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.

You forgot the butter

Of course, how could we forget the favourite.

I remember as a young girl , working in a cafe where the customers asked for their bread
( or roll) to be "dipped" before filling with bacon.
In bacon fat.
(Not fried bread, just dipped in a pool of warm fat )
ID think the Danes do that do you?

This brings back happy memories for me of my Mum making my Dad and Brother bacon and egg which they had on a plate.
When they almost finished they would always drip their bread into the bacon fat and make a bacon butty along with brown sauce.

Those were really happy days when we were all together.

IIRC you mentioned Stoke a while ago - did you have those Staffs Oatcakes? They make a great sandwich casing for a fry-up.

PS More memories from working in that : caff -buttered toasted teacakes (ie spiced raisin type) and a slice of mature cheddar. Tasty.

Oh my we did.
My Dad when I was a child made them along with pikelets and sold them from the house until he was told off by the police for doing that.
He had a baxton on which he could make four strange shaped oatcakes.
Now a days most of the old oatcake shops in The Potteries have gone just a few left.
My son bought some home last week from a proper oatcake shop in Burslem.
The mass produced ones are terrible compared to the proper ones, the taste is completely different.
Most of the time we warm ours up under the grill so the edges are crispy.
We cook the sausages, bacon or whatever you fancy first , keep them warm and then when your outcake is ready put everything on with your sauce and roll up.
Youngest son prefers his with grated cheese on and done in the microwave for just a few seconds until the cheese has melted.
I have cheese and beans on mine and done under the grill.
If you put to much sauce on it comes out and runs all over your fingers which of course you lick off.

wow - i love this.
Corner house window type of thing maddie? ( It's like the original "fried fish" shops in the North, which later became chippies. )

I have read about the last shop online- geek that I am . ( If it was a French equivalent the product would be protected and feted. )

I made some as I bought a cast iron bakestone, probably not a patch on the native ones, but they were pretty good. Cheese, bacon , mustard and a fried egg I did.

What's a baxton?
Der - i just read it out - it's a bakestone.
We're off topic but it's almost a hot sandwich!

Ps. When they did this prog, they sold them from a hand cart to the workers. Ep 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/arti...S1N1/locations

Just a little bit more.

I have been round the Gladstone Pottery Museum it was ok.
Also I have been round the Spode factory with one of our neighbours who was pretty high up in management and he took me round.
That was excellent.

The Spode factory is now being turned into apartments, a sin in my eyes.
All the old potbanks have gone all that is left are derelict sites or housing estates built where they stood.
The heart has gone out of the Potteries now, very sad.

I will keep on topic now promise.