The best sandwich in Saigon by
Graham Holliday on our Flickr group, some rights reserved.This week the previously unthinkable happened - Paddington Bear did marmite. Bored of marmalade and at the whim of advertisers and the MD of Paddington and Company, the furry Peruvian dabbled in the darkest corner of the sandwich world.
Aside from the fact that LibDems arrived at conference with their sarnies in hessian bags and in Wigan, a sandwich dealer was ordered to stop pushing sandwiches to the local high school, sandwiches rarely make the headlines. But, like Paddington Bear, everyone has a favourite.
According to the British Sandwich Association - no, I'm not kidding, there really there is one - a sandwich is defined thus:
Any form of bread with a filling, generally assembled cold - to include traditional wedge sandwiches, as well as filled rolls, baguettes, pitta, bloomers, wraps, bagels and the like, but not burgers and other products assembled and consumed hot. Hot eating sandwiches are also included.
Not quite sure where your croque monsieur would sit within this tight definition, but we can't have burgers in there messing things up that's for sure. I've salivated my way through I love sandwiches, drooled at 50+ British sandwiches, slobbered over 700+ international ones and nibbled on a fair bit of cheese and pickle in my time. But much like Paddington, I'll dabble but I will not be swayed. The best sandwich in the world is Vietnamese and that is incontrovertibly that.
