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London is an expensive place to buy sandwiches, but when I make my own, they're usually crap (can't match Pret!) So how about this. You list the ingredients you like, (or better yet, the ones you don't), and for a flat fee, you'll get a sandwich pack delivered to your door in the morning with the milk.
5 minutes to prepare, and you're away. The cost would be less, as you're not paying for packaging/preparation labour. Just the ingredients
Then you could avoid the ham-sandwich-syndrome.
Picture it...
Oh good. Roast beef, parmessan and rocket today, on a tasty rye. No imagination required, no going out shopping, best quality fresh ingredients.
I'd subscribe.
Oberweis Dairy delivers milk and more
http://www.oberweis...om/homedelivery.htm
For 'Cookies [XSarenkaX, Oct 15 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Leaping Salmon
http://www.zyra.org.uk/leapings.htm
DIY Dinner [whimsickle, Oct 16 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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Shirley the cost of preparation would be fractional to the cost of ingredients and delivery? And you say there's no packaging, but I bet there is. |
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Good first effort, though. Welcome to the HalfBakery. |
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It's all good and well until you're in the middle of eating a sandwich, and you bite into a postcard advertising for renewing your subscription. |
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Those raccoons are gonna be pretty well fed! Soon they'll start demanding a little dessert with that. |
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- but you are still making the sandwich - sorry I just don't get this. |
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Except in this case [po], they maybe come with easy assembly directions in big type and 1:1 full color layout diagrams and photos. Roll out the layout plans on the countertop and line up all the elements following the step-by-step instructions. |
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Heh. When you're done with the directions, you can use them to wrap the sandwich. |
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Delivery in London seems to be cheaper than labour... Dunno, thought it'd take advantage of the existing milk-delivery infrastructure. Perhaps I should just develop some food imagination... |
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You know [run], for a first idea it's not that bad. When I first read the title I thought wow, what a good idea, thinking that what people would do would be to specify what sandwiches they enjoy, condiments, pickle no pickle, etc., entering this data into the deli's system, and then once a week or so, go and pick up a weeks worth of lunch sandwiches, made to order. |
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A service I would most definately subscribe to. |
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[Wes] I'd Definitely subscribe to a service that attracted raccoons to London (UK). Amazing! |
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Are there no coons in UK? I so coonfused. |
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Not in London, but there are foxes... same principal, I guess... |
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Imagine a defensive toddler throwing a tantrum wearing claws.... |
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Last time I was in London, (actually, the *only* time I was in London), it was an expensive place to do *anything.* |
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I'd gladly pay a buck or two more for delivery, and now I'm wishing we still had a milk delivery service. |
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Given that it is amazingly easy to get the freshly made sandwich of your choice delivered (in NYC at least), I think this one counts as triple-decker Baked. |
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[Sandwiches here cost $3.95-$7.95 dependng on vendor and contents, and add to that $1 for the soda and $2 tip for delivery. I don't know if that is cheap enough for you, but it's driven by free market economics, so you'll be hard pressed to get them cheaper without the use of magic. Of course, American sandwiches are about three or four times the weight of British ones, and I don't know how to factor that into the equation.] |
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Americans need a milk delivery service. I'm always out of milk, and without milk Lucky Charms just don't taste right. |
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Have you not heard of Oberweis? (see link) |
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Leaping Salmon (see link) do a dinner version of this idea in London. They even chop the vegetables for you, I think. |
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"Stress is for the other fish" |
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[whimsickle]: you have got the link wrong...just put the 'http://www.leapingsalmon.com' bit in the scriptbox 'destination address'. |
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linky added for [whimsickle] |
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<looks stupid> oops... </looks stupid> |
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Sorry, Leaping Salmon is no more.
I've taken out po's link and replaced whimsickle's link with a pointer to a site that talks about the demise of the Leaping Salmon site. |
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Doooooon't it always seem to go.... |
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