There can be only one!

Never has a film tagline been so apt as Highlander's, "There can be only one." Although I am not referring to Christopher Lambert and battling immortal swordsmen, oh no. What I am referring to cannot be resolved by chopping someones head clean off, but can result in the foodie equivalent of the quickening. Thats right I am talking about the eternal christmas battle of the high street festive sandwich.

This fight is duked out by the big boys at this time every year and I am here to announce the winner  with as few decapitations as possible...

The perfect christmas sandwich must be large, no messing about I want a good heft and to achieve this there must be multiple fillings. A combination of, or all of the following... Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and pork product (bacon / sausage). Most importantly every bite should taste like christmas.

So the main contenders are... EAT, COOP, M&S, Starbucks, Tesco Finest and Waitrose.

First up is CO-OP, I felt a bit sorry for this pale, limp and basically stingy Xmas sarnie.

Next Starbucks, the only warm entry in this years top 5 and thats really all it has going for it. Light on filling, heavy on bread.

The EAT sandwich promised so much, it was visually everything you'd want. Which made it all the more disappointing when I tasted how bland it was.

Waitrose offer up the whole array of fillings and even chuck in some superfluous spinach, very posh but still not quite the flavour explosion i'm looking for.

Tesco Finest weighs in as the heaviest of the challengers, not only does it have turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing and mayo, but it has double pork... sausage and bacon. The maple sweet cured bacon was a bit anaemic, but over all it was pretty flavourful.

Last and by no means least the winner... The M&S Turkey Feast, this heavy set beauty is crammed full of tasty turkey, bacon, stuffing and finish with sweet cranberry sauce that stops the whole thing being dry. Oh its a mouthful of christmas cheer and no mistake and it is the runaway champ of the high street festive sandwich 2012 competition. The award ceremony will take place on the 20th of December at the Excel Arena, see you there.

PS. Despite what my mate Jimbo might tell you Christopher Lambert is not Scottish. He is in fact the son of a US diplomat and his formative years were spent in Geneva, not the Highlands.