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Toast Sandwich

23 points by bpierre 6y ago

owlninja 6y ago
I have nothing significant to add but a link to this being posted in 2013 that had a funny comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829993 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.
- 0x008 6y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6830975 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6830975 This is by far my favorite comment in that thread.
- coolgeek 6y ago
  hmmm... that person seemed to be a frequent commenter until May 1, 2019. I hope that he/she is alright, and that they simply succumbed to fatigue from the inevitable ennui and despair
aaron695 6y ago
I read it as the not valid cookery section, but it seems it's for the infirmed. Service for a Invalid "To make Toast Sandwiches toast a very thin slice of bread and put it between two thin slices of bread, spread with butter and a very little marmite" (1938) - https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-502488403/view?sectionId=nla.obj-530706934&partId=nla.obj-502616436#page/n28/mode/1up https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-502488403/view?sectionId=nla.obj-... Do you butter both sides?
- Garvey 6y ago
  I did when I tried it out of curiousity, surprisingly alright with a bit of salt, no marmite for me though.
ehershey 6y ago
Too much bread.
bigprovolone 6y ago
looks like someone screwed up a club sandwich
moonka 6y ago
Wow, the best part to me is: In November 2011, the toast sandwich was recreated by the Royal Society of Chemistry in a tasting almost 150 years (...) They named it "the country's most economical lunch", offering £200 to whoever could create a cheaper meal. Due to an overabundance of submissions, the offer was closed 7 days later and the £200 given to a randomly selected entrant.
perl4ever 6y ago
This is more familiar to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_toast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_toast Not familiar like I've had it, but I saw it in an old cookbook long ago. And apparently the term "milquetoast" was indeed inspired by it.

23 points by bpierre 6y ago

I have nothing significant to add but a link to this being posted in 2013 that had a funny comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829993 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.

0x008 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6830975 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6830975 This is by far my favorite comment in that thread.
coolgeek 6y ago
hmmm... that person seemed to be a frequent commenter until May 1, 2019. I hope that he/she is alright, and that they simply succumbed to fatigue from the inevitable ennui and despair

aaron695 6y ago

I read it as the not valid cookery section, but it seems it's for the infirmed. Service for a Invalid "To make Toast Sandwiches toast a very thin slice of bread and put it between two thin slices of bread, spread with butter and a very little marmite" (1938) - https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-502488403/view?sectionId=nla.obj-530706934&partId=nla.obj-502616436#page/n28/mode/1up https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-502488403/view?sectionId=nla.obj-... Do you butter both sides?

Garvey 6y ago
I did when I tried it out of curiousity, surprisingly alright with a bit of salt, no marmite for me though.

ehershey 6y ago

Too much bread.

bigprovolone 6y ago

looks like someone screwed up a club sandwich

moonka 6y ago

Wow, the best part to me is: In November 2011, the toast sandwich was recreated by the Royal Society of Chemistry in a tasting almost 150 years (...) They named it "the country's most economical lunch", offering £200 to whoever could create a cheaper meal. Due to an overabundance of submissions, the offer was closed 7 days later and the £200 given to a randomly selected entrant.

perl4ever 6y ago

This is more familiar to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_toast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_toast Not familiar like I've had it, but I saw it in an old cookbook long ago. And apparently the term "milquetoast" was indeed inspired by it.