nd7 Or White Council Issued Bread Butter Chips If in the Black Country in the West Midlands the area outside of Birmingham so West Bromwich Walsall so on orange battered Chips, With Red Sauce Heinz, Salt and Vinegar Butter Bread Washed down with Tea, Beer of a night but preferably Tea.
2 minutes into the video I am already hungry 🤤 I imagine when I finish this video I am going to the nearby convenient store to get a sandwich for myself
Alanna, I always love watching your videos, especially when you taste. I did want to mention a few points about some of these sandwiches. I'm from Toronto, Ontario, so my tastes are based on living here. For Egg Salad sandwiches, my mother always used Kraft Miracle Whip instead of mayo when making these as it tastes a hell of a lot better than mayo. I came from a big family and after a big roasted turkey or chicken dinner, the next day, my mother would make sandwiches that had chicken/turkey, stuffing lettuce that were supreme tasting. Whenever it came to ham sandwiches, either alone or with cheese we always used mustard (preferably Keen's hot mustard). Thanks for sharing your taste test with us today.
My favourite meal deal sandwiches are 1. chicken, bacon & stuffing 2. Chicken, bacon & lettuce, or 3. BLT . 4. Also at Christmas I love their turkey stuffing etc one. No5. Tuna mayonnaise.
Hello, I came across your channel surfing TH-cam and well it was really a trip down memory lane. I moved to Kent about two decades ago from Canada and in all my time here only met one other Canadian and she worked in Wickes. Anyway, love you sense of humour and will be watching your vids. 😁. Nice to know I am not the only Canadian in Kent!
As a vegetarian it often comes down to the egg sandwich or the cheese sandwich and I am here to say that all over the country, regardless of manufacturer, the egg sandwiches always need seasoning to make them edible.
Yes but you're buying a very basic sandwich to take into the office or wherever for a rushed meal...some people can't eat the additives for dietary reasons (low calcium/non salt etc) so add condiments if you wish...if you want it hot, microwave the bloody thing...if you want extra sauces or trimmings add them...jeez rocket science it ain't...if you really really have to be quite so fussy about customising your lunches, be less bloody idle and try getting up a few minutes earlier to make your own...like some of us did every day for years!
@@cogidubnus1953 Rather presumptuous of you to assume everyone is an office worker with a microwave or who someone who begins their day from home each morning. If they can make an ostrich and rocket brioche with parmesan shavings then they can sprinkle a bit of salt on an egg. Or lose my money.
@@Tom_TH-cam_stole_my_handle So be it...but I repeat we're talking very basic Tesco snack sandwiches which perforce cater for the maximum number of customers needs...if people want extra condiments, sauces or warmed up sandwiches then common sense dictates they'll have to do something for themselves...or shop elsewhere or make their own... Nothing arrogant about that....nor in suggesting that 21st century workplaces supply some very basic facilities or breaks for staff to eat...outside workers excepted of course - but they tend to bring a packed lunch from home anyway...that's where I first picked up the habit some fifty years or so ago...
Ive had the pulled pork... great sandwich.. I must say ive had a tough few weeks and yet again you managed to put a huge smile on my face.. simply... thank you 😊
I think the best Tesco sandwich is either the cheese triple or the chicken and bacon, but they're all overwhelmingly defeated by the Christmas-only turkey and trimmings sandwich - turkey, sausage, bacon, stuffing, cranberry sauce & mayo all on malted bread. It tastes *chef''s kiss*.
These videos are just so fantastic. Can we get one a month of either an eating or drinking video please? And once a quarter a "cooking with Alanna" video? What do you mean "needy", if you don't ask you may not get!
Wow, with the ham sandwich near the end you got dangerously near to the infamous Standard British Rail Sandwich. Back in the 1970s, a ham sandwich would be no more than a single sliver of ham. That one was up on the luxury end of the scale! I was amazed getting a ham sandwich in New York in the 80s and finding it filled with what would have been several packets of supermarket ham in the UK.
Don't dis the BR sandwich😂😂😂 Cheese and tomato on soggy bread, the tomato had been on so long the bread went soggy. Mmm, yum😁 My absolute favourite BR sandwich was the corned beef and onion. Again soggy bread but they really were yummy 😂😂
Sounds to me like a riff on a Parisian jambon beurre, a baguette smeared with Normandy butter and filled with Parisian boiled ham. The jambon beurre is one of the world's greatest sandwiches.
Recently returned from Japan to Scotland.....Japanese egg mayo sandwich!...to die for!!..Family Mart konbini store.....YUM!!!!..So soft..so full of egg!..no crusts (though I do love a crust)..Lost count how many I ate in Japan....so so good!
When I go to Tescos for lunch, I usually caveman it and get a roast chicken from the rotisserie, I even ask them for blu roll to clean up with, I always wash it down with a big cherry Coke, there’s a nice seating area near the river. All that bread would bloat me big time, you’ve built the great sandwich wall of Kent. Great video thanks for making it.
