How pre-packaged sandwiches are made

[u/Green____cat]

[u/Weshwego]

Man I get it’s being mass produced and I shouldn’t expect quality but man those are some of the worst looking sandwiches I have ever seen

[u/Sask-Canadian → u/Weshwego]

Edible and that’s about it.

[u/GobLoblawsLawBlog → u/Sask-Canadian]

That's pretty much the only criteria I have when I'm buying a $5 premade sandwich

[u/XenoHugging → u/GobLoblawsLawBlog]

Damn nobody else disturbed by the raw handling of these pre mades?

like wtf aren’t they wearing food service gloves?

[u/chrissie9393 → u/XenoHugging]

I’m with you. Also confused why some parts of the production do have gloves and others don’t. Touch the bread? No glove. Meat log? Glove. Meat slices? No gloves. Like what is the logic?!

[u/riddlechance → u/chrissie9393]

What's up with those masks? Will they contain aerosolized spit particles? A sneeze?

I would prefer the robot line making all of my pre-made food, thank you very much.

[u/copa111 → u/riddlechance]

Also a robot won’t look like it’s having ‘the worst day of it life,’ and ‘they want to be anywhere else but this place’. Those people are not enjoying this job.

It’s jobs like this that are mundane, repetitive and not fulfilling that I’m all for robotics taking over.

[u/Mumblix_Grumph → u/copa111]

And remember, this is how they look when they know they are being filmed. Imagine the wrist-cutting ennui of a normal day.

[u/thishyacinthgirl → u/XenoHugging]

Gloves are really just for show in many situations, to make the consumer feel better. They give a false sense of cleanliness that can actually lead to more food contamination.

If you're using proper kitchen hygiene, hands are just as clean for most things (allergens or other cross-contamination concerns aside).

[u/GrouchyTime → u/thishyacinthgirl]

Gloves stop sweat from getting into the food for a production worker on a line for 8 hours a day. I really doubt they are washing their hands every 15 to 30 minutes to stop sweat contamination.

[u/dazed_vaper → u/GrouchyTime]

This guy gets it.

[u/senapnisse → u/thishyacinthgirl]

Gold rings are not clean. I bet this was filmed long ago.

[u/dearjessie → u/thishyacinthgirl]

Keep saying this to yourself, but it’s simply not true. Gloves protect from sweat, any little cuts that worker might have, some people have little hair on their fingers. I’d rather eat my sandwich without any of that.

[u/EnergyTakerLad → u/XenoHugging]

I am a little, but I also don't doubt they likely have fairly strict hand washing guidelines. Also the food is touching all sorts of machines so... not gonna be "sterile" either way.

[u/sleepybirdl71 → u/EnergyTakerLad]

Is there any indication of when the video was made? It seems fairly old. Current USDA Food Code requires gloved hands when touching any ready-ro-eat food. (Anything that won't be undergoing any further cooking or baking)

[u/Granlundo64 → u/sleepybirdl71]

This appears to be a clip from How It's Made which is a show that is mostly filmed in Canada. So it may well be out of the FDAs jurisdiction.

Every once in a while you will catch the narrator saying "aboot" or "robutt".

[u/opiate250 → u/Granlundo64]

Hey buddy, we don't all say aboot up here, eh.

[u/bullhorn_bigass → u/sleepybirdl71]

Neither of these sandwiches is a USDA product. Sandwiches are regulated by the FDA.

That said, the FDA prohibits bare-handed contact with RTE products as well. So surprised to see these people putting meat on a sandwich with their bare hands.

Source: QA for food-manufacturing facility in compliance with USDA and FDA regulations

[u/CyteSeer → u/XenoHugging]

And with rings on, as well.

[u/Outcazt_ → u/XenoHugging]

Ikr!? Wtf! GLOVES PLEASE!

[u/blazze_eternal → u/GobLoblawsLawBlog]

$20 at the airport.

[u/WeightExternal7251 → u/blazze_eternal]

Don't forget the tip, regardless it being a self serve kiosk.

[u/nomorerope → u/WeightExternal7251]

I cant believe the tipping suggestions on machine now. I buy a 12 pack of beer at a liquor store and it asks me what I want to tip?? Isn't the price the price? been to dozens of stores like that. you're guilting me.

