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Previously on "Don't you just hate it when...."

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  • d000hg
    replied
    Originally posted by PAH View Post
    I have the same problem with my favourite sandwich, the ham salad piled high with the usual salad stuff plus hard boiled egg and raw onion. :slurp

    Whenever I try to make my own it all just falls out, yet the professionally made shop bought variants don't seem to have this problem.

    I think it's either down to how the contents are cut so they trap each other in place (i.e. in pieces that are not too small) while stacked up, or they use a suitably large enough bap.

    Trouble is my local supermarket don't sell particularly large baps.

    Yours frustratedly,

    Wilmsloooooow.
    You want a stottie.

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  • Clippy
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    Don't you just hate it when....

    ...posters don't post in the correct thread.

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  • Spacecadet
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    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    When opening a bag of Alpen, which is made of special plastic that's tough to a point and then fails spectacularly sending Alpen across the room leaving one holding a shredded empty bag.
    I saw this the other week, I think it was on the gadget show, it's really helpful for opening packets of Alpen:

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  • Halo Jones
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    Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post
    Or when you're eating a Magnum ice cream, and on the first bite an entire panel of choccy detaches and fals on the ground.
    ohhh I hate it when that happens

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  • TimberWolf
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    When opening a bag of Alpen, which is made of special plastic that's tough to a point and then fails spectacularly sending Alpen across the room leaving one holding a shredded empty bag.

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  • PAH
    replied
    I have the same problem with my favourite sandwich, the ham salad piled high with the usual salad stuff plus hard boiled egg and raw onion. :slurp

    Whenever I try to make my own it all just falls out, yet the professionally made shop bought variants don't seem to have this problem.

    I think it's either down to how the contents are cut so they trap each other in place (i.e. in pieces that are not too small) while stacked up, or they use a suitably large enough bap.

    Trouble is my local supermarket don't sell particularly large baps.

    Yours frustratedly,

    Wilmsloooooow.

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  • thunderlizard
    replied
    Or when you're eating a Magnum ice cream, and on the first bite an entire panel of choccy detaches and fals on the ground.

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  • Sysman
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Fried egg butties. Tacos. Pizza with low surface/base coupling. All lovely but a right PITA.
    Egg mayonnaise sandwiches with too much mayonnaise are the worst.

    Best eaten using old fashioned computer listing or a newspaper as a temporary tablecloth.

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Fried egg butties. Tacos. Pizza with low surface/base coupling. All lovely but a right PITA.
    Which is why I always eat my lunch at Moose's desk.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by Moose423956 View Post
    ....the filling from your baguette falls out and lands on your laptop keyboard, the desk and the floor. Grated cheese is a bugger to eat.
    Fried egg butties. Tacos. Pizza with low surface/base coupling. All lovely but a right PITA.

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  • Moose423956
    started a topic Don't you just hate it when....

    Don't you just hate it when....

    ....the filling from your baguette falls out and lands on your laptop keyboard, the desk and the floor. Grated cheese is a bugger to eat.

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