I think the first vid I watched was Gamestation. 13 years. Absolutely crazy to think of it now that you say it.

*thinks on it* been at least 5 for me

One of the earliest videos I remember watching was when he reviewed a wrist watch phone, I was seriously considering getting one, until I came to my senses and realised it would only be a 5 minute novelty. Just looked it up, "T918 Watch Phone Review", 2008! Back when you saw his face not his sofa.

I've only just found him :(

I think my first might have been Poundland Food Special - Pizza Snack. Over 8 years ago. Bloody hell

Is this your first video? 🤣

He’s a chairman

Good name sir.

@@DoctorBastard Likewise Doctor

More like psychosexual relationship.

sweat be tasting good asf then

My sweat often smells of Gumbo. My doctor can't save me.

Thanks I’ve have always hated cheese except on pizza and now it all makes sense.

What the friggin' hell went through your head choosing that kind of job?

Are you also in charge for condom flavors? The cheesy one would be a bad joke...

Unfortunately I believe Barry has gone vegan now

@@Khetamine good for him

@@Khetamine I believe you're confusing him with Dan

​@@Citrusautomatonof course a femboy says something so gay

Realise it might not be the case but always makes me think when people are picky about so many foods they possibly had a well cushy home life as a kid , like their parents could afford to have them turn their noses up at food , mine couldn't you ate what was there as there was nothing else to have , to this day I'll eat any food at all , except tapioca pudding fuck eating milky frog spawn ....

@@darran311 Nah man people are just different. My home was the same, I just hated a lot of what I often ate.

@@peyton713 fair enough did pretty much say I could be wrong maybe I'm just naturally not fussy

Another possibility, just from experience--it's kind of one of those things where people on the Autism spectrum, through being oversensitive to certain tastes, smells, and textures---can be picky eaters. May avoid certain foods entirely, or foods based on how they are prepared. It also means a rather limited diet. Baring in mind I'm 32, and wasn't diagnosed until several years ago. Examples: I loved the taste of weetabix as a kid, but the texture made me gag. I would eat dried/soaked/mushy peas, but couldn't handle marrowfat/processed/tinned or garden peas--garden peas still make me gag. I could drink cabbage water, but couldn't eat boiled cabbage--perfectly fine with raw cabbage .

@@darran311 I grew up with nothing, but I won't eat onions or pickles.

The bread looks gross from the view when it's inside the box. It looks grey.

Iain Cowell Oh, thank god, I thought it was just me. They do look grey.

Not just you. Very grey

+Death The Reaper It looks like they put them inside of the old Chef Excellence bags.

I'm so glad others saw grey bread through the packaging!

Well we're past three weeks but I guess a prophecy can be badly timed

@@comradeurod9805 society definitely collapsed.. social-collapse doesn't mean apocalypse.. we're experiencing massive global social-collapse and it will continue for some time, 2020s is more like 1920s.

What happens if you accidentally miss and a sandwich flys past without having been out together fully?

@@HOTD108_ worked at a heavily conveyor-based factory before. Usually it's either the job of the next person in line to catch it, or there's someone at the end that does a quick quality check before they add the final ingredient or package it for sealing. Hope I helped 🙏

Any horror stories?

​@@HOTD108_The world ends.

I'm from Australia and I will never ever encounter these sandwiches. So I ask myself why do I watch these and enjoy them so much. Am I insane?. Yet I think mukbany is stupid.

@@emeralddiscordian3116 Same, from Canada lol.

This is what my life has boiled down to- is watching 2 grown men eating 1 quid sandwiches of dubious quality.

Why would you not see these sandwiches?? What flavours do you guys have??

@@emeralddiscordian3116 im in norwich and get too eat them same sandwiches he buys how amazing lol

To be fair, I am surprised Stuart is still his own friend. He keeps trying to poison himself.

@@eins2001 he IS a psychologist, it must be some sort of reverse psychology. "I'll feed myself incredibly out of date stuff, make myself ill and I'll still be proud of myself"

It's Stockholm syndrome at this point lmao

You say that now but it actually started out with barry feeding stuart awful food like hagis and raw eyeballs

@@munjee2 HOW DARE YOU DIS THE OL' HAGGIS. I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT THAT STUFF IS DELICIOUS! Yours, a VERY angry Scotsman (PS, I understand the lack of appeal, don't come at me, am doing a hecking joke)

That made me laugh so much that tears starting coming out of my eyes

Lol hes the Same as me, he doesn't like uncooked cheese, well raw cheese, and only likes it when its melted lol

@illegit your username checks out.

@illegit also eating and tasting are the same thing so i think you messed up what you were trying to say?