I've always thought my hometown was perfect (for me). Most people think it's a dump. But to me, it's home. Until I went south for work, and I went to one of their Tesco's for a lunchtime meal deal. And then I realised, my hometown just doesn't compare when it comes to food. Tesco where I live generally only has tuna, cheese, some plain chicken/chicken with mayo. That's about it. Down south, they had a ton of flavouring. I still don't want to move, but I also volunteer to travel more for work just to see what meal deals everyone else gets 🤣
For all gym goers out there.., my go to: Chicken triple sandwich + berry protein smoothie + nature valley protein bar = 50 gram protein for £3. The triple sandwich (chicken salad, cheese, BLT) can be a good substitute if chicken triple runs out.
I’m gluten intolerant since chemo, but I used to eat sandwiches from M&S 😂 Their chicken and chorizo, chicken salad, BLT and ham and mustard mayo were my favourites. So expensive now though! But my fiancé gets Tesco meal deals for work - his favourites are the pulled beef and Red Leicester, the southern fried chicken wrap or chicken and bacon wrap.
Thanks Alanna. I could tell when you got the kick from the Red Leicester cheese. Try M&S sandwiches next, don’t forget to take your cool bag to keep them chilled ☃️
Never eat bread with seeds in it. I found this out the hard way. The seeds are quite edible by them selves, but when mixed with dough and baked in an oven, the husks of the seeds become very hard and are indigestible. Those indigestible seeds accumulate in your colon and bowel where they rot away for years and that can lead to some serious problems down there as I found out. Cheers
Googled this out of intrigue... Can't find any evidence to suggest what you're saying is correct. Harvard published an article disproving the theory but that's about it.
When I was at work we had a Sainsburys near us and I liked their Chicken and Stuffing sandwich. They also did a Sausage, Egg and Bacon sandwich which was nice. At Christmas time they did a gorgeous Turkey, Brie and Cranberry Sauce sandwich. Mind you this was over 9 years ago now, they may not do these anymore.
Lol - my faves are in your ‘not considered’ categories - a breakfast triple (mixes of bacon, sausage & egg) or some wrap - hoisin duck, southern fried chicken or sweet chilli chicken - all good! Most of those looked soooo sad, though - the ham especially. That wants some mustard to give it some flavour… The best of all sandwiches, though, comes from our local bakery chain, Birds - freshly cooked bacon & sausage, together with your choice of sauce/condiment, including my favourite, stuffing and apple sauce… it just works…
Hi Alanna, rather you than me but you're right that the chicken bacon and lettuce is a proven winner...and there's nothing worse than soggy soft bacon in any sarnie! Call me picky but I'd always walk the extra distance to get to an M&S foodhall where the quality and choice shines through. As ever great fun to watch and a great test for your digestion too!!
The secret to enjoying the egg and mayo, is to put domino's plain or cheese and onion crisps into it (preferably walker's baked) into it. The combination of the soft and the crunchy, is just delicious
I admire your dedication to research Alanna 🙂 I go in Tesco every morning on the way to work and I know you will be disappointed in me but I do not like mayo so my only options from the meal deal is plain ham or plain cheese which are both super dry but what ya gunna do 😃 so my choice is the slabs of cheese sandwiched between the two sheets of bread 🤷 bacon and ketchup though oddly we don't have that I've seen anyway 🤔 really do enjoy your videos so thanks as always for the fun
I like mayo but I don't eat white bread, which also limits options. Also, mayo/sauce/tomatoes can make the bread soggy, which is a big no no for me. Thankfully, I don't need to buy these meal deals and if I do, I get a wrap.
@@michaelhawkins7389 Yes, M+S is better quality and usually at a higher price. Personally, I've never been a fan of sandwiches/sliced bread. I always have cobs at home, so these don't appeal to me whatever the flavour.
In the interests of not wasting any food you should have tried making a double decker sandwich from the smoky bacon/ketchup and the egg/mayo. That might have tasted pretty good! My fav is always the chicken/bacon/lettuce. Always reliable, can't go wrong. BLT would be my second choice, but the tomato always tastes a bit weird with the mayo, in my opinion! Did you just buy the sandwiches, or did you get 11 whole meal deals? Have you got 11 little bottles of Tropicana and 11 bags of crisps? lol
Tesco caters to a wide range of people, so the more interesting/experimental fillings may be more popular with younger people and mundane stuff like plain ham may be popular with older people who are accustomed to basic food because they grew up in the post-war period. The simplicity of it may a nod to the frugal living standards of the 1940s and 1950s. Otherwise, I was embarrassed by how poorly distributed some of your fillings were. Tesco needs to get onto that! My personal favourite is cheese and onion. The mayo adds flavour and moisture and the oatmeal bread is both healthy and scrummilicious. Your videos are fun and surprising. Thank you. (You do know 3/6 = 1/2?) 🙂
If you don't want to watch full vid. Take my word for it No1 is sausage bacon and egg triple. No2 is chicken bacon and stuffing. My experience is that Im a taxi driver.
