Cheapest meal in the UK

[joea]

Another reason not to trust British cooking. :D



Britain's 'cheapest' lunchtime meal was unveiled by scientists on Wednesday - the toast sandwich.
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is reviving the mid-Victorian dish, which, unsurprisingly, consists of two slices of bread around a slice of toast.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15752918

Yes a TOAST sandwich, (toasted) bread in bread. Ok with butter and pepper.

Even worse than the chippie sandwich the latter of which I've tried and is not too bad-but boy both are carb nightmares. :dead:

It could be worse, the KFC Double Down comes to mind. :Kaleun_Sick:

[papa_smurf]

How dare you slate the great chip buttie, also the toastie (or toasted sandwich) is a staple of uni students (or was when I was at uni).

[Jimbuna]

Can't honestly say I've ever had such a toastie....mine always have a filling eg cheese and onion :hmmm:

A chip buttie is never complete unless it is accompanied with lashings of Heinz Salad Cream :sunny:

[Oberon]

Could just do a chip buttie right now, but instead I have cheese on toast...can't win them all. :haha:

[Lord_magerius]

Don't worry guys, I've just had a fry up and thought of each and every one of you whilst eating it. :up:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Surely a cheaper meal than a toast sandwich is, err, toast! :hmmm:

And in figuring out the costs nobody seems to have mentioned the cost of the 'leccy. :nope:

[Oberon]

Bah, I remember the days when you could get a loaf of bread from the Happy Shopper for under 80p, should be so lucky now. :damn:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Bah, I remember the days when you could get a loaf of bread from the Happy Shopper for under 80p, should be so lucky now. :damn:

Happy Shopper, like it's distant cousin Happy Eater, is/was never ever cheap!

Just recently one of our villages shops changed over to Mace, which used to run the corner shop when I were a lad (before that became something like Today). I don't have happy memories of that place either, was much better in the hands of the old guy how ran it before selling out!

My goodness I'm grumpy today. Need my Hog fix tonight. :D

[PapaKilo]

Wouldn't mind to use one big full english breakfast for supper yuuum yum yumm

[Oberon]

Happy Shopper, like it's distant cousin Happy Eater, is/was never ever cheap!

Just recently one of our villages shops changed over to Mace, which used to run the corner shop when I were a lad (before that became something like Today). I don't have happy memories of that place either, was much better in the hands of the old guy how ran it before selling out!

My goodness I'm grumpy today. Need my Hog fix tonight. :D

:haha: Christ, the Happy Eater...home of the cardboard sausage.

[antikristuseke]

Scotish cooking is even worse though, the deep fried donner kebab comes to mind.

[MH]

Toast in pita could be cheaper :haha:

http://www.minchat.co.il/image/users/146670/ftp/my_files/%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%94.jpg?id=3522889

[PapaKilo]

Donner macht shoner :up:

[Oberon]

Scotish cooking is even worse though, the deep fried donner kebab comes to mind.

The Chef at work cooked up a couple of Haggis sausages the other day for me, now that was some good stuff, but yeah we talked about Scottish cuisine and the Deep Fried Pizza :doh:

[August]

Reminds me of a Wish Sandwich.

A wish sandwich is where you have two pieces of bread and wish you had some meat.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Every Friday evening when I was about 16 I used to buy a deep-fried jam sarnie from the local chippy (not a carpenter). It was something like £1.10, it was delicious, it was very hot in the middle. :yeah:

[nikimcbee]

A chip buttie is never complete unless it is accompanied with lashings of Heinz Salad Cream

Does that have anything to do with spotted dick?:hmmm:

[nikimcbee]

If you're looking for cheap food...
http://www.ishopindian.com/images/D/d_2280-01.jpg

[nikimcbee]

Another reason not to trust British cooking. :D





:Kaleun_Applaud::Kaleun_Salute::Kaleun_Cheers:

[TarJak]

Does that have anything to do with spotted dick?:hmmm:
It does if you combine it with a crate of lager and a woman of dubious reputation.:O: Fosters anyone?

