I jumped into this sandy purchase based on Mark’s recommendation of Pat’s PJ’s Gobbler. I’m the only one to blame here, though; I should have known better than to assume all holiday-inspired sandies are created equal.As follows is a log of my harrowing King Soopers pre-cellophaned sandwich journey.
First Impressions
- Good size, will be filling
- Difficult to judge contents, but realized upon opening that the deception’s for the best, as its inside looked disgusting
- Baguette crusty in parts, but unsettlingly damp in others — probably due to the cranberry sauce
- Weird. Not unpleasant, but not great either. Tastes like Thanksgiving’s cousin who means well but doesn’t quite get it.
- The turkey tastes good as does the cranberry sauce, but it’s more jelly than sauce. I prefer can-shaped, Jell-O-like medallions.
- Bad. Unpleasantly soggy in parts. Eventually the cran and mush disappeared and I was left chewing turkey and the drier parts of the bread. After all the smooshy horror, the texture was fine.
- The cream cheese was unwelcome. I’d suspected that’s what the white splotches squeezing out from betwixt the bread halves were. Pretty much any other cheese would have fared better. Keep in mind that I love cream cheese on burgers (namely, with green chile strips at the Cherry Cricket).
- Good bread-to-filling ratio. There was just enough bread to keep it all together and provide some flavor, and not so much meat that you felt like you were chomping into the broad side of a huge cooked turkey.
I can’t recommend this sandy to anyone excluding my worst enemies. The flavors weren’t so bad, but this thing was just too squishy, and sandies shan’t be so squishy.
Comments
I hesitate to say this, but the "cream cheese" you speak of was actually mayonnaise. I am pretty sure of it, no joke. This may be the reason for the less than raving review.
And I assure you that was cream cheese and not mayo. I was hoping it was mayo, because that's a good compliment to turkey, but no — cream cheese all the way.