Christmas sandwich taste test: '2019 is a vintage year' — theguardian.com

Until recently, I was firm in my Scrooge-like belief that the only good Christmas sandwich was the kind cobbled together before the Boxing Day movie starts on the TV. Perhaps we all soften as we get older, but having tried 23 of the current commercial crop and lived to type the tale, I think 2019 is a vintage harvest: most of the turkey versions have ditched that sinister smooth “stuffing” sausage that was once all the rage, and some contain actual vegetables, although it’s a shame how few use free-range meat. On the non-traditional front, the world’s blandest combination– brie and cranberry – finally has some more interesting competition. If someone makes one with bread sauce next year, I might even declare myself a convert. FC

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