One of the earliest videos I remember watching was when he reviewed a wrist watch phone, I was seriously considering getting one, until I came to my senses and realised it would only be a 5 minute novelty. Just looked it up, "T918 Watch Phone Review", 2008! Back when you saw his face not his sofa.
Realise it might not be the case but always makes me think when people are picky about so many foods they possibly had a well cushy home life as a kid , like their parents could afford to have them turn their noses up at food , mine couldn't you ate what was there as there was nothing else to have , to this day I'll eat any food at all , except tapioca pudding fuck eating milky frog spawn ....
Another possibility, just from experience--it's kind of one of those things where people on the Autism spectrum, through being oversensitive to certain tastes, smells, and textures---can be picky eaters. May avoid certain foods entirely, or foods based on how they are prepared. It also means a rather limited diet. Baring in mind I'm 32, and wasn't diagnosed until several years ago. Examples: I loved the taste of weetabix as a kid, but the texture made me gag. I would eat dried/soaked/mushy peas, but couldn't handle marrowfat/processed/tinned or garden peas--garden peas still make me gag. I could drink cabbage water, but couldn't eat boiled cabbage--perfectly fine with raw cabbage .
Somebody in the comments mentioned how it's strange how long they have followed this channel, honestly I would have to agree. It's bizarre how long it's been, I have followed this channel for so many years and never got bored of it. Thank you Stuart for all the years of entertainment.
Greed The Peacemaker I have been here from the first video, so 13 years for me. Sometimes i rewatch a video and am stunned at how long ago it was, they always feel more recent.
This has also made me realise I started watching Ashens back in 2014! Loved Barshens 1.0 so much and spend nearly every night falling asleep watching the playlist
It really is impressive. I've been watching every new video that this man puts out for literally half of my life and not even once did "damn I miss the old Ashens" come to mind.
I worked in a sandwich factory in Leicester and can confirm they’re handmade. It’s a conveyor belt and I would put a tomato on every 4th slice of bread as it wizzed passed (3 other peeps would do the same). Interestingly we’d make sandwiches for all supermarkets using the same fillings so there’s no lesser quality. It wasn’t my calling I’m afraid.
@@HOTD108_ worked at a heavily conveyor-based factory before. Usually it's either the job of the next person in line to catch it, or there's someone at the end that does a quick quality check before they add the final ingredient or package it for sealing. Hope I helped 🙏
In my personal Texas experience, you're talking about a "kolache," whereas pig-in-a-blanket is a breakfast sausage wrapped in a pancake (usually with syrup).
I love the dynamic duo of Stuart, who doesn't mind the cheese and hates the onion and Barry, who doesn't mind the onion and hates the cheese eating cheese and onion sandwiches.
I'm from Australia and I will never ever encounter these sandwiches. So I ask myself why do I watch these and enjoy them so much. Am I insane?. Yet I think mukbany is stupid.
@@comradeurod9805 society definitely collapsed.. social-collapse doesn't mean apocalypse.. we're experiencing massive global social-collapse and it will continue for some time, 2020s is more like 1920s.
Stuart's face when Barry says he's got over 200 unreviewed gadgets is almost a flashback of the older days when he mentioned similar for toys and other items he meant to eventually review on the brown sofa.
@illegit tasting something is never a nibble cause they still swallow after like you tried to say "they dont" they do and to taste something you need more than just a "nibble" you ass mouth😂😂😂
B: do you think they'll ever exist, real hover boards? S: I have no idea, I reckon society will have collapsed before then. I think we've got about 3 weeks at the current rate. Stuart off predicting the future again...
"The tomato's got a good role to play!" "yeah, it should've stayed on the casting couch" this is my reward for watching a 41 min video about sandwiches and am not at all disappointed
I love how Ashens is just casually throwing around innuendo (box of dildos, casting couch) and swear words, and Barry is just there laughing nervously and making faces at it all like "Damnit Stuart, I have to keep up my family friendly image!!, even on your channel! stop making it so hard"
Barry is definitely fine with adult humor and was often the worst offender outside of Paul "Ghostbusters porn" Gannon on barshens. It might be a bit weird for him though since he's at his home lol.
Yep, squeaky clean Barry, definitely didn't invent the Wankerchief or anything, certainly didn't muse about shoving sticks of rock up a hamster's arse using the phrase "caress the shaft"
Ashens is the sole reason why I eat food at ungodly hours and why I went to make an experimental prosciutto, toast cheese, ham & cheese spread and onion toast at 3:30 AM.
Acquire Turkish kasar cheese from somewhere and slice it thinly , acquire some pepperoni, some sausage and salami, grab a cheddar too, put all in between bread and toast them. Wait until kasar cheese gets all nice and molten and bread toasted, when done, enjoy some delicious "TOST".
ellaisplotting we don’t? Italian sandwiches- salami, pepperoni, provolone Phili cheese steak Meatball sub Roast beef and cheese Chicken salad (chicken mayo, but we don’t do it with the bacon) Turkey and bacon with lettuce and tomato BLT PBJ
Barry! When cheese (or most food) is heated up, the flavor profile changes, and therefore the compounds making up the foods have also changed. They are still changed when you eat melted cheese that has been chilled. You just prefer the flavor profile, and chemicals, that the melted cheese has. Sincerely, A food scientist
wishcraft4u2 the maillard reaction is an interaction which happens between amino acids and heat, which causes a change in color (browning), and a development of flavor due to the breakdown of the volatile chemicals contained in the amino acids was that good enough?
To be fair, what he said was that there wasn't much cheese on it...I don't think he was calling for more, just an observation. He probably took that as a positive!
