Maybe you like yours with a dollop of tomato sauce or a splash of HP sauce. But, to get the perfect bacon sandwich, it’s best to not add anything at all.
So claims one breakfast expert who says you only need bread, butter and bacon for your sarnie. Adding anything else, such as herbs, pomegranate seeds, or even a salad, is wrong.
Guise Bule, president of the English Breakfast Society, said the “British institution” should be made using just three ingredients after hearing about other versions of the breakfast.
He added: ‘(The British) know exactly what a bacon sandwich is. It is something that their mother did with great love and she always did it the same way.
Slices of toasted white bread, lightly salted English butter and good British bacon. There is simply no substitute.”
According to a breakfast expert, the perfect bacon sandwich has no sauce at all (file image)
Guise Bule, president of the English Breakfast Society, said the “British institution” should be made using just three ingredients (file image)
It is unclear whether condiments such as ketchup are allowed and whether they should be added to the sandwich or left on the side.
Many have complained that cafes have ruined the breakfast staple and now add too many fancy ingredients.
One customer said he was upset when his sandwich came out with herbs and he was offered a salad.
Tony Peakall said he struggled to find a traditional sandwich at his home in Crouch End, north London.
He wrote on Facebook: ‘I know, I know, First World problems, but this is a Crouch End problem: where to get an old school bacon sandwich?
‘Today I went to a coffee shop and ordered a bacon sandwich. ‘Do you want salad with that?’ No thanks, just a bacon sandwich. ‘It arrives on a plate with sprigs of herbs, sprinkled with more herbs and pomegranate seeds, plus, of course, it’s blooming sourdough bread. My HP sauce doesn’t go well with this.’
Brits spend around £1.37 billion a year on bacon and in the UK eat ten bacon sandwiches every second.
The BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato) was recently named Britain’s favorite sandwich, according to a survey by bread maker Hovis.
This was followed by chicken salad, while tuna mayonnaise and fish sandwiches took third place.
