Doc 40: THIS IS A BACON SANDWICH

Sunday, November 11, 2012

THIS IS A BACON SANDWICH

6 comments:

Johnny Haddo said...: wot no egg..??; 1:30 PM
jago said...: an where's the HP sauce???; 2:31 PM
Ed Ward said...: Your American readers thank you for the clarification.; 10:04 AM
Anonymous said...: Ah a Bacon buttie, one of lifes true pleasures.; 1:28 PM
Maggie M'Gill said...: We used to measure the quality of other rugby clubs by how good the bacon rolls were from their canteens..; 1:13 PM
mike flugennock said...: I was turned on to the bacon sandwich via the "Post-Pub Nosh Deathmatch" series over at The Register. I'd never had a straight-up bacon sandwich before -- here in the Colonies, the "BLT" (Bacon, Lettuce & Tomato) is the big thing, but after reading the Register article, I decided I'd give it a shot.

What a wonderful surprise. Nice, satisfying, basic munchies. Mmmmm, bacon -- it's meat candy!

Commenters on the Register article all offered their own variations, including on with egg -- sorry, but when you put egg on it, it's not a bacon sandwich -- but my favorite is your basic two or three layers of bacon (fried until crisp) on light toast with a big healthy smear of what the Brits call "brown sauce" which, it turns out, is their equivalent of American "A1" sauce. The sauce I used was the Lea & Perrins "thick Worcestershire" which they're selling in the States now; it's about the same as A1, except based on Worcestershire, and I actually prefer it to A1 now as it's much spicier.

With all respect, this is the first UK "native dish" that I found appetizing (a Brit expat friend of mine likes to extol the virtues of eel pie, but I have to beg him to stop).; 11:51 AM

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