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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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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!

It's called just that!

https://www.southwestcoastpath.org.uk

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

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My thought when I saw the pictures: they really know how to make digital pictures look as nice as film these days...

The photos in the article were taken with a film Hasselblad.

Yes, that was my point. :-)

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

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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…

I'm afraid, like a vampire, you've just invited me in. My recipe, marmite and lettuce sandwiches.

Two slices of high fiber, low carb, multigrain bread. Toast if you can hold off your food-in-mouth-now need for a couple minutes.

Spread hummus on both slices. Hummus is a great butter/cheese/mayo replacement.

Sprinkle a mix of seeds (sun flower kernels, hemp, chia, flax, sesame) on one side.

Add red beet and cabbage sauerkraut, then turkey slices, to the other side.

Slap together and eat!

My personal recipe invention strategy is to constrain my experiments to high-flavor moderate calorie superfood combination bombs with construction times in the 30-60 second range. Prep: 1. Big jar of three months worth of high nutrition seeds. 2. There is no 2. This one is a staple now, but others' tastes may differ.

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

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In Larry Niven's 'Ringworld' the explorers are always eating 'hand meals': for the longest time I resisted the obvious interpretation and imagined some unfathomable futuristic repast, but let's be honest - they're sandwiches aren't they.

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

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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.

What does the number of options have to do with how good they are?

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

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

Uhh no don't oh dear I guess I must: Two lightly toasted slices of NOT white bread, lightly apply very good mayo 1/8 lb of good smoked ham sliced very thin 1 large dill pickle sliced fairly thin ...aaannnnddd a bunch of ruffles potato chips. Assemble a thin layer of ham, then pile the pickle slices in a second layer, add another ham layer, then pile the chips as the next layer, and add a final thin ham layer to insul…

Hang on, is that chips or crisps? As in pommes frites or Walkers?

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In Branston Pickle, the third word, "Relish", is silent. So silent that it is omitted from the label.

Lidl sells 'Batts' pickle, which is a little less sweet than Branston is, and has perhaps slightly more vinegar. I much prefer it to the 'real' Branston pickle. Tesco own-brand was the worst last time I tried it*.

* their recipe is probably: "1. Dump bag of sugar in bottle of vinegar. Veg? Haha, we don't use expensive vegetables here, every little counts you know!"

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

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Uhh no don't oh dear I guess I must: Two lightly toasted slices of NOT white bread, lightly apply very good mayo 1/8 lb of good smoked ham sliced very thin 1 large dill pickle sliced fairly thin ...aaannnnddd a bunch of ruffles potato chips. Assemble a thin layer of ham, then pile the pickle slices in a second layer, add another ham layer, then pile the chips as the next layer, and add a final thin ham layer to insul…

Hang on, is that chips or crisps? As in pommes frites or Walkers?

Pretty sure that was crisps. Though a chip butty is also alright on occasion.

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

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

One of my favourite sandwich places in San Francisco used to occasionally do a chicken roll that had corn chips in it. That extra textural element was ssoooo good.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uhh no don't oh dear I guess I must: Two lightly toasted slices of NOT white bread, lightly apply very good mayo 1/8 lb of good smoked ham sliced very thin 1 large dill pickle sliced fairly thin ...aaannnnddd a bunch of ruffles potato chips. Assemble a thin layer of ham, then pile the pickle slices in a second layer, add another ham layer, then pile the chips as the next layer, and add a final thin ham layer to insul…

Hang on, is that chips or crisps? As in pommes frites or Walkers?

Can be either.

Crisp sandwich: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisp_sandwich

Chip butty: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_butty

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