General Chat

Lunch yesterday in the pub, full English, including fried bread, washed down with Wainwright ale. (by Thwaite's brewery) No, I am not going to admit how many pints.
My mate's brother used to have "dirt sandwiches" That is, crumbled Oxo.

Crispy fried bread is great with marmalade - needs to be something with some bite such as Cooper's Oxford or Tiptree.

Bacon sarnies made with crispy fried bread are also great especially if you are in a hurry.

Soggy fried bread ? A disaster even less tasteful than dripping or brexit.

Sandwiches but occasional Sarnies amongst ourselves. Butties only when relating to a filling of chips or crisps.

Sugar sandwiches were a (very) occasional treat. Mashed bananas were a ‘nursery’ favourite. Our offspring used to have fish finger sandwiches for lunch long before they appeared on restaurant menus!

Don’t think any of the above would work made with fried bread. To my mind, fried bread equals savoury rather than sweet.

Brought up with butties in Scouseland, AnnG - from 75 years ago.

I have to say, though, that it's the first time I've heard it used for Friend. I like it, but then I think variety is the spice of life. :-D

I actually like the thought of fried bread with marmalade Sharron although I have never thought of doing it. The bread, I think would need to be crisp not soggy fried.

We often refer to sandwiches as butties but I think that comes from Oh's RN days. and strangely, in part of this area Butties can mean friends. Or more usually phrased as old Butt(which in itself could sound as though it referred to something else. But I think it is a phrase used long before americanisation of our language.

Chuckles' pumps was what a colleague called them. :-D

I think it was the smell of them .... :-0

Butties in the North where I grew up. Still use that word now especial[[y whan talking about bacon or chip butties.

Sarnie is quite widespread here in WA. I can't comment on other areas.

I worked in the Manchester Town hall back in he mid sixties and one of the typists was always going on about chukkie butties; translation, egg sandwiches :-D

When I was at school we went through phases of butties (as they are known to me).

One phase was banana and Mars Bar - still occasionally have them.

Another was beef crisps (got to be beef) - still occasionally have them.

One I could not get away with at all was sugar butties - never have them.

While my Mum used slightly over-ripe bananas to make a banana loaf, I fry them with bacon to make a sandwich.

Interesting, the variety of words for sandwiches - I grew up knowing them (and still use the word) as butties.

A friend always uses the word 'sarnie'.

I was well-into adulthood before hearing someone from the Midlands describe them as piecees but I am not sure whether that applied only to a break-time sandwich or whether it was a piecee for all 24 hours. Perhaps someone can enlighten me.

Strange isn't it; the thoughts of a battered jam sandwich, to me, is quite revolting, yet once upon a time I did enjoy cheese and jam sandwiches. Just plain, not cooked :-S

Eggy bread for me. I used to cook it on pack holidays with the Brownies :-D :-D. Soak the bread in beaten egg then fry YUM :-D :-D

I love a battered jam sandwich but ha never heard of fried bread and marmalade before.

Sharron, I've not had fried bread for years now, but when a lot younger I loved it with marmalade on. It was the only way to finish a decent fried breakfast.

Obviously, back in those days, it was just your bog-standard white bread which was fried. :-D

The speciality dessert of the father of a friend when he was cooking was an ordinary jam sandwich fried in butter and flipped to fry the other side.

grannyfranny I love you!

I also wonder how a thread about marmalade on fried bread managed to mention only bread and dripping!

Sometimes when we are camping and have leftover baguette, we slice and fry it in olive oil, then eat with jam. Lovely.

You can be sure I would not be frying in dripping.

Might be OK if the bread was fried in butter/butter substitute or oil. Don't fancy it if it the bread was fried in pure animal fat/dripping.

Dip your slice of bread in a beaten egg before frying in butter & you've French Toast! Although it's ages since we did it, from memory it tasted sweet without the need for sugar.

Anybody care to comment on the concept of marmalade on fried bread?

We had dripping toast
It needed the jelly as well as the brown bits and a generous sprinkle of salt and pepper

Mum would say no more I need the fat for cooking in the week

She would send one of us to the butcher to buy a lump of beef fat which was used for the Sunday roast and for all other fry when it became dripping

Loved big chunky chips fried in the open frying pan in dripping

Yum !! :-D

Loved the brown bits in dripping, Maddie. :-D