Do you miss white sliced bread from the UK?
Apr 23rd 2012, 7:24 pm
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Do you miss white sliced bread from the UK?
Apr 23rd 2012, 7:27 pm
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Re: Do you miss white sliced bread from the UK?
it doesn't fit in a Spanish toaster though, nor does it fit the sliced ham & cheese for a mixto, so I rarely buy it
it's essential for a bacon butty though
Apr 23rd 2012, 7:46 pm
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Apr 23rd 2012, 7:52 pm
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As to bacon butties.... has to be something like a thickly sliced bloomer.
Apr 23rd 2012, 7:56 pm
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Apr 23rd 2012, 7:59 pm
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Re: Do you miss white sliced bread from the UK?
I missed UK sliced white bread for the first time yesterday!!! I had my first chip butty in years and it just wasn't the same!
On a related note, as a result of chip butties being all wrong, I mentioned banana sandwiches (another thing I imagine would require English bread) to a Spanish friend I was with and her look, which was already one of mild disgust due to my chip butty, turned to absolute horror! I argued that anyone who puts tortilla de patata on a dry baguette and calls it food has no place judging my English, late evening snacks of old! It did get me thinking though. Are banana sarnies normal or is it just my eccentric mother who makes them?
On a related note, as a result of chip butties being all wrong, I mentioned banana sandwiches (another thing I imagine would require English bread) to a Spanish friend I was with and her look, which was already one of mild disgust due to my chip butty, turned to absolute horror! I argued that anyone who puts tortilla de patata on a dry baguette and calls it food has no place judging my English, late evening snacks of old! It did get me thinking though. Are banana sarnies normal or is it just my eccentric mother who makes them?
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Apr 23rd 2012, 8:16 pm
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I knew it!!!
Apr 23rd 2012, 8:18 pm
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Re: Do you miss white sliced bread from the UK?
I just make my own bread in my trusty 10 year old Panasonic bread-maker.
The local Spanish loaves are OK but they are not so good for toast. The "Bimbo" type sliced white loaves are far to sweet.
The English stuff just tastes like a foul form of cardboard!
The local Spanish loaves are OK but they are not so good for toast. The "Bimbo" type sliced white loaves are far to sweet.
The English stuff just tastes like a foul form of cardboard!
Apr 23rd 2012, 8:44 pm
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Re: Do you miss white sliced bread from the UK?
British sliced bread has been on sale for years on the CDS. Warburtons, kingsmill and Fletchers. It's mainly rubbish and so is the spanish sliced too. Never missed it because I never ate it in the UK either. Used to buy it when grandson was young when he came to visit. His favourite was white sliced bread with Tuna.
They knew how to charge too, a kingsmill in Gibraltar was about £1.25, about 2.80€ in Spain and that was over a year ago!
They knew how to charge too, a kingsmill in Gibraltar was about £1.25, about 2.80€ in Spain and that was over a year ago!
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Apr 23rd 2012, 9:49 pm
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Re: Do you miss white sliced bread from the UK?
I missed UK sliced white bread for the first time yesterday!!! I had my first chip butty in years and it just wasn't the same!
On a related note, as a result of chip butties being all wrong, I mentioned banana sandwiches (another thing I imagine would require English bread) to a Spanish friend I was with and her look, which was already one of mild disgust due to my chip butty, turned to absolute horror! I argued that anyone who puts tortilla de patata on a dry baguette and calls it food has no place judging my English, late evening snacks of old! It did get me thinking though. Are banana sarnies normal or is it just my eccentric mother who makes them?
On a related note, as a result of chip butties being all wrong, I mentioned banana sandwiches (another thing I imagine would require English bread) to a Spanish friend I was with and her look, which was already one of mild disgust due to my chip butty, turned to absolute horror! I argued that anyone who puts tortilla de patata on a dry baguette and calls it food has no place judging my English, late evening snacks of old! It did get me thinking though. Are banana sarnies normal or is it just my eccentric mother who makes them?
You are normal!! But yea, bread here is awful....it's either too sugary or tastes like plastic!! I only eat fresh baguettes....not the same though 
Apr 23rd 2012, 9:50 pm
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