'Is there no one left in Britain who can make a sandwich?' Daily Mail readers amusingly prove there isn't

Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper asked, on its front page in bold lettering, “Is there no one left in Britain who can make a sandwich?”

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Don’t ask a question if you don’t want an answer.

The story that went with the strange headline described an Irish convenience food producer’s struggle to recruit British workers at its new factory in England. Greencore Group supplies ready-made sandwiches to the majority of Britain’s supermarkets. Because of a lack of workers, the company is now looking to hire most of the needed 300 workers from Hungary.

The Daily Mail story was apparently supposed to ignite an immigration debate — and “re-ignite claims that Britain’s generous welfare system has created a generation unwilling to work” — not a sandwich one.

Instead, readers started posting photos on Twitter with the hashtags #dailymailsandwich and #sandwichgate, poking fun at the headline that assumed Brits can’t make sandwiches.

Most acknowledged that the Daily Mail was right: Sandwich-making is just too hard.

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Others claimed to have it all figured out:

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Moral of the story: If you mock your readers, they will prove you right — in the best possible way.

(It’s nice to have a new meme, though, isn’t it? No offense, #AlexFromTarget.)