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The latter. Bread + filling kept together with a cocktail stick and wrapped in clingfilm goes in. Sauces, accompaniments and relish is around the table. Catch your sandwich, fill it how you want. Simple.

Ooh, can't see any problem with cocktail-stick-impaled-sandwiches dropping from above into people's eyes, no risk there whatsoever. She's being completely unreasonable.

There's no protrusion of cocktail sticks.