Toast Sandwich

I read this and dashed to the kitchen to make myself a midnight snack.<p>It was actually remarkably good. Had much of the crunch of a fish finger sandwich (an old favourite of mine).<p>It got to be a trifle dull towards the end but I think that could be down to my attempt to be moderately frugal with butter (a small concession to the fact that I&#x27;d already had a dinner this evening).<p>I&#x27;m not sure it is quite on par with a crisp sandwich (I just checked Wikipedia to remind myself that the majority of HN readers probably know them as &#x27;potato chips sandwiches&#x27;).<p>With salad cream of course.

I was SURE this would be about some new Android operating system.<p>Times must be pretty hard for the HN community, given the level of interest in this post.<p>Or is this a manifestation of engineers&#x27; need to optimise, maximum calories for minimum cost? Reading the article and comments, it seems unreasonably palatable...<p>A memory from my childhood: Toast with butter and sugar sprinkled on top. For dessert...

Try the Shooter Sandwich... you&#x27;ll need a loaf of hard crusted Italian bread, 3 ribeye steaks 1 lb mushrooms, an onion, some bacon, and cheese.<p><a href="http://imgur.com/a/ahZOF" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;ahZOF</a>

Sad day to realize that Wikipedia, the bastion of all knowledge, has no entry for a Wish Sandwich.<p><i>A kind of sandwich where you take two pieces of bread and WISH you had some meat.</i><p><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wish%20sandwich" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.urbandictionary.com&#x2F;define.php?term=wish%20sandwi...</a>

It&#x27;s kind of interesting how HN admins removed a string of posts yesterday relating to the Node.js sexism issue without any explanation, and yet this remains. It&#x27;s also a bit sad that a post like this gets way more attention than 95% of the &quot;Show HN&quot;s.

This is perhaps the single most potent piece of evidence that HN&#x27;s glory days are all in the past. Oh well, it was a good run.

One of the linked references also supplies these tasty ideas:<p>The toast sandwich isn&#x27;t the only recipe in Mrs Beeton&#x27;s compendium to use cold toast as the basis for a meal. She recommended toast soup - 1lb (0.45kg) of bread crusts boiled in 2oz (0.05kg) of butter and a quart (1.1 litres) of &quot;common stock&quot;. Or for a refreshing drink, what about &quot;toast-and-water&quot;? Made with, you guessed it, a slice of stale loaf toasted, then soaked in a quart (1.1 litres) of boiling water until cold.<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15760897" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;magazine-15760897</a>

This reminds me of my dad teaching me how to make a &quot;poor man&#x27;s burger&quot; when you don&#x27;t have any beef. Basically you just toast the bun and then throw on all the condiments.<p>It&#x27;s surprising how close it tastes without any actual burger.<p>Now I&#x27;m thinking instead of toasting the bun, I should leave it cold and put toast inside as the &quot;beef&quot;.

Cool. Speaking of sandwiches, have any of y&#x27;all been to the local deli recently? The variety of meats available these days is astounding, and their prices are very low. A lot cheaper than going to Subway or your corner store, if you&#x27;ve got the time to make you meal at home (and it doesn&#x27;t take much).

I would eat one, if only the infrastructure existed to get it to me within thirty minutes. By air.

I&#x27;m a fan of the peanut butter and sour kraut, myself, it&#x27;s much more nutritious. Throw some sardines in there if you&#x27;re trying to stock up on good omegas.

Related: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettuce_sandwich" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lettuce_sandwich</a>

Have you ever heard of a Wish sandwich?<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyBZE0kBtE&amp;t=0m35s" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jYyBZE0kBtE&amp;t=0m35s</a>

Sometimes I don&#x27;t get how articles move to hn front page...

A similar type of mouth-texture is achieved when you wrap a crunchy taco with a soft taco shell.

Basically sugar as a texture with butter and salt &amp; pepper. Yeah I can see why this is delicious. We generally love anything we sugar :)

Can someone clue me into the underlying message here? This is a little vague even for HN&#x27;s off-topic wikipedia standards.

Of course, I <i>had</i> to read this a month after being diagnosed with Type II diabetes :-(<p>(You may downvote at will ... just noting that this is essentially carbs sandwiched between more carbs, dammit.)

Never imagined Toast Sandwich to be anything like that.<p>This is what Toast Sandwich is in India.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/sP7ctxG.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;sP7ctxG.jpg</a>

Is this actually something that&#x27;s new?<p>For years I&#x27;ve had just butter or margarine on toast when I would occasionally (certainly not frequently) feel like it. I know of many people who would consider this an uncommon, but quite normal thing to do as well.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s an Australian thing? Possibly passed down from British heritage? I&#x27;m not sure.<p>&quot;Plain&quot; toast is actually a good choice when you&#x27;re sick and attempting to eat again. It always feels &quot;safe&quot;.

I prefer the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_bean_sandwich" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Baked_bean_sandwich</a>

So a too-long article (with a corresponding thread that is <i>way</i> too pedantic for the topic of bread and butter) makes it to the front page of HackerNews but solid articles on entrepreneurship and technology get missed by lack of votes? I&#x27;m in awe.

There used to be an (Australian) Standard on Toast colour: <a href="http://infostore.saiglobal.com/store/Details.aspx?ProductID=252601" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;infostore.saiglobal.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;Details.aspx?ProductID=...</a>

I&#x27;m trying to avoid carbs.

I just made myself one after this, thanks for the reminder it was amazing.

Want frugal? My parents always tell me how they were so poor growing up, they put lard on a piece of bread and sprinkled with some sugar.

Madness.<p>I thought perhaps this was going to be the term for when more than two popup notifications slide up from the system tray at the same time.

Better known in the UK as an austerity sandwich - the cheapest meal you can make.

That&#x27;s really unhealthy.

How did this get on the first page of HN?

This is the next soylent

Nice post! Thanks for sharing! (&quot;,)