Mmmm the fabled half english.
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 by 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.
Here’s a crappy photo:
What sort of catastrophic mental state do you have to be to think
I shall put beans on thine toast. And yea; there was much rejoicing
Poor… And not normal poor, but wartime poor. It was invented by Heinz to sell beans in England.
It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be taste wise. Like I finished all of it no problem. But amongst all breakfast foods its pretty mediocre and nothing to write home about.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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…
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.
I saw “toast sandwich” on QI and, yes, I tried it. Added butter, salt, and pepper to the toast.
Was pretty good.
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.
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
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.Also extra calories, keeping in mind it’s a struggle meal
This isn’t typical cuisine, this reads much more extremely poor so all I have is bread and fortunately butter.
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.
Don’t knock it until you’ve been on rationed flour for several years
Fry your flour in butter.
Also rationed.
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.
Mustard crackers are the bomb if that’s all you have in the fridge.
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!
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
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 🤣
The dairy and processed meats in the UK are fire!
Is Harry Gow a bad place for sausage? I had a full breakfast every chance but only got sausage once.
Any recs?
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.
Not a Brit but I would add the different pies/shepherd pies etc to that list. But really I don’t think you can not count the imported cuisine because I do love getting Indian, Caribbean, etc when I’m there. Even Italian TBH you can get some nice pizza (but not quite like Italy obviously).
I quite like Yorkshire puddings.
But I agree, British cuisine is pretty beige in vibe
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
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
It’s specifically a rating system to sell tires. And cars are terrible for humanity. So yeah, who cares about that system.
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Fun fact of the day:
All Michelin starred restaurants are required to have drive-thrus.
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.
