15p in 1972 is £1.86 today. Tesco sells sandwiches for £2 each from when I last bought one. I would say it's basically the same then since now we at least get it in plastic and cold rather than stacked up on a shelf
I would say it's basically the same then since now we at least get it in plastic and cold rather than stacked up on a shelf
I was thinking surely the bread of the sandwiches would go stale very quickly just being left in the open on the shelf like that. Maybe I'm just too picky...
I was thinking surely the bread of the sandwiches would go stale very quickly just being left in the open on the shelf like that. Maybe I'm just too picky...
Hygiene standards change, of course, but that is probably a very small and popular sandwich shop that operates for about two hours in the middle of the day in the business district of a major city, where the food is prepared on site, fresh during the morning (with the shop closed) and sold within an hour or so at lunch time. Everything, from buying and preparation to selling and the after-closing clean-up, is a production line and designed for speed. Nothing will be stale.