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Crowdsourcing British humour

Posted in by Noam Sohachevsky

06 January, 2009

The Great British Sandwich is now a day old. It contains well over a 1,000 layers. Right now, it's as tall as a Routemaster bus. Another 3,000 layers and it will be as tall as The Angel of the North.

The Great British Sandwich

Tom Phillips at Metro says, "This is basically what Tim Berners-Lee was thinking of when he created the web."

Good work Phil, tech lead, and Utku, chief sandwich spreader.

I'm not sure what to make of all the silliness. Billy at Cowfish points out:

The fillings vary from the vaguely intelligent (the white text on white backgrounded Air especially appealing to my website abusing nature) to the predictable (Only one Pork Sword but more Marmites than Vegemites) to the slightly surreal (featuring Fire and a Meta-Sandwich).

We had expected the sandwich to be filled with food. Saying that, I love the way people do unexpected things on the web.

Add your layer. Or follow gbsandwich on Twitter

(Thanks to John Pollock for inadvertently suggesting the headline.)

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