One thing you learn about Barry during these videos: He may say he doesn't like something, but what he really means is that he doesn't like that thing under a specific, esoteric set of circumstances, determined purely by the movement of the stars, a d100, and the wisdom of The Dead God.
I have to pause watching for a bit, i got to the 4 minute mark. That's when i noticed this is a 40cminute video. My God... Stuart, Barry, thank you for this video! I cannot wait to finish it when i come back home. Keep up the excellent work guys, i always enjoy every upload on both your channels.
Me in December 2019: "I'm going to sort my life out. No more stupid TH-cam videos. Might even take up a hobby" Me in February 2020: *sat watching grown men eat sandwiches for 40 minutes*
You're always sharing these sandwiches with someone. They make two(or three) sandwiches on top of each other cut them in triangles and then box the respective haves. So each half of your sandwich comes from a different sandwich
If you want to discover how ancient Neanderthals took food to carry on long journeys, and what food fueled the nazi war machine, stay tuned for Sandwiches: The Full Bake.
I mean, noone likes a premade sandwich. They tolerate them. I get a £3 meal deal at Tesco for £3 just for a triple (3 slice) sandwich with Bacon, egg and sausage alongside a protein shake and some crisps. If I could I'd have a burger instead, but I'm too lazy
@@dumbbellenjoyer not the impression I am getting from countless people in Japan with their kombini store sandwiches. Maybe they are just better quality
I work in a factory, we have one of those rotating vending machines with prepackaged food. We call it The Wheel of Death. Some of the food is very sketchy. But a 12 hour shift can make it look quite tasty. But is it worth up chucking for a while a hour later? Yes. Yes it is
Just curious, why did Barshens end so suddenly with comments disabled on the final uploads? Glad to see Ashen and Barry together; the disabled comments made me wonder if there was drama.
@Fur Q Ridiculous decision if that's the case. Could have just pinned a comment to the top. Trying to prevent people from talking probably just made those things happen more. If people wanna talk they'll find a place to do it. Trying to censor people doesn't help anyone.
I might go up near Norwich way this weekend, hope I see the King of Poundland there just randomly. The chances are low but we humble subjects can live in hope.
@@Kajarago Walmart's essential equalivent in the United Kingdom is Asda (as it's OWNED by Walmart). Poundland's U.S equalivent could possibly be 'Dollarama' or 'Dollar Tree' or something like that.
This I've seen a lot but I have to say in our family we've always made our own bread and just used a hunk of the dough rolled out into roped and twisted around hot dogs or the little smokies sausages for our pigs in blankets lol.(think pretzel dogs in the mall for looks lol) I was always wondering why they would use crescent roll popcan for it as for me(just me and my granddaughter tho) it has an awful chemical taste. In hubs family pigs in blankets are the breakfast sausage wrapped in thin pancakes. They dip them in maple syrup too lol With the US being so friggen huge compared to other countries (well not all but you get my drift) its not surprising that the same dish is different all over 😁 makes me wish to become a food anthropologist is there such a thing? Facinating subject. Lol
Melted cheese definitely tastes different. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. But I still don't see how people don't like normal cheese and do like melted cheese. But hey, all our tastebuds are different.
Ngl, the first image of the sandwich I saw, (And I'm not usually reactive), I screamed "Oh no!" at the screen, but was surprised and relieved when I saw a decent looking product leave the packaging when the guys unpackaged it.
@@grimTales1 I think it's hilarious that I made this comment 2 years ago but when I got the notification that you replied, I somehow remembered exactly what comment it was before I even opened it from the mere mention of bread lmao
If you´re not going to eat the whole thing it makes sense to start in the middle, at least with cheap sandwiches that are likely to be dry along the crust.
@@neogeo1670 Childish? Only if they´re planning to eat the whole sandwiches. If you´re just taking a bite to be able to judge them it makes solid sense to bite in a place that has all the things you´re trying to judge.
@@miekekuppen9275 In my head that's = "they can be soggy in the middle". The middle of most foods such as sandwiches, pizza, hamburgers etc is just a necessary evil.
When I was 16 I worked in a sandwich factory and everything was done by hand, no idea if they are made differently now days but I'm sure the machines wouldn't shout ''more tomatoes' when they ran out.
North American "pig in a blanket" is a hot dog (or cocktail sausage) that has been baked into a pastry. Usually canned biscuit or canned croissant dough.
Ashens doesn't like tomato, Barry-Lewis doesn't like Cheese, add someone who doesn't like bread, mix them together, and we have someone who hates pizza.
If they're _still_ ths good, you could grab a couple of them with elements you like, have yourself a two-pound sandwich by removing one piece of bread on each and squishing the stuffing together, then chop up and use the remaining bread for croutons on your salad.
it's genuinely quite nice. it's mixed with mayo, so the sandwich has more structural stability. plus, tuna and sweetcorn on a baked potato with cheese and butter is 👌👌
I'm from Texas and just don't put cheese on everything especially traditional Mexican food. We eat hamburgers not cheeseburgers so we can taste the beef like that sentence makes so much sense. Merica
@@TheRedKing247 Yes, but to which side? Many respected cultures don't drown everything in cheese. I suspect too much government cheddar has gone to your head despite being a Wisconsin cheese head to begin with lol
You know what, I've been watching Ashens for a VERY long time, seen him eat all manner of things, but tomato would not have ever come to mind as the line He draws, who knew!?
Worst sandwiches I ever had was from a small corner shop in Croydon about 5 years back. I'd forgotten my lunch and popped in as I only had a few mins before the bus arrived. They were 75p (RRP) and they were Chicken and bacon PASTE sandwiches..... When I opened it it was literally just soggy bread (because of the watery paste) with some watery mush in the middle. It tasted like Smokey water... I have a strong stomach but I actually heaved after the second bite.
