Sandwich Club

One subject I forgot to mention yesterday, was food!! I've just 'been' to Tescos and ordered everything for lunch for next Sunday's set build so now is as good a time as any to blog about 'Sandwich Club'.

It all started a couple of years ago, when after a long weekend of setbuilding we'd eaten Fish & Chips, Pizza, Indian, Chinese and KFC within 3 days and were all sick to death of take aways.

So, having no food in the house anyway I went food shopping prior to setbuild and stocked up on bread, ham, cheese, crisps, doughnuts, cakes and drinks so that we could have a DIY picnic. Not only was it a far cheaper and healthier option but it meant that we didn't loose two people to whichever takeaway venue to collect all the stuff, only to eat lukewarm food when it finally arrived back at the hall.

And so Sandwich Club was born. Now the food is ordered online and delivered to me with the weekly shop ready for the Sunday rather than me going to the store and we don't have doughnuts because they would be like bricks by the Sunday, but that's the only change.

Everyone has their favourite sarnie fillings and combinations and the boys usually try to outdo each other for the strangest sandwich filling mixture of the day. One of the staple components is Laughing Cow cheese triangles which have become affectionately known as "HaHa Moo" or "Hilarious Bovine".

The tradition of Sandwich Club has also spread to show weeks themselves as when members of the cast take annual leave for shows we often get together either at lunchtime for a pub lunch or alternatively early evening for a Sandwich Club tea at the village hall together, prior to setting the stage and doing the box office ticket orders for that night.

It's also really nice to break from whatever we are all working on at the time and all sit down around a large table together, reminiscing about setbuilds, shows and parties of the past or the logistics of completing the jobs we are doing.

Lyric of the Blog: " Food, glorious food! Eat right through the menu. Just loosen your belt Two inches and then you Work up a new appetite. In this interlude --The food, Once again, food Fabulous food, Glorious food - Lionel Bart