If that sandwich is bland it’s on you it clearly says to add butter, salt and pepper to taste.
If you think you can make something not bland with just butter, salt and pepper, you may be a Brit.
Good butter ain’t bland.
the key is just that the bread has to be properly baked, so with toast you have to… toast it… first.
Untoasted toast with butter is still going to be kinda bland.
Fat and salt are the key ingredients in most fried food, so it’s basically deep fried bread.
Fat and salt are the key ingredients in most fried food,
If we ignore the literal food being fried, yes
The food being fried is mostly carbs - that’s the bread.
Homemade bread with just butter and salt is fucking awesome.
If you think butter is bland you may have broken tastebuds, or really shit butter. You know it’s supposed to come from a cow?
Literally any meat in a pan
Or a German to be honest. They eat just bread with butter. (no toast between!)
Yes, but their bread is good and rough. No idea how their butter is
Not good enough for me to be willing to eat bread with just butter.
Ah, then you gotta get german bread with french or Irish butter. Maybe throw in a side of pomegranate and/or cheese. Great way to start your day
The crunch of the toast vs the softness of the bread. The saltiness and richness of the butter against the spice of the pepper.
It’s got contrast across two food metrics! Beats the shit out of PB&Js, and you don’t get peanut fragments stuck in your teeth.
It’s poverty food (for when butter didn’t cost $20/kg), but it’s not half bad.
Peanut butter is perfect and I’ll die on that hill. My country’s cheap combination of pulses and bread is much better than yours! That said you need unsweetened peanut butter and unsweetened bread, both of which can be difficult to find in the us
It’s a wartime / depression era food, not something you’d make by choice, typically
Cause bread was cheaper than say meat or cheese or what not
and that applies to all the british (and “white people” food in general) that people think is boring, yeah it’s boring because the main goal was not starving to death…
First appeared in an 1861 cookbook, target for this was sick people. Would be easy to keep down, carbs and fats to nourish more than just a broth.
Ive had it a couple of times, for a laugh, while broke as a joke. Only just discovered that i didnt invent it though.
Incidentally a UK paper a few years back called it “the cheapest british meal” and invited someone to send in a cheaper meal and they’d get an award. They got flooded and had to pick the winner at random.
an empire built on stealing spice from brown people and they REFUSE to use them
very funny and all, but most of the “indian” food westerners are used to was invented in the UK
They refused to use the spices, not the brown people.
Don’t knock it until you’ve been on rationed flour for several years
Fry your flour in butter.
Also rationed.
Are you Native American?
I dunno man when I was in the UK I had a shit ton of awesome food. Lots of fried fish, roasted meat, savory and sweet pies, sausages, breads, cheeses, not to mention the crossover and fusion food like Indian and South Asian.
They have the best bacon
The dairy and processed meats in the UK are fire!
Although I learned the hard way that there are two types! Streaky vs back bacon. Imagine my disappointment when I ordered a caesar salad with added bacon and it came out with what looked like a slab of ham on it 🤣
Well how come you ordered it twice?
This was my very same experience with Canadian Bacon.
deleted by creator
I couldn’t have one now, but scotch eggs look great.
But did you get a Meal Deal?
I got a full English twice, so there’s that.
Haha if you go back, Meal Deals are addictive. They look like cheap gas station sandwiches, but they’re quality ingredients with good fresh bread. Combos we don’t get here like cheese and onion are just a very different thing than you would expect.
This isn’t typical cuisine, this reads much more extremely poor so all I have is bread and fortunately butter.
What even is jove
Edit: okay this one’s complicated. It’s like saying “holy shit” (“oh my god”), but you’re Roman and saying “holy jupiter(the god)”, but you’re also English and it entered popular usage through Shakespeare, and you’re also from before it became “by george”…Or something… Tldr it’s old Latin and jove=jupiter
great scott!
I ate a lot of good food when I visited the UK. Honestly anyone who claims <place> has only bad food has a skill issue.
Yeah I agree, there was always weird things like every culture, blood pudding and stuff, but generally there is absolutely nothing wrong with average UK food, except it’s not that healthy.
I feel like I’m the strange person for answering yes, I eat these now and again. I like to toast only the middle slice, and when it is done, butter salt and pepper both sides. The butter soaks in and softens the toasted slice up again, but it keeps a chew. Gives it a meaty texture that way.
“Yo dawg, I heard you liked bread…”
For a while, I was toasting sandwhiches by stacking the top bread piece under the bottom one with topings on top of it. You end up with a sandwich (with actual sandwich toppings) just toasted on the inside and soft on the outside.
I love the texture just like I loved putting plain potato chips between two pieces of bread. Soft then crunch.
you guys remind me of a girl I used to work with who would always mock “white people food,” except that to her that really just meant “poor white people food.” It’s not gourmet, but sometimes all you have is fucking bread.
If all you have is bread, you should try eating it rather than fucking it, though.
You have to be really hungry before you eat the fucking bread
But all the extra flavor!
Greg Bovino has entered the chat
Mustard crackers are the bomb if that’s all you have in the fridge.
It was invented for a “cheapest meal” competition if I recall. If someone really made this, the inside bread would be drowned in something with several insane flavours. Probably Branston pickle.
You’re half right. Wiki says it’s been around since at least Victorian times, but the modern version revival happened as you say
I can understand the appeal of a piece of bread that’s been soaked or buttered or even just toasted and salted. I bet that’s delicious, if done right.
My question is, why the other two slices of bread? What’s the thinking there? Why not have three slices of delicious middle bread? If the bread is good enough on its own, why not eat it alone?
It’s like if you made a drink of tepid water by adding ice cubes to a glass of warmed water and then letting them completely melt until room temperature. Who is this recipe for? “Oh, but maybe the ice cubes are flavored” OK then why freeze them before melting them? “Maybe the hot water is flavored with herbs that rele-” Bitch, that’s tea.
I’m so confused, I’m getting mad at imaginary arguments I’m having with hypothetical morons about analogous situations that only exist in my head.
To keep your hands clean
This is the purpose of a sandwich, to keep the nasty food oils off the playing cards
Texture. Crisp sandwiches are the closest thing I can think of but crisps cost a lot more than a slice of bread.
Not even my dad ate this and he liked all sorts of crazy rationing-era foods he’d grown up with in the war.
The Fat Duck, a restaurant with three Michelin stars, serves toast sandwich as a side dish.
So, you tell me.
Your not improving the reputation of British food your just making the reputation of Michelin stars worse
either way, i win 😈
It’s specifically a rating system to sell tires. And cars are terrible for humanity. So yeah, who cares about that system.
It initially was but I don’t think that’s the case anymore. It has become it’s own thing now.
Fun fact of the day:
All Michelin starred restaurants are required to have drive-thrus.
Yeah, and I’ll bet there’s duck fat on that sandwich.
I saw “toast sandwich” on QI and, yes, I tried it. Added butter, salt, and pepper to the toast.
Was pretty good.
Yeah ngl I tried this about a decade ago for shits and giggles
Given I wasn’t expecting much, I was pleasantly surprised!
For Americans that aren’t getting it, you know how hard shell tacos are good, but taco bell wraps it in a tortilla sometimes for a bit of decadence?
Toast is good, why doesn’t it also deserve a jacket from time to time?
OTOH, I have better sandwich fillings than just more bread, so I’ve never done it since. Might as well make a club sandwich if I’m having that much bread
you know how hard shell tacos are good, but taco bell wraps it in a tortilla sometimes for a bit of decadence?
I just want you to know how much I enjoyed this comparison
