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British sandwiches and walking 300km of Wainwright's coast to coast

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Re: British sandwiches and walking 300km of Wainwright's coast to coast

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Post by burkaman »

sg47 wrote: post #16
jen729w wrote: post #12

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Well if we’re on the front page of HN discussing sandwiches, bring it on. 1. Toast one side only of two slices of fresh white bread. 2. Construct a sandwich with the untoasted sides facing out. 3. Inside the sandwich place mushed banana and a sprinkle of sugar. As you bite through you get soft, crunch, soft, crunch, soft. It’s a thing of beauty. Another weird combo is crispy bacon and marmalade. In regular toasted br…

You need good bread for that. Store-bought bread in the US is quite bad.

I don't think this is generally true. It's very common for US grocery stores to have freshly baked bread, and there's always a huge variety of prepackaged sliced bread, it's not just like sugary wonder bread or something.

You can also just go to a bakery. Not sure how accurate this site is, but it looks like the US and UK have about the same number of bakeries per capita. https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/number-of-busi..., https://www.ibisworld.com/united-kingdom/number-of-businesse...

Certainly there are some places where your only option is a dollar store that probably won't have anything good, but I've been a lot of places in the US and I've never found this to be an issue.

Re: British sandwiches and walking 300km of Wainwright's coast to coast

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Post by bj-rn »

Kon-Peki wrote: post #25
sg47 wrote: post #16

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You need good bread for that. Store-bought bread in the US is quite bad.

My local Walmart has about 100 different breads in the bread section - too much for a single aisle. Even the Aldi, known for having just a single option for everything, has about 15 different breads. I'm sorry if your options are bad, but don't claim that the entire US sucks.

Good bread is something you buy from a bakery. It's made from flour, water, salt and yeast. The stuff you get in supermarkets is full of additives to "keep it fresh" and a lot of it has added sugar.

Re: British sandwiches and walking 300km of Wainwright's coast to coast

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Post by meheleventyone »

buggeryorkshire wrote: post #22
meheleventyone wrote: post #9

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Scotland is great for that with the right to roam also extending to wild camping. One of my best memories is wild camping the West Highland Way.

Did that a couple of months ago, was amazing! Apart from the midges..

One night we camped in a really wet grassy field and had to run back and forth from the midges to get set up. By the time we were done and in the tent there were at least as many midges inside the tent as outside. It was the only time we gave up, abandoned the tent and went to find somewhere else to sleep. Otherwise we were pretty lucky! 15 or more years ago now though!

Re: British sandwiches and walking 300km of Wainwright's coast to coast

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Post by gedy »

bj-rn wrote: post #32
Kon-Peki wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My local Walmart has about 100 different breads in the bread section - too much for a single aisle. Even the Aldi, known for having just a single option for everything, has about 15 different breads. I'm sorry if your options are bad, but don't claim that the entire US sucks.

Good bread is something you buy from a bakery. It's made from flour, water, salt and yeast. The stuff you get in supermarkets is full of additives to "keep it fresh" and a lot of it has added sugar.

Not every sandwich tastes as good with that style of bread tbh. Sliced store bread just "gets out of the way" sometimes.

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Post by petepete »

bobthepanda wrote: post #13
jstanley wrote: post #4

Very enjoyable writing, though I must admit I never understood putting crisps in your sandwiches.

it's a texture thing. most things that go into sandwiches are pretty soft, so a crunch can be a nice texture. it also helps that they are salted, and salt is a pretty good flavor enhancer.

Any sandwich plus crisps is a better sandwich.

Re: British sandwiches and walking 300km of Wainwright's coast to coast

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Post by deergomoo »

I tremendously enjoy Craig Mod's writing. I like to save up a few dozen of his newsletters and then spend a couple of hours reading them back-to-back, especially his huge walks in Japan. I find it very transportive, like I'm there with him despite having never been. I'm from the UK though, so this is also very cool!

Re: British sandwiches and walking 300km of Wainwright's coast to coast

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Post by pmyteh »

Zee38484 wrote: post #10

> I got more daring with my sandwich orders. I think author slept at some cottage every night. Taking sandwiches on through hike without resuply does not seem very practical.. I did wild camping in Scotland long time ago, but I would not recommend it today. Locals are not so welcoming now.

It's quite normal to stay in pubs and B&Bs doing the Coast to Coast - that's how my wife and I did it for our honeymoon. Wild camping is not lawful on any(?) part of the route, and organised camp sites are relatively scarce for most of it.

Plus it's a pretty unusual through hike. It goes through three national parks, but it's nowhere wilderness and you're never more than about 10 route miles from a village. Resupply en route is fairly trivial.

Re: British sandwiches and walking 300km of Wainwright's coast to coast

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Post by ljsocal »

lebski88 wrote: post #6

I do think they're right that the footpaths and rights of way are underappreciated here. Whilst I would appreciate a proper right to roam, it would be more about being able to legally wild camp. In terms of actually getting to places there aren't that many interesting places that aren't already accessible. There's barely a field around my house that isn't crossed by a footpath. There are a loads of fantastic long wal…

What is the south west coastal path’s name? Thanks!
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