Firstly, I had to go and make myself a sandwich so I could eat along with you. Your sandwiches made me very hungry. Secondly, you didn’t include my favourite sandwich from Tesco which is Sausage, Bacon, Egg and Ketchup on Brown Seeded Bread. Delicious. However, I will forgive you. It was an interesting video and I always love to hear your take on British food. I’m a fan ❤️
Love the intro and cheeky look to camera. Egg and mayo, Yes. BLT, Yes. Tuna and sweet corn ok but this and egg needs black pepper adding to stop blandness. Pulled beef etc. Sounds great. Chicken and chorizo, Yes. Not found a bad one yet. Was that traffic or the egg trying to get out 😀 Make me want to try the best one. Can't go wrong with a stuffing butty. Yes tomato sauce and cold greasy bacon just sounds rank
I thought of another idea. Since I know you love Taskmaster, you could do a taste test of different food concoctions that had been featured in the show.
Yeah, chi/ba/st would be my go to sandwich. Chi/ba/le probably second. With some of the blander ones you can put in a few of your meal deal crisps to liven up the flavour and add crunch.
It's very frustrating as when you work there they make you become part of the tasting panel and pretty much everyone said 'it needs a little salt'...and the answer was ' NO' !
Alanna, you're really doing a lot of sacrifices for our sake recently 😂. The crisps, beers, and now the catastrophic meal deals !! This is really appreciated !!!
Sacrifices? Canadian food is based around either French or British cooking. Nothing wrong with the beers hence the huge increase in breweries across the UK. Now more breweries per person than anywhere in the World. Meal deals are £3 so I don’t get why people get so offended by them, you don’t buy it otherwise. Finally, what’s the problem with the crisps? No different to the rest of the world.
Dear@@darkno6493, I am not saying these things are bad or British cooking, crisps, and beers are bad! the point is she is trying things which some of them are new to her (brand wise) and are not enjoyable for her. No one wants to try things that end up tasting bad. anyone would wish what they're trying is going to be delicious ! for Alanna's case, I consider it a sacrifice for the sake of the channel, nothing more.
My wifes favourite is the plain Ham sandwich. She hates mayonnaise, so that pretty much negates any commercially made sarnie. I, on the other hand, like my sarnies fully loaded. The CoOp Onion Bhaji with Beetroot and Mango chutney on malted bread is a favourite.
Many years ago my work colleagues and I were saying our idea of purgatory. Mine was sitting on a pebble beach on a really hot day eating soggy cheese and tomato sandwiches. Some how, even freshly unwrapped and sitting on pebbles they always got sand in them!
When I was at primary school my class went to York for a few days. The guest house's idea of a packed lunch was to give us egg sandwiches. By day 3 everyone chucked them in the bin.
The chicken, bacon and stuffing is my favourite. The cheese and onion is good as is the smoked salmon and cream cheese. They really need to be left out of the fridge to come up to room temperature. Perhaps if you were in the post office for a hour they may have tasted better!
0:44 Mom: Sorry kids, I got there but someone had taken all the sandwiches! Kids: but Mom, we're hungry As an experiment/video suggestion - don't eat anything, nothing at all for a full 24 hours. No cheating! (You are allowed water/milk/tea/juice). Bet you'll give anything 100% Alanna Marking units.
Absolutely agree! my favourite and a long standing regular at Tesco is the chicken, bacon and stuffing. I have never seen the pulled beef & red leicester in any Tesco local to me. And we have a few! Apart from the tuna sandwiches, all the others are rubbish.
I always spend the first few minutes re-arranging the contents of my sandwich. It infuriates me that they pile everything in the middle so that when it's cut it looks full. It never is. And I don't like malted bread either so that cuts the choice down. Whats wrong with wholemeal bread? I'd never buy malted bread so why would I want it on my sandwich?
@@AdventuresAndNaps It's a joy to watch you and to see how resilient you have been over these last few years, despite the loss of your father, the visa troubles and the lockdowns and all. Perhaps you are more troubled by all these life events than you let on. Well, that is your choice, but the persona you project provides us a good role model. It's inspiring, an example of how one can retain some sense and equanimity.
I was veggie so egg mayo is always my go to. Good fancy bread is always apritiated. Better if it's got cress on it. M&S make my favourite ones. When I was a kid tuna and sweetcorn was my first choice.
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I love that I just spent 20 minutes watching a Canadian living in the UK eating sandwiches.
Bless you for sticking around!
@@AdventuresAndNaps M&S is a better supermarket and of higher quality, (Marks & Spencer), Tesco sandwichs are of arrange quality
@@AdventuresAndNaps to be honest. If someone asked me to describe Tesco Meal Deal Sandwiches I'd have to go with "Condensed Sadness with a Sprinkle of Manic Energy" this kinda covers all the bland, sad sandwiches with the odd mix of "weird" ones thrown in.
