What's your favorite English sandwich?
May 4th, 2005, 04:14 AM
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I can't wait to get back to the UK for the food. I can't imagine anyone not liking it. Of course, we all have likes and dislikes, but the food, sandwiches, etc in UK are much more interesting than in Canada and US. If you bought a sandwich here in a grocery store, you would not be sure how long it was sitting there, and most of the ingredients are very boring. Going into a grocery store, big or small in the UK is unbelievable. The selection is endless. Everything is very fresh and could have been made in a gourmet kitchen. My son found a delicious cheesecake in Marks and Spencer. It comes in a package of two pieces, which he has no problem eating. It is as good as any you would get in a fine restaurant. I could go on and on about the food in the UK. I think the NY traveller needs to be a little more open to new things.
May 4th, 2005, 06:32 AM
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My personal favourites, though unsure whether they are 'English' or not are:
1) Sliced banana on very fresh white bread with real butter (spread just doesn't have the right flavour to complement the other two ingredients)
2) Chopped hard-boiled egg mixed with salad cream (preferably Heinz) and chopped onion
3) Fishfingers and tomato ketchup - with maybe a slice of cheese if I'm feeling 'naughty'
Clearly none have any great nutritional value - but you only live once!!
1) Sliced banana on very fresh white bread with real butter (spread just doesn't have the right flavour to complement the other two ingredients)
2) Chopped hard-boiled egg mixed with salad cream (preferably Heinz) and chopped onion
3) Fishfingers and tomato ketchup - with maybe a slice of cheese if I'm feeling 'naughty'
Clearly none have any great nutritional value - but you only live once!!
May 4th, 2005, 07:16 AM
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I lived in Scotland many years ago and really enjoyed two strange but tasty sandwiches.
At the YMCA in Dunoon they used to serve hamburgers which were unlike anything I ever had in the States. It was square shaped with a grain-like crunch to it. It might not even have been beef but it was greasy and tasty.
Also in Scotland, while in Aviemore I hit a sandwich truck (know in the U.S. as a Roach Coach) for a late night snack. I ordered a burger (more of the normal type) but they topped it with a fried egg! Genius!
Fun post. Thanks,
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At the YMCA in Dunoon they used to serve hamburgers which were unlike anything I ever had in the States. It was square shaped with a grain-like crunch to it. It might not even have been beef but it was greasy and tasty.
Also in Scotland, while in Aviemore I hit a sandwich truck (know in the U.S. as a Roach Coach) for a late night snack. I ordered a burger (more of the normal type) but they topped it with a fried egg! Genius!
Fun post. Thanks,
mm
May 4th, 2005, 07:34 AM
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When I was a kid we would regularly go to a shop that specialised in Savaloy Dip sandwiches.
The savaloy is basically a well seasoned sausage and the dip was the liquid that they were cooked in (boiled) and they were topped off with pease pudding which is salty tasting mashed up peas.
Doesn't sound so appealing now but it certainly used to hit the spot.
Geordie
The savaloy is basically a well seasoned sausage and the dip was the liquid that they were cooked in (boiled) and they were topped off with pease pudding which is salty tasting mashed up peas.
Doesn't sound so appealing now but it certainly used to hit the spot.
Geordie
May 4th, 2005, 07:38 AM
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Oldie, you are too harsh.
Chicken friend steak is fabulous.
Not sure what you mean about gravy? There is something called breakfast gravy which is a white sauce made from the drippings from breakfast sausage. That is a southern speciality as is the CFS.
Lot's of good pizza here and lot's of not-so-good.
In the U.S. you are just as likely to find a simple vinegarette as you will 'Thousand Island dressing'. Agree that TID is awful but everyone loves Ranch Dressing, invented in the U.S.
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Chicken friend steak is fabulous.
Not sure what you mean about gravy? There is something called breakfast gravy which is a white sauce made from the drippings from breakfast sausage. That is a southern speciality as is the CFS.
Lot's of good pizza here and lot's of not-so-good.
In the U.S. you are just as likely to find a simple vinegarette as you will 'Thousand Island dressing'. Agree that TID is awful but everyone loves Ranch Dressing, invented in the U.S.
mm
May 4th, 2005, 11:00 AM
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Why in the world would you want to return to the UK to eat an old breakfast bap from Little Chef or a prawn sandwich from Pret-a-Manger? Are you as daft as Miss Havisham? Even the thought of a Marmite sandwich is enough to give me the shivers. Some of you would probably get all gushy over Nigela Lawson frying up a cheese sandwich on the telly. Are you really that green?? There are fabulous restaurants in London, so why do you want to eat a dog's dinner? Baked beans on toast? Yukkkkkkkkkkkkk! I am going to make a pool of sick.
