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05 September 2008
Jamie Oliver can't make a fish finger sarnie No egg? No cheese? The man can't seriously be suggesting that a fish finger buttie has just bread, butter, fish fingers and ketchup (aaaargh!).
As much as I hate to agree with the man, Jamie Oliver is right. Anything else is just weirdness...
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Aha - I just checked your profile. An Aussie. That explains everything. You'll be telling me that Tim Tams are better than Penguins next or Vegemite is better than Marmite.
A fish finger butty has to be made using thick-cut, white, square bread, because it fits four fish fingers perfectly. Butter, tomato ketchup, premium cod fillet fish fingers (not the cheap things filled with fish slurry). Cut the sandwich so that you bisect the fish fingers. Perfect nom-nom-nom. Nothing else needed, except maybe a teensy dab of mayonnaise.
I am an Aussie, seanyboy, and I wouldn't dream of putting egg or cheese on a fish finger butty.
fish slurry = ground up bits of fish skin, guts and eyes that are made into cheap fish fingers. They're grey when you cut them open.
Mockney = someone who puts on a fake Cockney accent, Jamie Oliver being the World's Worst Offender, having taken the crown from Mick Jagger a few years ago.
It would never have occurred to me to make a sandwich of fish fingers, but I have to say it looks like some seriously good comfort food. (Chips, though? Really? I have heard of the chip buttie, but I find it hard to imagine. And yes, I know that by that you mean fries.)
elizard, the chip butty has to be made with big fat chips and it is one of the most glorious comfort foods ever. If the chips are hot enough, the butter will melt and run down your chin.
Hmmm. The potatoes-on-bread thing makes me think it would sit in one's esophagus or stomach like a starchy dough fist, but I'll admit that I could be wrong. I mean, it's got fried potatoes in it, so how can it not be good?
(Have added fish fingers to the grocery list. Hoping not to have to explain to BOP what nefarious purposes I plan to use them for. He already thinks I eat some pretty weird stuff, which is funny, because he's the one who eats weird stuff.)
Sammich with grease. It's not a butty unless it's something fried, a very important distinction from a regular sammich. Sauce (marta, bbq, even chili) and butter assist with the dough-ball-in-your-belly feeling, elizard.
A fried fish (or shrimp or oyster) po-boy is a good thing. Take a hoagie roll, stuff it with fried fish filets, add tartar sauce and sliced fresh tomatoes, a little lettuce. You know who puts cheese on a fish sandwich? McFuckingDonalds, that's who.
And I don't know why elizard is squeamish about a fried potato sandwich. I find them horrific, but she likes to have some starch with her starch, so I'd have guessed it would have fit right in. (The other night she made rice to go with her potatoes. *shudder*)
Heh, BOP, I once had dinner at a friend's when she made lentil curry, with rice, mashed potatoes and noodles. We were all asleep within ten minutes of eating it.
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