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How to spoil a bacon butty.

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As a kid we put all sorts of weird and wonderful things on bread to make Sandwiches.
Dad loved his Dripping... I had my bread and butter with sugar on..(margarine actually)
Norma..oh yuk! liked condensed milk on hers..(whats that about then?)
Mom believe it or not like ground nuts on her sarnies..and I swear on the love of my children this is true..we had one neighbour who used to eat hers with Kit-e-kat ...ohh I'm feeling a bit tickle stomached here!
We ate Stew sandwiches, cold meat sarnies..but my favourite was the good old Bacon butty...
I could eat them until the cows come home...not that I had the chance mind..
But do you want to know how you ruin a Bacon butty?
Put butter on it...(give me the Kit-e-Kat anyday..)
Oh shucks!! I had to just edit this, I forgot one of the great sarnies I still eat today...two pieces of bread smothered in Daddies favourite sauce...I've even got my daughter Nicky and my grandaughter eating them..cool huh?
 
You're absolutely correct about the oul' bacon sarnie - can't be beat. I have had to train Mrs paulj, not only about the butter but to stop her from toasting the bread. Best of all it should be created on hand sliced bread (a doorstep).

I once tried to prove to my kids that you could live on bacon sarnies by eating nothing else. I wound up fat, with greasy pimpled skin worse than that of the pig I was eating. :shock:

Anyone remember fish paste sarnies? Why was it you bought that Shiphams stuff in little jars of various sorts i.e. salmon & shrimp etc. but they all tasted exactly the same?
 
What flavour? What do they taste like? Where does "Himself" get 'em? :?: :?: :?:
 
Putting butter on a bacon sarnie? whoever would do such a thing. I once caused a scene in a posh cafe in Shrewsbury because of this very thing, I refused to eat it........ It's probably something they do in South Birmingham :P
Now had the bread been dipped in the fat? well you might have been able to make me eat it :wink: I still eat saucey peaces, and fish paste sarnies. The fishpaste now is not quite the same though? it doesn't taste so nice... Maybe thats because its kept in the fridge and not had time to ripen?
I must bring up the tomato dips once more, the sort you got at the local cafe, they contained a bit more than tomato though. I know as soon as John Houghton reads this, his mouth will water!!!!!
 
I have just polished off a couple of tomato dips laced with HP Sauce you must have been tuned in to my mind
 
:D As mentioned once before, some of the best bacon sarnies I ever had as a kid came from Silkies' cafe on Gt Lister St free of charge on a Saturday morning. Ther were also heaps of Crust dips in bacon fat and the tomato juice after the cafe had finished doing breakfasts and was starting on the lunch menu.
Then when I was over in 86 the nearest thing I found to those sarnies, was in the Milton Keynes bus station 8) , that is where I introduced my son to real ‘bacon sarnies’ as the food here tastes different somehow and Dean agrees with me and often talks about wishing he could have a real bacon sarnie again 8) .
Fish paste yum… we only get Pâtés here not the same at all. :)
 
He gets them at Tesco Paul, still in the little glass pots. They live n the bottom of the fridge, and when they are open smell as they always did. Foul. :D
 
Rod, don't start me and Sue off about tomato dips. She and I used to get ours from the same place, Fred's Café, in the corner of Queen's Head Road and Victoria Road. :P :P :P :P
 
Paul just go buy yourself some tomatoes, over-ripe one are good! sqish em in a pan, and add salt pepper and a little bacon fat!!!! MMMMMMMmmmmm
 
But it's also essential that the cheap white bread crusts dipped in the preparation are stale. :)
 
Yes Paul, for that authentic flavour one must use thick stale crusts!

If your feeling greedy you might like to add a couple of good sausages and another dip on top to make a super Sauage & Tom sarnie!!!!!!!
 
I've only recently discovered the difference in a sarnie and a butty: sarnie = a closed sandwich (a filling between two slices of bread or one folded over, butty = a slice of bread topped with whatever (anything from cheese to horse manure).

But we all knew that, didn't we? :lol:
 
:D When I was a kid it was "One piece, or two pieces' 8) - then I grew up and had to learn another language :!: :!: :!: :)
 
:D No Kandy it was Antipodean :wink: and Rod I do still do call them pieces at home, ut at Nursery school I would be certified if I called them any thing other than a sarnie :lol:
 
Fatty Harbuckle.

Also call them pieces and my kids know exactly what I mean. Although we don't live in Gods county anymore they have been dragged up proper. Howabout black pudding? Not a Brummie native dish I know but still wonderful. Must try and get down to a size 28 in time for Christmas and if that doesn't give Kandor something to say then nothing will. :roll: Oh ....and dripping,salt and toast. Crumbs, I'm that hungry now.
 
Re: Fatty Harbuckle.

Grace said:
Oh ....and dripping,salt and toast. Crumbs, I'm that hungry now.
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Grace, was that a deliberate pun, or the left overs from a bun? :lol:

Yup, pieces is pieces, ain't they? Hey, and don't waiters in hotels look at ya puzzled when you ask for a piece of toast with your breakfast?

Dunno whether it's pig's puddin' or black puddin' but it's great ain't it? :P
 
Full of Grace...

Grace? grace!! is that true? you're only a size 28? now..... 8)
 
Captain black (pudding)

I used to play Darts for several Pub teams..(I know it's a wild turn on, you'll just have to form a queue ladies)
Anyway, after the match they always brought round Cheese and Onion sandwiches and Black pudding, NONE of which I've ever liked..
There were only two pubs I ever liked for food afterwards, one was 'The Lamb' in Tamworth which did Chips and Sausage and the other one was when I played Match Snooker at 'Kingsbury Country club'
They put on Chips and Chicken Curry there..now I cant eat Chicken (not since Mom plucked Henrietta) but I used to love to dip my chips in the Curry sauce...ahh brilliant.
 
That's another fine pickle....

Yep Paul it was a pun, sorry. And Kandor, not so much a size 28 more of a small marquee size. There you have it, huge, freckled and red hair. Am I joking? That's for me to know. Knew you couldn't resist. And Paul what about pickled walnuts, great.
 
There used to be a pub in Needless Alley in the 50's, you stood at the bar I can't remember any seating. On the bar were huge chunks of real bread, and spanish onion. :D
When did they close that one down :!:
 
Tomato dips

All you tomato dippers out there. Try this. Instead of buying over-ripe toms and squashing and squishing, just buy a tin of tomato puree. It has a stronger tomato taste than fresh toms but not as strong as tomato ketchup or tomato paste. I discovered this by accident while making a curry. Now, I cook the bacon (or cumberland sausagees) and when they're done just pour some tomato puree into the pan, heat and then pour over bacon butty. Add HP sauce (if you like) and there you have an authentic tasting transport caff bacon butty.
 
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