The sandwich was invented by the earl of sandwich 🇬🇧
@@jackwatsonepic626: he made them widespread, the concept is very much older! 🇩🇰🍻
Used to work with a lad who bought to work three or more packets of Sainsburys sandwiches daily. We commented on what it must cost him and he said his mother lived very near the supermarket and she went in at the end of the day when they had been greatly reduced in price. he picked them up from his mums house on the way to work!
Last time I was in the UK I bought a sandwich filled with "chicken tikka masala" the bread was malted with additional seeds and it was lovely. I bought it in Scotland where I was living. Sandwiches were sold almost everywhere. It saved you worrying about food when going out - just buy a sandwich!
I'm in England. A sandwich shop is different 2 our supermarket sandwich here. Wld not recommend any sandwiches in supermarkets. The wraps r ok but sandwich shops r good on the fillings
'Coronation chicken' is a classic British sandwich filling, created for the Queen's coronation in 1953, cooked chicken in (usually bright yellow) curry-flavour mayonnaise, not everyone's cup of tea but I quite like it from time to time. Like the grandpappy of present-day chicken tikka sarnies, I suppose!
@@dilligaf73 we don't all have a sandwich shop old chap, we've got an industrial estate with, S & M, Greggs, shops near by with a Tesco express, and an ASDA superstore near by.
@@dave_h_8742 sorry, no idea wot S & M is n greggs has better sandwiches than any supermarket
Faux Indian food is about as British as it gets… 😀
Hi, Alanna, that was brilliant I felt as if I needed cheering up this afternoon and this certainly cheered me up. It was great fun. Not sure which I'd select probably your favourite, most of them didn't look very appetising but the video was very entertaining. I could watch more of them.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@AdventuresAndNaps M&S is a better supermarket and of higher quality, (Marks & Spencer)
@@AdventuresAndNaps tesco food is grim, anyway. but their sarnies, are often dry AF, the bread is dry and the butter/marg is so thin, it makes it stick in your mouth. please try boots next
Another enjoyable video, Alana.
I'm sure i'm not alone, viewer-wise, in joining in , on every post, wth your "let;s go" and "byee", together witn corresponding gesticulations!
Keep 'em coming!
This is the kind of hard-hitting investigative citizen journalism I come to TH-cam for. (And cats falling off of cupboards, obviously.)
😂
The brutal honesty and vulnerability in this video are fantastic!
Life has been pretty freaking bleak lately. Thank you for giving us a reason to smile today. 😄
🙏🏻
With the goings on in the world right now, we needed this fun video more than ever ❤🌟😊 thank you hun
Glad you enjoyed it!
As you gallantly discovered, Tesco are exponents of the literal sandwich. Bread - check, spread - check, ingredients matching list on packet - check. Flavour.......we'll get back to you on that one. Many's the time I've double-checked the packet, after I'd eaten the sandwich, to work out what it was.
The reason for the "no mayo" option is that many Brits, particularly those aged 50+, were not brought up with mayonnaise, and have not acquired a taste for it. Maybe things have changed since I was last a visitor to the UK for more than a few days, which would be over 20 yrs ago, but back then a staple sandwich would be corned beef and pickle.
My fav was the cheese and onion sandwich, mainly because it was solely made by machines, no humans poking about with it.
Thank you for cheering me up today. I had to quit watching the news and this really helped. ❤️
Glad I could help
very well done review, i loved how she is very plain and direct
My fave is cheese and Branston on wholewheat, it's sinful that Tesco doesn't offer this option. It's always pleasant ( and funny) when you undertake these taste tests and giving an honest evaluation, keep it up Alana.
I've not had any videos on my feed from you in so long - and I'm subbed. Glad to have you back, Sunshine 🌞
Weird! I post every Tuesday and Friday - not missed an upload in year ☺️
@@AdventuresAndNaps I should write a strongly worded letter to the Algorithms department in that case 😆
I suppose it will be a treat that I will have to go back through your recent uploads and binge them when I have some time off work next week.
Thanks for the super fast response 👍
Gonna remember to rewatch this video again before June when I go back to Europe,thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching!
I just have to say that watching your facial expressions as you try something new you have not had before, is pricelessly funny. I appreciate you allowing us to be a part of those experiences. lol
That’s such a cool idea for a video! I haven’t heard of anyone doing a video like this before, it’s such a good idea! Hope the video does really well for you! You always have such cool ideas for your videos, it makes your channel a lot of fun to watch! You made the video really funny too! Thanks so much for the video! I really liked it!
Thank you so much!!
I've had a few supermarket sandwiches (not all Tesco) over the years, and I'm usually a bit disappointed. I generally make my own sandwich with my favourites being sausage or bacon with HP sauce.
HP Sauce over ketchup any day, brother!
Classic Adventures and Naps. It doesn't get any better than this!
You're too kind!!
@@AdventuresAndNaps I try!
Your sense of humor is fantastic and I love ya lol!!!
Thanks so much for watching!