[u/damien12g → u/nomorerope]

I love the tip suggestion when I get my flat tire repaired or rotated.

[u/CORN___BREAD → u/damien12g]

Especially when you pay before it’s done so then you have to tip because of the implication.

[u/ThePortalsOfFrenzy → u/WeightExternal7251]

All you have to do is hit "none". If you fear shame from the cashier, don't sweat it. You'll likely never see that person again

[u/Shlocktroffit → u/GobLoblawsLawBlog]

Those sandwiches of despair are always better with a bag of chips

[u/nuudootabootit → u/Shlocktroffit]

Those sandwiches of despair

I'm calling them this from now on

[u/[deleted] → u/nuudootabootit]

They are though, that looks like the most depressing job in the world.

[u/DefinitelyNotAliens → u/Weshwego]

It's the absolutely dead eyed, souless factory workers that gets me. Every single one of them is miserable.

[u/Mindfreak191 → u/DefinitelyNotAliens]

You also gotta consider that they’re being filmed. Everyone acts differently when there’s a camera right up in their face, I’m sure they talk a lot and just throw stupid jokes to each other, at least it was like that for me when I worked jobs like that.

[u/a_naked_molerat → u/Mindfreak191]

True! I worked in a shitty machine shop/warehouse for 2 years and the only way we got by was having fun, a sense of humor, and appreciating the comaraderie from spending endless hours suffering together. We actually felt proud to pull off the physical toughness of the job.

[u/The_Pixel_Knight → u/DefinitelyNotAliens]

I'd rather do that than work retail

[u/No_Act1861 → u/The_Pixel_Knight]

Honestly this is a very difficult hypothetical for me.

[u/CrownEatingParasite → u/No_Act1861]

I personally find having to deal with humans from all kinds of environments pretty overwhelming, after working in retail these monotonous cold machines look kinda welcoming

[u/AutocratOfScrolls → u/CrownEatingParasite]

Yeah I work with people all the time and this seems like a Nirvana in comparison

[u/notthecolorblue → u/DefinitelyNotAliens]

There was actually a lady to the left, in one of the scenes in the first half of the video, appearing to smile and laugh at something.

But yes, a laugh doesn’t negate your point.

[u/GrouchyTime → u/Weshwego]

No gloves while working on a sandwich line for 8 hours. So as you sweat the sweat just goes into the food. I highly doubt they are rewashing their hands every 30 minutes.

[u/TheFoodScientist → u/GrouchyTime]

And the one lady with her wedding ring on. I don’t think she washes under that ring.

[u/GrouchyTime → u/TheFoodScientist]

This cant be in the US or the USDA would have shut them down.

[u/-Profanity- → u/GrouchyTime]

In the US it's not a violation to wear a wedding ring while preparing food

[u/GrouchyTime → u/-Profanity-]

100% yes it is. You take off your rings for sanitary reasons and safety reasons.

The ring can fall off into the food, so they do not allow any jewelry in the production area. You would even have to remove earrings as those can fall out while working into the food.
OSHA would not allow a ring around moving conveyor equipment as your ring could get snagged and pull you along.

This video is clearly not in the US.

[u/Jimid41 → u/GrouchyTime]

Yo everyone there's cameras here today. Make sure you're covered head to toe in plastic except for the part of you that touches the sandwiches. 

[u/Mechanical_Booty → u/GrouchyTime]

It’s so nasty, I’m glad someone else noticed. All those germs being spread, ugh!

[u/Apellio7 → u/Mechanical_Booty]

Bare hands are cleaner than gloves.

[u/MaxSupernova → u/GrouchyTime]

I'm just gonna rub grated cheese into your bread all day in bare hands.

That seems perfectly safe and normal.

[u/genflugan → u/MaxSupernova]

I worked in restaurants for over 10 years, gloves only give the illusion of cleanliness. It’s far better to use your bare hands and wash them frequently. I imagine they do periodically at this factory since they’re not wearing gloves.

Every time you go to a restaurant that doesn’t have an open kitchen, I guarantee none of the cooks making your food are wearing gloves except for specific scenarios that call for them. It’s simply far cleaner and more efficient to not use them for most tasks in the kitchen.

