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Disgusting? Really? I can understand being underwhelmed by soft white bread, but calling it disgusting seems a bit extreme.
by freetime2 5y ago
Disgusting? Really?
I can understand being underwhelmed by soft white bread, but calling it disgusting seems a bit extreme.
- Foobar8568 5y agoCalling that thing bread is disgusting by itself...
- cercatrova 5y agoWhite bread is delicious, I wouldn't eat a PB&J on sourdough for example.
- Ekaros 5y agoThen again I wouldn't qualify peanut butter and jelly as sandwich, but as cake... Specially if the bread is sweet too...
- Chris2048 5y agoI wouldn't say the contents change what it is - a sandwich is a filling between slices of bread, nothing states it must be savoury, even though they often are. Jam, honey and (mashed) banana are also sandwich fillings. That said, there is no way it would qualify as cake, which would require a much sweeter and thicker batter - bread isn't the same.
- khazhoux 5y agoPB&J is a sandwich. This is not in dispute.
- beaconstudios 5y agoAmerican food all round is weirdly sweet to European palates. PB&J as a sandwich is pretty out there from a UK perspective. The sweetest sandwich ingredient we typically use is honey bacon, and that's the exception to the rule.
- Auracle 5y agoThere’s a reason PB&J is mostly a kid’s food in the US. As an adult, it can indeed be too sweet. I had some awesome homemade jam for a while that was way more tart that sweet and I was able to use that to make some pretty good ones. I wish I could find similar stuff in grocery stores. I don’t think a culture that has things such as the cheese and pickle sandwich should really judge though. Or even a regular cheese sandwich. You’re so close! Just grill it.
- willcipriano 5y agoThe British should be careful to not throw stones from their glass kitchen.
- beaconstudios 5y agoHey, I'm well aware that British food is very bland and beige for mainland European standards! It's a good thing we've developed a strong culture of culinary fusion to compensate for that - it's not all chips and mushy peas any more, we have our own remixes of many culinary transitions, especially Indian, Chinese, and Italian.
- willcipriano 5y agoIf you can use "we have food from elsewhere" as an argument, the nation of immigrants has you beat again.
- beaconstudios 5y agobeat? I didn't realise it was a competition. American food is just very sweet compared to European food. You Americans are always so competitive about inane stuff. Also, there's a distinct difference between "we have food from elsewhere" and fusion food. There are specifically British-Indian and British-Italian dishes. I know that's the case with Italian-American and Chinese-American fusion food too - it's also sweeter, because yet again, American food is sweeter than European food.
- Symbiote 5y agoA jam sandwich is what a British parent might serve a young child when, for whatever reason (illness, continued tantrums etc) they can't get them to eat anything else, or when they can't really afford much else. I doubt I've eaten one since I was about 12 years old. I thought PB&J sandwiches took the same place in the USA, but it seems they're eaten more routinely, including by adults. They obviously aren't cakes, but if I were to position them in a buffet it would be right next to the cakes.
- stavros 5y agoI agree, toast "bread" shouldn't be called bread. It's off-putting and spongy, it just screams "synthetic" to me. I hate it.