Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Mission Impossible (or at least highly unlikely)

Is there an easy way to make a sausage sandwich? One that actually stays together long enough for you to take hold of it, bite it and not have the remaining contents drop onto your plate/lap/newspaper (delete as appropriate).

Bacon sandwiches are easy, the bacon lies flat on the bread just waiting for your favourite condiment, even fish finger sandwiches don't put up much resistance to being eaten but sausages and bread just seem to have an aversion to culinary nuptials. Of course our German and American cousins have long decided that the only way to eat meat that is shaped like a submarine is in a bun, far more sensible.

I can remember back in the 1970's that you could actually buy what were called 'flat sausages' although they couldn't be by the very fact that sausage refers to the shape and is not a generic term that can be used willy-nilly. I can also recall 'fish sausages' although research seems to indicate I'm the only one left alive who can.

You can tell it's a slow week news wise!

3 comments:

A Northern Bloke said...

If you slice the sausages in half (longitudinally) they are better behaved on the bread.

Paul said...

What a great word to shoe-horn into a comment Shy. I'm going to try and introduce longitudinally into polite conversation at the earliest opportunity.

Span Ows said...

...but you still need two hand, even the longitudinally cut bangers weigh enough to tip themselves off the edge of the bread. The only way I've found (which include Shy's cut) is to then squeeze the thing shut but of course with quality bread that's quite hard, with sliced it's easier but you can end up with mush.