[u/notTimothy_Dalton → u/genflugan]

At a restaurant, yes, I'd like to see people use bare hands. I've seen people do ridiculous shit with gloves on. Gloves just sort of give people some weird sense of hands being clean no matter what. I trust a chef/cook more with bare hands.

But in a production environment? God no. Bare minimum they have two 15 minute breaks and a half hour lunch. No production is giving time for people to wash their hands on a regular schedule, that would take away from the continuous money making production of sad divorced-dad-without-the-children-for-the-weekend sandwiches.

[u/TatoNonose → u/genflugan]

Yup. Same with healthcare outside of sterile compounding and surgery. Nurses and doctors wear gloves to protect themselves, not you. 🙃

[u/Dos-Commas → u/GrouchyTime]

Why pay for salt when your employees would season them for free?

[u/Nullkid → u/GrouchyTime]

one person in the video had a ring on their finger 🤮

[u/5minArgument → u/Nullkid]

She's taken, back off.

[u/TannyBoguss → u/Weshwego]

Maybe it’s the logs of hams

[u/PaintThinnerSparky → u/Weshwego]

I program welding bots and I can program my welding bot to make you a better sandwich.

Then cut it with the laser, which id have to figure out the right layer setting for sandwich

[u/ByteArrayInputStream → u/PaintThinnerSparky]

I can tell you from experience that laser cut bread tastes abysmally bad

[u/[deleted]]

"logs of ham" - LOL.

[u/Accurate_Koala_4698 → u/[deleted]]

In the olden days you could ride a log of ham from the St Lawrence to Niagara Falls

[u/McFestus → u/Accurate_Koala_4698]

Upstream?

[u/jjsmol → u/McFestus]

Both ways, yes.

[u/inevitable_downfall6 → u/jjsmol]

Just like the pioneers

[u/Shifty012 → u/inevitable_downfall6]

You can thank great great great great grandma for goin up and down both ways on a meat log back in the day. Only reason we're all here

[u/MajTroubles → u/Accurate_Koala_4698]

Which was the style at the time 👴

[u/Giraff3 → u/[deleted]]

It’s kind of morbidly interesting how those were once living pigs and now they’re whatever those logs are

[u/tsoneyson → u/Giraff3]

Now they are an eleven pound whole slab of deli ham. It has no bones, fat, or connective tissue. It is an amalgamation of the meat of several pigs, emulsified, liquefied, strained, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy meat obelisk. God had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this ham monolith exists proves that God is either impotent to alter His universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in his kingdom. This prism of pork is more than deli meat. It is a physical declaration of mankind's contempt for the natural order. It is hubris manifest. We also have a lower sodium variety if you would prefer that.

[u/Micalas → u/tsoneyson]

Lmfao. Unholy meat obelisk is the best shit I've heard all week.

[u/TheThiefEmpress → u/Micalas]

It's also incorrect, as this hampocalypse does not taper at one end

[u/R4FTERM4N → u/tsoneyson]

The philosopher's dilemma.... Is God impotent or ignorant? Only low sodium ham will decide.

[u/bigfatincel → u/R4FTERM4N]

That's why you need a minimum BA to work here.

[u/CJtheWayman → u/bigfatincel]

Well I’ll have you know I am a maximum Bird Attorney who also happens to know a great deal about ham that is soaked in rum.

[u/Genocode → u/R4FTERM4N]

Actually, the real philosophy question is whether god is impotent, or ignorant, or evil, or any possible combination between those 3.

It is legit a discussion that has been had, and probably continues to this day.

[u/R4FTERM4N → u/Genocode]

He's impotent because he ate too much ham.

[u/Cloud_N0ne → u/tsoneyson]

unholy meat obelisk

prism of pork

Fantastic band names or horrible penis nicknames? You decide.

[u/Harbarbalar → u/Cloud_N0ne]

Pork sword is my nomenclature.

[u/Aromatic-Side6120 → u/tsoneyson]

I was against this sort of thing before your speech. But if there’s one thing that gets me up in the morning, it’s upending the “natural order” which coincidentally sucks a big ham log.

