Birds Eye ridiculed on Twitter by food fans and Rag’n’Bone Man for picture of pretentious fish finger sandwich

BIRDS Eye have caused outrage after sharing a picture of a fish finger sandwich with olives, jalapenos and lettuce - on toasted brown bread.

The photo has been mercilessly mocked and branded a "nightmare", a "crime scene" and an "apocalypse of a sandwich" by appalled social media users including singer-songwriter Rag'n'Bone Man.

Tweeting the picture, writer Harry Harris wrote: "Nobody who works at Birds Eye has ever, *ever* made a fishfinger sandwich."

But the controversial recipe - which uses gluten-free fishfingers - was actually created by food blogger Honest Mum.

She entered the bizarre concoction into the food giant's fish finger awards last year, and Birdseye shared the pic to announce it had won a bronze award at the FreeFrom Food Awards last week.

But the posh-looking sandwich - pictured on a wooden chopping board alongside a jalapeno pepper - has come in for a barrage of ridicule and criticism online.

Orbette‏ wrote on Twitter: "It made me dry heave."

Jonathon‏ said: "Verging on posh there!"

Lizard Queen‏ tweeted: "White bread and either mayo or ketchup isn't it? I'm vegetarian and have never eaten a fish finger and even I know that."

Yeomiesays‏ wrote: "@john_self never mind the jalapeño, I can't get past the brown bread toast! Brown, bread, toast."

And Mel☆nie‏ wrote: "That's no jalapeño, a cat has walked by & made it's displeasure known."

The frozen food brand was recently blasted for shrinking its fish finger packs from 12 down to 10 - but keeping the price the same.

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