13-10-2009

Pickle and onion have the Cheese Factor: the votes are in for the nation's favourite cheese sandwich

 Collier's Powerful Welsh Cheddar's hunt for the nation's favourite cheese sandwich shows that UK cheese lovers just can’t decide between cheese and pickle and cheese and onion.

The results of our online poll  revealed that the most popular sandwiches were cheese and pickle, and cheese and onion, which both polled 23 percent of the vote.

Second place went to cheese and tomato (17 percent), with cheese and ham coming third (14 percent), followed by plain cheese (12 percent), cheese and apple (8 percent) with tuna melt (cheese and tuna mayonnaise) trailing last at 3 percent.

As Britain celebrated all things cheesy during British Cheese Week, the people behind the UK's Best Mature Cheddar dug deep to mine the recipes that fire cheese lovers' taste buds.

Cheese is the nation's favourite sandwich filling but there is more to it to two pieces of bread and any old cheese, says TV chef Matt Tebbutt, who presents Market Kitchen on BBC2 and UKTV Good Food.

"Cheese is a complete, perfect food but there is so much more you can do with it, the variations are endless," he says. "So many of us have the same old cheese sandwiches in our lunchboxes, but with a bit of imagination we can create a taste sensation with simple ingredients and really liven up our lunch."

Try some of Matt's sandwich recipes www.collierscheese.com/Recipes/

or submit your own in our monthly recipe competition www.collierscheese.com/RecipeUpload/