That brown bread with seeds is called "granary bread". I don't have a favourite meal deal since I shop at Sainsburys.
"Security to the Sandwich aisle, security to the Sandwich aisle, she's back". 😀 All these fancy Tesco meal deals are ok but you still cant beat a good old fashioned chip butty.
😂 Security will never take my sandwiches!!
That or a Fish Finger Sandwich or Hot Pork and Stuffing Sandwich
Chip Butty recipe
•Bread (slice of)
•Chips (handful of)
•Mayonnaise (squirt of)
•Sweet Chilli Sauce (squirt of)
and wash down with
•Cup of Tea (A)
@@r1nc3w1nd7 Or
White Council Issued Bread
Butter
Chips If in the Black Country in the West Midlands the area outside of Birmingham so West Bromwich Walsall so on orange battered Chips, With Red Sauce Heinz,
Salt and Vinegar
Butter
Bread
Washed down with Tea, Beer of a night but preferably Tea.
2 minutes into the video I am already hungry 🤤 I imagine when I finish this video I am going to the nearby convenient store to get a sandwich for myself
😂 Thanks for watching!
Chicken bacon and stuffing used to be my go to sandwich. Oh memories as I have not lived in UK for 18 years 😢
I just love your ratings methodology. Clearly your map does not have a scale and I appreciate the visionary nature of a boundless imagination!!
😂 Thanks for watching!
Alanna, I always love watching your videos, especially when you taste. I did want to mention a few points about some of these sandwiches. I'm from Toronto, Ontario, so my tastes are based on living here. For Egg Salad sandwiches, my mother always used Kraft Miracle Whip instead of mayo when making these as it tastes a hell of a lot better than mayo. I came from a big family and after a big roasted turkey or chicken dinner, the next day, my mother would make sandwiches that had chicken/turkey, stuffing lettuce that were supreme tasting. Whenever it came to ham sandwiches, either alone or with cheese we always used mustard (preferably Keen's hot mustard). Thanks for sharing your taste test with us today.
I quite like how you can still tell your Canadian when you say sorry 😄
My favourite meal deal sandwiches are 1. chicken, bacon & stuffing 2. Chicken, bacon & lettuce, or 3. BLT . 4. Also at Christmas I love their turkey stuffing etc one. No5. Tuna mayonnaise.
Hello, I came across your channel surfing TH-cam and well it was really a trip down memory lane. I moved to Kent about two decades ago from Canada and in all my time here only met one other Canadian and she worked in Wickes. Anyway, love you sense of humour and will be watching your vids. 😁. Nice to know I am not the only Canadian in Kent!
Ahh thanks so much!
My corner shop does a full English breakfast sandwich that lowers your life expectancy by years with each bite, but it's totally worth it.
Oh my god, sounds incredible!
As a vegetarian it often comes down to the egg sandwich or the cheese sandwich and I am here to say that all over the country, regardless of manufacturer, the egg sandwiches always need seasoning to make them edible.
At least it's not just me thinking that then!
Yes but you're buying a very basic sandwich to take into the office or wherever for a rushed meal...some people can't eat the additives for dietary reasons (low calcium/non salt etc) so add condiments if you wish...if you want it hot, microwave the bloody thing...if you want extra sauces or trimmings add them...jeez rocket science it ain't...if you really really have to be quite so fussy about customising your lunches, be less bloody idle and try getting up a few minutes earlier to make your own...like some of us did every day for years!
@@cogidubnus1953 Rather presumptuous of you to assume everyone is an office worker with a microwave or who someone who begins their day from home each morning. If they can make an ostrich and rocket brioche with parmesan shavings then they can sprinkle a bit of salt on an egg. Or lose my money.
@@Tom_TH-cam_stole_my_handle So be it...but I repeat we're talking very basic Tesco snack sandwiches which perforce cater for the maximum number of customers needs...if people want extra condiments, sauces or warmed up sandwiches then common sense dictates they'll have to do something for themselves...or shop elsewhere or make their own...
Nothing arrogant about that....nor in suggesting that 21st century workplaces supply some very basic facilities or breaks for staff to eat...outside workers excepted of course - but they tend to bring a packed lunch from home anyway...that's where I first picked up the habit some fifty years or so ago...
I appreciate the lack of a pinch of salt pales into insignificance when compared with the danger of being hit by a doodlebug on your way to work.
Ive had the pulled pork... great sandwich.. I must say ive had a tough few weeks and yet again you managed to put a huge smile on my face.. simply... thank you 😊
Thanks so much!
I think the best Tesco sandwich is either the cheese triple or the chicken and bacon, but they're all overwhelmingly defeated by the Christmas-only turkey and trimmings sandwich - turkey, sausage, bacon, stuffing, cranberry sauce & mayo all on malted bread. It tastes *chef''s kiss*.
These videos are just so fantastic. Can we get one a month of either an eating or drinking video please? And once a quarter a "cooking with Alanna" video?
What do you mean "needy", if you don't ask you may not get!
😂 There's lots more in the queue!
