ad hoc wrote:
But you're supposed to drain bacon on paper towels after cooking, even if you're eating it with eggs or something.

Surely, Pringles are crisps, but not potato crisps. They are crisp, are they not?

Lately I'm a fan of pretzel crisps, which are like flattened pretzels - just the outside brown part with the salt and not the inside white part.

There is no differentiation between those two terms in Britain, Reed. Crisps means potato crisps, in the same way the Chips means potato crisps round your way. They might be able to call them potato chips if they wanted, although not chips as those are of course something else again.

Mayonnaise AND salsa, in the same sandwich?

(This is only slightly off-subject, as it's about pizzas, which are nothing more than glorified open sandwiches anyway.)

During a recent jaunt to eastern Germany (I wanted a different take on German Unification Day celebrations), I saw a menu with Pizza Pommdöner on it.

It probably exists elsewhere but, just in case it doesn't, Pommdöner is a doner kebab with chips in a cardboard cone. A Pizza Pommdöner is, astonishingly, a pizza covered with doner kebab, chips and, very possibly, the cardboard cone as well.

The menu was in a restaurant in one of the most German villages I've ever visited, where the average age of inhabitants and tourists alike was well over fifty. I'd never have thought that middle-aged West Pommeranians, Saxonians and Thuringians would have had a soft spot for Pizza Pommdöner, but they obviously do. Either that or the restauranteur was just trying to get down with the kids, which was pretty pointless as there don't appear to be any kids there.

"Open sandwich" belongs with "crustless pie", really. Doesn't exist.

"Open sandwich" belongs with "crustless pie", really. Doesn't exist.

Yes, you're right, of course. But what do/should you call sandwiches with only half the bread?

In Germany, they call 'open' bread rolls "Half of a filled roll" (as opposed to "a half-filled roll"), which, although not strictly accurate, is at least less misleading than 'open sandwich'.

Pringles - or rather, Stackable Potato Chips - on 'How It's Made'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9GudOVGYr8&feature=related

Pointless and idiotic wastes of time and money. Certainly not worthy of a name of their own. File them in "unfinished snacks" maybe?

Lots of a good mild cheddar-lookalike (longhorn, colby) and nacho-cheese tortilla oh-all-right-crisps (pick the flattest ones out of the bag and tessellate them) on oat or whole wheat with thousand-island dressing. A satisfying crunch without the need for watery, pointless lettuce, which belongs in a salad, not a sandwich and most especially not a burger.

So, it's a London pizza with doner meat? Hmm.

they have ramped the price up being the nearest pub to eton doreny lake. sandwiches are massive though and you do get chips

treibeis wrote:

I believe that's called a "tartine". Not that I approve or anything.

Janik wrote:


Chips don't always mean potato chips. It may also refer to corn chips.

And there are also the fancy sweet potato and taro chips.

Good point.

Heliotrope wrote:


Yeah, Mrs Earp is into that. It's not how us Limeys roll, though, which explains our high rate of coronary heart disease. You haven't lived, mind, if you've not dipped your sandwich bread in the bacon fat in the pan--although I accept your non-living may be more prolonged than our living.

That's just gross.

Fussbudget wrote:


At school we were told they were called a Danish open sandwich, part of a project on Denmark and the only thing I can remember from 30 years ago.

There's a pub in Edinburgh (the Canny Man's) that has a menu of scores of kinds of sandwiches (years ago since I was last there, but I think it was on four large pages, well over one hundred kinds of sandwich). It's a weird, intimidating place with very rude staff and a very odd way of working. But nice sandwiches.

(The plaque outside says 'No smoking, no credit cards, no mobile phones, no cameras, no backpackers.' And they mean it.)