My latest adventure started much earlier than I would have preferred. Leaving for the airport at 4am on a Saturday is always bleak, even when you’re getting to do something cool like go snowboarding in Bulgaria. The drive through clapham featured scenes of the infernos crowd flocking to Taco Bell before stumbling home after a long night of debauchery and clubbing. It’s an eerie scene. After an hour long car ride a few friends and I arrived at Stansted airport, still well before the ass crack of dawn, and walked into the mayhem of all the people catching the early morning Ryan Air flights. No one is a happy camper in an airport at that time in the morning, particularly when it’s crowded and the queues seem endless.

Trying to rejuvenate the positive spirit that had slowly waned within the group after sitting in the security line for 45 minutes, we went to grab a bite to eat when we got inside the terminal at a popular chain here in Great Britain called Leon. To my delight, they had a whole menu of Sourdough muffins to choose from and this is where I had my latest breakfast sandwich: The Sausage & Egg.

The Sandwich

Overall: 5.3/10

The Good

This was a really decent airport sandwich. Following the tradition of English breakfast sandwiches having top notch meat, the thick cut in half sausage links were the star of the show and received full marks. The tomato sauce added a nice blast of tomato and the sourdough muffin was a solid choice of bread. For only £4.59, it’s a great value sandwich.

The Bad

Though a decent one, it is still an airport sandwich. While Leon’s is much more natural than a McDonald’s sandwich, the egg gave that unnatural, somewhat manufactured feel that you get from the egg in a McMuffin. The bread could have been toasted and the Sourdough muffin wasn’t the highest quality. The integration of the sandwich really wasn’t great. I had to preform some pre-eating rearrangement surgery to keep it from falling apart and the sauce should have been more evenly distributed. And as always with these British sandwiches… no cheese.