Do people eat this?

Mmmm the fabled half english.

I tried the fabled beans on toast and i was shocked when I bit into the toast that there was butter on the toast. It was a dumb thing to be shocked by but I did not expect it 😂.

That being said, it looks really stupid in person because it's literally toast with a ton of beans. Taste wise, it was ok.

Here's a crappy photo:

Compliments to the british chef

If you think you can make something not bland with just butter, salt and pepper, you may be a Brit.

The crunch of the toast vs the softness of the bread. The saltiness and richness of the butter against the spice of the pepper.

It’s got contrast across two food metrics! Beats the shit out of PB&Js, and you don’t get peanut fragments stuck in your teeth.

It’s poverty food (for when butter didn’t cost $20/kg), but it’s not half bad.

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.

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..

They have the best bacon

I couldn't have one now, but scotch eggs look great.

But did you get a Meal Deal?

Fry your flour in butter.

Are you Native American?

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!

You're half right. Wiki says it's been around since at least Victorian times, but the modern version revival happened as you say

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich

I can understand the appeal of a piece of bread that's been soaked or buttered or even just toasted and salted. I bet that's delicious, if done right.

My question is, why the other two slices of bread? What's the thinking there? Why not have three slices of delicious middle bread? If the bread is good enough on its own, why not eat it alone?

It's like if you made a drink of tepid water by adding ice cubes to a glass of warmed water and then letting them completely melt until room temperature. Who is this recipe for? "Oh, but maybe the ice cubes are flavored" OK then why freeze them before melting them? "Maybe the hot water is flavored with herbs that rele-" Bitch, that's tea.

I'm so confused, I'm getting mad at imaginary arguments I'm having with hypothetical morons about analogous situations that only exist in my head.

They refused to use the spices, not the brown people.

very funny and all, but most of the "indian" food westerners are used to was invented in the UK

Your not improving the reputation of British food your just making the reputation of Michelin stars worse

Yeah, and I'll bet there's duck fat on that sandwich.

Yeah ngl I tried this about a decade ago for shits and giggles

Given I wasn't expecting much, I was pleasantly surprised!

For Americans that aren't getting it, you know how hard shell tacos are good, but taco bell wraps it in a tortilla sometimes for a bit of decadence?

Toast is good, why doesn't it also deserve a jacket from time to time?

OTOH, I have better sandwich fillings than just more bread, so I've never done it since. Might as well make a club sandwich if I'm having that much bread

If all you have is bread, you should try eating it rather than fucking it, though.

Mustard crackers are the bomb if that's all you have in the fridge.

I dare say potatoes are cheaper than bread.
And you can turn them into a more filling, more nutricious and better-tasting meal with nothing but salt and vegetable oil.

I have not seen bread this cheap anywhere.

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.

Someone made this after discussion here or on reddit, I can't remember, and said it was surprisingly good.

It's strangely tasty.

Tried it when I first heard about this and somehow the crunch and the butter work really well with the untoasted 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.

"Yo dawg, I heard you liked bread..."

Well you can't crave what you've never had.

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.

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.

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.

You can also get curry sauce with your fish and chips.

Mmm...bread.

Seriously though!

Textural variation makes food interesting for the mouth. That's why fresh, crisp lettuce is so good in a sandwich - not because lettuce tastes of anything, but because it gives that satisfying crunch.

Texture is why we put croutons in soup, and why we sprinkle crispy onions on a hot-dog.

I've never eaten a toast sandwich, but if all I had left in the house was bread and butter, it might be quite fun to try.

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

I played a game of it once and one of the pictures was a paving slab

I gag every time I see one of those pies drowned in mystery sauce and mushy peas. Texture hell!!

Because you toast the middle piece, and butter it.

People did all the time when they first started making white bread. They would put a piece of that inbtween two pieces of coarse whole grain bread. It doesn't sound palatable now because our palettes are so corrupted with sugar. Well, yours presumably are.

I still do this. I save easily $200/month eating it 3 days a week. Pro tip: the bread and bologna at Aldis is S tier and with the right addons and seasonings it’s a fantastic light meal.

Carbs are good for a hangover if anyone wonders why most British foods are full of carbs.

Uh, your average breakfast in the U.S. was basically a shitload of protein and potatoes in the 19th century. Idk about you but I definitely like pork, oatmeal, fried potatoes, eggs — with a couple pieces of toast that's all I need in current year.