Toast Sandwich

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

by oulipian • 13 years ago

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vezzy-fnord• 13 years ago

chrisdevereux• 13 years ago

Minimal Viable Sandwich

AmVess• 13 years ago

Not quite.

When I was dead broke, I used to have bread sandwiches.

On really spare days, I'd have half a bread sandwich.

prawn2• 13 years ago

Funny that you should link to this as a friend of mine on the weekend decided he'd invented something similar. Essentially a sandwich (or open sandwich) but with a lettuce leaf as the top slice of bread.

Kluny2• 13 years ago

"Invented" is a bit of a strong word.

joezydeco• 13 years ago

Have you ever heard of a Wish sandwich?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyBZE0kBtE&t=0m35s

derekp7• 13 years ago

A similar type of mouth-texture is achieved when you wrap a crunchy taco with a soft taco shell.

jimmcslim• 13 years ago

I find that eating a corn chip between two regular salted potato chips (or I really should say, crisps) is also strangely delicious...

andybak4• 13 years ago

I read this and dashed to the kitchen to make myself a midnight snack.

It was actually remarkably good. Had much of the crunch of a fish finger sandwich (an old favourite of mine).

It got to be a trifle dull towards the end but I think that could be down to my attempt to be moderately frugal with butter (a small concession to the fact that I'd already had a dinner this evening).

I'm not sure it is quite on par with a crisp sandwich (I just checked Wikipedia to remind myself that the majority of HN readers probably know them as 'potato chips sandwiches').

With salad cream of course.

pionar• 13 years ago

Well, and most HN readers would know "salad cream" as the genericized trademark "Miracle Whip". :-)

One of my favorite memories as a kid was being at my grandma's house and having a ham sandwich with potato chips on it. Yummers.

pbhjpbhj• 13 years ago

I always assumed "miracle whip" was like a synthetic whipped cream or sweet mousse, never imagined it was salad cream?

csmuk2• 13 years ago

I just ate a fish finger sandwich for breakfast, inspired by your post :)

Mayo+pepper in it and it's one of life's joys. You have to fry the fish fingers and drink tea with it though.

andybak4• 13 years ago

God yes. And some grated cheddar.

I used to include a fried egg but I received a stern letter from my arteries and had to abate the practice.

spjwebster• 13 years ago

I wish I had more than one up vote.

Just yesterday I had a fish finger and salad cream sandwich for lunch, followed by a crisp sandwich for dinner. These tasty snacks - along with Pot Noodle sandwiches - fuelled me through university many moons ago, and are delicious enough that I'm still making them now that I'm married with two children.

I must admit that I'm not totally sold on the plain recipe for a toast sandwich, though I could see it being tasty with a bit of garlic butter rather than just plain butter.

andybak4• 13 years ago

May I urge you with some force, to upgrade from Pot Noodles to a superior brand of instant noodles? There are many blogs devoted to reviewing the many variants of this versatile form of nourishment. e.g.: http://www.theramenrater.com/tag/ramen-review/

My current personal favourites are the Indomie 'Hot and Spicy' or 'Spicy Beef Rendang' or the Mama 'Pork Tom Yum'. I also hear good things about Sapporo Ichiban if you prefer something with a little less heat.

teh_klev2• 13 years ago

First thing I thought of: add salad cream (either as dip or spread on one or both layers), and a light dusting of white pepper or cayenne pepper, to make the perfect after-beer culinary delight. Must try tonight instead of oven chip butty + ketchup.

seivan• 13 years ago

Basically sugar as a texture with butter and salt & pepper. Yeah I can see why this is delicious. We generally love anything we sugar :)

cdcarter• 13 years ago

One of the linked references also supplies these tasty ideas:

The toast sandwich isn't the only recipe in Mrs Beeton's compendium to use cold toast as the basis for a meal. She recommended toast soup - 1lb (0.45kg) of bread crusts boiled in 2oz (0.05kg) of butter and a quart (1.1 litres) of "common stock". Or for a refreshing drink, what about "toast-and-water"? Made with, you guessed it, a slice of stale loaf toasted, then soaked in a quart (1.1 litres) of boiling water until cold.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15760897

sarreph2• 13 years ago

I remember this article coming out, coincidentally, when I had just started university; thankfully I haven't been that desperate yet!

VonGuard• 13 years ago

Bum soup is made from technically free ingredients:

Hot water, ketchup packets, saltines.

silencio• 13 years ago

You joke about toast and water but...

One of my favorite drinks, Korean in origin, is scorched rice water. When you cook rice in a stone pot (e.g. the same pot that is part of dolsot (inside stone) bibimbap), the bottom layer gets deliciously scorched and you get tasty water if you add boiling water, or you can cook it again to make a little porridge.

