British Sandwich Week 8 - 14 May 2016
maddie_brundret
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My all time favourite sandwich is cheddar cheese and onion on white bread with sweet piccalli instead of butter with lots of salt.
I also enjoy cheddar cheese,little gem lettuce and beetroot on seeded brown bread
Not very adventureous all at.:D
Just a few interesting bits about sandwiches:
11.5 billion sandwiches are eaten in the UK each year, if placed end to end they would go round the world approx 44 times.
More than half of these are made and eaten at home.
Over 3,500,000,000 sandwiches are purchased from UK retail and catering outlets each year.
We paid over £7,850,000,000 that is as much as 36,500 brand new Ferraris(sp)
Average price per sandwich £2.07p each
There is more information on
www.britishsandwichweek.com
I also enjoy cheddar cheese,little gem lettuce and beetroot on seeded brown bread
Not very adventureous all at.:D
Just a few interesting bits about sandwiches:
11.5 billion sandwiches are eaten in the UK each year, if placed end to end they would go round the world approx 44 times.
More than half of these are made and eaten at home.
Over 3,500,000,000 sandwiches are purchased from UK retail and catering outlets each year.
We paid over £7,850,000,000 that is as much as 36,500 brand new Ferraris(sp)
Average price per sandwich £2.07p each
There is more information on
www.britishsandwichweek.com
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Occasionally a combination of the two
This is what I do.
Place some S&V crisps on a plate and put in the Microwave for a few seconds until they are warm, take out of microwave and sprinkle with malt vinegar and then make your sandwich.
Lovely.
I do see where you are coming from but on the web site it states 8 -14 May 2016 and that is why I stated those dates.:)
I have never tried hot crisps! I like the cold version so I am going to try this when I have got some slice white & some Walkers.
How did you invent this? As early humans learnt to use fire?:D
As it's supposedly hotter than Barcelona we need to be on the cucumber sandwich as that's what they prescribed for hot weather.
Wow we had hot crisps all the time at school for lunch. They would just stick them in the oven. Not sure why as they ended up more burnt.
I remember some kids eating that although unfortunately we were never allowed that kind of thing.
We invented sandwiches as a concept so I'm having it.
I also like a chip sandwich (or chip buttie as I usually call it) which my wife thinks is a crazy combination.
I had it passed onto me by someone, can't remember who now.:(
You are a cheeky monkey, but I like you as said by Dick Emery with a push in the shoulder.:D
I don't like cucumber sandwiches a bit to soggy for my taste.
My husband was born in the Potteries and as a child he had sliced orange and sugar on a sandwich.:o
Also sauce on a sandwich..
Not my cup of tea.
I had never heard of a Reuben sounds Welsh, so I looked it up.
Now a do like a toasty but not with corned beef
Love a chip butty with HP sauce,doesn't sound right being called a chip sandwich.:)
The corned beef used is very different to what most of us would think of as corned beef.
Do tell please very interested.:)
Nosey question:D are you from over the pond.:)
Now Americans, they can do sandwiches.
It's hard to explain. In the U.S. it is brisket that is brined and then slow cooked, it's really different. This explains it a bit:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corned_beef#North_America
Cheers for that, much different from our corned beef.:D
Sounds nicer to me.
Have read that this is the proper Irish corned beef but have also read that their corned beef is the same as ours, can an Irish poster enlighten me?
It the traditional Irish method.
Pickled/cured brisket (or other beef joint). Can be poached and/or roasted.
If smoked it's usually classed as pastrami.
If you catch Floyd on Britain and Ireland he makes it in an episode.
I have no idea how it went from that to what we get in tins/packets these days.
Never understood the appeal of crisp or sugar or ketchup sandwiches.
You're right, Ireland has those two kinds of corned beef.
No one ever mistakes the two, as they are used for different things.
That said, if you are out with a non-Irish person in Ireland and they see corned beef and cabbage on a pub menu, they look at you as if the chef is a raving lunatic.
Unless they are an Irish American person - they know the score
Again another new one on me - you can't say any of these are cliches, well I find them interesting anyway .
Sauce - I reckon that will be probably be HP
PS Re your other post - Yes! Pls bring back Dick Emery, where he is dressed as the lady with the bouffant with the handbag - "You are awful"- we were reminiscing about him recently.
My OH makes decent sandwiches with interesting fillings.
I'm more chip buttie, chicken, ham & mustard, crisps yes, just tomatoes - so a bit dull.
I agree the US are probably better at sandwiches, and what about the Danes with their open sandwiches- think they know how to do it
http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/12/smorrebrod-introduction-danish-sandwich.html
Anyway your classic British sandwich is
Bread
HP Sauce
Bacon
Bread
Nothing more, nothing less.
Pick up a herring smørrebrød with your hands and the toppings are likely to slide off, dousing your shirt in a mess of dill and sliced red onion. Instead, gently attack it with a fork and knife—as Danes are trained to do from a young age.
Bah! If you have to eat it with a knife and fork it's not exactly a sandwich, is it? You wouldn't call a poached egg on toast a sandwich.