As a child I was bought up on bread! My fondest memory is, when hop picking in Kent with the family, I being the oldest, had to walk early morning into Cranbrook, a local village then, to the bottom of a hill by the local windmill and buy warm loaves!
Nowadays I rarely eat bread. My wife and I stopped buying ordinary bread from supermarkets a few years ago, most of it then (is it still the same?) was just air filled, chemically laden plasticy pap, which had a horrible habit of sticking like glue to the top of ones mouth. My wife rarely eats bread anyway so if purchased a loaf it will be wasted anyway. We do have a local Polish bakery, they sell very good bread and made on the premises, but its pointless in us spending out the extra money for a loaf just to waste it.
I rarely buy sandwhiches when I'm hiking, in fact I can't remember the last time? All I remember is having to eat mouthfuls of salt and all sorts of sticky goo, not nice! Plus, nowadays I'm just not prepared to pay the prices that they charge! Give me cashew nuts any day!