[nikimcbee]

It does if you combine it with a crate of lager and a woman of dubious reputation.:O: Fosters anyone?



:Kaleun_Cheers::Kaleun_Periskop:


http://redesign-kcxx-fm.tritondigitalmedia.com/upload/WilliamShatnerKHAAAN.jpg

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeece!!!

[Osmium Steele]

Reminds me of a Wish Sandwich.

A wish sandwich is where you have two pieces of bread and wish you had some meat.

Bow bow bow...

Gimme a ricochet biscuit anyday.

[Randomizer]

...A chip buttie is never complete unless it is accompanied with lashings of Heinz Salad Cream :sunny:
The Wife loves chip butties and had a friend in Newfoundland mail her bottles of Heinz Salad Cream for years until she found a local supplier. I tried one once with a side of defibrillator.

[vienna]

Odd, I always thought this was the British National thrift foodstuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE



http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae329/Shinian_01/motivatorSpam.jpg


By a strange coincidence, on a local Los Angeles radio morning show, one of the guests was a PBS travel show host named Rick Steves. His show is quite popular and he gives a lot of inside information about inexpensive travel. One of the radio hosts, who has travelled extensively throughout Europe, asked Steves why British food is so awful. Steves tried to not be critical of the food and offered that it is getting better do to a rise in the British public's acceptance of foods from its former colonies. This caused me to think of two questions:

1. Is there really an indigenous cuisine in Britain?

2. If Britain is turning to the quisine of its former colonies, will the Brits take over our uniquely American fare such as chow main, spaghetti and meatballs, chimichagas, and swiss steak (among others)? :hmmm:

http://www.semissourian.com/story/1552891.html

http://www.divinecaroline.com/22145/83875-not-so-foreign-origins-foreign-foods

[Jimbuna]

The Wife loves chip butties and had a friend in Newfoundland mail her bottles of Heinz Salad Cream for years until she found a local supplier. I tried one once with a side of defibrillator.

Not good if your a calory counter mind....I can't eat the 'light' variants :DL

[Cohaagen]

There's nothing wrong with British food, but Americans like to cling to these tropes regardless. Like when the OECD found that British schoolkids have the healthiest teeth in the world, I lost count of the amount of people in the US who either said it was faked, flawed, or just outright refused to believe it.

Of all people, Americans should be last to criticise any country's cuisine. I mean, without even going into the ruthless exporting of crap like McDonalds and KFC, who gave the world grits, chitterlings, processed cheese, hot dogs, Cheez Whizz, squirrel brains, chocolate that smells and tastes like sick, Spam, refried beans, meat-free strips of fat dubiously known as "bacon", corn syrup in everything, chipped beef, macaroni & cheese, I could go on...

[Sailor Steve]

You're absolutely right. On the other hand we don't complain that British food is bad. Quite the opposite. We just complain (along with the rest of the world, including some British members here) that it's boring.

That said, the article that started this thread is British, and seems to be true, which means that our complaint is also true. :sunny:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Like when the OECD found that British schoolkids have the healthiest teeth in the world, I lost count of the amount of people in the US who either said it was faked, flawed, or just outright refused to believe it.


The schoolchildren may have the healthiest teeth in the world, it's the adults that don't! :nope:

[August]

Bow bow bow...

Gimme a ricochet biscuit anyday.


Is that the kind of a biscuit that's supposed to bounce back off the wall into your mouth. if it don't bounce back... heeheehee,... you go hungry!

Bow bow bow... :D

[frau kaleun]

Of all people, Americans should be last to criticise any country's cuisine. I mean, without even going into the ruthless exporting of crap like McDonalds and KFC, who gave the world grits, chitterlings, processed cheese, hot dogs, Cheez Whizz, squirrel brains, chocolate that smells and tastes like sick, Spam, refried beans, meat-free strips of fat dubiously known as "bacon", corn syrup in everything, chipped beef, macaroni & cheese, I could go on...

