Notes from the culture divide: Sandwiches*

In SA, sandwiches by and large come in the following variations:
Brown or white bread;
Toasted or plain; with
Chicken mayo, tuna mayo, egg mayo, or some combination of ham/bacon, fried egg, cheese and tomato.**

In London, the standard sandwich shop will require you to take your pick from their range of:
Brown or white rolls, brown or white baps (like rolls but bigger), ciabatta/panini, foccaccia or olive foccaccia, and possibly, brown or white granary bread; with
Fillings including (but not limited to) shrimp cocktail, tuna mayo, tuna sweetcorn, tuna mix (typically green and red peppers and spring onions), brie, cheddar, goat's cheese, cream cheese, parma ham, salami, bacon, crispy bacon, avo, a selection of salads, sundried tomatoes, and - if you're lucky - chicken with crispy bacon. I have never yet seen plain chicken or egg mayo on the menu.
If you ask for a toasted sandwich, you are likely to get two slices of toast, with filling. You could probably ask them to toast it like a panini, but it hardly seems worthwhile. Just get a panini. It's twice the size and soon you will be, too.

Any of these fillings, plus baked beans and/or coleslaw, are also available on a baked potato. Which will be the size of your head and is called a jacket. "I'd like a tuna jacket, please," is not actually funny, however bizarre it may sound to the new arrival.

In Paris, a sandwich generally comes in:
A baguette, with
Ham, or cheese, or both.

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* It is held, among seasoned bloggers, that posting about sandwiches is the laziest, dullest, most narcissistic and unimaginative type of blogging there is. I maintain that this particular post is an exception, being part of a serious of Important Contributions to Cross-cultural Understanding, or failing that, at least a lightly humorous exercise in Expatriate Reportage. Some might retort, "Yes, but they all say that." To them, I stick my tongue out.
** Of course SA's cities are cosmopolitan places and full of exotic delis that will provide haloumi-and-olive tramezzini (which of course you don't get in London), salmon bagels, etc. I'm just talking about the basic sandwich shop here.