Are there really no comments? OK, I'm going to post a comment: you should try actual English bacon, the core of this sandwich. Your essay about what American bacon meant to you and what a disappointment it was was both touching and entertaining, but of course the English don't just eat American bacon on bread with HP sauce, that would be disgusting, they eat ENGLISH bacon on bread with HP sauce.
It's still disgusting, but at least it tastes good. English bacon is made from the back and loin, so it's meatier and leaner than American bacon which is just made from the belly.
Ted Cruz also is not putting anything over on the ultra-moroons. They know he's a BLT. They can read him as well as the rest of us do.
Oh, and about the bacon:
• Good bacon is or will be the downfall of vegetarians. I speak from vast experience here, so don't argue. Good bacon (apparently, the kind you have not yet experienced) is better than any other meat item, even the really good pastrami, or the thuringer from the old deli, or the impossibly-thin sliced Italian ultra-dry salami...
I subscibed before I read a post. I thought it was a history of food blog. IT IS NOT. BUT, I thoroughly loved it anyway. What we eat, when, and where is an integral part of our personal, family, and community identity. As a white Christian raised in rural Nebraska, now living in rural Kansas, I appreciate your introspection for adding to my knowledge of other identities.
As a fellow jewish kid who grew up not eating much pork but who also didn't like lox, I also missed out on the joy of bacon sandwiches as a kid. It wasn't until I started dating my now-husband who is Irish Catholic and his family introduced me to their favorite breakfast sandwich, which they call "Irish Lox": a BAGEL with CREAM CHEESE and BACON that I was truly able to appreciate what bacon could bring to a sandwich. It's so simple, but SO GOOD.
Ralph's comment here is spot-on: crispy American bacon is a very different thing to English bacon which is meaty and has a mix of textures and isn't just salty and crispy. A bacon sarnie doesn't work with American bacon but it is majestic with English bacon. I preferred mine with plain white bread (untoasted) and lashings of butter and -- shock, horror! -- ketchup instead of HP sauce. My (American) wife thinks English bacon is horrible -- but we are two cultures separated by a common language so that's no surprise.
Are there really no comments? OK, I'm going to post a comment: you should try actual English bacon, the core of this sandwich. Your essay about what American bacon meant to you and what a disappointment it was was both touching and entertaining, but of course the English don't just eat American bacon on bread with HP sauce, that would be disgusting, they eat ENGLISH bacon on bread with HP sauce.
It's still disgusting, but at least it tastes good. English bacon is made from the back and loin, so it's meatier and leaner than American bacon which is just made from the belly.
Ted Cruz is a bacon-latticed turkey.
Ted Cruz also is not putting anything over on the ultra-moroons. They know he's a BLT. They can read him as well as the rest of us do.
Oh, and about the bacon:
• Good bacon is or will be the downfall of vegetarians. I speak from vast experience here, so don't argue. Good bacon (apparently, the kind you have not yet experienced) is better than any other meat item, even the really good pastrami, or the thuringer from the old deli, or the impossibly-thin sliced Italian ultra-dry salami...
I subscibed before I read a post. I thought it was a history of food blog. IT IS NOT. BUT, I thoroughly loved it anyway. What we eat, when, and where is an integral part of our personal, family, and community identity. As a white Christian raised in rural Nebraska, now living in rural Kansas, I appreciate your introspection for adding to my knowledge of other identities.
As a fellow jewish kid who grew up not eating much pork but who also didn't like lox, I also missed out on the joy of bacon sandwiches as a kid. It wasn't until I started dating my now-husband who is Irish Catholic and his family introduced me to their favorite breakfast sandwich, which they call "Irish Lox": a BAGEL with CREAM CHEESE and BACON that I was truly able to appreciate what bacon could bring to a sandwich. It's so simple, but SO GOOD.
A bacon sandwich doesn't need sauce. Save the HP/A1 sauce for a sausage sandwich/bap/roll.
Ralph's comment here is spot-on: crispy American bacon is a very different thing to English bacon which is meaty and has a mix of textures and isn't just salty and crispy. A bacon sarnie doesn't work with American bacon but it is majestic with English bacon. I preferred mine with plain white bread (untoasted) and lashings of butter and -- shock, horror! -- ketchup instead of HP sauce. My (American) wife thinks English bacon is horrible -- but we are two cultures separated by a common language so that's no surprise.