Compo's sandwich
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dick
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I'll never be so daft has to have brown sauce on bacon
Red sauce is for Corned Beef sarnies! :me: :me:
WHAT?? WHAT?? What is this blasphemy??
Pickle on corned beef man!!
Good grief I know some rouges !!
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brendalovescompo
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Thanks for the info on our Cheddar, will check out the cheese section in the grocery to try some overseas cheddar to see the difference. Big Unc, we have the english mustard in our grocery and we love it. It doesn't take much,and you can tell it has horseradish in it. Our American cheese must be bland to you, after tasting some sharp cheddars in our stores. Just what we were brought up on. :smile:
cciaffone
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Cabot (NY, NH, and Vermont) do produce some really sharpish
Extra Sharp and Super (!!!) Sharp cheddars, and some of the
specialty stores carry some extra-expensive sharp cheddars
that you may well like.
My memory of the village of Cheddar is walking along the pavement
as an out-of-control small truck came barreling thru the main
intersection, swinging up on the pavement, and striking sparks
off the building walls as the passenger leapt out and ran out of
town quickly. I swept up my wife and another couple and pushed us
down an alley as the truck swept by. Whew!! The village traffic was
then jammed to a stop for quite some time.
Did you visit the caves? There brilliant.
Random thoughts engendered by others since I last posted:
I confess that in US my food shopping was somewhat confined to supermarkets and not speciality stores where I might have got tasty Cheddar.
Corn beef sandwiches - must be real doorsteps with thick cut tinned Fray Bentos corned beef - none of your thinly sliced supermarket namby pamby delicacies - and the only pickle which will do is Branstons (and not your small diced sandwich variety.
Caves in Cheddar - yes, brilliant but so are those in Port Royal, Virginia.
I referred to horseradish sauce but I that was not connected to English Mustard as someone seemed to think. I know someone does produce a horseradish mustard but I was referring to two separate entities, English Mustard (must be Colmans) and horseradish sauce.
One of best and hottest horseradish sauces I ever tasted was in Cocoa Beach, Florida. An English bar, every weekday afternoon around 5 pm started dishing out beautiful hot roast beef sandwiches with their horseradish sauce.
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I confess that in US my food shopping was somewhat confined to supermarkets and not speciality stores where I might have got tasty Cheddar.
Corn beef sandwiches - must be real doorsteps with thick cut tinned Fray Bentos corned beef - none of your thinly sliced supermarket namby pamby delicacies - and the only pickle which will do is Branstons (and not your small diced sandwich variety.
Caves in Cheddar - yes, brilliant but so are those in Port Royal, Virginia.
I referred to horseradish sauce but I that was not connected to English Mustard as someone seemed to think. I know someone does produce a horseradish mustard but I was referring to two separate entities, English Mustard (must be Colmans) and horseradish sauce.
One of best and hottest horseradish sauces I ever tasted was in Cocoa Beach, Florida. An English bar, every weekday afternoon around 5 pm started dishing out beautiful hot roast beef sandwiches with their horseradish sauce.
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codfanglers
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I think I will take on Big Unc's random thoughts approach to this thread.
My grandmother on my dad's side (the Nora-esque one) would slice glazed donuts in half and butter the insides!!!!! Everyone I mentioned thos to (including myself) thought this was crazy. I would never do it.
OK, now I read a few of you butter both sides of a piece of bread! Doesn't that stick to the plate? Anyway, my great-grandmother on my mom's side would butter both sides of each piece of bread in a grilled cheese sandwich! So she buttered all sides of 2 pieces of bread, and then buttered the pot, and then made the sandwhich. Now thats A LOT of butter ( but I imagine that would be tasty, although unhealthy).
Both these grandmas were of German descent and I kind of thought heavy use of butter was a German thing ( but maybe not).
My Kenyan wife has some food tastes from other European areas, so we end up using mayonaisse on sandwiches sometimes. But the bread has to have something on it so its not dry.
And finally, back to the original idea of the thread, Compo's giant sandwich. It reminded me of a time I met a Swedish girl on a tourist bus from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon. She was the stereotypical Scandinavian in the land of big eaters. The bus stopped at a convenient store/ grocery shop and I was hungry. I found this gigantic type of sandwich and was so happy I had to show her what I found. The look on her face said it all, she thought I was crazy.
