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Am in two minds whether to agree with you especially over the word "jammy". It is used in the name of a biscuit here in the UK as Jammy Dodgers; in fact the first recipe currently listed for the word is one for such Jammy Dodgers. These biscuits have achieved a status here that might rival the US's Oreos.

As for "the best" well the (UK) Guardian newspaper has a weekly column from Felicity Cloake with the title "How to make the perfect …" although every so often a sub will alter that headline to "How to make the best …"

Nothing beats sinfully.

I don't mind "addictive" when I remember how I've finished off a food in one-third of the time I'd thought it would last me.

But lay off "crack," as in "crack chicken." Stop making light of the suffering caused by crack cocaine.

Here in the UK the diminutive for sandwich is "sarnie". Nowhere near as awful as sammy. Sarnie has been in common usage since at least the 1960s here. The first written use of sarnie listed in the Ocford English Dictionary is from a Dictionary of Slang published in 1961 which suggests that it must have in wide-spread conversational use years before in order to be considered for inclusion. The OED likewise lists sammie as being principally Australian and New Zealand and the first written source given is from 1978. I suppose sammy is in the same word class as barbie for a barbeque which has a similar first use date in Australia.

Then there is Sando  (popular shortened English word in Japan) being used now as in katsu Sando or egg sando. But, I do not mind this usage. 

I read that as Sandro one of the competitors in the recent (2022) series of The Great British Bake Off!

I've not heard "Sammy" here in the UK

But "sammidge" is a dialect word for a sandwich (Midlands of England), as is "sarnie", previously mentioned

Butty sounds awful, but wonder where the term sandwich came from to describe two pieces of bread with filling in the middle.  It must be somewhere or someone in UK. 

Saying sandwich is too long for Japanese and hence sando. They like to shorten many English words for easier usage.  

I'm not sure how accurate it is, but sandwich is meant to come from the Earl of Sandwich who asked his cooks to provide food he could easily eat without leaving the cards table. So they put the meat between slices of bread.

And butty doesn't sound awful in the UK as butt is an American word. A bacon butty is one of the great British breakfasts!

As Jane says, no-one in Britain thinks twice about a butty.  There is no such thing as a 'bacon sandwich', it's always a 'bacon butty' - it's a northern English thing that has become accepted throughout Britain (as far as I'm aware). Long live the bacon butty!

LOL.  

The sandwich .. fodder for food historians over time! Nice bit of etymological & socio-cultural history at this link.. from The food Timeline ;-)