This month, my mantra has been reinvention and perseverance. And what better way to manifest hope and positivity with some Matthew MacFadyen!? (Just go with me here) In the following clip, he begins: “Can I return to sandwich filling for just to ask…” and then proceeds to describe his wife’s favorite sandwich. I’m going to be brutal here — I can only imagine this concoction is gross. Wholly disgusting, to be honest.

Y’all. This sandwich is “cheap” toasted white bread, butter, roast chicken, cream cheese, iceberg lettuce, Branston, mayo, and salt. I like how the Dish hosts (Nick Grimshaw and Michelin star chef Angela Hartnett) try their hardest to be polite but ultimately, “it’s too many wet things.” The cream cheese really, really throws me off. Like why cream cheese and mayo? Eh, to eat, er… each their own.

In other gross sandwich news spotted this month, Martha Stewart shared with her instagram community her own beloved childhood favorite — an onion sandwich. Simple (albeit confusingly so), she too prefers “cheap” white bread. Slathered in butter and then topped with a pungent white onion:

I know we all have our own weird sandwich fixings, but dang, Martha. One commenter (rachel_jenks) says “Martha getting us ready for another recession.” For real real real.

That’s it for March’s roundup. I’m working on some history lessons to run the next month, so stay tuned! I’ve been looking into the history of spam and, from my favorite site Sandwich Tribunal, a story about pheasant sandwiches in World War II. Might pair them with some films that fit the bill (although I’ll be making them with plant-based proteins).

‘Til next time! And remember - resilience and perseverance. Hope and prosperity. Sandwiches and war. War and sandwiches.

Spotted in the Wild is a monthly barrage of sandwich content that has nothing to do with war movies, or war, or movies, necessarily. There’s constant posts on sandwiches that I stumble upon, and I wanted to make sure you could stumble on them too. Bon appetit!

SPOTTED IN THE WILD: march 2025

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