Tuna Melt
A pressed, sealed British toastie of tinned tuna, mayonnaise and mature Cheddar, made on a sandwich toaster or panini press and eaten hot, often with sweetcorn or gherkin.
Andrew Lekashman
Tuna Mayo
Tuna mayo is Britain's default lunch: tinned tuna stirred through with mayonnaise, eaten cold from a chiller-cabinet wedge or a lunchbox, the steady bestseller of the meal-deal fridge.
Tuna Crunch
Tuna mayo with celery and pepper for crunch.
Tuna and Sweetcorn
Tuna mayo with sweetcorn; very popular British combination.
Triple Sandwich
Three cold triangles in one carton, each with its own filling. Tesco's bacon-and-egg triple has averaged over a million sales a month.
Tongue Sandwich
The British tongue sandwich is built on a clean pink round, and that round is sculpted: a whole ox tongue brined, simmered, peeled, and screwed down in a mould before it is sliced onto buttered white.
Tongue Sandwich (Tea)
Thinly sliced pressed ox tongue on white bread with mustard; delicate meat, mild flavor.
Tomato Sandwich
Fresh tomato slices with salt on buttered bread; simple summer sandwich.
Tomato Sandwich (Tea)
Skinned, seeded, salted tomato on thin buttered white, crusts trimmed and cut into fingers: the afternoon-tea sandwich whose fruit the British distrusted for centuries before the tea tray took it in.
Toasted Cheese
Grilled cheese sandwich; toasted bread with melted cheese.
Tayto Sandwich
A crisp sandwich that insists on the brand: a whole bag of Tayto cheese and onion laid intact between buttered white bread, the orange seasoning powder doing all the talking.
Tattie Scone Roll
A single warm tattie scone alone in a soft floured Scottish morning roll, sauce on the inside, no bacon and no Lorne. The cheap meat-free line at a Glasgow roll-bar counter.
Tandoori Chicken Sandwich
Tandoor-charred yoghurt-marinated chicken folded into a soft naan painted with cool raita, with sliced red onion and cucumber; the British-Indian curry-house portable form of a 1920s Peshawar dish.
Sunday Roast Sandwich
The British Monday-leftover sandwich: cold-sliced Sunday roast on buttered bloomer with whatever condiment the gravy boat carried. A household economy in bread.
Sugar Sandwich
The most stripped-down sweet on the British thrift shelf, and its whole character is one physical fact: the sugar stays a grit, crunching dry against soft buttered bread before it melts.
Submarine Sandwich
Long roll sandwich; American sub-style.
Streaky Bacon Butty
Belly-cut streaky rendered to a brittle lace inside soft buttered bread, the belly cut routed through the British morning roll for the snap a back rasher cannot give.
Stottie Cake Sandwich
A flat, dense, oven-bottom round from the North East, named for the Geordie word for a bounce. Newcastle fills it with ham and warm yellow pease pudding, a soft load the tight crumb was made to carry.
Stornoway Black Pudding Sandwich
A fried disc of the PGI-protected Hebridean blood pudding, heavy with Scottish oatmeal and beef suet, on a soft morning roll: the Stornoway butcher counter on a breakfast bap.
Stinking Bishop Sandwich
Stinking Bishop is a Gloucestershire farmhouse cheese washed in perry from a local pear, made by Charles Martell at Dymock since 1994. The sandwich is the test of its rind on plain bread.