As British as Blighty gets? Not quite. In Japan, fruit sandos have long been a thing, going back until at least the 1920s — partly, I suspect, as they look so good, in that neat and orderly sort of way. There, the fruit and cream is placed between two slices of bread, either very ordinary white sliced, but often also shokupan, the sweet Japanese milk bread. Both are usually crustless.
Taste test: We tried the new Marks & Spencer strawberries and cream sando
