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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 glenngillen »

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.

You've just reminded me of a German colleague who moved to the US that was asked in his first week "How are you enjoying things? What have you found surprising?" and replied with "Shopping has been difficult because I don't recognise most of the brands or products. The supermarket has like 100 different types of bread, except as best I can tell it's actually just the 1 type of bread in 100 different shapes. Also it's not bread, it's more like a cake."

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

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Post by dukeyukey »

burkaman wrote: post #31
sg47 wrote: post #16

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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…

The one time I visited the US the bread was alright! But I also had a PBJ made from a loaf of Texas Toast bread, and it was _by far_ the worst bread I've ever had.

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

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Post by OJFord »

seabass-labrax wrote: post #46
downut wrote: post #21

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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?

I think 'potato chips' is always American crisps, nobody specifies 'potato' for British chips?

Also fwiw, amusingly, your attempt to internationally disambiguate the terms fell down because Walkers is Lays everywhere except the UK!

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

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Post by OJFord »

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.

And also in the UK.

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

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Post by OJFord »

retrac98 wrote: post #8
gambiting wrote: post #3

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I was going to say - Lakeland to me as a Brit is a store, lake district sounds way more proper.

Lakeland makes it sound like a theme park!

That took me a minute - it's pronounced 'lake-lund' (as in French lundi), which doesn't sound so theme-parky!

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

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Post by OJFord »

pmyteh wrote: post #38
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…

Globally unusual do you mean? I can't imagine where in England that would not be true.

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

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Post by RamblingCTO »

noneeeed wrote: post #26

This made me chuckle: "And of course the many high-school students doing Duke of Edinburgh’s Award hikes, often with looks of total dejection and sadness, and certainly with much stink, but always with an impressive commitment." Been there, done that, got the blisters. Totally worth it looking back, got me into walkin, but not sure I understood it at the time.

Is walkin' the british slang for hiking?
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