May 4th, 2005, 12:32 PM
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I am a big fan of food wherever I go, England, the States, or wherever, but I too must come to the defense of chicken-fried steak and “country” gravy, aka “white” gravy, or “flour” gravy.
It must have CHUNKS of well-seasoned sausage, plenty of salt, and tons of black pepper. A friend visiting from England was fascinated with the American fixation for a breakfast of “biscuits and gravy,” he tried it once and thought he’d died and gone to heaven.
(Of course our gravy was white and the biscuits weren’t “cookies”.)
He was also puzzled by the chicken-fried steak and why it was thus named. It is simply an inexpensive cut of steak pounded the thinner the better and coated in a dredge or battered as one would before frying a chicken. (Generally a mixture of salt, pepper, flour and egg.) It can be deep fried or cooked on a hot griddle.
A warning though, if you’re trying either dish for the first time make very sure you’re in the Midwest or the Deep South. I’ve had white gravy in NYC from which we saved the leftovers and went back and patched the wallpaper at our hotel.
And, just one more thing, one of the best sandwiches in the world is the all-American chili dog. Chicago, New York, Kansas City, Dallas, wherever, they are all the same yet all quite different and no where else in the world makes them like the Yanks do.
It must have CHUNKS of well-seasoned sausage, plenty of salt, and tons of black pepper. A friend visiting from England was fascinated with the American fixation for a breakfast of “biscuits and gravy,” he tried it once and thought he’d died and gone to heaven.
(Of course our gravy was white and the biscuits weren’t “cookies”.)
He was also puzzled by the chicken-fried steak and why it was thus named. It is simply an inexpensive cut of steak pounded the thinner the better and coated in a dredge or battered as one would before frying a chicken. (Generally a mixture of salt, pepper, flour and egg.) It can be deep fried or cooked on a hot griddle.
A warning though, if you’re trying either dish for the first time make very sure you’re in the Midwest or the Deep South. I’ve had white gravy in NYC from which we saved the leftovers and went back and patched the wallpaper at our hotel.
And, just one more thing, one of the best sandwiches in the world is the all-American chili dog. Chicago, New York, Kansas City, Dallas, wherever, they are all the same yet all quite different and no where else in the world makes them like the Yanks do.
May 4th, 2005, 12:32 PM
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Stay ThinGorgeous...but let me ask, with all the money one could ever need, access and entry to the world's finest restaurants...wontcha still want the occasional scrapple sandwich? (A Philadelphia "specialty" that no one is ambivalent about, it is loathed or loved...!)
May 4th, 2005, 04:40 PM
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SharonG, when I lived in NYC I had a fried Taylor pork, fried egg, and cheese sandwich with salt, pepper and ketchup on a good hard roll everyday for breakfast. Everyone I worked with called them heartattack sandwiches.
I cannot get good hard rolls where I live now. I also have to special order the Taylor ham.
Now that I am grown up I skip the ketchup, and put it on an everything bagel. I also only have it every Tuesday as a treat.
I cannot get good hard rolls where I live now. I also have to special order the Taylor ham.
Now that I am grown up I skip the ketchup, and put it on an everything bagel. I also only have it every Tuesday as a treat.
May 5th, 2005, 06:21 AM
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Run out of town????? Darling, I have been here for years. I couldn't care less of what some poorly dressed slags think of me. I am a star.
Suzie, I would rather wear a JCPenney shirt (I'm gagging) than eat scrapple. Good Gucci, next you will be pushing a SPAM sandwich off on me.
Suzie, I would rather wear a JCPenney shirt (I'm gagging) than eat scrapple. Good Gucci, next you will be pushing a SPAM sandwich off on me.
May 5th, 2005, 07:34 AM
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UGH I hate Scrapple 
Yes, chicken fried steak and white sausage gravy (even better with venison sausage!) is a southern thing, and best tried there. I'm transplanted yankee in the south, and had to 'acquire' the taste over years.
However, back to sandwiches -- I had an unusual sandwich in Scotland at the highland games -- an ostrich burger, fried up with chopped onions. It was great!!!
Yes, chicken fried steak and white sausage gravy (even better with venison sausage!) is a southern thing, and best tried there. I'm transplanted yankee in the south, and had to 'acquire' the taste over years.
However, back to sandwiches -- I had an unusual sandwich in Scotland at the highland games -- an ostrich burger, fried up with chopped onions. It was great!!!
