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Hello, my name is Sam Knight and I am the author of the piece that you're about to listen to.

So this article came about because of the addiction of my editor

of the Guardian Long Read Jonathan Shanein at the time.

Jonathan is American and he'd moved to London a few years earlier

and he'd become addicted to pretemnige sandwiches

which don't exist in the same way in America.

And like other sort of outsiders he just turned to me one day and said

you know what is the deal with British sandwiches?

You know these don't exist in other places.

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