The cheese & onion sandwich makes me remember the time when i ate a mayo & onion sandwich while the rest of my family was eating BLT's (i can't tolerate the rough texture of lettuce and big tomato chunks as it gags me. I also don't usually eat bacon unless it's on some kind of cheeseburger, chicken or a roast beef/brisket sandwich). Yes, here in the US 'Pigs in a blanket' is usually a cocktail weenie wrapped in crescent roll dough then baked. The crescent roll dough is meant to represent a soft and warm blanket.
What a way to spend my morning... watching you two eat poundland sarnies. Quite simply, the epitome of youtube content. I've eaten a few in the past and let me tell you, they blow the cheap corner store ones out of the water. Please review cheap corner store sarnies, you know the ones in a black packet. After ten of those you're bound to get chlamydia.
Ah Ashens was going to his go-to explanation for mystery meats, “beaks, hooves, and eyelids,” and then realized it makes no sense as it’s at least identifiably chicken. 🐔
Many years ago, a bloke I know had a row with his wife. However, she still made him his pack-up for work. At lunch, he bit into a sandwich, and found there was something hard in it. On opening the sandwich, he found a piece of cardboard with the word 'HAM' written on it. Class. Gents, at least it was 'Liquid Smoke'. It could have been 'Liquid Ass'.
There was a Barshens 'Sharticle' about a bloke who was arrested for spraying 'Liquid Ass' fart spray about in a bar. It is truly disgusting smelling stuff. The bloke had a fantastic comedy name, too, if I remember rightly.
jesus christ I started watching this video and didnt notice until I was 7 minutes in this video is 40 minutes long....40 minutes of 2 men eating sandwiches. God bless TH-cam.
Smoke flavor apparently isn't fake. I've heard they make it by capturing smoke and condensing it. Not sure if it's true, but if it is it's actually smoked, in a roundabout way.
The thing about melted cheese is that it definitely changes the flavor. I can't stand the compacted mozzarella (i like the fresh type though) before its been melted, but after its melted and gotten a bit crispy like on pizza its great. Cheddar also appears to end up with a smoother flavor when melted.
These sandwiches literally only have 2 or 3 very basic items on them, and these grown men still manage to find an ingredient that they hate on almost every one of them.
I can't believe how many years I've watched this channel.
I think the first vid I watched was Gamestation. 13 years. Absolutely crazy to think of it now that you say it.
*thinks on it* been at least 5 for me
One of the earliest videos I remember watching was when he reviewed a wrist watch phone, I was seriously considering getting one, until I came to my senses and realised it would only be a 5 minute novelty.
Just looked it up, "T918 Watch Phone Review", 2008! Back when you saw his face not his sofa.
I've only just found him :(
I think my first might have been Poundland Food Special - Pizza Snack. Over 8 years ago. Bloody hell
Barry: "I don't like cheese"
Ashens: "I don't like tomato"
Barry: "I don't like cucumber either"
Both: "Let's review cheap basic sandwiches!"
Realise it might not be the case but always makes me think when people are picky about so many foods they possibly had a well cushy home life as a kid , like their parents could afford to have them turn their noses up at food , mine couldn't you ate what was there as there was nothing else to have , to this day I'll eat any food at all , except tapioca pudding fuck eating milky frog spawn ....
@@darran311 Nah man people are just different. My home was the same, I just hated a lot of what I often ate.
@@Peyton1218 fair enough did pretty much say I could be wrong maybe I'm just naturally not fussy
Another possibility, just from experience--it's kind of one of those things where people on the Autism spectrum, through being oversensitive to certain tastes, smells, and textures---can be picky eaters. May avoid certain foods entirely, or foods based on how they are prepared. It also means a rather limited diet. Baring in mind I'm 32, and wasn't diagnosed until several years ago.
Examples: I loved the taste of weetabix as a kid, but the texture made me gag. I would eat dried/soaked/mushy peas, but couldn't handle marrowfat/processed/tinned or garden peas--garden peas still make me gag. I could drink cabbage water, but couldn't eat boiled cabbage--perfectly fine with raw cabbage
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@@darran311 I grew up with nothing, but I won't eat onions or pickles.
Somebody in the comments mentioned how it's strange how long they have followed this channel, honestly I would have to agree. It's bizarre how long it's been, I have followed this channel for so many years and never got bored of it. Thank you Stuart for all the years of entertainment.
Greed The Peacemaker I have been here from the first video, so 13 years for me. Sometimes i rewatch a video and am stunned at how long ago it was, they always feel more recent.
This is actually the very first channel I subscribed to, years ago when I first signed up for youtube.
This has also made me realise I started watching Ashens back in 2014! Loved Barshens 1.0 so much and spend nearly every night falling asleep watching the playlist
It really is impressive. I've been watching every new video that this man puts out for literally half of my life and not even once did "damn I miss the old Ashens" come to mind.
I don't know how many years it's been but I started watching ashens as a kid and I'm 23 now
I worked in a sandwich factory in Leicester and can confirm they’re handmade. It’s a conveyor belt and I would put a tomato on every 4th slice of bread as it wizzed passed (3 other peeps would do the same). Interestingly we’d make sandwiches for all supermarkets using the same fillings so there’s no lesser quality. It wasn’t my calling I’m afraid.
What happens if you accidentally miss and a sandwich flys past without having been out together fully?
@@HOTD108_ worked at a heavily conveyor-based factory before. Usually it's either the job of the next person in line to catch it, or there's someone at the end that does a quick quality check before they add the final ingredient or package it for sealing. Hope I helped 🙏
Any horror stories?
@@HOTD108_The world ends.
