I just had vanilla ice cream with the 80% dark chocolate grated on it spread on to brioche bread then sandwiched as my dessert may not be up with the best but it tasted damn good.
best sandwich?
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I was trying to stay with more traditional breads. But since bagels have been brought into the mix I don't see why tortillas can't be also. With that in mind I have to add Fajitas and acos to my previous list. Steak Fajitas would be the preferred of the two. And Italian Calzones.
For that matter one I forgot on my previous list (with traditional breads) would have to be a Cuban Sandwich!
For that matter one I forgot on my previous list (with traditional breads) would have to be a Cuban Sandwich!
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I think BR was just thinking (as you suggested) that it was open faced. I on the other hand was simply thinling that bagels aren't a traditional European bread. You're absolutely right; it is a sandwich.
Prawn Mayonaise with salt and vinegar crisps stuck in the sandwich last minute.
Seriously, just try it.
Otherwise good quality bacon, with HP.
Seriously, just try it.
Otherwise good quality bacon, with HP.
Cos when the Earl of Sandwich invented the dish, hard washers made of a substance entirely unlike bread had thankfully not invaded our fair shores with their pseudo bread pretensions
Next you'll be tellin me a jaffa cake aint a biscuit.....
Does it pass the test?
If its hard and turns soft when left out - its a biscuit
If its soft and turns hard when left out - its a cake
Jaffa cake is a cake - QED
Next you will be telling us a lettuce and truffle oil wrap is a sandwich!
Cos when the Earl of Sandwich invented the dish, hard washers made of a substance entirely unlike bread had thankfully not invaded our fair shores with their pseudo bread pretensions
I have to take you up on that one mate, yes the ones from a pack are horrific but when you get a fresh one from a good baker....
Does it pass the test?
If its hard and turns soft when left out - its a biscuit
If its soft and turns hard when left out - its a cake
Jaffa cake is a cake - QED
Next you will be telling us a lettuce and truffle oil wrap is a sandwich!
Add to the list if it's treated at a VAT'able item, you have a biscut on your hands fella.
Also if we are getting in on the foreign breads, may I play a game of 1 up's manship with a 2am kebab on nan with HOT chilli sauce and about a gallon of mayo? been my sandwich of choice many a Friday and Saturday night.
When you're about three-quarters into a 40-hour-day, half a dozen rounds of honey & peanut butter gets you fired up for the last lap.
Another myth debunked:
History
English sandwiches, crustless on a plate
Sandwich with fried egg, tomato and cucumber
The ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder is said to have wrapped meat from the Paschal lamb and bitter herbs between two pieces of old-fashioned soft matzah, flat, unleavened bread, during Passover in the manner of a modern sandwich wrap made with flatbread.[SUP][6][/SUP] Flat breads of only slightly varying kinds have long been used to scoop or wrap small amounts of food en route from platter to mouth throughout Western Asia and northern Africa. From Morocco to Ethiopia to India, bread is baked in flat rounds, contrasting with the European loaf tradition.
Olive and red Tomato sandwich
During the Middle Ages in Europe, thick slabs of coarse and usually stale bread, called "trenchers", were used as plates.[SUP][7][/SUP] After a meal, the food-soaked trencher was fed to a dog or to beggars at the tables of the wealthy, and eaten by diners in more modest circumstances. Trenchers were the precursors of open-face sandwiches.[SUP][4][/SUP][SUP][dubious – discuss][/SUP] The immediate culinary precursor with a direct connection to the English sandwich was to be found in the Netherlands of the 17th century, where the naturalist John Ray observed[SUP][8][/SUP] that in the taverns beef hung from the rafters "which they cut into thin slices and eat with bread and butter laying the slices upon the butter"— explanatory specifications that reveal the Dutch belegde broodje, open faced sandwich, was as yet unfamiliar in England.
Initially perceived as food men shared while gaming and drinking at night, the sandwich slowly began appearing in polite society as a late-night meal among the aristocracy. The sandwich's popularity in Spain and England increased dramatically during the 19th century, when the rise of an industrial society and the working classes made fast, portable, and inexpensive meals essential.[SUP][9][/SUP]
It was at the same time that the sandwich finally began to appear outside of Europe. In the United States, the sandwich was first promoted as an elaborate meal at supper. By the early 20th century, as bread became a staple of the American diet, the sandwich became the same kind of popular, quick meal as was already widespread in the Mediterranean.[SUP][9][/SUP]
I grant you no good night out is complete without one....its just not a sandwich.
No good night out is complete without a couple of Caol Ilas.
But two Caol Ilas wrapped around a pint of poachers choice does not a sandwich make
I beg to differ, the sandwich is very much a subset of "random stuff associated with wheat based bakery products".
Brown bread
Cheese, egg mayonnaise, beatroot, cucumber, sweet corn, cress and branston pickle
Difficult to eat, but soooooo worth it!
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Cheese, egg mayonnaise, beatroot, cucumber, sweet corn, cress and branston pickle
Difficult to eat, but soooooo worth it!
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