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Men
and women agree…..bacon is tops for sandwich fillings
CARS,
shopping, housework and football are renowned for dividing the
genders, but it seems there is one subject upon which men and women
can agree – their favourite sandwich. ‘The Great Scoff
Sandwich Survey’ has revealed that age and gender are immaterial
when it comes to sandwiches because everyone loves a bacon butty -
although banana is not far behind.
The independent survey, conducted by The Sandwich Factory, set out
to discover the nation’s favourite sandwiches and more than 25%
voted bacon as a necessary filling for any shop bought sandwich.
Bacon by itself, as part of a BLT or with chicken were favourite
with men and women around the country. Runners-up in the shop
bought sandwich stakes included brie and cranberry, roast beef and
horseradish and tuna and cucumber.
However, a greater surprise was that banana was revealed as the most
consistently recommended ingredient for making sandwiches at home.
Suggestions included banana with raspberry jam, chocolate, peanut
butter or even cream cheese, walnut and honey. Other
recommended sandwich combinations for home included cheese and jam,
sausage and marmalade, cheese with various flavours of crisps and
ham with Philadelphia and pineapple.
The Great Scoff Sandwich Survey was carried out in conjunction with
Scoff’s ‘What Sandwich Are You?’ competition (www.whatsandwich.co.uk),
which asks participants to imagine they are a sandwich, then
describe what kind of sandwich they would be and why. The most
creative entries will be in the running to win a Nintendo Wii or an
iPod shuffle.
Michael Price, from The Sandwich Factory said:- “The survey
produced some very interesting results, with regards to what people
buy and what they are putting in sandwiches at home. It was also
interesting to find that when it comes to sandwiches there’s no
battle of the sexes, as men and women are just as likely to choose
brie and cranberry as they are, roast beef and horseradish.’’
He said that in the last few years the sandwich industry has become
aware that people are getting more and more adventurous with their
sandwiches and this is reflected in the wide variety now available
off the shelf. “We take customer feedback very seriously and
after analysing these results we are considering experimenting with
banana fillings for our Scoff range, which already includes all the
regular fillings, as well as more unusual ones such as king prawn
and watercress.” |
1ST
EVER USER-GENERATED 'NERD' MOVIE STARTS SHOOTING IN THE UK
THE world's
1st ever user generated feature film, launched by MySpace, Film4 and
Vertigo Films with backing from the UK Film Council, Skillset and
Screen WM starts shooting this week. The movie - Faintheart -
is to be directed by Vito Rocco who won MySpace's £1 million movie
directing competition voted for by the MySpace online community.
The movie will feature cast and crew from all over the UK -
Hampshire (Southampton), Leicester, West Midlands, Manchester,
Coventry, Lancashire, Middlesbrough, Coventry, Wales and London.
Faintheart is a 'Revenge of the Nerds' style romantic comedy
set in the world of battle re-enactments. Actors were selected after
an online audition process. The film will star Eddie Marsan
(Miami Vice, The Illusionist), Ewan Bremner (Hallam Foe,
Trainspotting) and Jessica Hynes (formerly Stevenson) best known for
TV comedy hit ‘Spaced’. Other key cast include Paul Nicholls
(Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Goodbye Charlie Bright), Bronagh
Gallagher (Tristan & Isolde, The Commitments), Anne Reid (The
Mother, Hot Fuzz) and Tim Healy, best known for his role as ‘Dennis’
in Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
Winners of the nation-wide online auditions held over the summer
offering budding film stars the chance to appear in this unique new
project are also appearing in the film in minor supporting roles
alongside the principle cast members.
Amongst the winners set to star in the film are Chris Wright from
Hampshire who will play ‘Simon’, Steve Ryland from London who will
play a ‘Comic Book Fan’, Calum Chalmers from Southampton who will
play ‘Kevin’, Graeme Brookes from the West Midlands who will play
the ‘Landlord’, Phil Lester from Manchester who will play ‘Tim’,
Joseph Riley from London who will play a ‘Photographer’, Nick Ball
who will play ‘Grey Suited Man’, Rosalyn Scanlon from Coventry who
will play an ‘Office Worker’, Jason Excell from Wales who will play
a ‘Band Member’ and Peter Holyoake known as ‘Dagmaer’, who performs
Viking re-enactments around the country. Dagmaer will be one of the
film’s vital components – a Viking extra!
“Anyone who loves movies and interactivity will be fascinated
to get involved in this pioneering film.
We’re giving cinema-goers
and online users the first real opportunity to be part of the
filmmaking process right the way through from script to seeing the
results of their input up on the big screen.” says the
film’s director Vito Rocco.
Faintheart is a ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ style romantic comedy
set in the world of battle re-enactments. Richard is a weekend
warrior who sets out on an epic quest to win back his wife after she
leaves him, branding him childish and irresponsible.
Newcomer David Lemon who has a background in television and docu-shorts
wrote the winning script.
The producers are Allan Niblo (Waz,
Outlaw), Rupert Preston (Dirty Sanchez: The Movie, The Business) and
James Richardson (Waz, Outlaw, The Business) for Vertigo along with
James Fabricant from MySpace, and Arvind Ethan David, Rachel Connors
and Judy Counihan (French Film, Sugerhouse) for Slingshot.
MYMOVIEMASHUP was a concept by Myspace and Vertigo Film.
The film’s partners are MySpace.com, Film4, Vertigo Films, UK Film
Council, Skillset, Slingshot and ScreenWM. Vertigo Films is handling
UK distribution. |
