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Seafood Cocktail
Tesco -- £1.35
Review posted: 10/01/2006Sea sickness, on land. This is a sandwich I would find hard to recommend to anyone, even the most ardent lover of seafood fillings. Despite a good premise, it never comes close to living up to it.
For a seafood sandwich to work, the fillings need to complement each other, and on paper the ones here should, but they just don't. The filling is prawns, crabstick flakes and a seafood cocktail sauce. However, the flavours these have clash in a very unpleasant way.
The prawns taste far too weak. They don't really add much flavour at all and certainly don't have any bite to them whatsoever, which is important considering they are the only thing with substance in the sandwich. The crabstick flakes are the opposite. They are too strong, too bitter and destroy the overly mild taste of the prawns completely.
The cocktail sauce itself is also far too strong. It further obliterates any flavour the prawns might have, and it actually has a creamy taste which contrasts badly with the crabstick flakes. Added to this is the fact that it's disgustingly thick and stodgy, not light and complementary like a mayonnaise, but more like a fishy and lumpy custard.
The bread could have been the one saving grace since it's oatmeal, a variety that goes very nicely with most forms of seafood. Sadly though, it is overwhelmed by the cocktail sauce in particular and really cannot offer it's unique taste or complement the fillings.
Without the very best fillings, seafood sandwiches can often taste a bit bland, but they needn't be as overpowering and sickly as this offering. With some stronger tasting prawns and some better quality sauce and crabstick flakes it would have been fine, but that is really just pointing out the obvious.
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