@illegit they actually do tho thats why they have to cleanse their pallet.

@illegit tasting something is never a nibble cause they still swallow after like you tried to say "they dont" they do and to taste something you need more than just a "nibble" you ass mouth😂😂😂

They're pretty cheap but usually pretty good.

Usually canned "crescent rolls" actually. Super cheap and easy and super bad for you but also super easy to devour an entire plate of.

In my personal Texas experience, you're talking about a "kolache," whereas pig-in-a-blanket is a breakfast sausage wrapped in a pancake (usually with syrup).

Most people do hotdogs in croissants and I hate them

We put the hotdogs in a biscuit dough instead of crescent rolls

Captain_autism 2000 You’re not alone.

Because you lost control of your life

I don’t know about you but this was the best 40 minutes of my life.

Im bored at work waiting to go home and the guy on the right makes me laugh. Thats my excuse.

Not just any sandwiches, Poundland sandwiches

Or a chicken omelet: the chopped up carcass of the mother bathed in her unborn chlidren

bathed in her period, you mean.

Loser

clearly not, you have become a victim of the mandela effect. It's Stuart.

@@beware_the_moose Everything I know is a lie

fireandcopper Ashens, and the grass masks.

my personal word is pretty predicatable. A bit too predictable for my taste.

And Ashen is his surname, whereas Ashens is his screen name.

Greed The Peacemaker I have been here from the first video, so 13 years for me. Sometimes i rewatch a video and am stunned at how long ago it was, they always feel more recent.

This is actually the very first channel I subscribed to, years ago when I first signed up for youtube.

This has also made me realise I started watching Ashens back in 2014! Loved Barshens 1.0 so much and spend nearly every night falling asleep watching the playlist

It really is impressive. I've been watching every new video that this man puts out for literally half of my life and not even once did "damn I miss the old Ashens" come to mind.

I don't know how many years it's been but I started watching ashens as a kid and I'm 23 now

was it good?

Just checking in , was it good ?

Acquire Turkish kasar cheese from somewhere and slice it thinly , acquire some pepperoni, some sausage and salami, grab a cheddar too, put all in between bread and toast them. Wait until kasar cheese gets all nice and molten and bread toasted, when done, enjoy some delicious "TOST".

Even more accurate right now

Almost fuckin exact too, it started headlining in late December to early January.

uncanny

Now I'm really scared because I just realized we've almost been dealing with this for a year. I thought it was March day 68.

Came to the comment section to find this.

Wait, what on earth do you have in your sandwiches then?!?

@@ellaisplotting bacon, peanutbutter, jelly pickles. Hell try a ppj burger.

ellaisplotting we don’t? Italian sandwiches- salami, pepperoni, provolone Phili cheese steak Meatball sub Roast beef and cheese Chicken salad (chicken mayo, but we don’t do it with the bacon) Turkey and bacon with lettuce and tomato BLT PBJ

ellaisplotting turkey salad with cranberries, chicken salad, blt, pb and j, ham and swiss, grilled cheese

I have only heard of like 2-3 sandwiches here in america

You just made me realize I can't imagine him just sitting down to a nice meal and loving it 😂

kind of aroused tbh

There’s a sense of victory. Also the mild excitement of a real bargain

If i were Ashens, i would craft out a "U" to replace the "E"

smegma

In Coronation Street they had a "GEMS" fridge! 😂😂😂

blyat

Smeghead

Yes, it's delicious. Although it isn't just lumps of fish with sweetcorn. It's more like a tuna mayonnaise/tuna salad.

its so good

actually its not bad, even over baked potato.

What the heck is sweetcorn, must not be a thing in germany?

@@janhendrikfranke you dont have corn in germany? sweetcorn is literally just yellow corn kernels in a can lol

Just like how if you go to a BBQ place and get half a chicken another person gets the other half

Hahaha i know right? We need help...

considering i have F all else to do while my state has us all locked down, this seems the best use of my time.

"What are boys whispering about?" "DIFFERENT TYPES OF SANDWICHES." -American Dad

It’s ‘research’!🧐😆

I thought this year was going to finally be my year. Work on education, loose weight, get everything sorted. Then 2020 said nah.

Always gave me a giggle when I saw the SMEG fridges on British Bake Off.

Don't see it as often in Canada but it still amuses me.

My step mum has one and they really good fridges however it is a really weird name

MA

The SMEG fridge makes sense. It's cold inside, there's no kind of atmosphere

I live in Wisconsin. The thought of anyone hating cheese without a lactose intolerance angers me.

