You might also want to add a little ketchup or a squeeze of HP sauce. But for the perfect bacon sandwich, it’s actually best to add nothing at all.
So say breakfast experts, who say bread, butter and bacon are all you need for a sarnie. It would be a mistake to add anything else, such as herbs, pomegranate seeds, or a side salad.
After hearing about other innovations on the breakfast menu, English Breakfast Society chairman Guise Buhl said the “British masterpiece” should be made using just three ingredients.
He added: ‘[Britons] I know exactly what a bacon sandwich is. It was made with love by their mother and she always made it the same way.
Toasted white slices of bread, mildly salted English butter and good old English back bacon. There are no substitutes at all. ”
It is unclear whether condiments such as tomato sauce are allowed and whether they should be added to the sandwich or on the side.
Many people complain that cafes are ruining breakfast staples and adding too many fancy ingredients.
One customer said she was upset that her sandwich was served with herbs but was also served with a salad.
Tony Pecole said he struggled to find traditional sandwiches at his home in Crouch End, north London.
He wrote on Facebook: “First World problems, I know, I know, but this is a Crouch End problem — where do you get a good old-fashioned bacon sandwich?”
“Today I went to a cafe and ordered a bacon sandwich.“Would you like a salad with that?” No, thank you, just the bacon sandwich. “It arrived on a plate with sprigs of herbs, sprinkled with more herbs and pomegranate seeds, and of course served with blossoming sourdough bread. My HP sauce just doesn’t go well with it.”
Brits spend around £1.37 billion a year on bacon and 10 bacon sandwiches are eaten every second in the UK.
The BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato) has recently been voted Britain’s favorite sandwich, according to a poll by bakery company Hovis.
Chicken salad followed by tuna mayonnaise and fish finger sandwiches in third place.