@@gilgammesh1 a man sandwich
I feel like at this point ashens has a deeply personal relationship with poundland
Is this your first video? 🤣
He’s a chairman
Good name sir.
@@DoctorBastard Likewise Doctor
More like psychosexual relationship.
Is it me, or do the sandwiches looks less lethal when they are taken out of the box rather than looking at the 'preview window'
The bread looks gross from the view when it's inside the box. It looks grey.
Iain Cowell Oh, thank god, I thought it was just me. They do look grey.
Not just you. Very grey
+Death The Reaper It looks like they put them inside of the old Chef Excellence bags.
I'm so glad others saw grey bread through the packaging!
Barry's right, in North America a "pig in a blanket" is a tiny hotdog baked in a puff pastry, usually a croissant
They're pretty cheap but usually pretty good.
Usually canned "crescent rolls" actually. Super cheap and easy and super bad for you but also super easy to devour an entire plate of.
In my personal Texas experience, you're talking about a "kolache," whereas pig-in-a-blanket is a breakfast sausage wrapped in a pancake (usually with syrup).
Most people do hotdogs in croissants and I hate them
We put the hotdogs in a biscuit dough instead of crescent rolls
I love the dynamic duo of Stuart, who doesn't mind the cheese and hates the onion and Barry, who doesn't mind the onion and hates the cheese eating cheese and onion sandwiches.
Unfortunately I believe Barry has gone vegan now
@@Khetamine good for him
@@Khetamine I believe you're confusing him with Dan
@@Citrusautomatonof course a femboy says something so gay
I've just watched 2 men eat rubbish sandwiches in a kitchen for 40 minutes and I loved it
I'm from Australia and I will never ever encounter these sandwiches. So I ask myself why do I watch these and enjoy them so much. Am I insane?. Yet I think mukbany is stupid.
@@emeralddiscordian3116 Same, from Canada lol.
This is what my life has boiled down to- is watching 2 grown men eating 1 quid sandwiches of dubious quality.
Why would you not see these sandwiches?? What flavours do you guys have??
@@emeralddiscordian3116 im in norwich and get too eat them same sandwiches he buys how amazing lol
Ashens on Societal Collapse on December 6th 2019:
"I think we've got about three weeks at the current rate"
How right he was...
Well we're past three weeks but I guess a prophecy can be badly timed
@@comradeurod9805 society definitely collapsed.. social-collapse doesn't mean apocalypse.. we're experiencing massive global social-collapse and it will continue for some time, 2020s is more like 1920s.
Stuart's face when Barry says he's got over 200 unreviewed gadgets is almost a flashback of the older days when he mentioned similar for toys and other items he meant to eventually review on the brown sofa.
Barry: "I hate cheese"
Also Barry: Eats fish in a tin can that smells like ass and drinks 20 year old soda.
Lol hes the Same as me, he doesn't like uncooked cheese, well raw cheese, and only likes it when its melted lol
@illegit your username checks out.
@illegit also eating and tasting are the same thing so i think you messed up what you were trying to say?
@illegit they actually do tho thats why they have to cleanse their pallet.
@illegit tasting something is never a nibble cause they still swallow after like you tried to say "they dont" they do and to taste something you need more than just a "nibble" you ass mouth😂😂😂
I'm always weirdly pleased when Ashens finds a food he likes.
You just made me realize I can't imagine him just sitting down to a nice meal and loving it 😂
kind of aroused tbh
There’s a sense of victory. Also the mild excitement of a real bargain
0:52 - “I’ve not ventured in many Poundland’s”
The absolute savagery to say that in front of Ashens
And blasphemy
The absolute AUDACITY.
then he says he never saw robocop, only the second one XD
He can't go to all the poundlands sine ashens has already empties them.
Why can’t every TH-cam channel be this comfy?
"Bacon sheep - or, as we call them in Norfolk, A Pig!"
That cracked me up!
That made me laugh so much that tears starting coming out of my eyes
Stuart: “that’s good”
Barry: nods “mmm hmm” (face tells a different story)
In this dark, unpredictable, world, Stewart Ashens is the only constant.
clearly not, you have become a victim of the mandela effect. It's Stuart.
@@beware_the_moose Everything I know is a lie
fireandcopper Ashens, and the grass masks.
my personal word is pretty predicatable. A bit too predictable for my taste.
And Ashen is his surname, whereas Ashens is his screen name.
I actually work at a Poundland now and now I feel obliged to rewatch every single Poundland video...
I work at a cheapo store and it's fun to see something we sell pop up in one of the videos lol
Same here, I develope the sauces and mayos which go into food to go sarnies, I feel like I need the criticism 😂
B: do you think they'll ever exist, real hover boards?
S: I have no idea, I reckon society will have collapsed before then. I think we've got about 3 weeks at the current rate.
Stuart off predicting the future again...
Even more accurate right now
Almost fuckin exact too, it started headlining in late December to early January.
uncanny
Now I'm really scared because I just realized we've almost been dealing with this for a year. I thought it was March day 68.
Came to the comment section to find this.
"The tomato's got a good role to play!"
"yeah, it should've stayed on the casting couch"
this is my reward for watching a 41 min video about sandwiches and am not at all disappointed
Why did I spend 40 minutes watching Two men eat sandwiches
Captain_autism 2000 You’re not alone.
Because you lost control of your life
I don’t know about you but this was the best 40 minutes of my life.
Im bored at work waiting to go home and the guy on the right makes me laugh. Thats my excuse.
Not just any sandwiches, Poundland sandwiches
I love how Ashens is just casually throwing around innuendo (box of dildos, casting couch) and swear words, and Barry is just there laughing nervously and making faces at it all like "Damnit Stuart, I have to keep up my family friendly image!!, even on your channel! stop making it so hard"
Barry's family friendly image died during Barshens
Barry is definitely fine with adult humor and was often the worst offender outside of Paul "Ghostbusters porn" Gannon on barshens. It might be a bit weird for him though since he's at his home lol.