@@AdventuresAndNaps Bring them on! Let's get you to 500k subs!
the intro scared me for a second - i thought you forgot to say 'hi everyone its me'
Great video as always Alanna.your videos always make me smile. 🙂
😊 thank you
This is the content we need right here
😂 Thanks for watching!
You definitely helped narrow down my options for next time. Thanks for the great video
Thanks for watching!
This video is so funny! So many kinds of Tasco meal I have not known. I certainly will try.
Thanks for watching!
Wow, with the ham sandwich near the end you got dangerously near to the infamous Standard British Rail Sandwich. Back in the 1970s, a ham sandwich would be no more than a single sliver of ham. That one was up on the luxury end of the scale! I was amazed getting a ham sandwich in New York in the 80s and finding it filled with what would have been several packets of supermarket ham in the UK.
Don't dis the BR sandwich😂😂😂
Cheese and tomato on soggy bread, the tomato had been on so long the bread went soggy. Mmm, yum😁
My absolute favourite BR sandwich was the corned beef and onion. Again soggy bread but they really were yummy 😂😂
Sounds to me like a riff on a Parisian jambon beurre, a baguette smeared with Normandy butter and filled with Parisian boiled ham. The jambon beurre is one of the world's greatest sandwiches.
Recently returned from Japan to Scotland.....Japanese egg mayo sandwich!...to die for!!..Family Mart konbini store.....YUM!!!!..So soft..so full of egg!..no crusts (though I do love a crust)..Lost count how many I ate in Japan....so so good!
This Canadian loves the meal deals in the UK. Must say my fav is the turkey feast! Strong second is the Thai chicken.
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When I go to Tescos for lunch, I usually caveman it and get a roast chicken from the rotisserie, I even ask them for blu roll to clean up with, I always wash it down with a big cherry Coke, there’s a nice seating area near the river. All that bread would bloat me big time, you’ve built the great sandwich wall of Kent. Great video thanks for making it.
M&S is a better supermarket and of higher quality, (Marks & Spencer), Tesco sandwichs are of arrange quality
I've always thought my hometown was perfect (for me). Most people think it's a dump. But to me, it's home.
Until I went south for work, and I went to one of their Tesco's for a lunchtime meal deal. And then I realised, my hometown just doesn't compare when it comes to food. Tesco where I live generally only has tuna, cheese, some plain chicken/chicken with mayo. That's about it.
Down south, they had a ton of flavouring.
I still don't want to move, but I also volunteer to travel more for work just to see what meal deals everyone else gets
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Alanna, don't ever change your unique scoring system
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The plain ham no mayo was the only pre packed sandwich my dad would entertain. It's the go-to for my eldest son too
Wasn't Red Lester a jazz trumpeter back in the 1950s?
For all gym goers out there.., my go to: Chicken triple sandwich + berry protein smoothie + nature valley protein bar = 50 gram protein for £3. The triple sandwich (chicken salad, cheese, BLT) can be a good substitute if chicken triple runs out.
Great choices!
I’m gluten intolerant since chemo, but I used to eat sandwiches from M&S 😂 Their chicken and chorizo, chicken salad, BLT and ham and mustard mayo were my favourites. So expensive now though! But my fiancé gets Tesco meal deals for work - his favourites are the pulled beef and Red Leicester, the southern fried chicken wrap or chicken and bacon wrap.
09:16 Alanna goes ghetto/gangster: "innit'!" [bruv] 😂
Oh, but this is where you add the crisps to the sandwich and wash down with the drink.. Nice one Alanna.👍
The meal deal could give you the ham sandwich, a packet of crisps and a drink. You can add the crisps to the sandwich.
Alanna missed out on an opportunity to taste-test some crisps.
Oh, super stoked for this!!
Thanks Alanna. I could tell when you got the kick from the Red Leicester cheese. Try M&S sandwiches next, don’t forget to take your cool bag to keep them chilled ☃️
Next time!
Never eat bread with seeds in it. I found this out the hard way. The seeds are quite edible by them selves, but when mixed with dough and baked in an oven, the husks of the seeds become very hard and are indigestible. Those indigestible seeds accumulate in your colon and bowel where they rot away for years and that can lead to some serious problems down there as I found out. Cheers
Googled this out of intrigue... Can't find any evidence to suggest what you're saying is correct. Harvard published an article disproving the theory but that's about it.
When I was at work we had a Sainsburys near us and I liked their Chicken and Stuffing sandwich. They also did a Sausage, Egg and Bacon sandwich which was nice. At Christmas time they did a gorgeous Turkey, Brie and Cranberry Sauce sandwich. Mind you this was over 9 years ago now, they may not do these anymore.
Sounds great!
Great video! The hidden gem of UK meal deals is Boots!!
Really?? Can't say I've ever had those before!
"I love beef and I love cheese" new t-shirt merch idea
Lol - my faves are in your ‘not considered’ categories - a breakfast triple (mixes of bacon, sausage & egg) or some wrap - hoisin duck, southern fried chicken or sweet chilli chicken - all good!
