1984: The Breville sandwich maker ...

Ah - nothing makes the taste buds more nostalgic for the 80’s like a Breville sandwich maker.

It was claimed to make sandwiches more “interesting”, though today we can laugh at the naivety of it all in these post ciabata/baguette/panini days. But back in 1984, sliced bread was as good as it got, and so the Breville offered the sandwich connoisseur something a bit different, although in essence it was still a sandwich just lightly fried on both sides – oh those pre-diet conscious days!

Countless families seemed to rush out and buy one as the "in thing", inevitably stopping off at the local hospital A&E ward, soon after tasting their first one. This was because the problem was most toasted sandwiches contained cheese which would become super-heated in the sandwich toaster, inevitably causing third degree burns to the Breville virgin who bit into one for the first time.

In these more litigation aware days, it’s hard to see how in the 80’s we survived popular foods like the Breville sandwich and it’s near cousin the McDonalds apple pie, were not part of a plot to maim the general populace …


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