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When I worked at an office in Kensington High Street, I would stop every single morning at the little sandwich shop downstairs and get myself two slices of toast for breakfast. I still remember how absolutely scrumptious it tasted, dripping with butter, thick crispy slices of bread toasted to perfection. I'd eat it really slowly, nibbling at the edges first and then working my way into the middle, just so that it would take longer to get to the last delicious bite. :razz:

Could you imagine what you would get if you ordered that here? Maybe some skinny no-substance slice of wanna be cardboard toasted till it was barely lukewarm with a miniscule scraping of I can't believe its not butter (yeah, whatever :???: ) in the middle of it.

No comparison!!! I WANT SOME TOAST LIKE I USED TO GET AT HOME.

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Talk about bringing back memories. A very long time ago now, when I worked in Long Eaton, there was a little shop below us that did sandwiches, breakfast stuff, lunch stuff etc. And they would do you a couple of slices of toast with butter dripping as it melted. Yummy.

Thanks for the memory smile

The nearest i get is when we buy stilll hot french bread from the supermaket. rush home cut it very think and toast it , cover it with real butter and sometimes dap a little jam on top DELICIOUS

1) Buy a toaster for the office kitchen (if your office doesn't have a kitchen, complain).
2) Buy the so-called Italian bread (sliced white) from Aldi. The cheapest loaf you can buy for the money.

Mango,

I'm afraid you won't get toast like back home. Mainly becuase the bread here has all kinds of things added too it, including alot of sugar and preservatives. Only way is to make bread yourself. My local British shop sels HOVIS!!! Which it a lifesaver!!! I tell you!

Plus the Jam and Marmalade here isnt as good a quality and has too much sugar added to it.

So I but Robertsons at the Brit Shop too!!! AND IT TASTES JUST like back home...well cos it is ....

Mmmmmmmmm, Robertons Marmalade. I'm hungry just thinking about it. I think it is time I took a trip to a Brit store myself.

We've just had some cheese on toast.

Home-made bread toast, that is....not the plastic stuff.


It was yummy!!!!! smile

Debs x smile

Deb can I make you jealous and tell you my cheese on toast has crumbly Lancashire cheese on it.
Managed to get through cusoms with a half pound of it.-)

Mmmmmmmm, cheese on toast with brown sauce on it. Delicioso (as Dora would say).

You mean 'freedom bread'? 8)

Wendy! You just reminded me I have a pack of the very same stuff in the freezer! When we were home in January, ASDA had it on offer....3 packs for 3 quid.

There's nothing quite like Lancashire cheese on toast. smile

Debs x smile

I assume that you and Wendy are from Lancashire, damn but I am good.

I don't know Lancashire cheese, can you give me an idea of what its like?.
I can get Butler's imported farmhouse Cheddar, Wensleydale, Cheshire, Double Gloucester and Leicestershire, at the local supermarket. Too expensive for toasted or grilled sandwich though at about $13 a pound. For toasted or grilled I use Cabots private stock, an aged Vermont cheddar. The supermarket is Genuardis, a subsidiary of Safeway.

I bought mine from this cutie in Skipton on market day.

Good point,

What is it about the bread in this country???

OK, admittedly when I was a kid and growing up in Scotland - we weren't rich. My mother didn't go to fine Delicatessens and buy the most expensive bakery bread she could find. She bought a packaged loaf from the Co-Op and brought it home - and you know what?? That loaf of bread lasted us until we F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D it!!!!!

Now the USA. Now - the USA! Hmmmmmm. (Where do I start so as not to sound utterly miserable?). OK. Why can't I buy a loaf of bread and bring it home and have it last for longer than 3 days without it beginning to grow little white knots of would-be-mould? Or - why can't I keep bread in the house for more than 7 days without it literally going blue???

If everything is so preservative-packed in the US - why does their bread go off as soon as you look at it?!?!?!?!?!?! lol

After reading this thread it really made me realise that I really haven't had a decent loaf of bread from the supermarket since I've been here. They're all either packed full of honey ( roll ), sugar, sun-dried tomatoes, jalapenos, caraway seeds, sesame seeds or molasses. I wonder just where the American's tastebuds parted way with those of the British??

I used to use bread a lot over here but recently (in the summer) I've stopped using it almost altogether. I used to enjoy two slices of toast in the morning in Scotland - a nice dark toast on it almost to the point of being burned. That strong taste - and the salty butter (or marg - I'm not fussy) beginning to melt on it. sad

Oh well - just another nuance of living in a different country, I guess. But I DO own a toaster at home here in the US - and I STILL can't get my bloody toast to "taste" or "feel" right!!!

KR

I am telling you, Aldi's "Italian" loaf gets closest to a slice of English toast I have ever got. Go try one.

Lancashire cheese, does that taste a little like Cheshire, at least relatively speaking? Dry, sharp, crumbly...?