Most of those looked soooo sad, though - the ham especially. That wants some mustard to give it some flavour…
The best of all sandwiches, though, comes from our local bakery chain, Birds - freshly cooked bacon & sausage, together with your choice of sauce/condiment, including my favourite, stuffing and apple sauce… it just works…
Hi Alanna, rather you than me but you're right that the chicken bacon and lettuce is a proven winner...and there's nothing worse than soggy soft bacon in any sarnie! Call me picky but I'd always walk the extra distance to get to an M&S foodhall where the quality and choice shines through. As ever great fun to watch and a great test for your digestion too!!
Now you need to do the same with Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose, Aldi, Lidl and M&S.
So many sandies!
And Co-Op, they actually have some surprisingly good ones.
And Boots 🙂
Where will it end. Don't forget the pound shop!
,, superdrug
The secret to enjoying the egg and mayo, is to put domino's plain or cheese and onion crisps into it (preferably walker's baked) into it. The combination of the soft and the crunchy, is just delicious
I admire your dedication to research Alanna 🙂 I go in Tesco every morning on the way to work and I know you will be disappointed in me but I do not like mayo so my only options from the meal deal is plain ham or plain cheese which are both super dry but what ya gunna do 😃 so my choice is the slabs of cheese sandwiched between the two sheets of bread 🤷 bacon and ketchup though oddly we don't have that I've seen anyway 🤔 really do enjoy your videos so thanks as always for the fun
Thanks so much!!
I like mayo but I don't eat white bread, which also limits options. Also, mayo/sauce/tomatoes can make the bread soggy, which is a big no no for me. Thankfully, I don't need to buy these meal deals and if I do, I get a wrap.
@@Elwaves2925 M&S is a better supermarket and of higher quality, (Marks & Spencer), Tesco sandwichs are of arrange quality
@@michaelhawkins7389 Yes, M+S is better quality and usually at a higher price. Personally, I've never been a fan of sandwiches/sliced bread. I always have cobs at home, so these don't appeal to me whatever the flavour.
@@Elwaves2925 what are cobs?
Great vid Alanna. .Really loved this one .Many that's ...The wraps are definitely better and more tasty..
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The idea for the plain, sad ham one is that you add your meal deal crisp into it as well! Half arsed Tesco for you! “Every little helps”
😂 so true
Here for research! lol must say it's fun to watch :) I enjoy your videos.
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Love the sidestories to the actual shopping :)
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If I go to the Tesco on my high street, I pass a Greggs.
Tesco is great but...
Back in the days when i worked near a Tesco the BLT and the chicken and bacon were always my go to choices, can't go wrong with those two.
Good choices!
Absolutely brilliant! Thanks Alanna x
Glad you enjoyed it!
A lot of sandwiches feelings were hurt this day🥺
I cried for the ham sandwich. Don’t worry hammy you are loved!😊
😂 I hope they don't mind!
In the interests of not wasting any food you should have tried making a double decker sandwich from the smoky bacon/ketchup and the egg/mayo. That might have tasted pretty good! My fav is always the chicken/bacon/lettuce. Always reliable, can't go wrong.
BLT would be my second choice, but the tomato always tastes a bit weird with the mayo, in my opinion!
Did you just buy the sandwiches, or did you get 11 whole meal deals? Have you got 11 little bottles of Tropicana and 11 bags of crisps? lol
I was thinking of combing the bacon and egg sandwiches too. Should make both better.
That video was fire 🔥! Always love a taste test 👌💯
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Shoutout to the ever-growing pile of sandwiches in the background.
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Could this be the first of a series of supermarket sandwich range reviews? Doesn’t matter about meal deals…it’s all about the sandwich.
I think so!
Tesco caters to a wide range of people, so the more interesting/experimental fillings may be more popular with younger people and mundane stuff like plain ham may be popular with older people who are accustomed to basic food because they grew up in the post-war period. The simplicity of it may a nod to the frugal living standards of the 1940s and 1950s. Otherwise, I was embarrassed by how poorly distributed some of your fillings were. Tesco needs to get onto that! My personal favourite is cheese and onion. The mayo adds flavour and moisture and the oatmeal bread is both healthy and scrummilicious. Your videos are fun and surprising. Thank you. (You do know 3/6 = 1/2?) 🙂
If you don't want to watch full vid. Take my word for it No1 is sausage bacon and egg triple. No2 is chicken bacon and stuffing. My experience is that Im a taxi driver.
Firstly, I had to go and make myself a sandwich so I could eat along with you. Your sandwiches made me very hungry. Secondly, you didn’t include my favourite sandwich from Tesco which is Sausage, Bacon, Egg and Ketchup on Brown Seeded Bread. Delicious. However, I will forgive you. It was an interesting video and I always love to hear your take on British food. I’m a fan ❤️
Love the intro and cheeky look to camera.
Egg and mayo, Yes.
