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Post by housesparrow on Jan 8, 2011 9:08:56 GMT
Love it or hate it?
Last week, delayed at a train station, I popped int M&S and grabbed a cheese and something sandwich. It wasn't until I was in the queue that I noticed the bread was granary. So were most of the sandwiches in the large display.
To my mind granary bread isn't a suitable cover for most fillings, because it has a strange taste of its own, often a little sweet. What is wrong with plain wholemeal?
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Post by Weyland on Jan 8, 2011 10:11:06 GMT
Love it or hate it? Last week, delayed at a train station, I popped int M&S and grabbed a cheese and something sandwich. It wasn't until I was in the queue that I noticed the bread was granary. So were most of the sandwiches in the large display. To my mind granary bread isn't a suitable cover for most fillings, because it has a strange taste of its own, often a little sweet. What is wrong with plain wholemeal? I agree. The granary craze is yet another symptom of the rot gnawing away at the vitals of British culture. And those tiny musket-balls often encountered in it don't go with any filling I can think of, certainly not egg and cress. Give me a couple of fried eggs and a kebab with hot sauce every time. |
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Post by jean on Jan 8, 2011 10:25:52 GMT
...those tiny musket-balls often encountered in it don't go with any filling I can think of certainly not... ...the ones in your remaining teeth.  |
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Post by Weyland on Jan 8, 2011 10:34:37 GMT
...those tiny musket-balls often encountered in it don't go with any filling I can think of certainly not... ...the ones in your remaining teeth.  |
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Post by aubrey on Jan 8, 2011 10:38:17 GMT
Having bits in bread isn't right.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 8, 2011 10:50:37 GMT
Having bits in bread isn't right. The voice of wisdom. I'm sick and tired of being unable to find a good old-fashioned plain traditional bagel or ciabatta in the 4-for-a-£ section at Morissons. |
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Post by rjpageuk on Jan 8, 2011 12:08:03 GMT
Never mind granary bread, try not liking mayonnaise and finding a sandwich you can eat anywhere.
I dont mind granary bread as long as there is no mayonnaise on it.
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Post by Patrick on Jan 8, 2011 13:59:03 GMT
Having been impressed by the twice weekly and regular market in Lancaster when we first arrived, it was very disappointing to find that Greggs had taken over the town. It was not yet something that had happened in the depths of the South East from whence I came (though this was about to change). What joy therefore to find that there was one independent bakery left, though they didn't have shops, but supplied the local Organic Store. Blissful wholemeal bread with a slightly nutty full flavoured taste. As for Granary, I don't mind it too much as long as it has flavour. You can buy some very pleasant "Four Seed" Granary bread (somewhere) which is really warm tasting. Odd though that what was once 'poor man's bread' is now held in such high esteem.
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Post by aubrey on Jan 8, 2011 17:19:12 GMT
Like Oysters.
I reckon the way to get people to start eating jelly fish is to charge £50 a piece for them, and only serve them in that kind of place.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 8, 2011 17:32:05 GMT
Like Oysters. I reckon the way to get people to start eating jelly fish is to charge £50 a piece for them, and only serve them in that kind of place. You are so right, Aubrey. I remember hearing a Food Programme on R4 a couple of years ago talking about a restaurant in Catalonia doing more or less exactly what you said there. It's just a miracle it hasn't caught on. (At least it hasn't here in the gourmet paradise of Powys. But who knows about Mayfair, Kensington, and Lambeth?) |
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