I dunno, I understand and get your point. I’d like less cheese than cheap flawless cheese. And I grew up on government cheese.
Regardless, cheese! 
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Yeah, nice sleeve protectors and no gloves. 
WTF.
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I guess ya gotta really be able to feel the ham and mayo to get it right…
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Just like mom used to make…
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I like those vending machine sandwiches. Other than being white bread and boiled ham slices, what’s the problem there. You too good to eat a ham sandwich with mayo and white bread?
I mean other than not having gloves…what’s not to love?
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I’ve had plenty of mass marketed sandwiches. But what always goes through my head is, “dangit, I guess I have to eat this”. I respect the technology, I respect the availability. But I’ll just take an apple.
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I don’t know if I made it through the video or had a stroke
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The Guardian had a really interesting article on the UK sandwich industry. 4 billion sandwiches are sold each year in the UK! That’s over one a week for every single person.
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I feel sorry for those who cut the crust off their bread slices. It’s wasteful and they’re cutting off the part of the bread with the flavor.
Just from my observation, I do think the practice of breadcrust mutilation seems to be most prevalent in Asia than anywhere else.
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I, for one, welcome our new Sandwich Overlords.
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(video is cued)
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I think if they ever editorialized they’d never get invited to any other factory. Ever.
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“Then, because the sandwich requires it…”
That is an almost poetically gnomic utterance.
The semi-automated production line is like something out of Scarfolk.
The automated production line, however, is a beautiful ballet of robotic perfection; only slightly marred by the escaped egg-mayonnaise.
Oh, and, “Logs of Ham” isn’t something I expected to be contemplating today.
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I once worked a summer on an industrial estate next to a place that was “a leading provider of quality frozen preparations and produce”. What they really did was put chopped up herbs on top of mashed potato globs for ready meals and packed mixed veg. Not that the agency worker-drones could admit that was what they did if they wanted to keep their minimum wage work. If they did slip up the managers were quick to claim they were “damaging the company reputation/ brand” and request the agency not send them again (good old zero hour contracts and the ways they can be abused).
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There are machines that put the stickers on. Not sure how many companies use them but I doubt it is cheaper for hoomans.
One would expect some kind of dive diner too, Where you can’t find a waitress even with a geiger counter…
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This is not depressing or sad, there is nothing ever depressing or sad about How It’s Made. If I ever have to go out like Edward G. Robinson in Soylent Green I want all the screens to be playing HIM. (Although preferably only Brooks Moore episodes. Especially the ones featuring bad puns and mild wordplay.)
And a tip: remove the mayo-soaked soggy sides and combine the rest into a double-size half-sandwich.
Ah! That means they are artisinal stickers.
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