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Supermarket launches musical sandwich

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Unknown Report 6 Dec 2005 21:06

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Unknown Report 6 Dec 2005 21:06

LONDON (Reuters) - Tired of the same old lunch at your office desk? Help is at hand. A supermarket is launching the ultimate life-enhancing snack -- the musical sandwich. In a trial certain to be welcomed by the estimated one million Britons who eat their lunch at their desks each day, Tesco will use technology similar to that used in singing greetings cards to sell musical sandwiches. Opening the top of the sandwich box will activate a tiny sound module that plays a selection of Advertisement music. This season's offering will be a medley of Christmas tunes including Jingle Bells, Santa Claus is Coming to Town and We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Tesco Spokesman Jonathan Church said the potential of the melodic munch was enormous. 'It's designed to provide busy office workers with relaxing music to make eating lunch at their desks more enjoyable than ever before,' he said, adding that the concept could be easily adapted for Easter, Valentine's Day or Mother's Day. While it's not certain how your true love would react to being given a tuneful tuna lunch on February 14, Church said the idea could also be used in conjunction with record companies to launch songs by new artists clamouring for the kudos. The first offering will have no such ambitions, and will consist of a turkey and cranberry sauce sandwich with pork and cranberry stuffing. The new musical sandwiches will go on sale this week. But further out, flavour/song combinations under consideration include Prawn To Be Wild, Let It Brie and that old Julio Iglesias favourite, Fillings, Tesco said.

Daniel

Daniel Report 6 Dec 2005 21:07

Get me my gun. This is too much.

DAVE B

DAVE B Report 6 Dec 2005 21:08

How cheesey Paul lol! Dave

Bec

Bec Report 6 Dec 2005 21:09

Dave - Don't you mean 'Cheesey and Pickle'? lol

Unknown

Unknown Report 6 Dec 2005 21:11

groan

Luciacw

Luciacw Report 6 Dec 2005 21:13

Oh I've got to get one - I love gimmicks lol Lucia :-)

Unknown

Unknown Report 6 Dec 2005 21:14

actually Lucia, me too lol although the musical cards annoy me immensely. in fact..... wait for it....

Sue In Yorkshire.

Sue In Yorkshire. Report 6 Dec 2005 21:18

These sandwich packs were featured on Calendar YTV tonight. They sound and look pretty good will have to try one when I am next near a Tesco. Sue (who lives about 16miles from a Tesco.)

Pat

Pat Report 6 Dec 2005 21:42

Never bought their sandwiches before this new musical sandwich being launched will ensure I will never want to buy one in the future. Ridiculous Pat x

Unknown

Unknown Report 6 Dec 2005 21:47

I can't believe that you would get a quality sound from a sandwich wrapper. Instead it will be an irritating tinny noise which will just raise stress levels amongst workers. nell

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 7 Dec 2005 02:37

Paul O'Grady had one on his show on Tuesday evening. Can't say that I would appreciate it altho I do have a reputation for sending out those musical Christmas cards. This year I found some slightly different ones which should go down a treat with the little ones. It has become a tradition to send my son one every year but I also get him a proper one with special words for 'Son'.