Gail’s sandwich contains the salt of five McDonald’s cheeseburgers
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/gails-sandwich-salt-smoked-chicken-caesar-club-mcdonalds-cheeseburgers-b1282108.html
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
Gail’s sandwich contains the salt of five McDonald’s cheeseburgers
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/gails-sandwich-salt-smoked-chicken-caesar-club-mcdonalds-cheeseburgers-b1282108.html
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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> finding that it contained a “staggering” 6.88g of salt
Jesus. That’s a lotta fucking salt. Gonna be dehydrated for weeks.
McDonalds Cheeseburger healthier than posh sandwich was certainly not on my 2026 Bingo Card.
If your blood pressure wasn’t high because of the price it will be once you’re on your lime bike to the office.
I’ve only ever been in once – and walked right back out. The open counters with their customers leaning over and coughing all over it…😷
It’s from the tears of their poorly treated employees
I’m not completely sold on the whole salt being dangerous Korea have kimchi which is loaded with the stuff
Who is Gail and why do we care that her sandwich is so salty?
Maybe she likes it that way?
The three slices of bread (1.3g) and presumably two rashers of bacon (2.8g) will account for about 4g of that salt. I’m guessing the rest mainly comes from heavy seasoning on the smoked chicken.
It’s over 1,000 calories too, so pretty much a main meal for most people in one.
It must be a lot of work for them extracting it each time.
To be fair a lot of their stuff is less healthy than you’d expect their caesar chicken and bacon sandwich has about 1000kcal per a portion which is far more than even a normal KFC burger like the Zinger that has around 500kcal even the bigger KFC burgers are about 700kcal.
Seem to remember there was a similar thing with a Pret salad vs a big mac a few years back, too. Some of these chains do a great PR job.
Why do people even go to Gail’s. Everything comes out of a factory, dry and overpriced. They don’t even taste good. Why is it everywhere now
Who would have guessed that a sandwich with lots of bacon would contain a lot of salt compared to a burger with no bacon??
Unbelievable, bloody Gail’s and their salty bacon
Whatever you do, don’t look at the salt content of pizzas.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/may/17/half-of-pizzas-on-sale-in-the-uk-contain-a-whole-days-allowance-of-salt
> The brand’s sizzler standard mozzarella stuffed crust medium pizza emerged as the UK’s saltiest pizza in the research. It contains 21.4 grams of salt, which makes it saltier than seawater.
Just as long as the ham and cheese croissant is safe…
What the hell is a Gail’s? Never heard of them before or seen one. They only in one place or something?
The way that headline is worded it sounds like Gail’s is buying five separate McDonald’s cheeseburgers, extracting the salt from each and putting that salt into their sandwich.
The old rollercoaster tycoon super salty chips amd then coke is $10
I’ve never heard of ‘Gail’s’. Guessing it’s just in random places/England?
The sandwich is 1067 calories while a McDonalds cheeseburger is 287 calories. You’d have to eat 3.7 of the McDonald’s burgers have an equivalent meal (using the word meal very loosely here) on a per calorie basis.
Fundamentally misleading.
You will not eat at Gails everyday. Or even once a month. Those that can and will, probably also have PTs and a lifestyle that doesnt give a fuck.
The point around mcdonalds and other easy, cheap high fat/salt/sugar chains, is that it could and likely does feed a lot of people a day/a week/a month. Particulalry the poorer classes with less care on or access to lifestyle health.
Media shoukd be ashamed for essentially saying a once in a blue moon well made treat is better than mcdonalds and “Action” should know better
I mean there’s really no pleasure in salting someone