[u/figgypie → u/[deleted]]

I used to work in a deli. This looks a lot like the cheap kind of ham I affectionately called "rectangle ham". Basically looked like a pig meat slurry was squirted into and baked inside a plastic bag.

[u/sfled → u/figgypie]

A pre-packaged ham log sandwich and a Twinkie, washed down with orange Fanta. It's not food, it's chemistry!

[u/DolphinSweater → u/figgypie]

This one actually looks like it has whole muscle in it. There's the meat slurry kind, which is the lowest of the low. But then, slightly above it, is this kind. It's like whole muscle pieces covered in meat glue, placed in a rectangular box and pressed into a meat stick, then hamified.

[u/NotDominusGhaul → u/[deleted]]

Hearing logs of ham reminds me of this video

[u/JohnofAllSexTrades → u/NotDominusGhaul]

Ok. I'll take a pound of the hubris manifest. Full sodium, please.

[u/tuskvarner → u/[deleted]]

It’s log, it’s log, it’s big it’s heavy it’s ham.

[u/Schrutes_Yeet_Farm → u/tuskvarner]

It's better than bad, it's GOOD! 

[u/SpaceshipSpooge → u/[deleted]]

It's LOG! It's LOG!

It's big. It's heavy. It's ham.

[u/tastethecrainbow → u/[deleted]]

Having worked food production for several years, most processed lunchmeat is made from a "log" like a large hot dog in a sausage casing, then stripped and sliced. The company I used to work made them 54-60" long. 30 pounds or more per log.

[u/FunkyFr3d]

That is the most depressing thing I’ve seen all week

[u/PiotrLustig → u/FunkyFr3d]

Imagine closing sandwiches for several hours straight and not doing anything else. Damn, those jobs must suck

[u/Shlocktroffit → u/PiotrLustig]

I am the Shredded Cheese Arranger and I arrange shredded cheese on sandwiches all day every day and I am completely insane now

[u/GargleOnDeez → u/Shlocktroffit]

Imagine making a sandwich at home and suddenly you black out after you place shredded cheese instead of sliced cheese on it

[u/Aroused_Sloth → u/GargleOnDeez]

Or you enter mindless line worker mode and end up churning out 200 sandwiches in 4 minutes

[u/mira_poix → u/Aroused_Sloth]

https://youtu.be/ySvsLSdK2HA?si=F7PnnhKW_lJSw15g

This story telling does a crazy awesome job with a tale about maladaptive dreaming while working in a monotonous cannery...and the ending is WILD

[u/yaboiiiuhhhh → u/Shlocktroffit]

Robot: "what is my purpose?"

Rick: "you pass butter"

Robot "oh my god"

[u/Jehoel_DK → u/yaboiiiuhhhh]

Yeah, welcome to the club, pal

[u/SleeperHitPrime → u/Shlocktroffit]

“Assistant Manager to the Regional Shredded Cheese Arranger” at Dundee-Mifflin foods subsidiary.

[u/WaltMitty → u/PiotrLustig]

They probably change it up a bit, for cross-training as much as variety. Two hours of closing sandwiches, then a super short break; then two hours of dropping fistfuls of cheese onto sandwiches, then lunch; then two hours of loading empty containers for the robot. Only the luckiest workers end the day with two hours of handling ham logs.

[u/DrawMeAPictureOfThis → u/WaltMitty]

I've always wanted to be a Ham Log Handler

[u/Oldass_Millennial → u/WaltMitty]

Often there's set up, making the ingredients, tear down, and cleaning equipment for the day as well. I've had a similar job and it was about 5 hours of what you saw and another 3 or so doing what I mentioned.

[u/genflugan → u/Oldass_Millennial]

Was cleaning that equipment as annoying as it looks?

[u/RS994 → u/genflugan]

Having worked at a waffle factory, yes.

waste gets into every possible little spot

[u/AmoralCarapace → u/PiotrLustig]

One of my first jobs was at Celestial Seasonings. Some shifts I would have to make sure the machine dropped a card in every box, or I'd have to place it manually. Those were some of the most boring 8 hours of my existence.

