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Toast Sandwich
- vezzy-fnord 13y agoRelated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettuce_sandwich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettuce_sandwich
- chrisdevereux 13y agoMinimal Viable Sandwich
- AmVess 13y agoNot quite. When I was dead broke, I used to have bread sandwiches. On really spare days, I'd have half a bread sandwich.
- prawn 13y agoFunny 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.
- Kluny 13y ago"Invented" is a bit of a strong word.
- joezydeco 13y agoHave you ever heard of a Wish sandwich? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyBZE0kBtE&t=0m35s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyBZE0kBtE&t=0m35s
- derekp7 13y agoA similar type of mouth-texture is achieved when you wrap a crunchy taco with a soft taco shell.
- jimmcslim 13y agoI find that eating a corn chip between two regular salted potato chips (or I really should say, crisps) is also strangely delicious...
- andybak 13y agoI 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 13y agoWell, 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 13y agoI always assumed "miracle whip" was like a synthetic whipped cream or sweet mousse, never imagined it was salad cream?
- Schwolop 13y agoI'm an Australian born in England - what on earth is salad cream? Let alone "Miracle Whip"!?!?! I'm going to assume this is some form of mayonnaise until told otherwise.
- bglazer 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Whip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Whip It's fake mayonnaise essentially. From Wikipedia: "Current primary ingredients are water, soybean oil, vinegar, sugar, modified corn starch, eggs. Ingredients making up less than 2% of product include salt, mustard flour, paprika, spice, natural flavor, potassium sorbate, enzyme modified egg yolk, and dried garlic."
- seivan 13y agoBasically sugar as a texture with butter and salt & pepper. Yeah I can see why this is delicious. We generally love anything we sugar :)
- cdcarter 13y agoOne 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 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15760897
- sarreph 13y agoI remember this article coming out, coincidentally, when I had just started university; thankfully I haven't been that desperate yet!
- VonGuard 13y agoBum soup is made from technically free ingredients: Hot water, ketchup packets, saltines.
- silencio 13y agoYou 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurungji
- interstitial 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_water http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_water
- rch 13y agoTry 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 http://imgur.com/a/ahZOF
- trekky1700 13y agoThat looks pretty amazing, I'm rather tempted to try it.
- bch 13y agoFor 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 http://www.youtube.com/user/EpicMealTime
- kaeruct 13y agowhat happened to the third steak?
- micro_cam 13y agoThis 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 http://www.labarrigallena.com/ENGmenu.html
- rjsamson 13y agoHaving made this a few times now, I can't recommend it enough - so awesome.
- simbolit 13y agoSometimes I don't get how articles move to hn front page...
- prawn 13y agoWe 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.
- thenerdfiles 13y agoIt's a food hack. C'mon, loosin' up, mate.
- thenerdfiles 13y agoIt's a self-executing sandwich...
- yen223 13y agoIt's not a food "hack", it's a bloody sandwich :)
- D_Alex 13y agoI 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 13y agoFrom 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 :)
- jamesaguilar 13y agoPeople just want anything that's not bitcoin or NSA.
- thenerdfiles 13y agoI'm sure you've witnessed the glorious invention: Cinnamon Sugar[0]. [0]: http://www.spiceislands.com/Adjustable_Grinders/Cinnamon_Sugar_Adjustable_Grinder http://www.spiceislands.com/Adjustable_Grinders/Cinnamon_Sug...
- acadien 13y agoThat 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.
- haversine 13y agoThis 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".
- herbig 13y agoI would eat one, if only the infrastructure existed to get it to me within thirty minutes. By air.
- shubb 13y agoBy 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 13y agoI'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.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoCool. 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 13y agoYou 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 13y agoWant 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 13y agoThey had lard? Luxury!
- mmagin 13y agoYou laugh, but I've heard of people making the same with Crisco.
- fennecfoxen 13y agoIndeed. My mother always told us that we should be thankful for all the beans and lentils we had when money was tight because when she was going to school, the really poor kids had Crisco sandwiches for lunch. (And her mother spent time in a Siberian labor camp as a youth, so we'll all be eating supper at the table like a family, and not like a refugee, thank you very much.)
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- mikro2nd 13y agoWith sugar? With sugar? My mouth shudders at the thought. We used to use lard with some salt and pepper.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoThis 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.
- kimonos 13y agoNice post! Thanks for sharing! (",)
- dizzystar 13y agoSad 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%20sandwich http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wish%20sandwi...
- judk 13y agoWikipedia (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.
- derleth 13y agoWell, that's why we have Urban Dictionary. Not everything has to be in Wikipedia.
- andybak 13y agoAlthough often hilarious, Urban Dictionary now pretty much allows people to make shit up. It's a shame as I'd like something that fills it's former boots (i.e. there has to be at least some attempt to record reality rather than invent it)
- derleth 13y ago> Although often hilarious, Urban Dictionary now pretty much allows people to make shit up. Which is precisely what happens when you don't demand citations to good sources. You can't really have it both ways.
- bcoates 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_Biscuit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_Biscuit
- MaysonL 13y ago
- rowofpixels 13y agoThis is the next soylent
- tempestn 13y agoMore like the anti-soylent. Nice texture, no nutritional content.
- Intermernet 13y agoAnyone tried Soylent on toast yet? Or does that disturb the nutritional balance..?
- damian2000 13y agoI prefer the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_bean_sandwich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_bean_sandwich
- BookPage 13y agoThat's really unhealthy.
- f7t7ft7 13y agoBut it's vegan if you use margarine!
- cpayne 13y agoThere used to be an (Australian) Standard on Toast colour: http://infostore.saiglobal.com/store/Details.aspx?ProductID=252601 http://infostore.saiglobal.com/store/Details.aspx?ProductID=...
- elwell 13y agoI'm trying to avoid carbs.
- judk 13y agoThen make it "platter style", without the bread.
- ddod 13y agoIt'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.
- f7t7ft7 13y agoI 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.
- nmeofthestate 13y agoThere's a node.js sexism issue? Never mind - of course there's a node.js sexism issue.
- nate_martin 13y agoCan someone clue me into the underlying message here? This is a little vague even for HN's off-topic wikipedia standards.
- shire 13y agoI just made myself one after this, thanks for the reminder it was amazing.
- nthnclrk 13y agoIs 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 13y agoThe link is about sandwiches made from a slice of toasted bread between two untoasted slices of bread. Not plain toast.
- vidyesh 13y agoNever imagined Toast Sandwich to be anything like that. This is what Toast Sandwich is in India. http://i.imgur.com/sP7ctxG.jpg http://i.imgur.com/sP7ctxG.jpg
- xmonkee 13y agoThat's a Bombay Sandwich, technically.
- RossM 13y agoBetter known in the UK as an austerity sandwich - the cheapest meal you can make.
- cstross 13y agoOf 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 13y agoThere 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-reverses-type-2-diabetes 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 http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/reversal.htm FAQ regarding the study (pdf): http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/documents/Diabetes-Reversaloftype2study.pdf http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/documents/Diab...
- binarnosp 13y agoHow did this get on the first page of HN?
- nmeofthestate 13y agoMadness. 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 13y agoSo 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.