OlEgSaS32 the amount of horrors that brown couch has seen.
Yep, squeaky clean Barry, definitely didn't invent the Wankerchief or anything, certainly didn't muse about shoving sticks of rock up a hamster's arse using the phrase "caress the shaft"
huh, i never watched Barshens, i may need to check it out and see what Barry is REALLY like, apparently
Ashens is the sole reason why I eat food at ungodly hours and why I went to make an experimental prosciutto, toast cheese, ham & cheese spread and onion toast at 3:30 AM.
was it good?
Just checking in , was it good ?
Acquire Turkish kasar cheese from somewhere and slice it thinly , acquire some pepperoni, some sausage and salami, grab a cheddar too, put all in between bread and toast them. Wait until kasar cheese gets all nice and molten and bread toasted, when done, enjoy some delicious "TOST".
Ashens: Just a classic tuna and sweetcorn
Ashens: typical cheese and onion
Ashens: basic chicken and stuffing
Me: * confused American noises*
Wait, what on earth do you have in your sandwiches then?!?
@@ellaisplotting bacon, peanutbutter, jelly pickles.
Hell try a ppj burger.
ellaisplotting we don’t?
Italian sandwiches- salami, pepperoni, provolone
Phili cheese steak
Meatball sub
Roast beef and cheese
Chicken salad (chicken mayo, but we don’t do it with the bacon)
Turkey and bacon with lettuce and tomato
BLT
PBJ
ellaisplotting turkey salad with cranberries, chicken salad, blt, pb and j, ham and swiss, grilled cheese
I have only heard of like 2-3 sandwiches here in america
Barry!
When cheese (or most food) is heated up, the flavor profile changes, and therefore the compounds making up the foods have also changed. They are still changed when you eat melted cheese that has been chilled. You just prefer the flavor profile, and chemicals, that the melted cheese has.
Sincerely,
A food scientist
News flash: heated thing taste different. Man makes groundbreaking discovery
@@RematodeRanger he didn't make the discovery, he explained it.
Here, have an internet high five from one food scientist to another 🖐️
Now explain the maillard effect
wishcraft4u2 the maillard reaction is an interaction which happens between amino acids and heat, which causes a change in color (browning), and a development of flavor due to the breakdown of the volatile chemicals contained in the amino acids
was that good enough?
Barry is so jolly all the time. I love him.
Tuna...and sweet corn... That must be a British thing I guess?
Yes, it's delicious. Although it isn't just lumps of fish with sweetcorn. It's more like a tuna mayonnaise/tuna salad.
its so good
actually its not bad, even over baked potato.
What the heck is sweetcorn, must not be a thing in germany?
@@janhendrikfranke you dont have corn in germany? sweetcorn is literally just yellow corn kernels in a can lol
I will never not enjoy SMEG printed on the front of a kitchen appliance.
Always gave me a giggle when I saw the SMEG fridges on British Bake Off.
Don't see it as often in Canada but it still amuses me.
My step mum has one and they really good fridges however it is a really weird name
MA
The SMEG fridge makes sense. It's cold inside, there's no kind of atmosphere
Barry: "you know I don't like cheese"
also Barry: "there's not enough cheese on it"
You know there isn't enough of something if a person that hates it says there isn't enough
To be fair, what he said was that there wasn't much cheese on it...I don't think he was calling for more, just an observation. He probably took that as a positive!
Well this is odd. There are two of us
@@JK-bg3wx Just a glitch... nothing to be scared about ;p
One thing you learn about Barry during these videos: He may say he doesn't like something, but what he really means is that he doesn't like that thing under a specific, esoteric set of circumstances, determined purely by the movement of the stars, a d100, and the wisdom of The Dead God.
I have to pause watching for a bit, i got to the 4 minute mark.
That's when i noticed this is a 40cminute video.
My God... Stuart, Barry, thank you for this video!
I cannot wait to finish it when i come back home.
Keep up the excellent work guys, i always enjoy every upload on both your channels.
M. Williams omg I didn’t notice that either till I read your comment
@@fusionsigh it's such an awesome surprise.
Yes it is
Me in December 2019: "I'm going to sort my life out. No more stupid TH-cam videos. Might even take up a hobby"
Me in February 2020: *sat watching grown men eat sandwiches for 40 minutes*
Hahaha i know right? We need help...
considering i have F all else to do while my state has us all locked down, this seems the best use of my time.
"What are boys whispering about?"
"DIFFERENT TYPES OF SANDWICHES."
-American Dad
It’s ‘research’!🧐😆
I thought this year was going to finally be my year. Work on education, loose weight, get everything sorted. Then 2020 said nah.
3:40 Barry's face literally changes colour after that bite
Barry seems like the one person that always makes Stuart laugh.
I still ship them /jk
Will these sandwiches produce little sharticles?
Stuart giving Boston a little scratch is top quality content
Stuart scratches B O S T O N
you mean Barry?
You're always sharing these sandwiches with someone. They make two(or three) sandwiches on top of each other cut them in triangles and then box the respective haves. So each half of your sandwich comes from a different sandwich
Just like how if you go to a BBQ place and get half a chicken another person gets the other half
7:55 "I seen Robocop 2 20 times but not seen Robocop 1"
*Ashens twitch*
Barry: "I've seen RoboCop 2 twenty times but never seen RoboCop 1"
Me: "Get this heathen off my screen!"
At least he didn't say he's seen the 3rd one 20 times but never seen the first 2.
