Which condiment would you use if you made yourself a bacon sandwich right now?

Brown sauce, but only if it was HP.

Brown Sauce.

Voted for Tracklements onion marmalade and a tiny dollop of ketchup, ie. OTHER. Also, Ketchup/Mayo. Also, bread must be toasted.

*disclaimer* American, loather of brown sauce.

brown sauce, but it's lunchtime, wd rather have cheese savoury with it or blt

MAngo chutney as I tend to do with everything if I'm using a sauce.

Brown sauce obv

melted cheese plz, wouldn't object to brown sauce or ketchup tho

not that i can make bacon in the first place

well, when a daddy pig loves a mummy pig very much

not that i can make bacon in the first place

― lex pretend

You are incapable of frying bacon?

I'm generally a mayo man myself, which I know is very unbritish of me.

other weirdness - been concocting a mustard vinaigrette thing recently when riding The Bacon Line

You are incapable of frying bacon?

yes

oh i like EGGS with my bacon as well. more concerned about dairy additions than condiments actually

you don't even have to cut bacon or use oil. you just put it on the pan with the hob on, turn it over at some point and it cooks itself. once it looks ready, it's ready.

Chuck a bit of oil in if you want it crispy.

i don't know what ready looks like. i didn't know you could cook it without oil, i cannot handle oil at all

Ketchup...renegaded recently with a BBQ sauce one and it was top.

i don't know what ready looks like.

Like you want to eat it.

What...is difficult about oil?

oil + frying pan = paralysed by nightmares about reconstructive facial surgery, find myself unable to hold frying pan closer than arm's length and looking away

Would have to be vegetarian bacon but the only thing i would ever add is French mustard.

i worry about you sometimes m8, i really do.

Try grilling it - negates the fear you've got?

i can actually grill things successfully but the grill in this house doesn't work!!! i once tried to make myself cheese on toast and waited in front of the grill for like 50 minutes before i realised it wasn't working

Sounds like Lex is perfectly happy relegating his bacon cooking duties tbf.

xpost haha

Delegating, not relegating.

HP duh

Do Britishes generally eat horseradish y/n?

y, but with beef mostly.

Ah, OK. I don't eat bacon anymore, but when I did I loved a BLT w/horseradish on it.

Mayonnaise

If it was breakfast, I'd have a fried egg in the sandwich instead of brown sauce.

Bacon, lettuce, tomato with mayonnaise is the #2 favoUrite sandwich in GB according to wiki... Reading these replies makes me wonder if that's true tho.

Its one thats readily available for some reason. Do ppl make it at home given choice? Doubt it.

I do, though with aforementioned vinaigrette instead of mayo. It's a corker I tell ye.

Do ppl make it at home given choice? Doubt it.

I do, but usually with avocado instead of lettuce.

i don't know what ready looks like. i didn't know you could cook it without oil, i cannot handle oil at all

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bacon is naturally a bit greasy so it should be okay not to use oil if you don't want to. If you're worried about oil splattering you, you could always get some of that spray-oil which you just spray on and acts like a thin layer to stop the bacon or whatever you're cooking sticking to the pan, but really on a non-stick surface it shouldn't matter. When the bacon is ready is a matter of choice. I don't like mine overcooked or scabby, but some people like it very crispy. I guess it's just a matter of looking at it and if it looks and smells good, it's pretty much ready. It's very hard to get bacon wrong unless you're eating it raw.

BLT isn't worth doing unless you've got some amazing vine tomatoes. As with club sandwiches, bread must be toasted. Cannot imagine without mayo.

Other worthy bacon sandwich contenders include: bacon/mashed avocado on toast or seeded roll; panini of bacon/cooked spinach/mozzarella AKA 'roadkill'.

i find grills basically impossible to use and try to avoid them like the plague. it's why i bought a grill pan.

Would be brown sauce, but not HP as apparently they're only for men, so fine, fuck you, I won't use you. Ketchup on bacon sandwiches is good sometimes but not as often. And in fact, quite frequently I want just marge - the taste of the bacon doesn't need augmenting.

Ketchup is a vastly overrated condiment imo.

xxxp I've actually found that with an avocado at the proper ripeness you can forego the mayo altogether. I'm using fake vegetarian bacon now, but the principle is the same.

mayo

Tomato + bacon + vinegar is pretty much the greatest combination of flavours in the world so this is obviously ketchup.

voted "other (bacon)"

Comin at me with all the waus u make a blt without either b, l or t is, well, it just is

Imodium

I voted mayo just for you all to know, although it's sort of inconceivable that one would eat a bacon sandwich without tomatoes.

Bacon and scrambled egg is great too, though.

Voted mayo.

Is brown sauce a thing in the US?

NO.

