Not even my dad ate this and he liked all sorts of crazy rationing-era foods he’d grown up with in the war.
This isn’t typical cuisine, this reads much more extremely poor so all I have is bread and fortunately butter.
British food cannot be taken seriously
Or maybe it’s Browntish, idk
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
Ive had it a couple of times, for a laugh, while broke as a joke. Only just discovered that i didnt invent it though.
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.
Yeah because nobody eats that.
Sounds delicious imho
Someone made this after discussion here or on reddit, I can’t remember, and said it was surprisingly good.
In my 5 decades of Britishness I’ve never ever heard of a toast sandwich. And for one and a half of those decades we were so poor that we sometimes had sugar sandwiches just so we wouldn’t starve.
But, yeah, I’d give it a go. Hell, I may even have one today.
sugar sandwiches
Fairy bread without butter?
can’t tell you how many mornings i had to make cinnamon toast for the ex’s kid before taking him to school
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.
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.
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
Don’t knock it until you’ve been on rationed flour for several years
Fry your flour in butter.
Also rationed.
Even better, butter the outside too and fry the toast in it. Melts in your mouth! Makes a lot of smoke in the kitchen, but melts in your mouth.
People eat this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisp_sandwich
It’s essentially the same.
They even have it pre-made.
Aer Lingus Tayto crisp sandwich pack
Carbs are good for a hangover if anyone wonders why most British foods are full of carbs.
Somebody is a texture eater
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
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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.