BLT, Yes.
Tuna and sweet corn ok but this and egg needs black pepper adding to stop blandness.
Pulled beef etc. Sounds great.
Chicken and chorizo, Yes.
Not found a bad one yet.
Was that traffic or the egg trying to get out 😀
Make me want to try the best one. Can't go wrong with a stuffing butty. Yes tomato sauce and cold greasy bacon just sounds rank
I thought of another idea. Since I know you love Taskmaster, you could do a taste test of different food concoctions that had been featured in the show.
Yeah, chi/ba/st would be my go to sandwich. Chi/ba/le probably second. With some of the blander ones you can put in a few of your meal deal crisps to liven up the flavour and add crunch.
They are not allowed to add salt , it's all regulated. I worked in a ready meal factory and the strict mantra was that the customer adds the salt
It's very frustrating as when you work there they make you become part of the tasting panel and pretty much everyone said 'it needs a little salt'...and the answer was ' NO' !
That's fascinating! I had no idea
I demand a recount as Red Leicester cheese cannot by definition taste good! Many thanks for yet another excellent vid :)
Alanna, you're really doing a lot of sacrifices for our sake recently 😂.
The crisps, beers, and now the catastrophic meal deals !!
This is really appreciated !!!
Sacrifices? Canadian food is based around either French or British cooking. Nothing wrong with the beers hence the huge increase in breweries across the UK. Now more breweries per person than anywhere in the World. Meal deals are £3 so I don’t get why people get so offended by them, you don’t buy it otherwise. Finally, what’s the problem with the crisps? No different to the rest of the world.
Dear@@darkno6493, I am not saying these things are bad or British cooking, crisps, and beers are bad! the point is she is trying things which some of them are new to her (brand wise) and are not enjoyable for her. No one wants to try things that end up tasting bad. anyone would wish what they're trying is going to be delicious ! for Alanna's case, I consider it a sacrifice for the sake of the channel, nothing more.
My wifes favourite is the plain Ham sandwich. She hates mayonnaise, so that pretty much negates any commercially made sarnie.
I, on the other hand, like my sarnies fully loaded. The CoOp Onion Bhaji with Beetroot and Mango chutney on malted bread is a favourite.
As a vego, living in Australia, I deeply miss Tesco’s, and it’s sandwiches.
My lunch options here tend to be Doritos or a Mars bar.
Many years ago my work colleagues and I were saying our idea of purgatory. Mine was sitting on a pebble beach on a really hot day eating soggy cheese and tomato sandwiches. Some how, even freshly unwrapped and sitting on pebbles they always got sand in them!
When I was at primary school my class went to York for a few days. The guest house's idea of a packed lunch was to give us egg sandwiches. By day 3 everyone chucked them in the bin.
The sandwich with just ham.. its nice when u add some crisps into it
Grated cheese and onion in mayo. Don't know if Tesco do them, but Waitrose and M&S do.
THEY ARE THE BEST!!
Chicken, Bacon and Stuffing is almost a classic Boxing Day Brit sandwich.
My favourite sandwich from Tesco's cheese and spring
Cheese and spring sandwiches
Spring? So it comes with seasoning then. ;-)
The chicken, bacon and stuffing is my favourite. The cheese and onion is good as is the smoked salmon and cream cheese. They really need to be left out of the fridge to come up to room temperature. Perhaps if you were in the post office for a hour they may have tasted better!
0:44 Mom: Sorry kids, I got there but someone had taken all the sandwiches!
Kids: but Mom, we're hungry
As an experiment/video suggestion - don't eat anything, nothing at all for a full 24 hours. No cheating! (You are allowed water/milk/tea/juice). Bet you'll give anything 100% Alanna Marking units.
My favourite is not a tesco but used to be in Mark's and Sainsburys - beef, horseradish and salad.
Absolutely agree! my favourite and a long standing regular at Tesco is the chicken, bacon and stuffing. I have never seen the pulled beef & red leicester in any Tesco local to me. And we have a few! Apart from the tuna sandwiches, all the others are rubbish.
I always spend the first few minutes re-arranging the contents of my sandwich. It infuriates me that they pile everything in the middle so that when it's cut it looks full. It never is. And I don't like malted bread either so that cuts the choice down. Whats wrong with wholemeal bread? I'd never buy malted bread so why would I want it on my sandwich?
So true!
Red Leicester by far sounds like the best sandwich, but the earthquake caused by your kicking the table was the best part of the video!
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@@AdventuresAndNaps It's a joy to watch you and to see how resilient you have been over these last few years, despite the loss of your father, the visa troubles and the lockdowns and all. Perhaps you are more troubled by all these life events than you let on. Well, that is your choice, but the persona you project provides us a good role model.
It's inspiring, an example of how one can retain some sense and equanimity.
I was veggie so egg mayo is always my go to. Good fancy bread is always apritiated. Better if it's got cress on it. M&S make my favourite ones. When I was a kid tuna and sweetcorn was my first choice.