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A piece of human flesh between two slices of board was a miserable job and one of the worst in Victorian era England. It is thanks to Charles Dickens that we have the term ‘Sandwich Man’ for which these walking advertisements are now more commonly known. This job demanded neither training nor skills, but it was a miserable and physically demanding existence - the preserve of the ruined, the elderly - those for who life offered little or no choice other than this unfortunate and poorly paid existence.
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