If that sandwich is bland it’s on you it clearly says to add butter, salt and pepper to taste.
Do people eat this?
Submitted 2 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 months ago
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you think you can make something not bland with just butter, salt and pepper, you may be a Brit.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 months ago
Good butter ain’t bland.
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Fat and salt are the key ingredients in most fried food, so it’s basically deep fried bread.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Homemade bread with just butter and salt is fucking awesome.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 months ago
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?
Ledivin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Literally any meat in a pan
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or a German to be honest. They eat just bread with butter. (no toast between!)
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
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.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
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
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ive had it a couple of times, for a laugh, while broke as a joke. Only just discovered that i didnt invent it though.
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
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…
cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They have the best bacon
cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The dairy and processed meats in the UK are fire!
ButWhatDoesItAllMean@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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 🤣
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I couldn’t have one now, but scotch eggs look great.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But did you get a Meal Deal?
cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I got a full English twice, so there’s that.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t knock it until you’ve been on rationed flour for several years
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fry your flour in butter.
Drusas@fedia.io 2 months ago
Also rationed.
miked@piefed.social 2 months ago
Are you Native American?
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
[deleted]samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
foggianism@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They refused to use the spices, not the brown people.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
very funny and all, but most of the “indian” food westerners are used to was invented in the UK
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
What even is jove
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
great scott!
nialv7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Fat Duck, a restaurant with three Michelin stars, serves toast sandwich as a side dish.
So, you tell me.
ashenone@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Your not improving the reputation of British food your just making the reputation of Michelin stars worse
PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s specifically a rating system to sell tires. And cars are terrible for humanity. So yeah, who cares about that system.
Drusas@fedia.io 2 months ago
Yeah, and I'll bet there's duck fat on that sandwich.
yakko@feddit.uk 2 months ago
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.
Beacon@fedia.io 2 months ago
You're half right. Wiki says it's been around since at least Victorian times, but the modern version revival happened as you say .
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
mech@feddit.org 2 months ago
The middle bread will be saturated in fat, crispy, and spiced heavily.
The outer breads are dry, fluffy and neutral-tasting.
You need them for the same reason you need them in any sandwich.Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Texture. Crisp sandwiches are the closest thing I can think of but crisps cost a lot more than a slice of bread.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
This isn’t typical cuisine, this reads much more extremely poor so all I have is bread and fortunately butter.
ebolapie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
you guys remind me of a girl I used to work with who would always mock “white people food,” except that to her that meant specifically “poor white people food.”
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
If all you have is bread, you should try eating it rather than fucking it, though.
ebolapie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You have to be really hungry before you eat the fucking bread
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Mustard crackers are the bomb if that’s all you have in the fridge.
Riverside@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Plenty of delicious struggle meals if you get creative, half of “popular” cuisine stems from them. Spanish cocido and tortilla de patata are a few examples of well-loved affordable struggle meals.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Yeah, it’s filling and I would like to see you come up with better for £0.06 a meal.
Poverty food exists for a reason.
mech@feddit.org 2 months ago
I dare say potatoes are cheaper than bread.
And you can turn them into a more filling, more nutricious and better-tasting meal with nothing but salt and vegetable oil.realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Yeah but that would take effort.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
With energy prices in the UK being what they are, it’s only raw potatoes that are cheaper than bread. At least toast toasts quickly, so isn’t that energy-intensive compared with boiling a pan of water.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 months ago
You have to cook the potatoes or they’re poisonous, and buying and running a hob or an oven is comparatively pretty expensive in the UK. I get your point though, if you’re a bit wealthier, of course you’d be looking at potatoes or other foods - and it can get really ingredient cheap if you buy a sack of potatoes and mostly just eat potatoes :)
plyth@feddit.org 2 months ago
That’s why toast with crisps is the more popular food.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have not seen bread this cheap anywhere.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Aldi, to be fair food was a bit cheaper when I was living on £600 a month, around 2017. Like £0.34 for about 20 slices. I think it is more like £0.45 now for the cheapest loaf of bread.
MCTamTam@feddit.org 2 months ago
Sounds delicious imho
D_C@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
In my 5 decades of Britishness I’ve never ever heard of a toast sandwich. And for one and a half of those decades we were so poor that we sometimes had sugar sandwiches just so we wouldn’t starve.
But, yeah, I’d give it a go. Hell, I may even have one today.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 months ago
sugar sandwiches
Fairy bread without butter?
j_elgato@leminal.space 2 months ago
It’s strangely tasty.
Tried it when I first heard about this and somehow the crunch and the butter work really well with the untoasted bread.
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Someone made this after discussion here or on reddit, I can’t remember, and said it was surprisingly good.
bananabird@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The only people who survived medieval England were those who could psychologically tolerate bland food.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Not even my dad ate this and he liked all sorts of crazy rationing-era foods he’d grown up with in the war.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Wasn’t this like midwar bombing rations when things got bad or something?
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tikka Masala is pretty fuggin’ good. And you lot did invent Worcestershire sauce. Oh, and your packaged snacks? Hugely better than the crap we get in the states. But you can have Mushy Peas.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You people do know neither the Luftwaffe nor the Kriegsmarine are no longer immediate threats to the safety of the United Kingdom?
Saapas@piefed.zip 2 months ago
I’ve made it out of curiosity. It tasted like buttered toast with pepper. Honestly pretty good
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thought the food was a running joke for ages till I went and had some of their Fish and Chips at nice pub. Oh boy was I wrong! That and the curry will absolutely blow your mind.
BaraCoded@literature.cafe 2 months ago
Saddest and most redundant dish I have ever seen. My french soul is crying tears of cheese, ham, fresh lettuce, pickles, tomato, and mayo, or anything that would go into a sandwich while not being bread, really.
hector@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Bread sandwhiches were popular in the US too when they got the machines to refine grain, and remove the endosperm from the outer coating of the seed where all the vitamins are, they would put a slice of white bread from that processing inbetween two pieces of coarse bread from the whole grain.
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 months ago
A cracker tastes good when you're starving.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok, Brits… what is GOOD British food? Fish ‘n Chips? Mushy Peas? Full English? Sunday Roast? I’ve been to the UK more times than I can count and even the Pubs often serve international fare instead of Spotted Dick.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Somebody is a texture eater
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
beans on toast on toast on toast
marighost@piefed.social 2 months ago
mech@feddit.org 2 months ago
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Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mmmm the fabled half english.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I tried the fabled beans on toast and i was shocked when I bit into the toast that there was butter on the toast. It was a dumb thing to be shocked at but I did not expect it 😂.
That being said, it looks really stupid in person because it’s literally toast with a ton of beans. Taste wise, it was ok.
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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What sort of catastrophic mental state do you have to be to think
VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
World-renowned chef Gordon Ramsay saying "delicious. Finally, some good fucking food.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Compliments to the british chef