[Sca-cooks] OT/OOP NYT Article on Math Formula For the Perfect Bacon Sandwich...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 11, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Johnna Holloway wrote:

> But that is British bacon and not American style Bacon.
> The BBC News
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/6538643.stm?ls
> has a good picture what their bacon sandwich looks like.
> http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007160287,00.html

Yeah, the Times had a photo, too. We'd probably think of it as  
griddle-fried ham or Canadian Bacon on a roll.

By the way, the article's mention of Brown Sauce is to a sauce that  
is brown, but more like A-1 Steak Sauce or HP Sauce than the English  
name for Sauce Espagnole, which is also brown sauce, since it is made  
from brown stock, brown roux, caramelized vegetables, mushrooms,  
tomato, etc. They're talking about a sort of sweet-and-sour brown goo  
from a bottle.

>
> We must insist that scientists on this side of the pond take up the
> challenge and do a study using our traditional bacon.

That had occurred to me, too, but I also wonder how many Americans  
eat that many bacon sandwiches (I mean, straight bacon, without egg,  
or lettuce and tomato, chicken, turkey, etc.) This would presumably  
affect the results somewhat, as would the possibility that American  
sandwiches can tend to be more about the filling than they are about  
the bread -- I mean, I'm sure you can get a corned beef sandwich in  
the UK, but it probably isn't the monstrosity you routinely get at  
Katz's Deli. I'm not sure where, in the meat-to-bread ratio, a bacon  
butty falls.

Adamantius (hmmm... I do have some back bacon in there somewhere...)



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