Toast sandwich
Type | Sandwich |
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Place of origin | United Kingdom |
Main ingredients | Bread, toast, butter |
330 kcal (1382 kJ) | |
Cookbook: Toast Sandwich Media: 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.[1]
Nutritional information
According to the Royal Society of Chemistry, the average toast sandwich contains 330 Calories.[2]
Public recognition
In November 2011 the toast sandwich was recreated by the Royal Society of Chemistry in a tasting almost 150 years after the release of Beeton's Book of Household Management.[2] The society sought to revive the forgotten dish in wake of the Great Recession after finding the cost being as low as 7.5p per sandwich.[3] They named it "the country's most economical lunch", and even offered £200 to whoever could devise a cheaper meal.[4] Due to an overabundance of submissions the offer was closed 7 days later, and the £200 given to a randomly selected entrant.[5]
Menu item
The toast sandwich is featured as a side dish for the main course item the "Mad Hatter's Tea Party (c. 1892)"; this "Tea Party" is a dish inspired by Alice in Wonderland served in celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal's restaurant The Fat Duck.[6][7] The dish contains 12 toast sandwiches.[8] 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.[8]
American response
Members of NPR's news panel game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! each tried the toast sandwich.[9] 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!"[9] David Griner of American advertising trade publication Adweek reviewed Taco Bell's new "Dollar Cravings" value menu describing the "Cheese Roll-Up" as follows: "This is the toast sandwich of Taco Bell cuisine."[10][11] The A.V. Club's Mike Vago described it as an "extravagance of blandness."[12] 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."[13] The toast sandwich was discussed on The Leonard Lopate Show in an interview with The Sporkful's Dan Pashman. Host Leonard Lopate commented "it sounds weird to me."[14][15]
See also
References
- ↑ Lane, Megan (17 November 2011). "The toast sandwich and other hyper-cheap meals". BBC News Magazine.
- 1 2 "Toast sandwich is UK's 'cheapest meal'". BBC News. 16 November 2011.
- ↑ "RSC press release: Mrs Beeton's toast sandwich". www.rsc.org. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
- ↑ Fort, Matthew. "The toast sandwich: can you jazz it up?". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
- ↑ "RSC Press Release: RSC inboxes overflowing with economical meal suggestions". www.rsc.org. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
- ↑ Dan Stock (17 September 2014). "The Fat Duck in Melbourne: Heston Blumenthal has ballot system for bookings". News.com.au. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 Sarah Rogozen (31 December 2013). "Heston Blumenthal on Recreating Lewis Carroll's Mock Turtle Soup". KCRW. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
- 1 2 Ian Chillag (28 November 2011). "Sandwich Monday: The Toast Sandwich". NPR. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Chris Morran (22 August 2014). "5 Best Lines From Review Of Entire Taco Bell Dollar Menu". The Consumerist. Retrieved 2014-08-25.
- ↑ Mike Vago (19 June 2016). "The powerful bread lobby wants you to read this article about sandwiches". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
- ↑ Dan Myers (27 February 2015). "12 Life-Changing Sandwiches You've Never Heard Of". The Daily Meal. Retrieved 2015-02-28.
- ↑ Pashman, Dan (24 July 2014). "What Is A Sandwich? (Or, John Hodgman Calls In To Leonard Lopate To Argue With Me)". Sporkful.
- ↑ Lopate, Leonard (24 July 2014). "Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich?". WNYC.
External links
Media related to Toast sandwiches at Wikimedia Commons