The Great US vs UK Food Debate

Of course we have jam, my fridge always has 2 or 3 open jars in it. Use it all the time for sandwiches, toast, cakes etc.

 

I do love me some jam. I do love me some peanut butter. As khaid said put the two together and you have something special. I do like marmite though, Vegemite is pretty much the same thing, tastes almost identical to marmite. Marmite tastes better than oysters, or as I like to call them, snot in a shell.

Back on topic though.

We invented the sandwich so we win case closed end of thread.

 

You really claim to have invented putting meat on bread? That almost a ludicrous as Chick Fil A claiming they invented the chicken sandwich.

I'll admit though that I actually am impressed that companies have managed to exploit the British peoples' lack of taste to sell them industrial run off as a toast spread.

 

I'm convinced at this point that you could grind up actual garbage and sell it as some kind of food product in the UK.

Grim and the rest would probably describe it as being "quite nice on toast."

The only thing left is to come up with a brand name that sounds like something you'd buy at Home Depot to kill roaches.

 

Marmite seems like a rather cruel method to kill any creature, even something as loathsome as a cockroach.

 

Would roaches even eat marmite? That's the real question.

 

I know from first-hand experience that roaches will eat frozen rat brain. I caught one chowing down on the brain slicer (to examine slices on slides under the microscope) as an undergrad. But Marmite? Well, that's might be too much for even a roach.

 

As long as it tastes good and you enjoy it who cares what it's made of? Hot dogs and chicken nuggets are made of shit but I still eat them because they're delish.

Here's a little backstory on the invention of the sandwich.

The sandwich

The modern sandwich is named after the Rt. Hon. John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, yet the exact circumstances of its invention and original use are still the subject of debate. A rumour in a contemporary travel book called Tour to London by Pierre Jean Grosley formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the gambling table. A very conversant gambler, Lord Sandwich did not take the time to have a meal during his long hours playing at the card table. Consequently, he would ask his servants to bring him slices of meat between two slices of bread; a habit well known among his gambling friends. Because John Montagu was the Earl of Sandwich others began to order "the same as Sandwich!" - the ‘sandwich’ was born. The sober alternative is provided by Sandwich's biographer, N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics and the arts mean the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his work desk.

Nothing ludicrous about it. Someone must have been the first person to do so right? It sure as hell wasn't an American.

 

Marmite is amazing. Vegemite is a pale pretender.

 

Now Bovril, that's a different story. Yuck.

 

The Chinese were probably the first to make a sandwich. They were the first to make pizza.

 

Claiming that the 19th century was the first time someone combined meat and bread is idiotic. The Earl of Sandwich thing is an urban myth, just like the urban myth that George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.

People have been grinding up peanuts into paste since ancient times, and people have been putting meat on bread since ancient times.

And if someone invented the sandwich, it certainly wasn't a British person. It doesn't come in a jar, and it's not a gooey industrial byproduct. British food by definition must be bizarre and confusing, which rules out the possibility that they could have invented the sandwich.

If it doesn't make you say "what the hell is that supposed to be?" and put a frown on your face when you taste it, it doesn't meet the British seal of approval.

 

Britain's all about it's secrets. they don't want you to know what it is.

 

I don't like my food to be mysterious.

 

Ok I'll be more literal. The Earl of Sandwich is credited with the invention of the sandwich despite not being the first person to make one much like Alexander Graham Bell is credited as inventing the telephone when he wasn't the first to do so. I suppose saying we popularised the modern sandwich would be more accurate, you're welcome.

 

How so? All of the good sandwiches I can think of came from the US. Americans popularized the modern sandwich.

British people could never come up with something as delicious as the pork BBQ sandwich or the Reuben.

The fact that Jews probably invented the sandwich doesn't surprise me at all. Some of the most awesome sandwiches around come from Jewish delis.

 

Who cares. You can whack anything between two slices of bread and it will taste good. That is all there is to know.

 

Hardly. In fact, most sandwiches are terrible. You need a good sense of taste to come up with a good sandwich.

Some of the Brits on here were claiming subway sandwiches "are quite nice." Which tells me most of you have never had a good sandwich, because subway tastes like buttcrack.