My Heart Attack Special, which I used to eat pretty often and now just do once every year or two, is bacon, runny fried egg, sharp cheddar and whole green chili, bottom half grilled to melt the cheese, top half toasted with mayo. Oh god it's good.

xp not without a lot of extra effort to find it at international grocers or online, afaik

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*squirts out brown sauce*

There is brown sauce in the US if you know where to look.

That doesn't mean it isn't gross.

Voted mayo BTW.

i know exactly where to look 4 brown saucew

I think Ranch or Blue Cheese dressing might be good, but I've never tried it.

I want a bacon sandwich so bad.

peanut butter and bacon....so good

butter, fuiud

i'll have my bacon with turkey and swiss, no dressing.

when i was a kid and we went to the beach, my mom would make toasted sandwiches with bacon and home-grown tomatoes -- maybe a little bit of mayonnaise, but not strictly necessary. it is like my platonic ideal of lunch

while i am a fan of ketchup (heinz or gtfo), using it on bacon is an egregious waste of both (but mainly the latter)

ketchup

the fuck is brown sauce

bacon makes its own sauce

1000% mayo classique flavor combo

two countries separated by a common language condiments

none of the provided options seem very appealing.
I'd go with some mustard or maybe some spreadable cheese, or guac. Mango chutney does sound pretty good.

Brown sauce is a traditional condiment served with food in the United Kingdom and Ireland, normally brown or dark orange in colour.

well ok

whats it taste like feces

Brown sauces are, in effect, a mixture of ketchup and Worcestershire sauce.

ha ok that doesnt sound so bad, its like almost bbq saunse

It's just like a-1 steak sauce right?

brown sauce is a terrible name tho m8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDzsa9EP-a4

yeah, the only time i hear anything called "brown sauce" in the US is at Chinese restaurants. Not sure if A.1. qualifies as brown sauce; it's more a steak sauce, not something i'd put on chips/fries or bacon sandwiches. HP sauce is considerably tangier and more subtle than A1.

condiments are gross

whaaaat noooooooooooo!!

but LL, MUSTARD! Surely you are not anti-mustard???

well not always but i've never liked trad condiments as listed in the poll options
i like mustard but not the yellow kind

i'm not super crazy abt condiments

xp tell us about the fancy condiments you like

just jealous of pittsburgh's ketchup imo

If the sandwich is basically just bacon, bread and a bit of something, then the bit of something is only there to offset any deficiency in the bread; the bacon doesn't need a condiment. I vote a small amount of butter or marge, or nothing at all if the bread is fresh grade A stuff.

I had major condiment issues for a long time; mustard (Dijon and whole-grain) were the first to win me over. Ketchup came next, then mayo, but I still have some mayo issues unless I've made it myself.

Used to be big into A-1, but not so much these days. Too overpowering.

i love all the condiments man #yolo

My Heart Attack Special, which I used to eat pretty often and now just do once every year or two, is bacon, runny fried egg, sharp cheddar and whole green chili, bottom half grilled to melt the cheese, top half toasted with mayo.

am very much gonna smash this at some point in the near future, considering alternatives to the mayo tho

Surprised no one's brought up the repulsiveness that is salad cream yet.

that's because salad creme is fucking lush you philistine but not rilly with bacon

wow brown sauce salad cream what do you all call ketchup... OLD BLOOD

Menstrual juice.

reasonable

guessing salad cream is ranch dressing

why did i spell it "creme" i wonder?

Nope, I like ranch dressing. I dunno exactly what goes in salad cream, it kind of tastes like gone off mayo.

xxp nah more like a more vinegar-y mayo sub

At the risk of spoiling the magic, I just wanna add that Fritos are u&k with that one. xp to NV

yeah what chap said, i think invented as a cheap mayo sub with more zing and less olive oil for the unrefined sunless Anglo palate

Salad cream is a creamy yellow condiment based on an emulsion of about 25-50 percent of oil in water, emulsified by egg yolk and acidified by spirit vinegar.

ya so mayo w vinegar, id try that

can i sub in any other corn chip Wm?

Just read it was created during rationing as a cheapo alternative to mayo AND PEOPLE STILL EAT IT.

i think i made salad cream once when i didnt have any lemon for the mayo

best use of salad cream is with grated sharp cheddar and lettuce and tomato, or with sliced hard-boiled eggs and tomato imo

Salad cream is for chips. It basically is like a light sweet mayo, though.

Many xposts - it is obviously a hot topic.

it needs to be up against some strong flavours otherwise that's all you'll taste, come to think of it i was v into a salad cream sandwich for supper as a kid

(Secret admission - I prefer salad cream to mayo. By a great degree.)

i only use salad cream as part of potato salad.

Sure -- I think I love the corn chip as a texture component to the meal, and as something to catch the egg yolk (if it's not running down your arm).