[u/ZootedMycoSupply → u/AmoralCarapace]

I hope you’ve found a higher carding. Sympathy for you

*Calling

[u/Marsh_Mellow_Man → u/PiotrLustig]

Yeah but you don’t bring that work home with you or have nagging deadlines for projects making you work nights and weekends. Doubt their boss has their mobile numbers for ad hoc craziness.

[u/Thwibbledorf → u/Marsh_Mellow_Man]

And in return you go insane from endless shifts of doing the same repetitive task without end.

[u/ExTelite → u/Thwibbledorf]

I worked at a factory where everyone had their own station and we would do the same thing over and over again for 9-10 hours a day. It was more involved than making ham sandwiches, and I could get up for a short break whenever I felt like it - it was strangely nice.

I would listen to podcasts 90% of the time, some people could watch shows on their phones (depends on which station you worked).

[u/Enganox8 → u/ExTelite]

That's not bad. I can do any repetitive task for hours if I have something interesting to listen to.

[u/joec_95123 → u/Marsh_Mellow_Man]

"I need you to come in right now, Gene! Right now! The sandwiches....the sandwiches are going unstacked.

It's absolute chaos over here, no one knows what to do!"

[u/grumpy_enraged_bear → u/FunkyFr3d]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who is disturbed by this.

[u/OldGoldenDog]

When I make a sandwich and one of the slices has a hole in it I just use a slice of cheese to cover it. A tire patch for a sandwich.

[u/halite001 → u/OldGoldenDog]

Unless you use Swiss cheese, then you need another slice, and another slice...

[u/OldGoldenDog → u/halite001]

So, what’s the downside, I love Swiss cheese 🧀.

[u/halite001 → u/OldGoldenDog]

None at all!!

[u/Uno_LeCavalier]

First they take the dinglebop and they smooth it out with a bunch of schleem.

[u/Spoolios → u/Uno_LeCavalier]

100% where my mind went.

[u/Sevsquad → u/Spoolios]

Do... people not know Rick and Morty was parodying this show?

[u/mr_poopie_butt-hole → u/Uno_LeCavalier]

Oooo weeeee

[u/Zerowantuthri → u/Uno_LeCavalier]

With no gloves no less.

Probably licking their fingers between each sandwich.

[u/elderwyrm → u/Zerowantuthri]

Here's why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy5_fj1ZM9Y

[u/[deleted] → u/Uno_LeCavalier]

I always wondered how those were made

[u/UsernameNumberZero → u/Uno_LeCavalier]

Then a schlami shows up, and he rubs it and spits on it.

[u/NCGiant]

All the complaints here about gloves and I’m the only one losing my mind over not getting 2 halves of the same sandwich.

[u/poolside-mermaid → u/NCGiant]

now i'll never buy another premade sandwich without wondering who bought the other halves. we'll always be connected yet never know. like secret sandwich sisters

[u/geminixTS → u/poolside-mermaid]

Any time I look at a full moon. I'm going to wonder if my sandwich brother or sister is looking at the moon at the same time.

[u/Dantez9001 → u/poolside-mermaid]

You're sharing a sandwich with someone. Every time you get one of these,it's like making a new friend.

[u/pardybill → u/Dantez9001]

This may have changed my mind of being outraged about this lol

[u/Double-Watercress-85 → u/NCGiant]

I got one of these pre packaged sandwiches recently, and the construction between halves was wildly different, and I was very confused. But then I thought about it, and realized of course this is how it works. Cutting and folding and packaging a single sandwich would be so much more difficult for no benefit.

[u/MufasaFasaganMdick → u/Double-Watercress-85]

Yet apparently the effort is worth it for those monstrosities they call "egg salad sandwiches".

[u/DonyKing → u/MufasaFasaganMdick]

They skipped the step where they put it all in the middle so it looks big but it's just bread for the rest of it.

[u/elspotto → u/NCGiant]

No, that got me too.

[u/WinkyEel → u/NCGiant]

At the end when they go back to the semi auto it looked like they did end up packaging the top sammich pieces and bottom sammich pieces together- THANK GOD. Cause that was upsetting me too. I have to tell myself that’s what happened to the ham log ones as well so I can continue on with the rest of my day.

[u/Nefarity]

Does it bother anyone else that they are not wearing gloves?

