4 slices of meat 2 slices of cheese + 2 slices of bread -------------------- £8What’s not to get?
It’s actually 2 slices of meat cut in half.
It actually does appear to be 4 full slices folded over
Oh, you’re probably right. I’m on a phone screen.
Retirement
I’ve clearly eaten too many lunches from food vendors (including SB) inside convention centers because I expected see maybe 2 slices of ham and 1 of cheese for $8 (in 2023 money). And maybe a lettuce leaf that is probably a recycled hot coffee sleeve dyed green.
Actually, you were right. This sandwich contains 2 half slices of cheese and 4 half slices of ham.
The ham is folded
I don’t think it is. Look at the second slice from the top. There’s a hole on the left edge. If it was folded, I would expect to see a layer between the hole and the third slice. If it is folded, every fold is so perfect that there is no overhang on any edge. You cannot possibly fold irregularly shaped ham slices with that kind of precision.
Source: I sandwich.
Them’s fightin words buddy
“Yes, go fuck yourself in your fucking face.”
-Starbucks
You’re a union hating boot licking nazi cop if you support starbucks
That’s like $13 up here in Canada. But I’d assume they have the same sandwiches here. But wow, that’s outrageous.
That’s twice as much cheese & ham as the ones in the U. S., which cost about the same.
My work’s cafeteria had sandwiches like that. Something like £5-6 a sandwich. People dont buy food in there now unless they’re desperate. Colleague bought chilli con carne in there the other week as he didnt have time to prepare his own food. It was like gravel
The secret is to use pork when you make Carne con chile
In our case the secret was not to leave it on the boiler until all the water had evapourated,
You don’t buy Starbucks food for the value. You do it cause there’s one on the way to work/school.
It’s your own damn fault for trying to get food at fucking Starbucks, the coffee isn’t even good unless you’re at pikes place
Not entirely true, the stores that unionized have better tasting coffee in comparison to regular sb
Yeah I also heard the unionized stores don’t have bathrooms because everybody shits rainbows.
lmao
How would that even make sense? They’re still getting their beans from the same source and preparing drinks in the exact same way.
Yeah, support a local sandwich shop.
Probably won’t be much cheaper but it’ll be ten times the quality.
My family ran a local sandwich shop for years. Here’s the problem.
If this is downtown, the local sandwich shop isn’t even there, in part because Starbucks helped price them out of being able to rent. Every supermarket now has a sandwich counter too, so local sandwich shops don’t do well in shopping centers either. Fast food has slightly improved their quality over the years so that’s more competitor at the low end.
You’re paying for the convenience at Starbucks and in some cases convenience is valuable. If you don’t care about time and can go out of your way to a local sandwich shop, you get better food for less.
Luckily the downtown in the city where I live doesn’t allow chain restaurants so I have many options for decently priced food.
Also how else is the roof of your mouth going to get tougher without starbucks sandwiches?
There’s a “your mom” joke in there somewhere but it’s not coming to me.
Coffee will be better as well. Starbucks burns their beans so they can guarantee the same “quality” flavor at every location.
This I can actually weight in on a bit. They have their recipe under full version control and plant operations can only adjust it slightly without HQ doing an override. Not their air waste handling however, that is under local control.
And even Pikes Place SB’s isn’t as good as a local cafe.
Truth
Starbucks coffee’s got nothing on $1 McDonalds coffee.
what’s different about pike place?
It’s the original one.
Is the coffee actually different there?
No. It’s a local myth that it is.
I don’t think that’s a local myth. That sounds like a tourist trap myth.
It’s local. I’ve had tons of people tell me it’s better there.
It isn’t.
Interesting, I’ve never heard that. I don’t know any locals that would voluntarily go there unless they have out of town guests.
No. It’s a local myth that it is.
Tastes the same to me.
It’s not actually. That’s the second store they claim is the first. The real first was on Western. Coffee is the same though, you’re right, better to go to the roasterie
So now I have to travel around the world to Seattle or something to get good Starbucks? I don’t believe you, nice try!
pikes place
Speaking of mildly infuriating 😆
They charge that much because the market will bear it. 🤷🏻♂️ That’s on us consumers.
Nobody goes to Starbucks for good coffee, they go because it’s the same everywhere. Sometimes I want to go get a great coffee somewhere they know how to pull a decent shot, and sometimes I want brownish sugarmilk.
That’s genuinely shocking.
It’s not shocking for me. They don’t make real coffee, how would they know how to make food?
I wouldn’t know : I never support them.
They don’t make real coffee
The coffee at Starbucks is real, I’ve seen it in person
As a supertaster and inveterate picky eater, that actually looks pretty good. Could use some mayo and/or mustard though.
Too much ham, no mayo or dressing, and nothing green like lettuce.
Youre nuts.
As a normal customer with the lowest standard, that actually looks pretty disgusting. Could eat a shoe with some mayo.
Disgusting? It’s a few slices of ham and cheese. It’s basic, but you find ham and cheese to be disgusting?
A little mayo, sure. But not for 8 bucks.
Don’t they make the sandwiches to your specification in the UK?
Edit: I’m stupid, I read that as Subway.
If you lived in LA, this would be a £12 sandwich. the sandwich economy here is out of control.
Yeh I was thinking to myself "they’re probably $13 here in Vancouver ". If you think LA is bad, Tacos are $6 each here now and burritos are $20-25.
8£ is roughly 13$ Canadian. So yeah.
Didn’t know LA used Pounds instead of USD
It’s that out of control
Bought a cold sandwich at a quick-service place in England.
There’s your problem. This one has a certain appeal, though. I’d pay eight pounds just to be spared the usual pile of cucumber slices, old egg, and obscene quantity of mayonnaise.
There is no such thing as an “obscene quantity of mayonnaise”.
That opinion is apparently spicier than your condiment of choice.
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I too am impressed they managed to not include tomatoe, avocado, bacon, lettuce, or a sauce of any sort, while simultaneously not bothering to interlace the cheese between the meat for a more interesting texture profile.
It looks like prison food.
They’re supposed to toast it at least
The fuckers didn’t even put the pieces of bread together.
