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.
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?
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.
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!
This isn’t typical cuisine, this reads much more extremely poor so all I have is bread and fortunately butter.
I feel like I’m the strange person for answering yes, I eat these now and again. I like to toast only the middle slice, and when it is done, butter salt and pepper both sides. The butter soaks in and softens the toasted slice up again, but it keeps a chew. Gives it a meaty texture that way.
“Yo dawg, I heard you liked bread…”
For a while, I was toasting sandwhiches by stacking the top bread piece under the bottom one with topings on top of it. You end up with a sandwich (with actual sandwich toppings) just toasted on the inside and soft on the outside.
I love the texture just like I loved putting plain potato chips between two pieces of bread. Soft then crunch.
I ate a lot of good food when I visited the UK. Honestly anyone who claims <place> has only bad food has a skill issue.
Yeah I agree, there was always weird things like every culture, blood pudding and stuff, but generally there is absolutely nothing wrong with average UK food, except it’s not that healthy.
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.
Not even my dad ate this and he liked all sorts of crazy rationing-era foods he’d grown up with in the war.
Ok, Brits… what is GOOD British food? Fish ‘n Chips? Mushy Peas? Full English? Sunday Roast? I’ve been to the UK more times than I can count and even the Pubs often serve international fare instead of Spotted Dick.
Not a Brit but I would add the different pies/shepherd pies etc to that list. But really I don’t think you can not count the imported cuisine because I do love getting Indian, Caribbean, etc when I’m there. Even Italian TBH you can get some nice pizza (but not quite like Italy obviously).
I quite like Yorkshire puddings.
But I agree, British cuisine is pretty beige in vibe
Wasn’t this like midwar bombing rations when things got bad or something?
Funny enough, a lot of popular food today was invented due to a food scarcity with people forced to make due with what they had on hand.
Tikka Masala is pretty fuggin’ good. And you lot did invent Worcestershire sauce. Oh, and your packaged snacks? Hugely better than the crap we get in the states. But you can have Mushy Peas.
Worcestershire sauce was a recreation of an Indian sauce by a pair of English men.
Tikki Masala was invented by a Pakistani chef living in Scotland.
Technically both British creations, but I feel like it’s hard to list them as fully British in origin.
Nothing more Bri’ish than colonization, innit?
Is immigration colonisation?
In a sense, yes. Most former colonial empires have a rather large population of immigrants from their past colonies.
Worcestershire sauce was a recreation of an Indian sauce by a pair of English men.
The company has also claimed that “Lord Sandys, ex-Governor of Bengal” encountered it while in India with the East India Company in the 1830s, and commissioned the local pharmacists (the partnership of John Wheeley Lea and William Perrins of 63 Broad Street, Worcester) to recreate it. However, neither Marcus Lord Sandys nor any Baron Sandys was ever a Governor of Bengal, nor had they ever visited India as far as available records indicate.
So you’re saying immigrants can’t be British?
You could make a religion out this
Kind of like chop suey, there’s nothing Chinese about it.
Bread sandwiches were popular in the US too when they got the machines to refine grain, and remove the endosperm from the outer coating of the seed where all the vitamins are, they would put a slice of white bread from that processing inbetween two pieces of coarse bread from the whole grain.
Mmm…bread.
I’ve made it out of curiosity. It tasted like buttered toast with pepper. Honestly pretty good