A-1 steak sauce for UK people = the shit off-brand brown sauce you get in cheapskate cafes

i prefer salad cream on the aforementioned cheese and salad sandwich, mayo in other circs but on the whole all salad cream tastes good no matter who the manufacturer whereas bad mayo is just rank

xp

A-1 steak sauce def tastes very similar to brown sauce

have seen places like tescos selling steak sauce as part of their crappy range of overpriced imported american brands

Omg why

Seriously Americans if you like steak sauce look out for HP, its like a version of that that tastes good

feel like steak sauce is p out of style

HP on steak would be barbarism though.

xpost

anything on steak is barbarism.

herb butter

demi glace

(based sauce)

bearnaise

Peppercorn sauce.

chimichurri

£5.50!

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/tesco-price-comparison/condiments/a1_steak_sauce_283g.html

I like buying those jars of Hollandaise sauce and then blending in tarragon, green peppercorns, a bit of mustard and a massive handful of flat parsley to make a quasi-Bearnaise for steak.

HP is the essential condiment for Gammon Steak Hawaii.

rare steak, no nothing. i'll happily dip my chips in something but it seems such a shame to smother a steak in sauce.

Putting a worse version of HP on steak is worse than putting HP on steak btw, wouldn't advocate either

hollandaise on steak is one of my all times, hollandaise on anything really

I'm with emil.y, maybe going further - salad cream is ok, mayo is repulsive.

Brown sauce w/ bacon every time.

Dog Latin is right that a good rare steak shouldn't "need" anything else but as with aimless and his good bread & bacon this is totally flawed reasoning as an arg against making it interesting occasionally. You don't have to smother, either.

True. I always put the sauce to the side and rest the cooked steak on a bed of rocket. There's always rocket left after I eat all of the steak, and the juice and sauce becomes dressing by default.

you can eat steak with no sauce and its good, and it can be good with sauce too, those are just two different preparations, the only thing the steak "needs" is to be tasty

^gets it

that's a pro tip, suzy. will try this.

hey whoa my grandma used to make salad cream, it's so good! or at least it was the way she made it.

I never knew that's what it was called. It wsa just always 'nan's weird yummy salad dressing'

umm why has nobody mentioned hot sauce? give me some secret aardvark on my bacon sandwich and keep your brown sauce as far away as possible plz

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o_O

yes!

How about Marmite mayonnaise?

It couldn't make it worse.

wtfuck??????????

who does this?

who does this?

― he said, even sexilyer, (dog latin)

Americans.

(And me, admittedly)

ya in america theres really only one kind of bacon sandwich the BLT and it has mayo on it #sorrynotsorry

breakfast sandwiches often have bacon (and NO MAYO, yecch)

oh good call breakfast sandwiches, thats like a whole nother world

(i sometimes order LTM on my breakfast sandwich)

tho usually i go sausage not bacon

this is not the sausage thread

i go for ham if it's an option.

um this is the sausage thread now

what's a breakfast sandwich?

it's a pizza you eat at midnight. don't know why it's called that.

eugh mayonaise

eggs plus vinegar, great idea

breakfast sandwich = egg sandwich m/l

bacon sandwich always struck me as odd. like ordering a pickles sandwich or a lettuce sandwich. but I think pb&j is bizarre too.

DL, the prototype of the breakfast sandwich was the Egg McMuffin, sold by those fine purveyors of precooked comestibles, McDonalds Corporation, since some time in the 1970s.

anybody ever had breakfast from kfc
http://www.kfc.com.my/breakfast-menu.php

damn, that's malaysia only looks like.

haha

i'll make a sort of breakfast bap with bacon and eggs in but that's sort of a breakfast staple in the uk. we still put brown sauce on that - especially on that, it's what it's made for.

the one that makes britishers o_O is maple syrup on your breakfast. i haven't tried that one yet.

breakfast sandwich usually has eggs yes, exception being my favorite fast food breakfast item: spicy chicken biscuit sandwich from Chick Fil A.

http://i.imgur.com/OZwOmC8.jpg

waitaminuttt

from wiki entry for back bacon (aka Canadian Bacon):

In the United Kingdom, although other types are available, it is the most popular form of bacon, and thus 'bacon' usually refers to this cut.

wut no

they dont even call that shit bacon in canada

no no not the stuff that goes on pizza, that's canadian bacon (trademark symbol)

britishers WHAT DO U CALL THIS

http://i.imgur.com/BNs8jwt.jpg

this is getting crazy, i need to eat something

American bacon always looks like weird little fatty fly paper to me.

oh... no

I can't tell what that bacon is up thread but no one buys those strips. What's the point?

