--- description: What may well be one of the saddest sandwiches ever served has gained viral fame around the world after a Reddit user posted a photo of it title: Man at Edinburgh Airport Gets Served the Worst Sandwich Ever image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # A Man Got Served the Worst Sandwich Ever at Edinburgh Airport by [Alissa Greenberg](/author/alissa-greenberg/) ## Alissa Greenberg Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 2, 2015 7:21 AM CUT by [Alissa Greenberg](/author/alissa-greenberg/) ## Alissa Greenberg Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 2, 2015 7:21 AM CUT What may well be one of the most miserly sandwiches ever served has gained viral fame around the world after a Reddit user posted a [photo](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3beutv/this%5Fis%5Fwhat%5Fa%5F320%5Fbacon%5Fand%5Fegg%5Froll%5Ffrom/ "undefined") of the paltry offering he says he bought from the chain EAT at Edinburgh Airport for the equivalent of $5. “This is what a £3.20 bacon and egg roll from Edinburgh Airport looks like,” user spambox wrote on June 30, of a miserable offering that contained hardly any filling. There doesn’t even seem to be any butter on the bread. > [](https://twitter.com/PeeblesGraeme/status/616291258764554240) “Sadly on this occasion we fell below the mark and offer our apologies to this customer,” a spokesman for Edinburgh Airport told the _Scotsman_ newspaper. “Clearly this is not the service we should be providing and we will be addressing this complaint with EAT.” Still, spambox took a positive view of the experience, writing, “As soon as I opened it I burst out laughing as did my girlfriend because, well, look at it. It’s so bad it’s funny.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3944262/edinburgh-airport-worst-sandwich-eat-bacon-egg/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3944262/edinburgh-airport-worst-sandwich-eat-bacon-egg/"},"headline":"A Man Got Served the Worst Sandwich Ever at Edinburgh Airport","datePublished":"2015-07-02T07:21:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:42.880Z","description":"\"As soon as I opened it I burst out laughing\"","url":"https://time.com/3944262/edinburgh-airport-worst-sandwich-eat-bacon-egg/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","reddit","Air travel","sandwiches"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alissa Greenberg","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alissa-greenberg/"}],"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/3944262/edinburgh-airport-worst-sandwich-eat-bacon-egg/","name":"A Man Got Served the Worst Sandwich Ever at Edinburgh Airport"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Our food. Your questions. What are McDonald’s fries made of?","description":"Our food. Your questions. What are McDonald’s fries made of?","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/nGOOAY0j/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-01-20T22:40:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/nGOOAY0j.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3944262/edinburgh-airport-worst-sandwich-eat-bacon-egg/","duration":"PT5M5S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3944262/edinburgh-airport-worst-sandwich-eat-bacon-egg/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```