Food Waterfield's is a chain of bakers based completely in the North West, mainly in the Lancashire region. The only outlets in the Liverpool area are on the outskirts, Walton to the north and Woolton to the south with none in the city centre. That's probably why I don't have any kind of emotional connection to them. Despite being in existence since 1926, our first occasion to be in contact with one another was in Southport or Chester when there were other choices available and I don't tend to eat a lot of pasties or sausage rolls anyway.
As the biography on their website describes, Waterfield's is a family business, its current managers the grandsons of the founder, Alice Waterfield. She opened the first shop in Leigh and was successful enough that her coal mining husband retrained as a baker and began working in the kitchens. Their children took over the running of the business in the 50s and it's since continued for another generation. There's something especially poignant about all of this compared to Sayers or Greggs who have long since lost their connection with their founders.
This sandwich ... isn't great. You'd think that having been made with cranberry bread and with a coating of cranberry mayonnaise, that it would taste of cranberries. Instead everything is over powered, including the thin slices of turkey, by the thick layer of stuffing which has been trowelled on in the middle and doesn't have much flavour in and of itself. Plus it makes the already moist bread even soggier. It's not inedible, I ate the whole thing, but it's not at all satisfying and certainly not worth the £3.40 I paid for it.
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