Doesnt like cheese and then that. What the hell
Ashen’s face right then is hilarious
Just read it randomly in that very moment when Barry said that
Blasphemous... & somewhat humiliating. I guess he prefers mediocrity to genius.
i still got those 70 year old canned pepper peaches and a mystery plant i found in my greatgrandmas house if you want a jar or two
Find a way to send the pepper peaches to Ashens, I'm sure he'd love it.
Well... WE'D love it, anyway...
Probably contact him via his business email, its unlikely to be seen in the comments ^^
Can i have one
@@Ryanvondrake sure
What are pepper peaches? I can't be bothered to ask Google.
20:49 Stuart´s face when he realized he had made the Batman logo is priceless
Can't wait to watch this 40 minute documentary on sandwiches 😂😂😂
The next Netflix documentary series, making a sandwich.
And you just know that 30 minutes of it will be Barry going bananas over cheese :D
Stuart could write a comprehensive book on those snacks a la his "worst games in history" stuff TBH...it'll sell.
If you want to discover how ancient Neanderthals took food to carry on long journeys, and what food fueled the nazi war machine, stay tuned for Sandwiches: The Full Bake.
Is no one gonna say anything about how the sandwiches look like death before they pull them out
I mean, I think it's pretty accurate to how they look in real life.
I mean, noone likes a premade sandwich. They tolerate them. I get a £3 meal deal at Tesco for £3 just for a triple (3 slice) sandwich with Bacon, egg and sausage alongside a protein shake and some crisps. If I could I'd have a burger instead, but I'm too lazy
@@dumbbellenjoyer not the impression I am getting from countless people in Japan with their kombini store sandwiches.
Maybe they are just better quality
@@callmewaves1160 sorry but your comment really tickled me :"I get a £3 meal deal for £3" XD
You’re not kidding. They look like that month-old subway Homer Simpson tried to eat and got horribly sick.
I work in a factory, we have one of those rotating vending machines with prepackaged food. We call it The Wheel of Death. Some of the food is very sketchy. But a 12 hour shift can make it look quite tasty. But is it worth up chucking for a while a hour later?
Yes. Yes it is
Can't believe the chicken and stuffing sandwich was actually greyscale.
Just curious, why did Barshens end so suddenly with comments disabled on the final uploads? Glad to see Ashen and Barry together; the disabled comments made me wonder if there was drama.
Whats Barshens and what video was it?
+H. Fisher They realised that commuting all the way to the London studio was really inconvenient, so they decided to call it a day.
Fur Q TH-cam screwing over creators? Say it ain’t so!
@Fur Q Ridiculous decision if that's the case. Could have just pinned a comment to the top. Trying to prevent people from talking probably just made those things happen more. If people wanna talk they'll find a place to do it. Trying to censor people doesn't help anyone.
"An Excellent Sandwich"
- Chef Excellence
"An Excellent Reference"
- Chef Excellence
"An Excellent Calling"
- Chef Excellence
"An excellent excellence"
- Chef Sandwich
Not only the collab we love but the collab we need
lies
I might go up near Norwich way this weekend, hope I see the King of Poundland there just randomly. The chances are low but we humble subjects can live in hope.
Just set up camp in the back, keep watch for him
Did you end up seeing him?
I’ve lived in Norwich my whole life, go in Poundland every weekend, never seen him 😂
I love cheese in all its forms, but there is definitely a difference between cheese that has been melted and cheese that has not. (Even if cold)
My favorite Ashen videos are food reviews from pound land, its just quite pleasant for some reason.
"The Bristol poundland..."
Which one, there are 3 in broadmead alone. Soon there will be nothing but poundland
At least you know who to blame!
American here. Poundland? Is that like Walmart in the Americas?
@@Kajarago Walmart's essential equalivent in the United Kingdom is Asda (as it's OWNED by Walmart). Poundland's U.S equalivent could possibly be 'Dollarama' or 'Dollar Tree' or something like that.
"Bristol? Oh, you mean Poundland."
@@traeyboy529 Dollarama is Canadian, not American.
In the Mid-west of USA, most "pigs-in-a-blanket" are crescent roll dough wrapped around a 1" cocktail sausage.
This I've seen a lot but I have to say in our family we've always made our own bread and just used a hunk of the dough rolled out into roped and twisted around hot dogs or the little smokies sausages for our pigs in blankets lol.(think pretzel dogs in the mall for looks lol)
I was always wondering why they would use crescent roll popcan for it as for me(just me and my granddaughter tho) it has an awful chemical taste.
In hubs family pigs in blankets are the breakfast sausage wrapped in thin pancakes. They dip them in maple syrup too lol
With the US being so friggen huge compared to other countries (well not all but you get my drift) its not surprising that the same dish is different all over 😁 makes me wish to become a food anthropologist is there such a thing? Facinating subject. Lol
The same thing in the UK is called a toad in the hole
I've met a few pigs in blankets wrapped around 1" cocktail sausages in the the Navy
Lol my mom used hot dogs wrapped in crescent roll. The little smokie cocktail sausage would have been better.
When cheese is melted,the proteins deneture causing a different taste or texture
Thats why some people prefer melted cheese
Plus if you have any sense you combine three different cheeses to effect the texture. 😀
Some cheese tastes so much better melted!
I'm guessing that "denture" should be "denature"!
@@mastermarkus5307 what, you don't like teeth in your cheese?
Melted cheese definitely tastes different. Sometimes better, sometimes worse.
But I still don't see how people don't like normal cheese and do like melted cheese. But hey, all our tastebuds are different.
Nobody's gonna talk about how every photo of the bread makes it look terribly grey?
I thought the same thing.
