You would possibly like yours with a dollop of ketchup or a squeeze of HP sauce. But, for the right bacon sandwich, it is truly finest so as to add nothing in any respect.
So claims a breakfast professional who says you want simply bread, butter and bacon on your sarnie. Adding the rest – akin to herbs, pomegranate seeds or perhaps a facet salad – is improper.
Guise Bule, chairman of the English Breakfast Society, stated the ‘British establishment’ ought to be made utilizing simply three elements after listening to about different spins on the breakfast butty.
He added: ‘[Britons] know precisely what a bacon sandwich is. It’s one thing that their mom used to make them with love and he or she used to make it the identical approach each time.
‘Toasted white sliced bread, mildly salted English butter, and good outdated British again bacon. There is solely no substitute.’
According to a breakfast professional, the right bacon sandwich must be toasted, however would not require sauce (inventory picture)
Guise Bule, chairman of the English Breakfast Society, stated the ‘British establishment’ ought to be made utilizing simply three elements (inventory picture)
It is unclear whether or not condiments akin to tomato sauce are allowed, and whether or not they need to be added to the sandwich or placed on the facet.
Many have complained that the breakfast staple has been tousled by cafes who now add too many posh elements.
One buyer stated he was irritated when his sandwich got here out with herbs – and he was supplied a salad with it.
Tony Peakall stated he struggled to discover a conventional sandwich in his house of Crouch End, North London.
He wrote on Facebook: ‘I do know, I do know, First World issues, however this can be a Crouch End downside – the place to get an old-school bacon sandwich?
‘I went to a restaurant at present and requested for a bacon sandwich. ‘Do you need salad with that?’ No, thanks, only a bacon sandwich. ‘It arrives on a plate with sprigs of herbs, sprinkled with extra herbs and pomegranate seeds, plus it is blooming sourdough bread after all. My HP sauce doesn’t sit properly with this.’
Britons spend round £1.37 billion a 12 months on bacon and ten bacon sandwiches are eaten each second within the UK.
The BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato) was lately named Britain’s favorite sandwich, in response to a ballot from breadmaker Hovis.
This was adopted by hen salad whereas tuna mayonnaise and fish finger sandwiches got here joint third.