Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Thursday, 24 July 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Italian Prosciutto Artisan Baguette
I can now confirm this beats every other Pret sandwich hands down.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/35/91171430_6afcbafaf0.jpg?v=0
― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
SANDWICHES! I EAT SANDWICHES!! YAYYY!!!!
― MPx4A, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
all joking aside pret wraps are straight disgusting
― Just got offed, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I've had something like six New York Delis from Pret in the past three weeks.
― DJ Khaledonian Thistle (Dom Passantino), Monday, 26 January 2009 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
― MPx4A, Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:37 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
otm
― special guest stars mark bronson, Monday, 26 January 2009 12:52 (fifteen years ago) link
haha having said that...
― Matt DC, Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:57 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
fuckin a
― special guest stars mark bronson, Monday, 26 January 2009 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Still never eaten a Pret sandwich even though I LOVE SANDWICHES!!!
― Glansel & Gretel (Raw Patrick), Monday, 26 January 2009 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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I've actually just finished one. Pretty great, but not up there with the proscuitto one.
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 January 2009 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Beef & Stilton is OK, bit dry (oh the ironing) maybe
― Bondzilla vs Mechaholmes (blueski), Monday, 26 January 2009 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
SOOP! SOOP!
THAT THAI CHICKEN SOOP!!
FOR ME!!!
― Mark G, Monday, 26 January 2009 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Graduated to Benugos. No turning back.
― '92 ron fan (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 26 January 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
what do you get from Benugo? i only cop curried chicken with mango chutney and rocket in a toasted flatbread from there now
― Bondzilla vs Mechaholmes (blueski), Monday, 26 January 2009 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
― '92 ron fan (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 26 January 2009 14:52 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^^the kind of loose&free attitude with money that got this country in the state it's in today.
― DJ Khaledonian Thistle (Dom Passantino), Monday, 26 January 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Regressed to Gregg's, Boots Meal Deal, and home-made peanut butter and lettuce.
― talk me down off the (ledge), Monday, 26 January 2009 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
don't have a benugo's in 25mi of here.
― special guest stars mark bronson, Monday, 26 January 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Yo, kids who work in London's fashionable Central Eastern media districts: what's the deal with Fuzzy's Grub? Worth bothering with?
― DJ Khaledonian Thistle (Dom Passantino), Monday, 26 January 2009 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
They do a roast dinner in a sammich, about twice the size of a Pret baguette but it costs a fiver. They can even put mash and Yorkshire puddings in it, but that's a bit filthy.
It's a bit Harvester carvery, if that floats your boat.
Anyone else been in the Pret on Great Eastern Street? It's massive and has loads of tables but there's only ever about three types of sandwich.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 02:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I am going for Fuzzy's Grub this lunchtime.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:59 (fifteen years ago) link
― special guest stars mark bronson, Monday, January 26, 2009 12:52 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
haha ouch fair point
― cozwn, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Beef & Stilton sandwich is good (they do it once every 4-6 weeks i think?) but always want some worcester sauce on it
this week it's the Ham & Swiss cheese again: nice but too much mayo/pickle mess as per
― tuomasters at work (blueski), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG the blueberry muffins are fantastic. Just had one and it was warm and had gooey sauce in the middle.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
gooey sauce
I have just discovered on my second Pret muffin that this is, in fact, what most people would call "jam".
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Have they stopped doing the chicken & avocado salad? This is not good :(Super duper health hummous salad is a-ok though, and I say this as a carnivorous type.
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
pleasing i guess
their tuna sandwiches will still suck tho
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 8 June 2009 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Never mind all that.
It's all about the Thai chicken soup!!!
― Mark G, Monday, 8 June 2009 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Topside of beef is pretty good.
― chap, Monday, 8 June 2009 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
but would it kill them to include some salad?
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 8 June 2009 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Has anyone tried their cheese and onion flavoured popcorn yet?
― James Mitchell, Monday, 8 June 2009 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
To answer my own question, it's fucking disgusting.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 17 September 2009 10:17 (fourteen years ago) link
It sounds awful.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 September 2009 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
There's something a bit too moist/disintegratory about the pastrami sandwich or the NYC club with the pastrami.
― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Thursday, 17 September 2009 10:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Red Pepper Tapenade & Soft Cheese
Malted Wholegrain Bread ★ Creamy Soft Cheese ★ Cucumber ★ Red Pepper Tapenade ★ Toasted, Flaked Almonds ★ Rocket
Red pepper tapenade (made with roasted red peppers, olive oil and tomatoes then blended into a pâté), creamy soft cheese, freshly sliced tomatoes, red peppers, toasted flaked almonds and wild rocket. Our chefs have made a bright, beautiful veggie delight for the season.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
the bomb yo
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Discovered the Malaysian chicken curry soup recently, annoyed that they only do it on Mondays.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i assume those meatball wraps are about as fatty as a big mac right?
― Phelan Nulty (Local Garda), Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Used to have the pret soup all the time, now I changed jobs and found that the new Pret is a bit further away than EAT and the EAT soups are better.
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
debatable
eat's lentil and bacon soup is a down-to-earth creamy lentil soup with some slight red slivers that might once have been bacon. pret's is a chunky creation with huge bits of bacon, celery, beans, tomato - basically a chunky tomato + bacon soup that one had a passing acquaintance with some lentils.
― ledge, Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
eat's off-the-shelf gyoza dumpling soups are awful. pissy weak stock, half empty cardboard pastry DUMPLINGS!.
aaaah, genuine lol there
― ledge, Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
xxxp The wrap has more calories, carbohydrate, sugar, fat and fibre, but less protein and salt according to
http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/food/nutrition/nutrition-counter.mcd
vs
http://www.pret.com/menu/hot_food/swedish_meatball_hot_wrap_3485.shtm
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Not so much the gyoza ones, more the "very big" Chicken Laska and the Musroom risotto ones, particularly.
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I won't go to EAT; they invited a friend of mine to interview for something like their head of menu development and strung the person along for a suspicious length of time. My friend felt like EAT were on an idea-swiping mission and were generally sketchy, so ended the process.
The chicken laksa from Hare and Tortoise is absolutely amazing, so I can't really have it from anywhere else without feeling a bit meh/cheated.
― that's when i reach for my ︻╦╤─* (suzy), Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
do not understand the appeal of Pret tbh... way overpriced and for some reason I always think of them as unethically corporate.
― Devil Mo (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
way overpriced
nah
― ledge, Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
they invited a friend of mine to interview for something like their head of menu development and strung the person along for a suspicious length of time
My guess would be that your friend was their second or third choice and they were keeping her in play just in case the first didn't play out.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
This is still the king, even if the bread does occasionally have the consistency of moon rock.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
You can get nicer sandwiches at slighlty lower prices from M&S and not-much-worse sandwiches at much lower prices from supermarkets. Makes Pret seem a bit wanky and redundant in my eyes. Should I give em another shot?
― Devil Mo (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
'nicer' is subjective, maybe the distinctive pret flavour ambience is not to your taste. but pret sandwiches are generally 2.99-3.99. are m+s really cheaper than that?
― ledge, Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
looks like i'm a scab in the great culture war
― imago, Sunday, 6 October 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
veggie new yorker on rye
― stoffle (||||||||), Sunday, 6 October 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
The basic tomato and brie baguette is secretly the best Pret sandwich.― seandalai, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 23:37 (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― seandalai, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 23:37 (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
They stopped selling this (in the three branches I've checked) two weeks ago! Massive betrayal.
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Sunday, 6 October 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link
https://twitter.com/pretetranger?lang=en
― Stevolende, Sunday, 6 October 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
I had severe stomach cramps and badly upset digestion from a brie and tomato baguette from Pret twice last month, and have now abandoned buying it. I wonder if they've had complaints.
They need to make sure they keep those baguettes at the right temperature.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 6 October 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
seems badhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/12/pret-a-manger-staff-consider-strike-after-temporary-pay-cuts-made-permanent
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 August 2021 06:31 (two years ago) link