My grandmother on my dad's side (the Nora-esque one) would slice glazed donuts in half and butter the insides!!!!! Everyone I mentioned thos to (including myself) thought this was crazy. I would never do it.
OK, now I read a few of you butter both sides of a piece of bread! Doesn't that stick to the plate? Anyway, my great-grandmother on my mom's side would butter both sides of each piece of bread in a grilled cheese sandwich! So she buttered all sides of 2 pieces of bread, and then buttered the pot, and then made the sandwhich. Now thats A LOT of butter ( but I imagine that would be tasty, although unhealthy).
Both these grandmas were of German descent and I kind of thought heavy use of butter was a German thing ( but maybe not).
My Kenyan wife has some food tastes from other European areas, so we end up using mayonaisse on sandwiches sometimes. But the bread has to have something on it so its not dry.
And finally, back to the original idea of the thread, Compo's giant sandwich. It reminded me of a time I met a Swedish girl on a tourist bus from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon. She was the stereotypical Scandinavian in the land of big eaters. The bus stopped at a convenient store/ grocery shop and I was hungry. I found this gigantic type of sandwich and was so happy I had to show her what I found. The look on her face said it all, she thought I was crazy.
codfanglers
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If the Aldi version is anything to go by I wouldn't bother
Aldi isn't the same thing as Lidl, is it????
codfanglers
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Yes, I saw a special on Cornish Pastries one time. At the edge of the pastry is a thick crimpled crust and this was not usually eaten. It served as a handle as they would hold it there with their dirty hands and ate the rest of the pastry.
codfanglers
Dedicated Member
OK, part of this might sound confusing. I meant to say that this was a stereotypically THIN Scandinavian girl. Basically she munched on small fruits and veggies while I had this "Doorstep-like sandwich".
cciaffone
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Nope, but Aldi and Lidl are two very similar food stores. I
believe that they are both German-owned. We have been
in both while in Yorkshire, but here in Durham NC we have
only Aldi (thus far).
Aldi and Lidl were owned by rival brothers and although has already said the brands are of the unknown verity in recent years well known brands have been sneaking in at a lower prices than most supermarkets. ie; Hovis bread £1.50 in some shops in Aldi its 89p. I usually shop at Aldi for some items. The biscuits are good and the kids pop and and other treats too. They do a very nice version of Magnum ice cream which I'm partial to.
PS I really must stop getting up at 3am and posting things on the internet. Sorry for the eligible ramblings
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PS I really must stop getting up at 3am and posting things on the internet. Sorry for the eligible ramblings
Why limit this to 3 am (03:00)? :wink::wink::wink:
And for what, precisely, are your ramblings eligible?
(We direct descendants of Robin Hood, we thrive on danger).
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Why limit this to 3 am (03:00)? :wink::wink::wink:
And for what, precisely, are your ramblings eligible?
(We direct descendants of Robin Hood, we thrive on danger).
:respect::respect:
Did I tell you I was heading your way in October?
My day time ramblings are usually punctuated and with a spelling average of about 80% where as my wee small hour ramblings have a spelling average of 50% but you have to give me credit for going back and proofreading in the daylight hours.
PS I really must stop getting up at 3am and posting things on the internet. Sorry for the eligible ramblings
I continue to struggle over what you mean by 'eligible' ramblings (or which epithet you intended). I certainly conjectured on 'indelicate' ramblings but thought you might be unprepared to admit your tendency to solecisms. They cannot be 'illegible' since we can read them, given that they are typed. Yes, I do admit we struggle at times. In the end I suppose my conclusion would be that you were seeking after 'unintelligible'. But as always, I could be lying.
And talking about lying, I was wandering through ASDA last evening and realised one cheese apart from Cheddar which I do approve of (whoops, make that read 'of which I do approve'), for sandwiches is Double Gloucester. But there is an element of convenience thing about it. What I buy is Double Gloucester cheese slices with onions and chives. Fit neatly into Warburtons' sandwich thins - the seeded variety of course.
I only realised recently that there is a Single Gloucester cheese.
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