Celebrity Sarnies...Famous Faces and their Favourite Fillings!
Elvis loved his sandwiches filled with peanut butter, bananas and bacon, while Paddington Bear was stuck on marmalade. But the title of ‘Best Buttie’ is still undecided as these famous faces prove....
Paul Rankin - 'Roast Turkey and Ham'
Jamie Oliver – ‘Prawns with basil mayonnaise and cress’
Gordon Ramsay – ‘Triple-decker steak’
Marco Pierre White – ‘Bacon’
Super Sandwich Facts
The first sandwich was created by the 4th Earl of Sandwich in 1762. He requested cuts of beef placed between toasted slices of bread.
- 70% of all sandwiches are eaten at home, totalling 6.2 billion occasions.
- An average of 4.2 sandwiches are eaten at home, per person, every week in the UK.
- 55% of sandwiches eaten at home are consumed at lunchtime. A further 13% are eaten mid morning, 11% at the evening meal and 7% as part of a snack. Surprisingly 14% are eaten at breakfast.
- With a further 2.67 billion sandwiches made for lunch boxes, this means UK consumers are currently consuming nearly 11 billion sandwiches per year.
- It is also estimated that the lunchbox market (that’s sandwiches made at home but carried out to be consumed at work or school etc.) represent around 24.2% of all sandwiches and this market is estimated to be worth around £4.18 billion (based on an assumed average value of 99 pence per lunch box).
- 73.8% of all lunchboxes contain a sandwich and 30.8% are taken to school by children.
- Around 58% of all sandwiches are consumed in the home.
Top 6 Home Sandwich Fillings:
· Cheese
· Ham
· Chicken
· Jam / Sweet Spreads
· Hot Bacon
· Tuna
The above information has been put together by The British Sandwich Association (BSA)