‘I tried UK’s priciest sandwich and was floored when I looked inside’

YouTuber Ed Chapman, who reviews food on his channel, wasn’t impressed when he bit into a Wagyu beef ‘sando’ from Harrods – which has been billed as the most expensive sandwich in Britain

The humble sandwich remains a lunchtime favorite for workers across the nation. We’ve all made ourselves a sarnie at some point and it’s difficult to imagine how you could get such a simple snack wrong. That is, until YouTuber Ed Chapman ventured to prestigious London department store Harrods to sample Britain’s priciest butty.

After trying several lackluster sandwiches priced between £10-£18, Ed was eagerly anticipating the Wagyu ‘sando’. “This is my kind of meat,” he declared. “None of this fishy nonsense.”

However, the moment he unwrapped his ‘sando,’ Ed encountered an unwelcome shock. He said with evident disappointment: “I’ve just touched the bread, and it feels very dry.”

Ed, who regularly reviews food and drink for his channel, continued: “It’s kind of rubbery. It’s bizarre. And as far as I can tell, this is Wagyu sort of wrapped up in a sort of katsu coating.” He observed: “No crusts is an interesting one. But then the bread is very, very hard and tough.”

In summary, he concluded it prioritized presentation over quality: “Maybe it’s trying a bit too hard to be a sandwich,” he remarked. “It’s one of those people that tries too hard to be cool. They call themselves Sando.”

The taste of his £28 sandwich failed to impress: “I’m just getting a lot of mushroom. It’s odd. It says barbecue sauce, but I’m not really getting the barbecue sauce because it’s been bleached into the bread.”

Ed described the sandwich as “fine, but nothing special” adding: “It almost feels like the way that they’ve served this up, it feels like I’ve been up in my grandma’s loft and found like an old sandwich from when she was at work, you know, in the ’70s. And I’ve discovered it inside a little shoe box.”

Ed then quipped that biting into the sandwich felt like chomping on a family heirloom, expressing his disappointment over its lack of freshness: “That’s the biggest disappointment,” he said.

“You pay 28 quid for something,” Ed added, “You expect it to be fresh. You expect the bread to not have this weird dryness to it. I know it’s probably been done like that deliberately, but it’s not the most appetizing or fresh feeling when you’re biting into a sandwich.”

He admitted that the sandwich wasn’t terrible, giving it a score of around six out of 10: “But you want it to be better than six for 28 quid.

“In conclusion, Ed criticized the pretentious nature of the sandwiches he had sampled: “If you are going to have an expensive sandwich like that, make the filling just like, just your standard stuff. Chicken, bacon, ham, cheese.

“Sandwiches are supposed to be simple, quick, and easy,” he said, “and cheap. 28 quid? Yeah, don’t bother with that c**p.”