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.
Compliments to the british chef
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.
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.
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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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
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
Texture variety
Heterogeneity!
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.
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.
This isn’t typical cuisine, this reads much more extremely poor so all I have is bread and fortunately butter.
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
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!
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Mustard crackers are the bomb if that’s all you have in the fridge.
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.
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.
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.Yeah but that would take effort.
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.
And solanine isn’t a way you wanna die.
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 :)
As a Brit, you’ll boil water for tea all day anyway.
Just put the potatoes in the kettle to save energy.Good call. For a treat, you can then take your part-cooked potato to your local library, then wedge the potato behind a radiator for half an hour to crisp up the edges a little :)
That’s why toast with crisps is the more popular food.
I have not seen bread this cheap anywhere.
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.
I’m not sure ze Germans would let me call that bread. Most loaves of bread I see (admittedly not at Aldi) start around 1.20€ for the smaller ones which I would have difficulty cutting into 20 slices. But maybe white bread with enough air in it is indeed that cheap.
Edit: I would assume that it won’t be very satisfying.
I think UK pricing is pretty competitive, so we get pretty cheap bread compared to many others.
Sounds delicious imho
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.
sugar sandwiches
Fairy bread without butter?
can’t tell you how many mornings i had to make cinnamon toast for the ex’s kid before taking him to school
Had cinnamon roast a lot as kid before school (US). We just ate small breakfasts so it was no big deal.
Nope. Slice or two of bread, some margarine spread (we couldn’t afford butter), and sugar sprinkled on it. That’s it.
My grandfather would make me these now and then. He’s from Ukraine
Damn, that’s like “milk toast “. My dad used to make that but looking back it’s likely from lean times on the farm when he was a kid…… put some milk on the stove, briefly dip slices of bread, then serve with a giant pat of butter. Also clearly influenced by the farm he grew up on being a dairy farm
Someone made this after discussion here or on reddit, I can’t remember, and said it was surprisingly good.
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.