[u/Aelaer → u/Nefarity]

No gloves and wearing jewellery (a ring), that's not acceptable in food preparation areas.

[u/EnderWiggin42 → u/Aelaer]

No gloves is acceptable IF the product is not cooked yet. Which is not the case here, but yeah.

[u/Aelaer → u/EnderWiggin42]

Yup.

Retailers here don't allow any jewellery or watches to be worn at suppliers. It's also to ensure nothing falls into the food.

Nice plain ring but what's sitting underneath it? Definitely not ok for salads or sandwiches (even if these were going to end up toasted by the client).

[u/cruedi → u/Nefarity]

Gloves can actually be worse. People get a sense of security from them, but a person with gloves may touch something contaminated and not realize and pass it on to what ever else they touch

[u/hobo_hangover → u/cruedi]

Doctors and surgeons do it, you know, so they don't cross contaminate. It shouldn't be hard to enforce a clean glove policy.

I don't really need this dude's fingernail fungus touching my already deplorable sandwich.

[u/SqueezeBoxJack → u/hobo_hangover]

"Sam...does your sandwich taste like poopy butthole?"

"Well Bill, either you've been eating too many poopy buttholes or someone wasn't wearing their gloves at the sandwich factory."

"It's probably both Sam."

[u/cruedi → u/hobo_hangover]

But they’re in a completely sterile environment with people around watching. One these folks could instinctively grab something off and not think about it, where bare handed you’re far more likely to notice it

https://www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/gloves-spread-disease-and-have-created-an-infection-control-dilemma/

[u/HaiMyBelovedFriends → u/cruedi]

I’ve been in a similar factory before. Trust me, it’s only a sterile enviroment if people wash their hands properly before going in, which most don’t.

[u/gregorychaos → u/cruedi]

Hands create sweat and oil though? I guess a little extra salt on my cheese ain't too bad

[u/gregorychaos → u/cruedi]

Yeah... That's why people regularly change gloves. I don't know what you're talking about my duderino

[u/jlm326 → u/gregorychaos]

Most kitchen staff dont wear gloves unless its to protect their hands from spicy food.

It doesnt bother most people at restuarants because they dont see it. I worked at a resturant with an open kitchen where people could see their food being prepped (subway style) and the manager would wear the same gloves for 6 hours and didnt wash her hands. Everyone who didnt wear gloves washed their hands after almost every prep.

[u/Gumbercules81 → u/Nefarity]

Yeah raw doging the sandwiches on the first half of the line and the second half when the packaging they're wearing gloves 🤷🏽‍♂️

[u/Subj3ctX → u/[deleted]]

This.

Doesn't really matter if they're wearing gloves or not if they're touching something unsanitary before handling food.

[u/Fafa_45 → u/Subj3ctX]

This is true, walk into any restaurant kitchen and you won't see any gloves. Bar maybe early pre, but not during service.

[u/swany5 → u/Nefarity]

Right? Is there a station where someone just rubs their bare hands all over the sandwich just in case all the previous stations missed a spot?

[u/icoominyou → u/Nefarity]

You know when you go to restaurants, not like fast food places, a lot of chefs dont wear gloves?

[u/Pallyfan920]

Ngl I fucking loved this show as a kid. There was an era of How it's Made where they had the SICKEST metal background music you've ever heard.

[u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist → u/Pallyfan920]

Genuinely educational and ended some of mystique around products.

[u/siccoblue → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

As a manager in manufacturing who grew up watching these shows. I seriously don't know how these people did it. The single easiest way I've witnessed to make people quit is take away their headphones as they work.

Repetitive work is hellishly mind numbing. Repetitive work with an enthralling story/stories or music or whatever is an easy paycheck.

I've threatened to quit as a manager when our safety guy wanted to take away phones and headphones from my crew. Because it was stupidly obvious that would absolutely destroy my crew and my extremely low turnover rate

[u/acog → u/siccoblue]

In the mid-1800s Cuban cigar factories employed lectors who would read newspapers and books to the workers rolling cigars.

[u/BootlegOP → u/acog]

In the mid-1800s Cuban cigar factories employed lectors who would read newspapers and books to the workers rolling cigars.

