What's your favorite English sandwich?
 

As England is home of the sandwich just wondered what your favorite filling was and where did you buy it? Mines bacon, cheese and pickle from a little sandwich bar near the Tower of London

Best sandwich? Any sandwich served in the Orangery at Kensington Palace. Yum, yum, yum. The Earl would certainly approve.

Cucumber sandwiches with butter spread and dill at tea time.

I've tried everywhere, but can't find a decent sandwich in England, or elsewhere in the UK. They always put butter on everything, which is pretty nasty the first few times you order a sandwich and ask for mayo/salad cream, too.

Bacon sandwiches. Nothing else necessary, just the bacon (which is more like Canadian bacon or country ham here in the U.S.) and good bread.

Not English, per se, but I got hooked on the simple tomato, cheese and baguette sandwiches.

Salmon and watercress from Pret a Manger!!<BR>Liam, what else do you put on them if not butter? Something synthetic?

Bacon Bap. A guilty pleasure.

tuna mayonaise and sweetcorn<BR><BR>yum

Liam, if you don't want butter then just say so!!! I'm English and I don't like butter or any equivalent in my sandwiches either. If you order a sandwich in a place which makes them up in front or you, after you state what you want just say "no butter". Simple. Pre-packaged is more difficult, although most will list the ingredients so you can check. Pret a Manger never put butter in their sandwiches, so you are safe in there! <BR> <BR>My current faves are Pret's Chicken Caesar sandwich or goats cheese with roasted sweet peppers. You can't beat cheese and pickle on fresh thick white bread, or a good old bacon sarnie either. Yum.

Pret a Manger uses some wierd sauce on many of its sandwiches. Not sure what it is but its like a Mayo with tarragon and cilantro. Only time in recent history that I saw my wife gag while eating something.

I love egg and mayo, also BLT and prawn salad... mmmmm.....

I drove my friends nuts when we were in London always asking for a simple tomato and cheese sandwich, if it came toasted I was in heaven.

You may be interested to know that the bacon sandwich (which is why god invented pigs and wheat) causes an almost seismic rift in England.<BR><BR>In the North the poor folk up there (who have to find bacon and bread in bins) put brown sauce on them. The thing is they're quite Taliban like about this, refusing to accept the truth.<BR><BR>Whereas we southern sophisticates know that only Heinz tomato ketchup will do. <BR><BR>In Scotland they just deep-fry them.<BR><BR>Some people eh?

The simple things can be the best. Egg and cress, bacon bap (guilty pleasure indeed, Grasshopper), or a good cheese and tomato. I'm getting a little sick of the trend to put tarragon or garlic aioli or chipotle on everything.

Please tell those of us who don't know what a Bacon Bap is.

Elise, I'm afraid there's no great mystery to a bacon bap. It's simply a hot bacon roll (english style bacon of course, not those strange crispy things eaten in the US), the bread roll being a bit like the buns you have with a hamburger.

Thanks, Kate, for the quick reply! Does it have butter or mayonnaise or anything like that on it as well?

With or without butter, depending on your preference, and as David pointed out, you may, if you wich, add ketchup or brown sauce. I'm a brown sauce girl myself :-)

One more question: what's brown sauce? Can you get it in the U.S.? (As you can tell, I know nothing about English food!)