--- title: Daily Mail Headline Prompts Britain To Freak Out About Sandwiches description: British newspaper The Daily Mail has splashed out in panic over the country's lack of qualified sandwich-makers. Brits hilariously respond canonical: https://time.com/3575808/britain-daily-mail-sandwiches/ author: Megan Gibson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-10T15:43:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:29.353Z og:title: Here's why Britain is freaking out about sandwiches og:description: British newspaper The Daily Mail has splashed out in panic over the country's lack of qualified sandwich-makers. Brits hilariously respond og:url: https://time.com/3575808/britain-daily-mail-sandwiches/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's why Britain is freaking out about sandwiches twitter:description: British newspaper The Daily Mail has splashed out in panic over the country's lack of qualified sandwich-makers. Brits hilariously respond twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's Why Britain Is Freaking Out About Sandwiches by [Megan Gibson](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Nov 10, 2014 3:43 PM UTC by [Megan Gibson](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Nov 10, 2014 3:43 PM UTC On its Monday front page, right-of-center British newspaper _The Daily Mail_ splashed out with a particularly pressing question: “Is There No One Left In Britain Who Can Make A Sandwich?” > [](https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/531568787469135872) The headline and [subsequent story](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2827625/Factory-bosses-forced-recruit-Hungary-locals-not-apply.html) describes the challenges facing an Irish convenience food producer called Greencore Group, which supplies prepared sandwiches to the majority of Britain’s supermarkets. According to _The_ _Daily Mail_, Greencore Group’s new factory in England hasn’t been able to recruit enough born-and-bred Brits to its staff and so they’ll be looking to hire hundreds of workers from eastern Europe. As the _Mail_ has long been known to [take](http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FB1ET54CIEAAMm3K.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FBBCNews%2Fstatus%2F527228430400901120&h=773&w=599&tbnid=gwM9MHSjijBBoM%3A&zoom=1&docid=FXPQUe5vVq584M&ei=adBgVNSnM8XaOJiigfgM&tbm=isch&client=firefox-a&ved=0CCkQMygKMAo&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=657&page=1&start=0&ndsp=35) [issue](http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mailwatch.co.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fm15929903.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libdemvoice.org%2Fnick-cleggs-illiberal-hattrick-now-immigration-joins-secret-courts-and-media-regulation-on-the-pyre-33815.html&h=350&w=272&tbnid=pvq9G-LzPsTG1M%3A&zoom=1&docid=qTExcPnTjY7tHM&itg=1&ei=adBgVNSnM8XaOJiigfgM&tbm=isch&client=firefox-a&ved=0CCYQMygHMAc&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=470&page=1&start=0&ndsp=35) [with](http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffullfact.org%2Fsites%2Ffullfact.org%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Flarge%2Fpublic%2Fdaily-mail-foreign-worker-statistics.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsunnysoodthinks.blogspot.com%2F2013%2F06%2Fthinking-hard-politics-and-politicians.html&h=350&w=275&tbnid=XsKOqAKETTGe3M%3A&zoom=1&docid=e7ku6hkBrRPgQM&itg=1&ei=adBgVNSnM8XaOJiigfgM&tbm=isch&client=firefox-a&ved=0CCAQMygBMAE&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=1487&page=1&start=0&ndsp=35) [immigration](http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rantonuk.org.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F12%2FDaily%5FMail%5F4%5F7%5F2013.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rantonuk.org.uk%2Fhow-much-longer-do-we-put-up-with-this-2%2F&h=230&w=176&tbnid=2-I77K81e0o1cM%3A&zoom=1&docid=9e8ILmpDOgusiM&itg=1&ei=adBgVNSnM8XaOJiigfgM&tbm=isch&client=firefox-a&ved=0CCQQMygFMAU&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=481&page=1&start=0&ndsp=35) policies in the U.K., the sputtering headline isn’t exactly a surprise. The _Mail_‘s attempt to start a conversation about immigration instead turned into social media pile-on — with many taking to Twitter to jokily note the headline’s prescience, and sharing photos of their own botched attempts to make a decent sandwich: > [](https://twitter.com/KarlaGeorge/status/531748093860257792) > [](https://twitter.com/LeeCrawfurd/status/531602901282865152) > [](https://twitter.com/jon%5Fabbott/status/531811017559638016) > [](https://twitter.com/BDStanley/status/531578012622667776) > [](https://twitter.com/Pandamoanimum/status/531584269333057537) > [](https://twitter.com/banalyst/status/531587140996849664) _Read next:_ [_See Kate Middleton’s Stunning Fashion Evolution_](http://time.com/53937/kate-middleton-fashion-photos/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3575808/britain-daily-mail-sandwiches/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3575808/britain-daily-mail-sandwiches/"},"headline":"Here's Why Britain Is Freaking Out About Sandwiches","datePublished":"2014-11-10T15:43:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:29.353Z","description":"A right-of center newspaper sounds the alarm over the country's perceived lack of qualified sandwich-makers","url":"https://time.com/3575808/britain-daily-mail-sandwiches/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Social Media","Britain","twitter","U.K.","uk","Sandwich"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Gibson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3575808/britain-daily-mail-sandwiches/","name":"Here's Why Britain Is Freaking Out About Sandwiches"}}]}] ```