There's even little candies made out of that stuff, and I can only imagine toast and water is pretty much along the same lines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurungji

interstitial• 13 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_water

rch3• 13 years ago

Try the Shooter Sandwich... you'll need a loaf of hard crusted Italian bread, 3 ribeye steaks 1 lb mushrooms, an onion, some bacon, and cheese.

http://imgur.com/a/ahZOF

trekky1700• 13 years ago

That looks pretty amazing, I'm rather tempted to try it.

bch• 13 years ago

For the first couple frames I thought this was ridiculous, a la Epic Meal Time[1]. The surprise ending has me thinking "brilliant" now...

[1] http://www.youtube.com/user/EpicMealTime

kaeruct• 13 years ago

what happened to the third steak?

rch3• 13 years ago

...good question. Since it suggests waiting 4 hours for the sandwich to press flat, maybe you could eat one of the steaks in the meantime as a snack? Just an idea.

alexkus• 13 years ago

By the looks of it the first layer of steak is made up of pieces of two steaks.

micro_cam• 13 years ago

This reminds me of Torteria Barriga Llena[1] in Seattle. Large amounts of assorted meats compressed between bread. And spicy!

[1] http://www.labarrigallena.com/ENGmenu.html

rjsamson• 13 years ago

Having made this a few times now, I can't recommend it enough - so awesome.

ricardobeat2• 13 years ago

That looks similar to a house favorite, "Marlboro Man"-inspired sandwich, which is much quicker to make:

    1. Sauté mushrooms, red pepper, onions, garlic and butter, reserve.
    2. Cut meat into thin slices, brown and season with salt, pepper, 
       worcestershire and a little soy sauce.
    3. Put the vegetables back, add a dash of whisky, flambé.
    4. Cut french bread / baguette open, stuff with meat and slices of
       a strong cheese like emmental or edam.

Eat immediately.

/posted on Hacker Foods (the mods must be asleep)

RBerenguel2• 13 years ago

Sounds yummy, I'll probably do it before a shooter's (which is on my list of food to prepare someday). But qualifying edam and emmental as strong cheese sounds really weird from an European viewpoint

f7t7ft73• 13 years ago

I used 140lbs of weight and let it sit for 4 hours

O.o

Cherian2• 13 years ago

This is beautiful. Can you help me a bit with more details about this sandwich? Email in signature.

Cherian2• 13 years ago

Something related to this is the stuffed bread. http://www.cucumbertown.com/no-bake-stuffed-loaf-recipe-dish If you have sometime to sauté some veggies, this makes for an excellent meal.

rch3• 13 years ago

Looks like a nice recipe, but not a contender in this context. Needs more steak, bacon, and lead weights. I know of a food truck that sells a pork belly bánh mì that might be worth a look, if only it didn't leave out the pâté.

megablast• 13 years ago

See that is crazy, all that stuff would taste better not stuffed into a sandwich.

jimbobimbo• 13 years ago

Dear God, this is beautiful!

gbog• 13 years ago

Sorry to not share the enthusiasm, but this looks clunky, bulky, ugly, and disgusting.

A sandwich has always been and will always be half a fresh baguette with butter and parisian ham and/or gruyere. Everything else is a fake.

simbolit• 13 years ago

Sometimes I don't get how articles move to hn front page...

prawn2• 13 years ago

We all eat. We're also curious about oddities, especially when they somehow warrant a Wikipedia page of their own. Add to that the anticipation of assuming this couldn't surely be a sandwich with toast in it but might be a new gadget or programming language or Android release.

rrrx33• 13 years ago

We all poo, too...

thenerdfiles4• 13 years ago

It's a food hack. C'mon, loosin' up, mate.

thenerdfiles4• 13 years ago

It's a self-executing sandwich...

yen223• 13 years ago

It's not a food "hack", it's a bloody sandwich :)

MrPleb• 13 years ago

This is the correct response.

rrrx33• 13 years ago

Seriously.

D_Alex• 13 years ago

I was SURE this would be about some new Android operating system.

Times must be pretty hard for the HN community, given the level of interest in this post.

Or is this a manifestation of engineers' need to optimise, maximum calories for minimum cost? Reading the article and comments, it seems unreasonably palatable...

A memory from my childhood: Toast with butter and sugar sprinkled on top. For dessert...

GuiA• 13 years ago

From the wikipedia article:

"Mouthfeel is the great attraction of the toast sandwich. Given the diversity of textures and flavours of all kinds of bread, many variations can be easily devised and tested in order to enrich the experience of the consumer."

