Those readers who are a) too busy to remove bread from a packet, b) physically incapable of opening a jar or c) untrained in the use of a knife, will be relieved to learn that as of next Thursday Marks & Spencer will be punting a 75p jam sandwich featuring, er, bread, butter and strawberry jam.

According to the Telegraph, the supermarket monolith describes the "Simply...Strawberry Jam" sarnie as a "perfect quick fix, credit crunch lunch" - part of a range of no-frills nourishment which also features free range egg or British ham cunningly deposited between slices of white bread.

Hmmm. Here's a memory-lane-tastic credit-crunch sandwich suggestion for M&S: A 35p dripping sarnie which, at 8,000 calories a pop, could at a stroke/heart attack replace breakfast, lunch and dinner in these financially troubled times. ®

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Yeah, we know: You wait ages for an interesting sandwich story and then two come along at once. Life, eh?

Further sarnie-related coverage

• Too thick to boil an egg? Buy 'em preboiled (7 July 2009)
• AA sniffs out Blighty's best bacon sarnie (18 February 2009)
• Boffins cook up ultimate bacon sarnie (10 April 2007)
• HP Sauce goes Dutch (16 March 2007)
• Britney's half-eaten sarnie regurgitates onto eBay (31 August 2006)
• eCasino snaps up Virgin Mary cheese sarnie (23 November 2004)