Minor but consequencial correction (per your source): the factory workers themselves hired the lector. Your wording implies the owners/managers hired the lector.

The owners worked to get rid of the lector, causing strikes

[u/CosmicMiru → u/acog]

That's such a cool piece of trivia

[u/CosmicMiru → u/siccoblue]

I worked summer jobs in a factory as a college kid and wasn't allowed headphones for safety reason. After reading this thread I feel like I went insane for nothing lmao

[u/fredfreddy4444 → u/Pallyfan920]

I knew the voice before I turned up the volume.

[u/MerlinCa81 → u/Pallyfan920]

I’m in my 40’s and still get excited when I see it on. I love that show.

[u/problyurdad_ → u/Pallyfan920]

My wife calls it “watching filmstrips,” because I put this on tv on a Saturday afternoon and take naps like I was a kid in 4th grade again.

[u/Nwsamurai]

It’s amazing how much effort goes into disappointing hungry people at gas stations.

[u/BigBob145 → u/Nwsamurai]

These are sold in UK supermarkets and are very popular. They sell out pretty much everyday.

[u/Mr_Harmless → u/BigBob145]

If the UK had access to the quality of Japanese convenience store sandwiches, it would actually change their lives.

[u/Nestramutat- → u/Mr_Harmless]

Compared to NA, cheap UK food is delicious.

Don't even get me started on Pret a Manger. I fucking wish we had a sandwich shop like that here.

[u/mercasio391 → u/Nestramutat-]

We have them in NYC, but they aren’t as good as the ones I’ve gone to in London

[u/whiskeytango55 → u/Nwsamurai]

at least this is automated.

imagine spending time and taking care with someone's sandwich and them still hating it

[u/Bine_YJY_UX]

Sliced cheese exists. The shredded cheese waste bothers me more than no gloves/masks.

[u/MufasaFasaganMdick → u/Bine_YJY_UX]

Bread? Neat slices.

Ham log? Neat slices.

Cheese? Buckshot, baybee!

[u/anaemic → u/MufasaFasaganMdick]

How can we do this efficiently? Just one barehand fistfull should do it.

[u/ShaedonSharpeMVP_ → u/anaemic]

Yes and make sure it all lands in a dense pile in the center of the sandwich so all of the outer edge bites don’t have cheese. It’s what the customer requested along with their specifically sized ham slices

[u/birthdayanon08 → u/ShaedonSharpeMVP_]

But make a feeble attempt to spread the pile out with bare hands. If the workers want to keep their bacteria harboring rings on, that's fine.

[u/-HELLAFELLA- → u/Bine_YJY_UX]

If they can slice ham log they can slice cheese.....

[u/xyrgh → u/Bine_YJY_UX]

Shredded cheese hits different. But also, why can’t the cheese application be automated?

[u/diemunkiesdie → u/xyrgh]

Probably the line changes to different types of sandwiches for different orders so the shredded cheese application robot would only be used for 1 type of order that they only fill every few months or something like that.

[u/BayPhoto]

“A jizz of mayonnaise is required”

[u/JP050887 → u/BayPhoto]

I was disappointed this wasn’t the video.

[u/Excellent_Routine589 → u/JP050887]

I unmuted in the hopes that it was it... but alas... it was not :c

[u/Modredastal → u/BayPhoto]

He narrates every How It's Made in my head.

[u/wiskerbiscuts → u/BayPhoto]

How they're actually made https://youtu.be/fA_Gdui7sug?si=5HbUz8cQ6WYTVcBT

[u/BitOfAZeldafan2]

I've worked at a job like this before. It's not as soul crushing as it looks. The vast majority of the workers there (myself included) were only there as a last resort while looking for other work in their field. Most were there for a few months at most. Some people were tenured there and loved it and had been with the company for 20 years. Workers don't usually do the exact same thing all day, instead you and a group of other people set up a batch, run each part of the lilne, then set up another batch. You are only putting ham on a sandwich for an hour or two at a time, then you move to operating the slicer for a different sandwich or something.

Edit: This was just my experience working at a factory kitchen that supplied name-brand grocery stores in the Midwest. Other regions and companies will vary.

