You may have read of my lament yesterday that there is no easily-accessible Sainsbury's from my office, and that this had prevented me yesterday from getting my hungry hands on the Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Lemon & Herb Roast Chicken Salad (on multiseed batch bread). Today I awoke with the realisation that obstables are really a mind set, and those that seeks solutions instead of gleefully festering in their problems, must surely climb to the top of the pile in this evolving challenge that is city life. In such spirit, I picked up my Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Lemon & Herb Roast Chicken Salad en route to the tube in the morning, conveniently located just opposite Clapham North station. It survived the inevitable morning journey in to town, a voyage which can only be described as a "bum rush" due to the seemingly unending supply of commuters - most of which appear to have not a thought in their head when it comes to moving down the carriage. True to form, I sought the solution this morning - and found a rap on the window and sharp gesture is instrumental in getting these clowns to move down inside the carriage.
Now on lunch in my thankfully not so crowded office, the Taste The Difference Lemon & Herb Roast Chicken Salad sandwich lies before me, awaiting my review. The appearence of this sandwich is immediately striking, with a comforting brown toned-bread encasing an abundance of salad and chicken, with what promises to be a joyful amount of mayo lapping at the crust like a gentle tide. As I pick up the sandwich, I am surprised by how fragile and soft the bread seems, almost how one would imagine a butterfly wing to feel should it be used as chicken-containing apparatus - I am concerned it will fall apart at the touch. Wonderfully, the taste comes over correspondingly gentle, delicate lemon notes rising up from the mayonnaise and chickeny interior. Spell-check is here telling me 'chickeny' is not a word, and I sorrow for spell-check being so woefully misinformed here, for it will never have the privilege of eating such a chickeny-tasting sandwich.
Another bite through the centre and I am enamoured - the crunch of the salad is absolutely fantastic, with this marvellously moist mixture of chicken and mayonnaise complimenting the multiseed batch bread to a tee. But Sainsbury's, what is this! Another bite in, we approach the crust, and the filling miraculously vanishes. I am left with just bread and salad for the remainder of the sandwich, not a scrap of chicken in sight. Some mayonnaise has spilled out towards the corner of the sandwich, taunting me of the chicken that could have been.
There has quite clearly been some trickery at work here from the team behind crafting the Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Lemon & Herb Roast Chicken Salad. They have been engineered to look superficially lustrous and full, with the poor unsuspecting eater to only find that filling is entirely lacking towards the end of the sandwich. This is a sly tactic to save costs, I assume. I will be tweeting my findings to Sainsbury's shortly - have a look @Sandwichfan32 - if you can "handle" it (the twitter-proficient among you will see that was in fact a saucy pun).
Indeed, the second half of this sandwich was entirely the same experience, a fantastic first couple of bites followed by the crushing anti-climax of a bread-based finish. Really very tragic as there is so much potential in this Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Lemon & Herb Roast Chicken Salad - intensely fresh salad, juicy chicken pieces, perfect accents of lemon and herb, and an exciting textural accompaniment in the form of this multiseed batch bread. Importantly, the bread does lose marks for its flimsy demeanour - if the bread was a person, it would be your ever-attractive friend who is a fantastic companion when you see them, but it is always a question as to whether they will actually turn up to social events, or flake at the last minute. Disappoingly, for a sandwich which truly had the potential to be in the highest percentile, I must accordingly award the Sainsbury's Lemon & Herb Roast Chicken Salad (on multiseed batch bread) a Sandwich Experience Score of 56.25%. For a full data breakdown, please see below. Feel free to send any comments, questions, or court case summons to sandwichgenius32@hotmail.com
Experience: 5/17
Branding: 3/3
Content: 2/4
Ingredients: 3/3
Appearance: 5/5
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