The Handwich: Disney’s Failed Sandwich of the Future

38 thoughts on “The Handwich: Disney’s Failed Sandwich of the Future”

1. Warning: I misspoke. It’s 7 grams of yeast, not ounces, but hey it’s up to you.

2. But why did it fail? Yes, people did bot buy it, but that's not a reason right?

3. 5:33 I performed there in High School during a band trip to Disney. Weird seeing that hall again

4. the ad being in that 2005 segment was just chef's kiss

5. I clicked on the handwich out of pure curiosity, and what I found was the best cooking video on the internet.

6. One thousand, nine hundred and eighty four… Sick joke there love it

7. At 13:00 there are mistakes in the captions: the announcer says "What's cooking America?" but the captions say "What's cooking in America?"
   And at 18:56 you say "make another handwich" but the captions say "make another sandwich".

8. I love the amount of imagination inserted into this video.

9. Arby's mozzarella sticks have no right being so good. Fast food mozzarella sticks are supposed to be undercooked and rubbery; nigh inedible. They should make you question why the place still sells them, not be the absolute highlight of the menu.

10. These mf'ers really just forgot that a gryo exists

11. i need a bbq pulled pork handwich right now

12. Up

13. Not going to lie, a bbq pulled pork handwich sounds pretty good right now, and a bit less messy than the traditional style

14. I totally don't get this. Why did this documentary suddenly leap into Angry Video Game nerd parody land?

15. I can hold a sandwich in one hand and I got little cabbage patch kids hands

16. I'm always conflicted when I watch a video involving food, I like them, but they make me hungry.

17. waiting for the site link to actually have something :3 eventually

18. That baconmac one looks lowkey fire

19. "And you'll never guess who's responsible for its creation"
    NO WAY
    "Back in Imagineering, Michael Eisner…"
    THE MAN. THE MYTH. THE LEGEND.

20. Yes.

21. Crazy how much work will go into a product that already exists. Like, is a sandwich not already hand held? Who's out here eating a sandwich with a fork and knife?

22. I could go for a Handwich right about now

23. I didn’t expect to watch a sandwich induced mental breakdown today but I guess that’s what happened.

24. Man oh man, nothing beats a delectable sampwich at the end of a long day. I drink them through a straw like bonafide lemonade, there's no other way to do it!

25. 12:51. “nothing can stop me from making more hamiches”😈

26. hearing "the first sandwich you can hold with one hand" makes me wonder how small people's hands are that that's not something anyone can do with a regular sandwich

27. This captures whatever vibes it is SO WELL

28. Genuine these look really nice. I don't care what other people are saying, first thing I'm doing when I get a time machine is trying these things.

29. I'm sure this is very interesting and I can't wait to finish it, but I just got hung up on that Orlando Sentinel quote saying "had not gripped the imagination of a hungry America, let alone Orlando. Let alone anyone but Michael Eisner" for like 30 minutes.

    That's not how that idiom works!
    The second thing should always be an escalation of the first! I had to look it up to convince myself I wasn't the weird one here, and I'm not! This is how everyone seems to agree it should be used.

    "had not grasped the imagination of a hungry Orlando, let alone America at large." Would be a better way to say it

    Then "anyone but Michael Eisner" could be considered an escalation of America, since it's definitionally a larger set, however in the sentence it's much more referring to finding an actual any one person other than Eisner who was grasped by the Handwich. In which case, it is again a de-escalation from Orlando.

    It didn't grab America, in fact, it didn't even grab Orlando, in fact, it didn't even grab one person who was not Eisner.

30. If you go to the link at 15:09 (at the current date of November 27, 2022) it says “I’ll do something clever here just give me a minute.”

31. love the niche and specific trope of video essayists doing great art but also going insane. one of youtube's upsides ig, professional documentarians probably aren't allowed to do that lol

32. Scooby-Doo had a near-clone parody of this called "Castle Cones" in the movie "Scooby-Doo Abracadabra-Doo". They used regular ice cream cones. That's… really the only difference. Apparently, the guy who invented them in-universe built an entire franchise around them.

    So… Warner Brothers was ripping off Disney? How did they manage to get away with that?!

33. 7:04 "Lost to time"? Talk about dramatic! lol

34. 4:07
    That poor cat. Is he choking? Who holds a cat like that? And what did Eisner think this would look like, a Bond villain???

35. I lost it at take my hand, take my handwich.

36. 1984 🤣

37. wth is this…. I feel like I retained more information about Raycons than anything else.

38. Disney: "The handwich is the first sandwich you can hold with one hand!"

    Burrito: "Am I a joke to you?"

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