How have the mighty fallen? OT.

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:50:16 +0100, Mary Fisher wrote (in article ):

Sometimes I think it would be nice to have the choice. Unfortunately I don't. However, I find nowadays that I don't actually want sugar or even sweetener in things.

In comparison with what happens in the U.S. we are a long way from being a nation of sweet tooths though. Some of their low carbohydrate, sugar free products are sickly beyond belief.

Andy Hall surprised us with

Some of their governments too!

I can't stand tea, but a sugar sandwich goes down very nicely.

Alan

Oooh.....good call. Its been a right while since I've had one of those!

Glen

Demerara is extra crunchy! While we're back in the nursery, have you tried strawberry jam on mashed potatoes? Graham

No, but some parts of Lancashire put sugar on tomatoes.

Alan

Not just Lancashire.

Marmalade goes well with kippers.

And sixty years ago my godfather introduced me to plain chocolate sandwiches, which I loved. In later years I discovered that it was frightfully fashionable when it was called pain au chocolat (touching on the topic).

Mary

In message , Mary Fisher writes

Sis used to love beetroot sandwiches. However, that has not 'taken off' anywhere:(

How do you make chocolate sandwiches?

Alan

Take a slice of good white bread and butter it. Lay a slab of chocolate on it. Cover it with an inverted slice of buttered bread.

Repeat.

Mary

"Alan Holmes" typed

Put chocolate between slices of buttered bread, I should think.

I have childhood memories of wafer-thin slices of plain chocolate we had on trips to our Copenhagen grandparents, and of chocolate vermicelli (made of decent chocolate) we sprikled on Matzo at Passover.

I first encountered chocolate vermicelli on buttered bread nearly 40 years ago, in Amsterdam. That, and coffee, was the breakfast provided in the hostel I was staying in.

Sheila

S Viemeister typed

My 'childhood memories' would date back to around 1966 too.

It was probably my Flemish/British grandmother who introduced me to chocolate vemicelli on buttered bread...

And nuked in the mw for a few seconds:-)) Graham

I think you have to be an Elvis Presley to get something like that going. He loved banana and bacon sandwiches. Look how he ended.

In message , Umbrian writes

Actually, banana and bacon butties sound quite tasty.

The message from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

French kids snap a row of blocks off a bar of chocolate and poke it into a baguette.

I've put on half a stone just reading these posts :-(

Mary

Not quite the same, but I seem to remember Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall making strawberry sandwiches sprinkled with black pepper.