I don’t think it’s the photo doing that, i think it just looks like that 😂
Ngl, the first image of the sandwich I saw, (And I'm not usually reactive), I screamed "Oh no!" at the screen, but was surprised and relieved when I saw a decent looking product leave the packaging when the guys unpackaged it.
I thought that too TBH, good thing it looks like normal bread when they unpack it.
@@grimTales1 I think it's hilarious that I made this comment 2 years ago but when I got the notification that you replied, I somehow remembered exactly what comment it was before I even opened it from the mere mention of bread lmao
Stuart's method of eating sandwiches is psychopathic.
Years of outdated food has addled his brain.
I assume he's just trying to get a good sample of the filling rather than the bread. That or he's a psychopath.
Well he's got a doctorate in psychology
"Let's not put that in"
Oh...
What did he even say?
@@dorklymorkly3290 I thought he said "How is Sharon"
I feel like Ashens is more cheerful whenever Barry's around
I love their friendship.
@@GeorgiaGeorgette no fanfiction please.
He gets to share his pain
He can't make depressing void jokes because it scares people.
Because then he has someone to suffer with.
It bothers me that the don't start eating at a corner for some reason.
SamuraiBurgerDog I think at least 95% of the population starts in the middle most of the time
If you´re not going to eat the whole thing it makes sense to start in the middle, at least with cheap sandwiches that are likely to be dry along the crust.
@@neogeo1670 Childish? Only if they´re planning to eat the whole sandwiches. If you´re just taking a bite to be able to judge them it makes solid sense to bite in a place that has all the things you´re trying to judge.
I eat my sandwiches how I want.
@@miekekuppen9275 In my head that's = "they can be soggy in the middle". The middle of most foods such as sandwiches, pizza, hamburgers etc is just a necessary evil.
Just two grown men, laughing hysterically at a chicken sandwich.
When I was 16 I worked in a sandwich factory and everything was done by hand, no idea if they are made differently now days but I'm sure the machines wouldn't shout ''more tomatoes' when they ran out.
North American "pig in a blanket" is a hot dog (or cocktail sausage) that has been baked into a pastry. Usually canned biscuit or canned croissant
dough.
TheOffenderBlog I can say I've never baked a croissant wrapped cocktail sausage. It's always a beef hot dog.
@@AnOfficialAndrewFloyd That would be my preference too. But you never know what you find at a potluck.
I am born and raised in Oklahoma...”pig in a blanket” to me is a link sausage wrapped in a silver dollar pancake!!!
We have that too though, that sounds more like a sausage roll
I can’t believe I laughed that hard at a fridge from “S M E G”
If i were Ashens, i would craft out a "U" to replace the "E"
smegma
In Coronation Street they had a "GEMS" fridge! 😂😂😂
blyat
Smeghead
Ashens doesn't like tomato, Barry-Lewis doesn't like Cheese, add someone who doesn't like bread, mix them together, and we have someone who hates pizza.
Yeah but nobody dislikes bread. Nobody.
Also Ashens hates raw tomato, and barry hates unmelted cheese. So they both still like pizza.
pizza is not made of bread
in theory a fusion of the two would hate caprese salad
DaGleese Until today I didn’t think anybody hated cheese.
In America, pigs in a blanket are sausages wrapped in biscuits or sometimes croissants.
or my favorite, breakfast sausage wrapped in pancake
@@grubbanator94 that's just a pancake wrap, but it is the best type of wrapped sausage.
@@ashtonhoward5582 in specific I'm basically talking about a breakfast corndog but sans stick and at least one open end
If they're _still_ ths good, you could grab a couple of them with elements you like, have yourself a two-pound sandwich by removing one piece of bread on each and squishing the stuffing together, then chop up and use the remaining bread for croutons on your salad.
Tuna and sweet corn must be a thing over the pond. Never heard of that here in the United States.
it's genuinely quite nice. it's mixed with mayo, so the sandwich has more structural stability. plus, tuna and sweetcorn on a baked potato with cheese and butter is 👌👌
Same. I'm interested in adding sweet corn to tuna now.
As a Mexican living in America the thought of someone hating cheese is so foreign to me because it is on absolutely everything here 😯
I live in Wisconsin. The thought of anyone hating cheese without a lactose intolerance angers me.
Factual
I'm from Texas and just don't put cheese on everything especially traditional Mexican food. We eat hamburgers not cheeseburgers so we can taste the beef like that sentence makes so much sense. Merica
@@soknightsam Traitor to the union
@@TheRedKing247 Yes, but to which side? Many respected cultures don't drown everything in cheese. I suspect too much government cheddar has gone to your head despite being a Wisconsin cheese head to begin with lol
You know what, I've been watching Ashens for a VERY long time, seen him eat all manner of things, but tomato would not have ever come to mind as the line He draws, who knew!?
My favourite duo, Barshens ending left a shart sized hole in my heart.
How has it been 3 years!!!
I remember watching this vid when it was uploaded 3 minutes ago
Worst sandwiches I ever had was from a small corner shop in Croydon about 5 years back. I'd forgotten my lunch and popped in as I only had a few mins before the bus arrived. They were 75p (RRP) and they were Chicken and bacon PASTE sandwiches..... When I opened it it was literally just soggy bread (because of the watery paste) with some watery mush in the middle. It tasted like Smokey water... I have a strong stomach but I actually heaved after the second bite.
Like watching you two geeking out on cheapie sandwiches. The best was your casual banter and just enjoying each other's company. English mukbang lol!
The cheese & onion sandwich makes me remember the time when i ate a mayo & onion sandwich while the rest of my family was eating BLT's (i can't tolerate the rough texture of lettuce and big tomato chunks as it gags me. I also don't usually eat bacon unless it's on some kind of cheeseburger, chicken or a roast beef/brisket sandwich). Yes, here in the US 'Pigs in a blanket' is usually a cocktail weenie wrapped in crescent roll dough then baked. The crescent roll dough is meant to represent a soft and warm blanket.
