Don't tell my wife but.... (Gourmet & Speciality Foods in general)

Member Name: scaredofgirls

Product:	Gourmet & Speciality Foods in general
Date:	30/08/01 (132 review reads)
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Advantages: it's so tasty

Disadvantages: possibly addictive?

...I have just fallen in love again.
Who would have thought it possible, just eight short months (to the day) since I got married.

No it’s not another woman (or man!), but something so much more tempting. I’ll tell you how it happened and perhaps then you’ll all understand how a happily married man strayed from the path.

Like many of you (I’m sure) I work in a fairly dull office, and am always waiting in anticipation for lunch, the chance for a brief change of scenery, and of course, food. So today when the time came, I strolled down the road to M&S (yes I know it’s overpriced, but the food always good and it’s nearby). Whilst surveying the disappointingly scant array of vegetarian sandwiches on offer, something caught my eye. I looked down, past the egg & cress, the cheddar ploughman’s and the cheese coleslaw, to my delight a new choice was on offer...

Wensleydale and carrot. I was excited, I grabbed the sandwich and rushed to the express check out, just minutes later I was back at my desk ready to try this new delight, but the phone rang…
Why did I answer it, why didn’t I let the voice mail pick up? But I did, and typically it was one of those calls that lasts for half an hour, all I wanted was my sandwich, I was starting to sweat. Finally I managed to get of the phone and eat my lunch.

Can a sandwich really be classed as gourmet food?
Well, I think so. I suppose it depends on your opinion of gourmet food. For some this would be the exclusive snacks that can only be purchased in big name London stores, for some it is the delicacies that are served in type of restaurant where you have to book a table weeks before you realise that you are hungry, but for me it would just have to be really excellent food, that you don’t eat everyday. So I suppose if the stocks of this sandwich were better I could not justify calling it gourmet, but trust me it’s been hard
to find this week (perhaps I made it sound so tempting that you all rushed out to try it…)

But if you are still unsure, think about what’s between those slices of bread, first you have the Wensleydale (surely one of the more elite cheeses), then carrot chutney (which if we are going to be honest is just a posh name for grated carrot) and lastly the garnish of water cress. So if you needed conclusive proof, then there it is. No one would normally put water cress in a sandwich, it is certainly only the choice of the gourmet chef (albeit the mass producing, corporate gourmet who make the M&S sandwiches).

So the new sandwich, was it as good as I hoped?
It was all that and more; the combination of the Wensleydale and the ‘tangy carrot chutney’ was simply divine. If you like cheese, try this sandwich the next chance you get. However if you live in St Albans don’t even bother looking, I am heading off to buy up all their remaining stock.

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