ok i just gisd "back bacon sandwich" and it looks like really good ham

oh no america canada and the uk all have THEIR OWN BACON who allowed this outrage

http://i.imgur.com/GNPMJO6.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/aYNdD7G.jpg

Popping in to say that I put mayo on my porterhouse

australian bacon is much wider, i think american bacon doesnt have the wider oval part at the top like maybe they sell that as something else idk
it's honestly kinda reedy and skinny

and it took me years to adjust to stiff barklike bacon...i always liked mine softcooked but apparently that is some kind of war crime here ffs

Ketchup on my T-bone

Maple syrup doesn't go on "breakfast," it goes on PANCAKES and WAFFLES. If some gets on your sausage or your savory items and you happen to like that combo, go for it, but you don't just sling syrup across your bacon WILLY-NILLY. It's not like we're just pouring it on EVERYTHING.

I can't tell what that bacon is up thread but no one buys those strips. What's the point?

― he said, even sexilyer, (dog latin), Friday, January 24, 2014 9:58 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

americans like MARBLING because it tastes GOOD

what does "bread" mean in the uk

australia bacon = britisher bacon according to that picture

and it took me years to adjust to stiff barklike bacon...i always liked mine softcooked but apparently that is some kind of war crime here ffs

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, January 24, 2014 10:03 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im sure youve encountered americans who like it like that but tbf they are war criminals

the worst of all is microwaved bacon

I accidentally microwaved some bacon last week

Was trying to defrost it

Came out real chewy, just the way I like it

Hell yeah

bacon is very often overcooked here in US, think it's a holdover from when pork needed to be cooked to a really high temp. or cause it is so skinny and goes from perfectly cooked to overcooked in blink of an eye.

but DL the point is that it's a salty porky flavor dynamo that you can add to tons of different dishes to gild the lily

Americans are so paranoid about food safety because our slaughtering practices are so gross

i'm with the soggy bacon boyz/girlz

vast majority of Americans have no idea what our slaughtering practices are. Food safety, esp cooking most meat past medium, was drilled into heads of people in 50s, and has been passed down the generations.

blt are so beautiful

blt is a fantastic sandwich great variants too avocado blt turkey blt

blt is beautiful in theory but tomato season is short and i hate iceberg lettuce (and restaurants always add mayo)

my ideal sandwich is turkey, swiss, bacon, good/in-season tomato, no lettuce, a little red onion, no dressing. seeded rye bread.

yes these british sandwiches with one ingredient sound interesting stoned at 2 am nuevo cuisine options the concept of which i fully support but sandwiches i have most fully enjoyed were celebrations, texture funtime, savory and sweet, substantial meats cheeses and at least two veg in endless personalized variety, no rules, no fear, just don't overdo it and make meatcheese brick.

avocado is a truly heroic sandwich condiment, it just does everything. don't need no dressing, hell don't even need cheese

i agree with matt p, nothing like a fancy homemade sandwich to elevate ones mood at work

getting into deep sandwich talk here, but it occurred to me cutting a sandwich in half is a pretty majestic experience. It's like, you really see the fruits of your labor and obv it's really satisfying to cut stuff.

zombie sauce obvs

there was a time in my life where bacon sandwich = those crazy salty tiny fake bacon pieces spinkled liberally on buttered bread

those days are behind me

i have committed a great many crimes against bacon in my life

American bacon is what we call streaky bacon in the UK and yes we do f with it cos yes marbling = yes

also crunchy bacon is good, maybe better than chewy i reckon

both are not ideal

i cdn't be bothered to refine my adjectives

al dente

no taylor ham no credibility

If by taylor ham you mean taylor pork roll then stfu because that belongs in the scrapple family not the bacon family.

NV this is one of those times when you are so wrong. Soggy chewy bacon for life.

I missed this poll :-/

Tomato sauce with a little bit of mustard.

These results are bunkum. Bunkum I tell ye.

Soggy chewy bacon for life.

OTM

Pesto. That is all.

These poll results are barking. BLT is only good if someone hand-makes it for you and you can get the mayo excluded.

I nearly sent a burger (off topic alert) back in a restaurant the other day because it had been slathered in unadvertised mayo, but instead in true British fashion I took the burger apart and scraped all the mayo off, leaving a passive aggressive mess of gloop on the plate.

The One True Bacon Sandwich is back-bacon, chewy and flavourful, brown sauce, thick fresh bread, egg optional. Crunchy streaky bacon is so disappointing, you might as well have a Frazzle sandwich.

frazzles are great tho

might have a frazzle sandwich for 2nd lunch

(1st lunch was bacon sandwich)

Frazzle sandwich is a fine thing I'm sure, if that's what you're expecting. Report back.

You get so few in a packet though.

OTOH they are very salty.

http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatalog/smiths_bacon_fries_multipack.jpg

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