As noted above, fried strip bacon goes together with peanut butter precisely because it’s both smoky and salty.
The origin of bulldogs is somewhat different, however: 
Oh, gawd, there’s nothing better than sweet and salty. I particularly like real* Kettle Corn. A friend called it the ideal PMS food.
- Made in front of you in the actual kettle so you get that hint of steel.
Wait a minute… Isn’t Branston pickle (the topic of this thread, after all) a mix of sweet and savory?
What do you put on pancakes? 
When I lived in Cambridge (1976–77), a Canadian opened a place called “Waffles,” which served (You guessed it!) waffles. IIRC, you had a choice of topping: whipped cream or sliced ham with cheese sauce. If there was any fruit or other sweet topping, I don’t remember it. Personally, I would have killed for a big gob of butter and some maple syrup. (And a side of crispy bacon or breakfast sausage, too.)
Man, nothing better than when the maple syrup gets on the bacon. Yum!!!
Wait, I thought you said this place was opened by a Canadian? Isn’t maple syrup on waffles required by Canadian law?
In North America. maybe. But apparently not in the UK. 
One thing I liked about IHOP in the US (are they still around?) was their selection of syrups. My favorite was Boysenberry, which can be ordered from Knott’s Berry Farm in California.
I was a bit put off by IHOP’s blurb about them sending “all the way to Vermont” for the flavoring of their maple syrup. Hell, why not just serve the real stuff instead of that artificially-flavored crap? Yeccch! 
Where it was first commercially grown and sold. The foundation of an icon.
If we have any syrup from our trees (a neighbor makes syrup every few years and gives us a small bottle) I’ll use that, otherwise I use our blueberries (from freezer or freshly picked). Blueberries and a splash of water simmered till reduced.
Boysenberries themselves are a hybrid first grown in California:
I like fruit or fruit sauces on pancakes myself, but I associate them more with so-called Belgian waffles, which I first had at the New York World’s Fair in 1964. Apparently, they were little or entirely unknown in the US at the time.
I’ve been known to spread jam on pancakes too, but not real often.
My mom did, too, called them palacsinta.
Syrup, no bacon. It there is bacon on offer, it’s on another player, well away from the syrup.
Well, in recent times what the US calls pancakes (and what is called waffles) are making it over here in some restaurant places, but they’re not typical at all. What we call pancakes, you would perhaps call crepes, and have lemon juice or sugar, perhaps syrup nowadays. Certainly not bacon. And they’re not typical breakfast food either.
And as you probably already know, what we typically call bacon is danish back bacon, nothing like the streaky bacon (cooked to a crisp, usually) which the US normally refers to. So it’s not even a great match if you ate pancakes like in the US, which we don’t, usually. Maybe streaky US style bacon might have caught on if it was normal bacon on pancakes.
Waffles had a boom in the 80s, but they were potato waffles, savoury potato lattices, they’re not that big anymore, but I suspect americans don’t have those.
In reality while the names of things are shared between these countries, they didn’t have similar supply sources or abundance (and a bunch of tradition came from the second world war limiting a bunch of fresh stuff, the reason why kidney and liver feature in some older foods in the UK).
This shows with some brits too, when they visit the US. I mean, for gods sake, some make it a regular thing to seek out a Dennys to eat there, it is a lot different in things like breakfasts traditionally.
Nope, it’s sweet. It does work with cheddar cheese, but the cheese is the main, the branston the relish/sauce part. So like relish on a burger.
I guess sweet and savoury I meant there was breakfast foods. Other normal times, sweet relish on foods are fine. Cheese and pickle sandwiches are more of a lunch food.
Right, pancakes and crepes are two different animals:
I remember the episode of The Prisoner with “Flapjack Charlie,” in which they serve Number Six “flapjacks” (another word for pancakes in the US) that were clearly crepes. At IHOP (International House of Pancakes, a popular chain of restaurants) they’re called “German pancakes” and are served with powdered sugar and lemon (or at least they were the last time I looked).
I think there was a post on this site that told of two Brits ordering “biscuits with sausage gravy” at Denny’s and were completely unprepared for what they were served:
I’ve never seen pancakes topped with (or containing) bacon, but I suppose it’s possible. (Bacon is usually served on the side.)
I’ve never seen potato waffles either. Potato pancakes I know very well though. I’ve always eaten them with sour cream and apple sauce, though I once knew a guy who had them with maple syrup—not very appealing from my point of view.
I’m not really sure what is officially flapjacks in the UK, I don’t eat them, and perhaps they could be some people who call shallow fried/griddled mix flapjacks somewhere. But what I know as flapjacks are oat and raison and syrup rectangular bars, which it appears what you’ll see for a recipe for them, but I always thought that was a more recent meaning for them, and perhaps not what was meant from the Prisoner.
These are traditional british pancakes, and I’ll sometimes see places also sell them as crepes in the UK. I don’t think they look very similar to the ones up there.
I think “flapjacks” is a regional term in the US. I usually associate it with the American West, probably from watching too many John Wayne movies. Griddle cakes is another term that’s used, but they all mean the same thing, so far as I know: pancakes. I’m not aware of any distinction between them.
Doughnuts, BTW, started out as “oily cakes” among the Dutch in North America (and in their own country too, I imagine).
I think that “flapjack” comes from the method of flipping them, where you pick up the frying pan by the handle and give it a flick of the wrist to flip over the cakes within, without use of a spatula or other utensil (it’s easier than it looks).
But yeah, there are a lot of regional slang terms for pancakes in the US.
This food cart
apparently offers crepes with ingredients like bacon-and-cheese and Peking duck, so evidence that somebody decided to try bacon pancakes. Though things like ham and cheese galettes are pretty standard in Paris.