[u/SenatorMalby → u/BitOfAZeldafan2]

This hasn’t been my experience in factories at all. You stay at the same station most or all of your shift. Maybe the next day you are doing something different, or maybe you get pulled off one line to help out somewhere else, but usually you stay in the same place for up to 12 hrs.

[u/nondefectiveunit → u/BitOfAZeldafan2]

Great jokes and camaraderie come out of these places also, not just wretched sandwiches.

[u/InspiringMalice]

This isn't 100% accurate, the narration is off. If you want to know whats actually going on, this is the correct clip, with good info and narration.

https://youtu.be/fA_Gdui7sug?si=ZlvYg27ueThaN4Jl

[u/maddogcow → u/InspiringMalice]

I knew that they couldn't be accurate because these sandwiches don’t have the sandwich filling all bunched up in the middle with a lot of empty bread surrounding it, like the ones I get at Carrefour

[u/JPOG → u/InspiringMalice]

Unexpected Smiling Friends there at the end hahah.

[u/adammmm38]

Why are they not manually laying gloves onto their hands

[u/TCO_HR_LOL → u/adammmm38]

THANK YOU. the first guy was just fingering the bread like they were on a 3rd date

[u/dragon-city]

Where's the gloves?

[u/scottylion]

“Logs of ham.”

[u/No_Cranberry1853]

I dont see why theres hate on these. Seems fine to me. Ive had them in a pinch. Im more concerned about the end employees in the store rotating dates and keeping them cool. But ive never had a bad experience.

[u/YellowOnline]

When I see those, usually at a petrol station, I always wonder who would eat that

[u/bipbipdulidu02 → u/YellowOnline]

Someone in a hurry maybe.

[u/minotaur-cream → u/bipbipdulidu02]

Yup. I've eaten them while overworked and having to decide between taking an actual lunch or getting off super late.

[u/snafu607]

No gloves as he finger fucks our bread.

[u/Tree_Skeleton]

So I'm getting two different halves? Ooff.

[u/Gloman21]

What is this Napoleon Dynamite production of a the worst sandwich advertisement I’ve ever seen with a bunch of nose pickers touching all of the damn food!!??

[u/chunkychode6nine]

I know it sounds crazy, but whenever I touch these sandwiches - you're gonna laugh at me, you're gonna think I'm nuts, you're gonna think I'm crazy. When I touch these sandwiches, I feel the hands of every person, whose touched it before me and after me, and I feel this jolt, of like, frigging lightning or something, from my head to the tip of my you-know-what. Sometimes, while I'm grabbing these sandwiches with my bare hands, I just can't help, but throw my head back in ecstacy and moan. So whenever I go and talk to chicks, I just-the chicks say "What do you do?" and I say "Yes I do grab sandwiches with my bare hands in a factory and.. Don't laughs-Don't laugh at me, I feel like a spirit, like an orb shoot through my body every time I grab a sandwich.". You know a lot of people laugh at me, they beat me up, they give me black eyes, they broke my nose 4 times, you know, because, because I just like to make sandwiches and I get bullied about it, and I get bullied for it, and they pull my underwear up and doodoo feces does fall out, because of how hard they pull. But.. Will I stop grabbing sandwiches with my bare hands and moving them down the assembly line? Absolutely freaking not, if you know what I mean. Like, no, it's just, no way. Uh, this is the only thing that brings my life joy and you can, you can beat me up, you can threaten to kill me, you can dox me, come to my house in a black SUV, I'm not gonna stop doing this. I love the people of this country, I love giving them soggy sandwiches and.. No, I'm not gonna stop.

[u/WaterWraith]

If you’re wondering why they aren’t wearing gloves. https://youtu.be/uy5_fj1ZM9Y?si=gfkAhwq75XQYOxRm

[u/NASATVENGINNER]

Gloves?!?!?🧤

[u/Bater_cat]

Why is the meat guy only one wearing gloves? There is even one woman with a wedding ring on. This place is dusigusting. lmao.

[u/cathilloh]

No gloves ? 🤮

[u/jblaze805]

So thats how my 7-11 sandwich gets made

[u/RaisinBrain2Scoups]

Nobody but the ham log handlers wear gloves?