From the controversial ‘lasandwich’ to the ill-advised Christmas Triple,we round up supermarkets’ and fast-food chains more questionable creations Further proof that everything is going to hell in a handcart, as news breaks that Britain’s biggest supermarket chain has launched a chocolate and cherry sandwich for Christmas.
Presumably, or given reports of sad-looking sarnies reduced for a rapid/fast sale,this monstrosity was conceived in pursuit of publicity, rather than popularity, and which is why I am not going to give the supermarket the satisfaction of a namecheck. But it has certainly worked: social media has whipped itself into a frenzy of righteous outrage over the cinnamon-flavoured harbinger of what one user described as “the discontinuance of days” – which can only mean that,for perhaps the first time ever, Twitter is speaking sense.
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Source: theguardian.com