Each day, without fail, he would walk in with a smile on his face and a "bread sandwich" tucked into his bag.
NIU ROU SHAO BING Those who consider China an unlikely source of handcrafted breads should consider the popular breakfast called you tiao shao bing: a fried cruller folded inside a fluffy sesame-sprinkled pancake, essentially a bread sandwich.
This dish can also be created with less pizzazz and can be made simply as a bread sandwich and put the yogurt inside of it as opposed to serving it separately.
In a sample lunch of a white bread sandwich with lettuce, tomato, turkey, and brown mustard, a bag of cheesy corn chips, a glass of raspberry iced tea, and a cherry popsicle, the primary sources of simple sugars would likely be the chips, the sweetened tea, and the fruit-flavored popsicle, followed by the white bread and perhaps even the sweet brown mustard.
A lighter day-time option might be a white bread sandwich bought from one of the smarter chains with a filling of chicken tikka.
I had an egg each day for breakfast and a white bread sandwich with some sort of "ham" product at lunch.
Walkers could pick up a beetroot bread sandwich or Northumbrian pasty from Grants Bakery, or a DIY deli lunch from The Corbridge Larder.
The kids' lunch box was a white bread sandwich, Pom-Bear crisps and piece of fruit.
Hot chicken, I learn, is marinated in buttermilk, breaded, served with cayenne pepper sauce, pan fried and served in a white bread sandwich.
So uncomfortable, so sad, so much food… On family vacations, I used to wake up before everyone else and make a sourdough bread sandwich with butter, eggs, bacon and cheese, and then go back to bed and, like, one hour later be, 'So what's for breakfast?'" She laughs.
However, the idea of adding often claggy, chunky hummus to a thick, sliced bread sandwich of turkey or chicken (how dry would that be?) or, for the non-meat eaters, using it as a major sandwich filling in endless combinations of avocado, tomatoes, egg, spicy carrot and feta, seems not just gastronomically questionable – how well do those ingredients gel, really?