In other words, it's a sandwich made out of bread- that is, a "hack" of the sandwich. Totally at home on HN :)

jamesaguilar2• 13 years ago

People just want anything that's not bitcoin or NSA.

sarreph2• 13 years ago

Or they're just hungry?

garthdog• 13 years ago

You're the product, not the consumer.

thenerdfiles4• 13 years ago

I'm sure you've witnessed the glorious invention: Cinnamon Sugar[0].

[0] http://www.spiceislands.com/Adjustable_Grinders/Cinnamon_Sug...

acadien• 13 years ago

That sure is fancy, I just mix some ground cinnamon with some sugar and put it back in the cinnamon shaker. And yes it goes remarkably well on buttered toast, also diced apples and pancakes.

NovaS1X• 13 years ago

Cinnamon butter is another godly invention.

jedmeyers• 13 years ago

Next Android OS name should start with the letter "L", not "T". That's how you know ;)

izolate• 13 years ago

Toast notifications are those little gray popups available to developers in the Android OS

mhartl• 13 years ago

Well, I'll be—you're absolutely right! How did I not notice this before?

    Cupcake (1.5)
    Donut (1.6)
    Eclair (2.0–2.1)
    Froyo (2.2–2.2.3)
    Gingerbread (2.3–2.3.7)
    Honeycomb (3.0–3.2.6)
    Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0–4.0.4)
    Jelly Bean (4.1–4.3)
    KitKat (4.4)

pkulak• 13 years ago

Or a new API feature. The standard toast is too boring!

robin_reala• 13 years ago

“Toast sandwich profitable”

xentronium• 13 years ago

A memory from my childhood: Toast with butter and sugar sprinkled on top. For dessert...

Weird. I thought this "delicacy" was exclusive to Russia (we didn't toast the bread, though).

StavrosK• 13 years ago

Greek here, totally had this (and was delicious). We didn't toast the bread either.

davidw• 13 years ago

For another version, mix some cinnamon in with the sugar.

gcb03• 13 years ago

S America. We used old bread, toasted on that tray under the oven when cooking something else.

Nursie2• 13 years ago

That also sounds a lot like the Australian 'delicacy' Fairy Bread - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_bread

mogrim• 13 years ago

Can confirm it also exists in Spain and England.

haversine2• 13 years ago

This reminds me of my dad teaching me how to make a "poor man's burger" when you don't have any beef. Basically you just toast the bun and then throw on all the condiments.

It's surprising how close it tastes without any actual burger.

Now I'm thinking instead of toasting the bun, I should leave it cold and put toast inside as the "beef".

judk3• 13 years ago

Aka unburger or nothing burger.

Burger King USA will sell this to you, cheaper than a hamburger.

zhte415• 13 years ago

Try a Welsh Rabbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit

haversine2• 13 years ago

That sounds fantastic!

herbig• 13 years ago

I would eat one, if only the infrastructure existed to get it to me within thirty minutes. By air.

shubb• 13 years ago

By air? Surely what we need is a hyperloop for sandwiches?

The toast sandwiches can be prepared anywhere in the world, then sent under the ocean in little magnetically accelerated capsules. Because the capsules are travelling in a vaccume, your sandwich would arrive still warm.

WadeWilliams• 13 years ago

I'm a fan of the peanut butter and sour kraut, myself, it's much more nutritious. Throw some sardines in there if you're trying to stock up on good omegas.

crusso• 13 years ago

That sounds so nasty I almost downvoted you. :P

jonah• 13 years ago

Try dill pickles and cheddar on cinnamon rasin toast. Tastes way better than it sounds.

jamesaguilar2• 13 years ago

Cool. Speaking of sandwiches, have any of y'all been to the local deli recently? The variety of meats available these days is astounding, and their prices are very low. A lot cheaper than going to Subway or your corner store, if you've got the time to make you meal at home (and it doesn't take much).

JacobSkyler• 13 years ago

You don't even need to make it at home. I used to just but all my stuff on my way into work on Monday and store it in my office. Most of the stuff we put in sandwiches (bread, butter, cheese, cured meats, pickles, condiments) will last a week or more in an air-conditioned office. Just store it in an air-tight container and give it the smell test before you eat it.

dsego• 13 years ago

Want frugal? My parents always tell me how they were so poor growing up, they put lard on a piece of bread and sprinkled with some sugar.

leephillips• 13 years ago

They had lard? Luxury!

mmagin• 13 years ago

You laugh, but I've heard of people making the same with Crisco.

mikro2nd• 13 years ago

With sugar? With sugar? My mouth shudders at the thought. We used to use lard with some salt and pepper.

