The best breakfast butty? It’s bread, bacon and butter... and nothing else
YOU might like yours with a dollop of ketchup or a squeeze of HP sauce.
But, for the perfect bacon sandwich, it’s actually best to add nothing at all.
So claims a breakfast expert who says you need just bread, butter and bacon for your sarnie. Adding anything else – such as herbs, pomegranate seeds or even a side salad – is wrong.
Guise Bule, chairman of the English Breakfast Society, said the ‘British institution’ should be made using just three ingredients after hearing about other spins on the breakfast butty.
He added: ‘[Britons] know exactly what a bacon sandwich is. It’s something that their mother used to make them with love and she used to make it the same way every time.
‘Toasted white sliced bread, mildly salted English butter, and good old British back bacon. There is simply no substitute.’ It is unclear whether condiments such as tomato sauce are allowed, and whether they should be added to the sandwich or put on the side.
Many have complained that the breakfast staple has been messed up by cafes who now add too many posh ingredients.
One customer said he was annoyed when his sandwich came out with herbs – and he was offered a salad with it.
Tony Peakall said he struggled to find a traditional sandwich in his home of Crouch End, North London.
He wrote on Facebook: ‘I know, I know, First World problems, but this is a Crouch End problem – where to get an old-school bacon sandwich?
‘I went to a cafe today and asked for a bacon sandwich. “Do you want salad with that?” No, thanks, just a bacon sandwich. ‘It arrives on a plate with sprigs of herbs, sprinkled with more herbs and pomegranate seeds, plus it’s blooming sourdough bread of course. My HP sauce does not sit well with this.’
Britons spend around £1.37 billion a year on bacon and ten bacon sandwiches are eaten every second in the UK.
The BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato) was recently named Britain’s favourite sandwich, according to a poll from breadmaker Hovis.
This was followed by chicken salad while tuna mayonnaise and fish finger sandwiches came joint third.