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Today's Unused Emoji
Sandwich
“The bowl that sits untouched teaches more about hunger than the one that is emptied.”
— Confucius, probably
Have you ever used this emoji?
Today's Pairing
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Neon, lonely, and a little desperate — the Sandwich can't sleep until you tap it.
🎨Designer Tribute
About the Rarity Score
A 75/100 puts the Sandwich firmly in forgotten territory — niche dishes face stiff competition from staples like 🍕 and 🍔, so the deep cuts rarely get sent. It's been sitting in Unicode since 2017 — 9 whole years — and still hasn't broken through, which points to a lasting visibility problem, not just newness. In the 70s it sees the occasional outing, but still nowhere near the top 200 most-used emoji.
About the Design Hours
Figure about 7 hours per platform to draw the Sandwich from scratch. That's a solid, moderate effort — the real work is making the texture look appetizing and identifiable so it reads as food and not an abstract blob. Detailed enough to demand genuine craft, just short of the most punishing emoji to draw. Now remember Apple and Google, then 4 more teams each redraw it independently — multiply it out and you're looking at about 11 afternoons of human creativity for one rarely-tapped glyph.
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Fun Fact
The Earl of Sandwich would be disappointed by its emoji performance.
All that craft, for an emoji that rarely sees the light of day.