Veda Sandwich
Veda is the rare sandwich where the loaf is the whole subject: a soft, caramel-brown malted loaf of Northern Ireland, faintly sweet, that a thin scrape of cold salted butter is built to flatter.
Regional Breads & Sandwich Formats
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.
Submarine Sandwich
Warm bread smell, a split roll, quick decisions at the glass: Subway's counter model reached Brighton in 1996 and grew to about 2,100 British shops.
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.
Staffordshire Oatcake with Sausage
A soft Staffordshire oatcake folded hot around a split pork sausage and melted cheddar. The Potteries breakfast, where a round sausage forces the splitting the flat bacon never does.
Staffordshire Oatcake with Bacon
The Staffordshire oatcake is a soft savoury oat pancake, not the Scottish biscuit, folded warm around crisp bacon and melted cheese. The Potteries breakfast eaten hot off a griddle.
Sourdough Sandwich
Poilâne sourdough pressed around Montgomery's cheddar, Comté and Ogleshield: the Kappacasein toastie at Borough Market, on sale since 2003, and its cold and kitchen cousins.
Soda Farl Sandwich
The everyday bread of the Ulster fry: a soft quadrant of soda dough griddled flat rather than baked, split through its floury cut face and filled with the bacon and egg from the same pan.
Soda Bread Sandwich
A sandwich named for its bread, raised by bicarbonate meeting sour buttermilk in one fast reaction. Brown wheaten for smoked salmon, a cross slashed on top, gone dry by the next day.
Rye Bread Sandwich
Rye bread; often with smoked fish or pastrami.
Potato Bread Sandwich
Northern Irish fadge is a flat potato farl griddled cold off the board, soft inside with a chalky flour crust, and two slabs standing in for bread is the sandwich the Ulster fry is built around.
Panini
Italian-style pressed sandwich; very popular in UK cafés.
Panini with Mozzarella and Tomato
Classic Italian-style panini filling.
Panini with Chicken and Pesto
The British chicken and pesto panini is younger than it looks: a 1982 ciabatta, a jarred pesto loosely echoing Liguria's DOP basil, and a name borrowed plural.
Oatcake (Staffordshire)
A soft, floppy oat-and-flour pancake, griddled not baked and sold warm by the bagful from Stoke-on-Trent's oatcake shops. The Staffordshire oatcake is the daily bread of the Potteries.
Meal Deal Sandwich
A wedge of soft bread and a bound filling, priced as one third of a three-part lunch. Boots pioneered the UK meal deal in 1999; Tesco held it at £3 for about ten years.
Kentish Huffkin
Oval bread roll with indent, filled with cherries or other fillings; Kent tradition.
Focaccia Sandwich
Italian focaccia with various fillings.
Doorstop Sandwich
Very thick sandwich with thick-cut bread; substantial.
Derbyshire Oatcake
An overnight-fermented oat batter griddled on a Peak District bakestone, then folded warm around melted cheese, bacon and egg: Derbyshire's thicker, oatier answer to the Staffordshire oatcake.
Croissant Sandwich
Croissant with ham and cheese; breakfast option.
Ciabatta Sandwich
An open holey crumb that drinks oil and the juice of wet Mediterranean fillings instead of letting them run out. The loaf reads as timelessly Italian but was invented in 1982 by a rally champion.
Builder's Sandwich
Large, hearty sandwich with substantial fillings; meant to be filling.
Baguette
French-style baguette with various fillings; café staple.