Toast sandwich

Toast sandwich

A toast sandwich prepared by Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North[1][2]
Type Sandwich
Place of origin United Kingdom
Main ingredients Bread, toast, butter
Food energy
(per serving)
 330[3][4] kcal
Cookbook:Toast sandwich  Toast sandwich

A toast sandwich is a sandwich made by putting a thin slice of toast between two thin slices of bread with a layer of butter, and adding salt and pepper to taste. Its origins can be traced to the Victorian years. A recipe for making it is included in the 1861 Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton.[5]

Nutritional information

According to the Royal Society of Chemistry, the average toast sandwich contains 330 calories.[3]

Public recognition

The toast sandwich was named by the scientists of the Royal Society of Chemistry "Britain's cheapest lunchtime meal" in November 2011, with the cost cited as being as low as 7.5p per sandwich.[3] The Royal Society of Chemistry is offering £200 to whosoever can create a cheaper alternative.[3][4][6]

Dr. John Emsley claims that this sandwich will lead Britons out of "harsh economic times."[6]

Menu item

The toast sandwich served as a side dish at celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal's restaurant The Fat Duck

The toast sandwich is featured as a side dish for the main course item the "Mad Hatter's Tea Party (c.1892)"—an Alice in Wonderland inspired dish served alongside a mock turtle soup where a fob watch formed of freeze-dried beef stock covered with gold leaf is dropped into a tea cup and has a beef stock "tea" poured over it that dissolves the gold and the watch—on the tasting menu of celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal's restaurant The Fat Duck.[7][8]

"Mad Hatter's Tea Party (c. 1892)" contains 12 toast sandwiches.[9] According to American public radio station KCRW, Blumenthal's recipe for the toast sandwich involves bone marrow salad, egg yolk mustard, gastrique, mayonnaise, and tomato ketchup.[9]

The meal is priced £220 at The Fat Duck located in Bray, Berkshire, England,[10] while its Melbourne, Victoria, Australia location prices it at between ~$351[8] and $525.[7]

American response

Members of NPR's news panel game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! each tried the toast sandwich.[11] Host Peter Sagal remarked "This is the culinary equivalent of a Rothko painting. Or it's like a sandwich by Marcel Duchamp! It questions the essence of sandwich and language both!"[11]

American advertising trade publication Adweek's David Griner reviewed Taco Bell's new "Dollar Cravings" value menu describing the "Cheese Roll-Up" with "This is the toast sandwich of Taco Bell cuisine."[12][13]

The Daily Meal remarked in their article "12 Life-Changing Sandwiches You've Never Heard Of", the toast sandwich was "just not that good. In Britain, for example, there’s actually something called a toast sandwich, which is just buttered toast between two slices of bread. Thankfully, the Dadaists didn’t invent any more sandwiches after that."[14]

Internet response

Toast sandwich is one of the most shared articles in the Facebook group Cool Freaks' Wikipedia Club.[15][16] The Tab reports this is "overplayed but never really funny."[15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ryan North (26 March 2014). "Twitter / ryanqnorth: behold, my first toast sandwich ...". Twitter. Retrieved 2014-07-10.
  2. ↑ Ryan North (26 March 2014). "Twitter / ryanqnorth: oh snap, which rad dude just ...". Twitter. Retrieved 2014-07-11.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Toast sandwich is UK's 'cheapest meal'". BBC News. 16 November 2011.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Matthew Fort (16 November 2011). "The toast sandwich: can you jazz it up?". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
  5. ↑ Lane, Megan (17 November 2011). "The toast sandwich and other hyper-cheap meals". BBC News Magazine.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Fiona Macrae (17 November 2011). "Short of cash for lunch? How about an austerity sandwich... that's toast between two slices of bread". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Dan Stock (17 September 2014). "The Fat Duck in Melbourne: Heston Blumenthal has ballot system for bookings". News.com.au. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Aaron Langmaid (31 March 2014). "Fat chance you’ll get a table at Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck restaurant at Crown in Melbourne". Herald Sun. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Sarah Rogozen (31 December 2013). "Heston Blumenthal on Recreating Lewis Carroll’s Mock Turtle Soup". KCRW. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
  10. ↑ "The Fat Duck Tasting Menu". The Fat Duck. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Ian Chillag (28 November 2011). "Sandwich Monday: The Toast Sandwich". NPR. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
  12. ↑ David Griner (21 August 2014). "I Ate Taco Bell's Entire New Dollar Menu in One Sitting, and Here's What I Learned - Adweek". Adweek. Retrieved 2014-08-25.
  13. ↑ Chris Morran (22 August 2014). "5 Best Lines From Review Of Entire Taco Bell Dollar Menu – Consumerist". The Consumerist. Retrieved 2014-08-25.
  14. ↑ Dan Myers (27 February 2015). "12 Life-Changing Sandwiches You've Never Heard Of". The Daily Meal. Retrieved 2015-02-28.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Rory Cox (17 November 2014). "Cool Freaks’ Wikipedia Club and Oxford University, a comparison". The Tab. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
  16. ↑ River Donaghey (7 November 2014). "Cool Freaks’ Wikipedia Club Is a Shitshow of Esoterica, Political Correctness, and Trigger Warnings". Vice. Retrieved 2014-11-20.

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