Factual

I'm from Texas and just don't put cheese on everything especially traditional Mexican food. We eat hamburgers not cheeseburgers so we can taste the beef like that sentence makes so much sense. Merica

@@soknightsam Traitor to the union

@@TheRedKing247 Yes, but to which side? Many respected cultures don't drown everything in cheese. I suspect too much government cheddar has gone to your head despite being a Wisconsin cheese head to begin with lol

no.

shame. 😄

I work at a cheapo store and it's fun to see something we sell pop up in one of the videos lol

Same here, I develope the sauces and mayos which go into food to go sarnies, I feel like I need the criticism 😂

Barry's family friendly image died during Barshens

Barry is definitely fine with adult humor and was often the worst offender outside of Paul "Ghostbusters porn" Gannon on barshens. It might be a bit weird for him though since he's at his home lol.

OlEgSaS32 the amount of horrors that brown couch has seen.

Yep, squeaky clean Barry, definitely didn't invent the Wankerchief or anything, certainly didn't muse about shoving sticks of rock up a hamster's arse using the phrase "caress the shaft"

huh, i never watched Barshens, i may need to check it out and see what Barry is REALLY like, apparently

And blasphemy

The absolute AUDACITY.

then he says he never saw robocop, only the second one XD

He can't go to all the poundlands sine ashens has already empties them.

Simon Hampus and thats why i normally dont like sandwitches!

'Grown man' as opposed to ungrown.

they're shitty ingredients. its a pound sandwich

amazing

Yeah, that’s called creating content. You want them to say the same thing about each of them? “Yeah it’s shitty but it’s a 1$”

I love their friendship.

@@GeorgiaGeorgette no fanfiction please.

He gets to share his pain

He can't make depressing void jokes because it scares people.

Because then he has someone to suffer with.

I still ship them /jk

Will these sandwiches produce little sharticles?

You’re awesome Steveo, an absolute king, be fully confident in your infinite might

@@johnramos8703 I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or nice

You know there isn't enough of something if a person that hates it says there isn't enough

To be fair, what he said was that there wasn't much cheese on it...I don't think he was calling for more, just an observation. He probably took that as a positive!

Well this is odd. There are two of us

@@JK-bg3wx Just a glitch... nothing to be scared about ;p

One thing you learn about Barry during these videos: He may say he doesn't like something, but what he really means is that he doesn't like that thing under a specific, esoteric set of circumstances, determined purely by the movement of the stars, a d100, and the wisdom of The Dead God.

I thought the same thing.

I don’t think it’s the photo doing that, i think it just looks like that 😂

Ngl, the first image of the sandwich I saw, (And I'm not usually reactive), I screamed "Oh no!" at the screen, but was surprised and relieved when I saw a decent looking product leave the packaging when the guys unpackaged it.

I thought that too TBH, good thing it looks like normal bread when they unpack it.

@@grimTales1 I think it's hilarious that I made this comment 2 years ago but when I got the notification that you replied, I somehow remembered exactly what comment it was before I even opened it from the mere mention of bread lmao

The next Netflix documentary series, making a sandwich.

And you just know that 30 minutes of it will be Barry going bananas over cheese :D

Stuart could write a comprehensive book on those snacks a la his "worst games in history" stuff TBH...it'll sell.

If you want to discover how ancient Neanderthals took food to carry on long journeys, and what food fueled the nazi war machine, stay tuned for Sandwiches: The Full Bake.

Stuart scratches B O S T O N you mean Barry?

it's genuinely quite nice. it's mixed with mayo, so the sandwich has more structural stability. plus, tuna and sweetcorn on a baked potato with cheese and butter is 👌👌

Same. I'm interested in adding sweet corn to tuna now.

M. Williams omg I didn’t notice that either till I read your comment

@@fusionsigh it's such an awesome surprise.

Yes it is

News flash: heated thing taste different. Man makes groundbreaking discovery

@@RematodeRanger he didn't make the discovery, he explained it.

Here, have an internet high five from one food scientist to another 🖐️

Now explain the maillard effect

wishcraft4u2 the maillard reaction is an interaction which happens between amino acids and heat, which causes a change in color (browning), and a development of flavor due to the breakdown of the volatile chemicals contained in the amino acids was that good enough?

I mean, I think it's pretty accurate to how they look in real life.

I mean, noone likes a premade sandwich. They tolerate them. I get a £3 meal deal at Tesco for £3 just for a triple (3 slice) sandwich with Bacon, egg and sausage alongside a protein shake and some crisps. If I could I'd have a burger instead, but I'm too lazy

@@dumbbellenjoyer not the impression I am getting from countless people in Japan with their kombini store sandwiches. Maybe they are just better quality

@@callmewaves1160 sorry but your comment really tickled me :"I get a £3 meal deal for £3" XD

You’re not kidding. They look like that month-old subway Homer Simpson tried to eat and got horribly sick.