InclinedPlane• 13 years ago

This is perhaps the single most potent piece of evidence that HN's glory days are all in the past. Oh well, it was a good run.

voltagex_• 13 years ago

I'd take at as a good sign - it's something different from what you normally see here.

Kluny2• 13 years ago

Oh calm down, it's a Sunday night!

sz4kerto• 13 years ago

I'd be great to read another Bitcoin article instead, wouldn't it?

kimonos• 13 years ago

Nice post! Thanks for sharing! (",)

dizzystar• 13 years ago

Sad day to realize that Wikipedia, the bastion of all knowledge, has no entry for a Wish Sandwich.

A kind of sandwich where you take two pieces of bread and WISH you had some meat.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wish%20sandwi...

judk3• 13 years ago

Wikipedia (and other anthropological databases) standards for citation and notoriety means that it underrepresents the culture of the poorer classes, which is maintained through oral history and not published documents.

derleth3• 13 years ago

Well, that's why we have Urban Dictionary. Not everything has to be in Wikipedia.

bcoates• 13 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_Biscuit

MaysonL• 13 years ago

It does, at least, have Stone Soup:

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

justzisguyuknow• 13 years ago

Ever heard of a rubber biscuit?

rowofpixels• 13 years ago

This is the next soylent

tempestn• 13 years ago

More like the anti-soylent. Nice texture, no nutritional content.

Intermernet• 13 years ago

Anyone tried Soylent on toast yet? Or does that disturb the nutritional balance..?

damian2000• 13 years ago

I prefer the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_bean_sandwich

BookPage• 13 years ago

That's really unhealthy.

f7t7ft73• 13 years ago

But it's vegan if you use margarine!

cpayne• 13 years ago

There used to be an (Australian) Standard on Toast colour: http://infostore.saiglobal.com/store/Details.aspx?ProductID=...

elwell• 13 years ago

I'm trying to avoid carbs.

judk3• 13 years ago

Then make it "platter style", without the bread.

ddod• 13 years ago

It's kind of interesting how HN admins removed a string of posts yesterday relating to the Node.js sexism issue without any explanation, and yet this remains. It's also a bit sad that a post like this gets way more attention than 95% of the "Show HN"s.

f7t7ft73• 13 years ago

I would like to officially apologize for offending the android and cyborg populations, by bringing too much attention to the food desires of the meatbag population.

nmeofthestate2• 13 years ago

There's a node.js sexism issue? Never mind - of course there's a node.js sexism issue.

nate_martin• 13 years ago

Can someone clue me into the underlying message here? This is a little vague even for HN's off-topic wikipedia standards.

shire• 13 years ago

I just made myself one after this, thanks for the reminder it was amazing.

nthnclrk• 13 years ago

Is this actually something that's new?

For years I've had just butter or margarine on toast when I would occasionally (certainly not frequently) feel like it. I know of many people who would consider this an uncommon, but quite normal thing to do as well.

Maybe it's an Australian thing? Possibly passed down from British heritage? I'm not sure.

"Plain" toast is actually a good choice when you're sick and attempting to eat again. It always feels "safe".

underwater• 13 years ago

The link is about sandwiches made from a slice of toasted bread between two untoasted slices of bread. Not plain toast.

vidyesh• 13 years ago

Never imagined Toast Sandwich to be anything like that.

This is what Toast Sandwich is in India.

http://i.imgur.com/sP7ctxG.jpg

xmonkee• 13 years ago

That's a Bombay Sandwich, technically.

RossM• 13 years ago

Better known in the UK as an austerity sandwich - the cheapest meal you can make.

cstross• 13 years ago

Of course, I had to read this a month after being diagnosed with Type II diabetes :-(

(You may downvote at will ... just noting that this is essentially carbs sandwiched between more carbs, dammit.)

sdoering• 13 years ago

There is an interesting study from Great Britain on "healing" Typ-II-Diabetes. Maybe that might give you some hints.

I was looking for some information, as my Dad is an overweight longtime Typ-II Diabetic, who lost more then 10kilos during the last year and now can live without injections, only with the pills, he used to take some 10 to 15 years ago.

Press Release by University: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/diet-re...

Page of Study (with further links): http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/reversal.htm

FAQ regarding the study (pdf): http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/documents/Diab...

binarnosp• 13 years ago

How did this get on the first page of HN?

nmeofthestate2• 13 years ago

Madness.

I thought perhaps this was going to be the term for when more than two popup notifications slide up from the system tray at the same time.

acconrad• 13 years ago

So a too-long article (with a corresponding thread that is way too pedantic for the topic of bread and butter) makes it to the front page of HackerNews but solid articles on entrepreneurship and technology get missed by lack of votes? I'm in awe.

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