Seriously? Grits are awesome.

And mac and cheese is hardly an American invention, at least according to Wikipedia...


Macaroni is mentioned in various medieval Italian sources, though it is not always clear whether it is a pasta shape or a prepared dish. However, pasta and cheese casseroles have been recorded in cookbooks as early as the Liber de Coquina, one of the oldest medieval cookbooks. A cheese and pasta casserole known as Makerouns was recorded in an English cookbook in the 14th century. It was made with fresh hand-cut pasta which was sandwiched between a mixture of melted butter and cheese. It was considered an upperclass dish even in Italy until around the 18th century.


Also "chitterlings" were apparently found in English cookbooks as far back as the mid 1700s and can be found in some form in most if not all pork-eating cultures throughout history. And (also according to Wikipedia) processed cheese was invented in Switzerland. :haha:

[vienna]

...McDonalds and KFC, who gave the world grits, chitterlings, processed cheese, hot dogs, Cheez Whizz, squirrel brains, chocolate that smells and tastes like sick, Spam, refried beans, meat-free strips of fat dubiously known as "bacon", corn syrup in everything, chipped beef, macaroni & cheese,...


Is anybody else feeling a bit peckish?... :DL

[August]

There's nothing wrong with British food, but Americans like to cling to these tropes regardless. Like when the OECD found that British schoolkids have the healthiest teeth in the world, I lost count of the amount of people in the US who either said it was faked, flawed, or just outright refused to believe it.

Of all people, Americans should be last to criticise any country's cuisine. I mean, without even going into the ruthless exporting of crap like McDonalds and KFC, who gave the world grits, chitterlings, processed cheese, hot dogs, Cheez Whizz, squirrel brains, chocolate that smells and tastes like sick, Spam, refried beans, meat-free strips of fat dubiously known as "bacon", corn syrup in everything, chipped beef, macaroni & cheese, I could go on...

No offense intended but you have no clue about American cuisine. Our fast food is no worse than fast food found elsewhere in the world. You don't believe go to Tijuana and buy a burrito from a street vendor.

[frau kaleun]

Is anybody else feeling a bit peckish?... :DL

Yes indeedy... only I don't think I'm properly dressed for a high class Old World dish like mac & cheese. :haha:

[Randomizer]

There's nothing wrong with British food, but Americans like to cling to these tropes regardless. Like when the OECD found that British schoolkids have the healthiest teeth in the world, I lost count of the amount of people in the US who either said it was faked, flawed, or just outright refused to believe it.

Of all people, Americans should be last to criticise any country's cuisine. I mean, without even going into the ruthless exporting of crap like McDonalds and KFC, who gave the world grits, chitterlings, processed cheese, hot dogs, Cheez Whizz, squirrel brains, chocolate that smells and tastes like sick, Spam, refried beans, meat-free strips of fat dubiously known as "bacon", corn syrup in everything, chipped beef, macaroni & cheese, I could go on...
As other's have noted, your knowledge of American cuisine seems lacking and with all due respect NOBODY bad-mouth's bacon...

Also without Spam the world would be short one of the better Monty Python sketches and your email inbox might be full of unwanted "bangers and mash".

[STEED]

16p for a pack of six cheap cheerful pitta bread from my local supermarket. :D

[vienna]

As other's have noted, your knowledge of American cuisine seems lacking and with all due respect NOBODY bad-mouth's bacon...


Amen, brother: :yeah:


http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lojq8ePaDX1qztmnoo1_500.gif


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qknLVC-qNU8



Also without Spam the world would be short one of the better Monty Python sketches and your email inbox might be full of unwanted "bangers and mash".


Dang, and I just paid for new Norton Anti-"Bangers and Mash" software...

[Jimbuna]

No offense intended but you have no clue about American cuisine. Our fast food is no worse than fast food found elsewhere in the world. You don't believe go to Tijuana and buy a burrito from a street vendor.

So that's where he's at...selling fast like spam and stuff like that? :o