SamuraiBurgerDog I think at least 95% of the population starts in the middle most of the time

If you´re not going to eat the whole thing it makes sense to start in the middle, at least with cheap sandwiches that are likely to be dry along the crust.

@@neogeo1670 Childish? Only if they´re planning to eat the whole sandwiches. If you´re just taking a bite to be able to judge them it makes solid sense to bite in a place that has all the things you´re trying to judge.

I eat my sandwiches how I want.

@@miekekuppen9275 In my head that's = "they can be soggy in the middle". The middle of most foods such as sandwiches, pizza, hamburgers etc is just a necessary evil.

It's a big spread/sandwich filler option here

They're incredibly popular in the UK for some reason. Pretty much every selection of packaged sandwiches here includes that option.

@@han5234 why tf are packaged sandwiches a thibg there. Unless were at a deli with special ingredients, we make our own sandwiches in america.

My two hated ingredients, can't eat them.

@@bbseal6174 7-11 and Dollar Tree would beg to differ

The idea of catching a sexually-transmitted disease from a convenience store sandwich makes me smile

lies

Years of outdated food has addled his brain.

I assume he's just trying to get a good sample of the filling rather than the bread. That or he's a psychopath.

Well he's got a doctorate in psychology

Yeah but nobody dislikes bread. Nobody.

Also Ashens hates raw tomato, and barry hates unmelted cheese. So they both still like pizza.

pizza is not made of bread

in theory a fusion of the two would hate caprese salad

DaGleese Until today I didn’t think anybody hated cheese.

At least he didn't say he's seen the 3rd one 20 times but never seen the first 2.

Doesnt like cheese and then that. What the hell

Ashen’s face right then is hilarious

Just read it randomly in that very moment when Barry said that

Blasphemous... & somewhat humiliating. I guess he prefers mediocrity to genius.

"An Excellent Reference" - Chef Excellence

"An Excellent Calling" - Chef Excellence

"An excellent excellence" - Chef Sandwich

Sadly, the bastards do insist on putting onion or bacon in everything

What did he even say?

@@dorklymorkly3290 I thought he said "How is Sharon"

At least you know who to blame!

American here. Poundland? Is that like Walmart in the Americas?

@@Kajarago Walmart's essential equalivent in the United Kingdom is Asda (as it's OWNED by Walmart). Poundland's U.S equalivent could possibly be 'Dollarama' or 'Dollar Tree' or something like that.

"Bristol? Oh, you mean Poundland."

@@traeyboy529 Dollarama is Canadian, not American.

Just set up camp in the back, keep watch for him

Did you end up seeing him?

I’ve lived in Norwich my whole life, go in Poundland every weekend, never seen him 😂

You'll get your answer after you change your filthy, disgusting name

@@georgethakur yaoi is hot

This I've seen a lot but I have to say in our family we've always made our own bread and just used a hunk of the dough rolled out into roped and twisted around hot dogs or the little smokies sausages for our pigs in blankets lol.(think pretzel dogs in the mall for looks lol) I was always wondering why they would use crescent roll popcan for it as for me(just me and my granddaughter tho) it has an awful chemical taste. In hubs family pigs in blankets are the breakfast sausage wrapped in thin pancakes. They dip them in maple syrup too lol With the US being so friggen huge compared to other countries (well not all but you get my drift) its not surprising that the same dish is different all over 😁 makes me wish to become a food anthropologist is there such a thing? Facinating subject. Lol

The same thing in the UK is called a toad in the hole

I've met a few pigs in blankets wrapped around 1" cocktail sausages in the the Navy

Lol my mom used hot dogs wrapped in crescent roll. The little smokie cocktail sausage would have been better.

Plus if you have any sense you combine three different cheeses to effect the texture. 😀

Some cheese tastes so much better melted!

I'm guessing that "denture" should be "denature"!

@@mastermarkus5307 what, you don't like teeth in your cheese?

Melted cheese definitely tastes different. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. But I still don't see how people don't like normal cheese and do like melted cheese. But hey, all our tastebuds are different.

Don't look at him then

He doesn't like cheese, so what do you expect.

Aye, one of my worse character traits is I get unreasonably cross when people are squeamish about foods I find delicious, like gravlax, haggis or kimchi.

@@Agamemnon2 I'm not cross exactly, but increasingly bemused. How an actual adult can dislike something so... inoffensive... as cheese. Do you often find people don't like those three foods you mentioned?

@@iaincowell9747 There are things I don't like to eat. When I do eat them, though, I don't convulse like someones' pouring lava into my mouth then immediately wash my mouth out like I ate poison.