Honestly this recipes existence might be a comment on poverty in Victorian England, more than on white people food.
In that case, kudos to the author. I went and looked up the original book (here, if you want to read it), and most of what's in there is solid advice for caring for a loved one who's ill. When I'm recovering from the flu, the last thing I want is a heavy meal—bland and easy to digest, please!
Yeah I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that punching at people who invented the toast sandwich probably isn't punching up.
There's nothing wrong with 3 pieces of toast. Taking one piece of toast and putting it between two untoasted pieces of bread is the objection here. Also, British people.
They were trying to get that balance of crunchy and chewy that feels more like eating real food.
"Add salt and pepper to taste" - woah woah woah WOAH don't make this too flavorful now.
Honestly, that sounds like dry humour to me. It's probably an ironic recipe to point out rates of poverty at the time.
Affording salt
woah woah woah WOAH mister moneybags don't be classist now!
The recipe contains two ingredients, which are calorically dense and relatively inexpensive. The salt and pepper line just makes it sound like a regular recipe. I didn't say salt and pepper was for rich people, but that the recipe as a whole was a joke.
Inside you are two wolves: 3 pieces of toast or a toast sandwich.
One wolf eats bland food
The other also eats bland food
You are bri'ish
This isn’t something I can really fault the br*ts for. It’s the result of hundreds of years of grinding poverty and making do or starving.
Funny thing is that the teeth thing is another example of misguided American exceptionalism:
Conclusions: The oral health of US citizens is not better than the English, and there are consistently wider educational and income oral health inequalities in the US compared with England.
I haven’t been able to find numbers to confirm this, but my experience of dentistry in the US is that dentists really push cosmetic and unnecessary treatment. For instance, I consulted my old dentist in the UK after going to the dentist in the US for the first time as I had a huge amount of work prescribed. Her reaction was “that would be illegal here and I would lose my license if I tried that on”. Anecdotal, I know, but given the relative deregulation of medical practice in the US and the much stronger profit motive, I have an innate mistrust of dentists here.
Her reaction was “that would be illegal here and I would lose my license if I tried that on”.
If she did what exactly?
Multiple “preventative” fillings and wisdom teeth extraction that wouldn’t actually address any actual problems. My teeth were fine.
nobody eats this but i know brits just smudge beans on top of toast regularly
This sounds like one of those things that people made for kids and it just kinda stuck around.
Oh, totally understandable in that context. Takes something plain and makes it more interesting with textures and flavors.
yeah, they're decent if you can't be fucked to eat anything that takes any actual effort. plus it's really neutral to eat but still has a bit of flavour i like, so when my brain fucks up and thinking about eating feels legitimately nauseating it's a good safe food.
