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The Guardian Archive Longree

Hi my name is Sam Knight and I'm the author of How the Sandwich Consumed Britain, which was published as a Guardian long read in 2017. This piece has been selected as a featured archive to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the

Longread. Every week the Audio Longread Archive will feature a piece from each year of the past

decade. So the way this story came about was because of

the addiction to British sandwiches by my American Guardian Long Reed editor at the time, Jonathan

Shannon and he had arrived in the country a few years earlier and had immediately got hooked on what we in this country don't really, I think,

recognize as being a very British thing, which is a factory-made sandwich, fresh sandwich, or the kind of sandwiches that

you might buy in Pretamanche.

And he was kind of totally captivated by this British way of eating lunch and he asked me to write about it.

It's funny looking back and thinking about how the story speaks to the time when I was reporting it and

writing it because it's seven years ago now and looking over the story now it's

obvious that there's a strong element of Brexit anxiety in the story.

A lot of sandwiches made up and down the UK either in factories or in cafes made by European migrants at the time and it was a sort of question of what's going to happen to that workforce are they going to be able to stay in the country?

I think also, and I hope this still survives, this was an article written with a certain

spirit of fun and wanting to get almost over interested

in a totally normal bit of daily British life and I think that spirit still kind of exists in the long read

they don't have to be totally heavy and meaningful they can just be a kind of somewhat light-hearted investigation into

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