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Christmas sambos · Dublin · 2026

Who does the best Christmas sambo in Dublin?
We’re going to find out.

Every year someone swears their local does the best one. Now you can prove it. Rate the sambos you eat and we’ll see which one comes out on top.

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PLEASE DO NOT EAT MY SANDWICH.

What’s a Moist Maker?

It’s from Friends. Ross’s leftover Thanksgiving sandwich had an extra slice of bread soaked in gravy in the middle. He called it the Moist Maker. Someone in work ate it on him and he lost the plot.

So if your sambo has a slice of gravy-soaked bread in the middle, it gets a bonus here. We’re not saying any sambo in Dublin is as good as Ross’s, but we’d like to see a few of them try.

How it works

  1. Get yourself a Christmas sambo

    From a fancy deli, the café down the road or the Centra on the corner. They all count.

  2. Rate it on your phone

    Seven sliders, a few boxes to tick, a line on what you thought, and a photo if you have one. Takes about a minute.

  3. See where it ends up

    Every sambo goes on the league. Found a great one, or a disaster? Share it in Slack.

What you’re scoring

Everything’s out of 10. Moisture and meat count for a bit more, because nobody wants a dry sambo.

  • Bread ×1 Crust, chew, and whether it survives the walk back
  • Moisture ×1.5 A dry sambo is a sad sambo
  • Meat ×1.25 Thick-cut real roast beats processed slices
  • Gravy ×1 Dip pot, drizzle or soaked right in Optional. If it’s not in it, it doesn’t count against it.
  • Cranberry ×1 Tart, sweet, and enough of it Optional. If it’s not in it, it doesn’t count against it.
  • Stuffing ×1 Sage, onion, a bit of texture Optional. If it’s not in it, it doesn’t count against it.
  • Brie ×1 Ripe and melty, not a cold rubbery slab Optional. If it’s not in it, it doesn’t count against it.

The Moist Maker bonus

If there’s a slice of gravy-soaked bread in the middle, that’s a Moist Maker and it gets an extra 0.5. It can’t go over 10, mind.

From class to cat

  1. 9.0+ MY SANDWICH?! tier
  2. 8.0–8.9 Worth shouting about
  3. 6.5–7.9 Solid leftovers
  4. 5.0–6.4 Office fridge filler
  5. 3.0–4.9 Bit dry, to be fair
  6. Under 3.0 Let someone else eat it

One rave won’t win it

Every sambo starts off with 3 pretend ratings at the league average, so it needs a fair few people behind it to get to the top. Say the league average is 6.5:

One person gives it 9.5

7.25

Grand, but sure it could be their cousin’s café.

Twenty people averaging 9.2

8.85

That’s your winner.

Anything with fewer than 3 ratings gets a Needs more ratings tag. If two sambos tie, the one more people rated goes first.

The rules

  • One rating per sambo. Rate the same one again and your new rating replaces the old one.
  • Don’t worry about spelling. “The Gravy Train”, “gravy train” and “Gravy-Train!” all end up as the same place.
  • Photos are grand. Upload straight from your phone, up to 25 MB. We shrink them to 1400 px and take the location out before saving them.
  • You can change your mind. Edit or delete your ratings whenever you like. Admins will take down anything that shouldn’t be there.

Go on, rate one.

No email, no app to download. Just a username, a password and a sambo.

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