What a way to spend my morning... watching you two eat poundland sarnies. Quite simply, the epitome of youtube content. I've eaten a few in the past and let me tell you, they blow the cheap corner store ones out of the water. Please review cheap corner store sarnies, you know the ones in a black packet. After ten of those you're bound to get chlamydia.
The idea of catching a sexually-transmitted disease from a convenience store sandwich makes me smile
Barry looking like a buff Jamie Oliver and Ashens looking like Charlie Brown with hair
Doclank 3D I was thinking Barry looks like young Steve Jones a bit, myself...
Fat Jamie Oliver
Ashen is a Poundland version of Simon Pegg.
Sometimes I find myself wondering what Stuart Ashen's contemporaries from his PhD program think of his work.
“I can’t believe that fucker got to meet and work with Wickit the Ewok more then once”, probably.
@@DeconTheed92 Wicket the Ewok and Kryten.
I feel like the only person that dosen't like mayonaise and would hate all of these sandwiches finding pre made sandwiches is so hard
Mayo is a cheap sandwich spread and doesn't make the bread go soggy from the ingredients. Premade sandwiches feature it heavily for a reason.
Consider that a blessing
@@Mr-Trox Not even so much the spread part, it's one of the best condiments to bind ingrediants together.
Yeah I despise mayonnaise, all these sandwiches I would absolutely loathe
Ah Ashens was going to his go-to explanation for mystery meats, “beaks, hooves, and eyelids,” and then realized it makes no sense as it’s at least identifiably chicken. 🐔
The dollar stores here in America don't sell fresh sandwiches of any kind, yet all of these poundland ones look OK. I'm envious.
I read about your channel in a Guinness World Records Games Edition forever ago and I found it again and it is so wholesome
My mum: hey what are you up to?
Me: I’m watching two grown men try sandwiches from Poundland
My mum: right ok ....
I always come back to this video every few years ❤
Many years ago, a bloke I know had a row with his wife. However, she still made him his pack-up for work. At lunch, he bit into a sandwich, and found there was something hard in it. On opening the sandwich, he found a piece of cardboard with the word 'HAM' written on it. Class.
Gents, at least it was 'Liquid Smoke'. It could have been 'Liquid Ass'.
There was a Barshens 'Sharticle' about a bloke who was arrested for spraying 'Liquid Ass' fart spray about in a bar. It is truly disgusting smelling stuff. The bloke had a fantastic comedy name, too, if I remember rightly.
I'm still waiting for the day that supermarkets start selling crisp sandwiches of different flavours.
Asda actually did for a while a few years back
Finally someone else who acknowledges how fart like eggs are
I love watching you guys. You have great chemistry and it doesn’t seem forced or anything. Hope this duo never goes away!
jesus christ I started watching this video and didnt notice until I was 7 minutes in this video is 40 minutes long....40 minutes of 2 men eating sandwiches. God bless TH-cam.
I’m one of those “can’t eat cold cheese” folk Barry ! There are others ! Don’t feel weird !
Same here.
Is it textural for you, or something else?
Yeah my brother is the same. It's well weird
Which cheese?
Mikalhvi, I honestly don’t know it could be, I’ve tried for years. Just can’t do it.
OMG. Is that an actual, honest-to-Zod SMEG refrigerator?!
Always knew Barry was a smeghead.
@@overweightactor smeeeeeeeeeeg heeeeeeeeeeed
There's a SMEG fridge outside my neighbours house help
@@snaketheadversary6964 Whatever you do, don't open it.
@@ICanDoThatToo2 I feel like opening it now.. the handle looks so pullable. What happens if I open it?
Smoke flavor apparently isn't fake. I've heard they make it by capturing smoke and condensing it. Not sure if it's true, but if it is it's actually smoked, in a roundabout way.
Should’ve toasted each half to have a transformative experience
It seems like much nicer cheese than we'd find her. Could throw a little butter in the pan, and make it lovely.
cheese challenge, melt cheese and let it harden and cut it into a square to see if Barry can tell if it has been melted or not.
I like cheese and onion but it’s even better if it’s a toasted sandwich
When I'm bored and alone I always come to this video, it is a chilled out video with people just eating sandwiches. What's not to enjoy?
You’re awesome Steveo, an absolute king, be fully confident in your infinite might
@@johnramos8703 I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or nice
This is my ‘I can’t sleep’ video. Works like a charm
Strange how he is also opening calendars of spice with Dan at the same time on the other side of the uk
Stuart is a time traveller
I suspect the calendar one was recorded in a single day. 😀
@@user-yv2cz8oj1k r/woosh
The internet is a wonderful place. For the most part.
This channel is just so genuine which is why I love it..
The thing about melted cheese is that it definitely changes the flavor. I can't stand the compacted mozzarella (i like the fresh type though) before its been melted, but after its melted and gotten a bit crispy like on pizza its great. Cheddar also appears to end up with a smoother flavor when melted.
I just spent 42minutes watching 2 grown men eating sandwiches....
I regret nothing!
I've just watched two guys eating various sandwiches for over forty minutes.
This is life changing.
These sandwiches literally only have 2 or 3 very basic items on them, and these grown men still manage to find an ingredient that they hate on almost every one of them.
Simon Hampus and thats why i normally dont like sandwitches!
'Grown man' as opposed to ungrown.
they're shitty ingredients. its a pound sandwich
amazing
Yeah, that’s called creating content. You want them to say the same thing about each of them? “Yeah it’s shitty but it’s a 1$”