No joke.
I started an Agatha Christie mystery the other day, and a guy goes into a semi run down cafe where the clerk suggests a bacon and banana sandwich.
Sounds like a nice combo. I like all the ingredients - bacon, bread, bananas.
Any tips on concocting this thing?
I don’t know for sure, but I seem to recall something about peeling bananas, wrapping them spirally in streaky rindless bacon and grilling them until the bacon is crisp. Then you could just wrap a slice of bread around the whole thing, or put it in a sliced finger roll.
I can’t quite decide whether this would be nice or nasty. I may have to try it.
Bacon and sliced strawberry sandwiches were disappointing, but the fault may have been the quality of my ingredients.
After posting this question I googled on
How to make a bacon and banana sandwich?
What comes up at the very top? The Christie book title I got the inspiration from:
**The Pale Horse**
I just got a little more impressed with Google.
If you Google as I did, you’ll find peanut butter as another (and appealing) ingredient. But I found no spiralling of bacon, in my very quick read.)
Bacon and banana??? This from a people who find peanut butter and jelly weird??? Sounds more like something Elvis would eat.
But if this is for real, it’s worth mentioning that British bacon is the same a what we call Canadian bacon. So I imagine that’s what they use.
[aside] Speaking of Agatha Christie, I’ve slept in her house…in fact I’ve had sex in her house (not with her). And I’ve sat on the bench where she wrote the first Perot novel. Just had to share that. [/aside]
I googled ‘Canadian bacon’ and I’m a bit confused, because most of the images (the relevant ones, anyway - one of them was a picture of someone dressed up in a penis costume) looked like what I call gammon or ham.
British bacon isn’t a single thing; it is available in several different cuts (including - at least - streaky, middle and back), and a multitude of different smoked and unsmoked traditional/dry cure etc varieties.
Well I don’t know…my experience of bacon in Briton was a lot closer to Canadian bacon. Not the skinny kind we have over here.
Certainly the very thin streaky bacon that is presented cooked in such a way as to be entirely brittle, is more or less absent here.
Ah yes.
The novels about the billionaire businessman from Texas who stood for the US Presidency in '92 and '96.
Here’s what I’m going to do.
I’ll let a banana ripen, and either spread a thick paste of it over bread, or cut it in thin slices to lay on the bread, then crumble crisply nuked bacon crumbs over the banana, fold the bread over and eat.
I might move next to the same thing but with peanut butter added.
Another British delicacy I’d like to try: cucumber sandwiches. Is this as simple as it sounds — cukes, a little salt, and maybe a bit of mayonaisse on bread?
One of my favorites: Tear a slice of white bread in half. Lay 4-5 french fries in a neat row across one othe halves, sprinkle salt to taste. Roll the bread and fries into a silo shape and eat. Mmmmm good.
Agatha Christie wrote a novel about Ross Perot?
Basic banana sandwich is just sliced banana between two slices white bread (usually don’t want high textured bread with this) with lots of butter and a sprinkling of sugar.
For a bacon and banana sandwich, I’d expect to substitute the sugar for bacon slices and reduce the butter amount. I’m sure it would also make a decent toasted sandwich, or could be made with banana fritters instead of raw sliced banana.
I’m now wondering if a kipper and banana sandwich would be a good idea?
Well you know what I meant!!! 
Yes. That you had sex with Ross Perot in Agatha’s bordello.
Shameless!
The few times I’ve had cucumber sandwiches, they were made with bread (very thin, crust free, soft, white), cucumber slices (thin, peeled), cream cheese, salt, and black pepper.
** BarnOwl** What you describe in your last para. is a chip butty.
However you really should not have those poncy thin anaemic French fries…nossir…
big thick greasy fat bastard English chips are the answer.
4 or 5?? jeez man, get some bloody chips on the bread, about 10 maybe more…enjoy
Eh? :dubious:
Ain’t “The Pale Horse” about poisoning? :eek:
My Google search came up with several sites, all with the same recipe:
1 1/2 c Crushed bananas
1 Apple
4 Bacon slices
1 Salt and lettuce
Crush banana, chop crisped bacon and mince apple. Mix, add salt, spread
between buttered slices of bread and add lettuce leaf.
Don’t know yet. I wasn’t exactly enthralled with the story -
except for the sandwich - so I haven’t picked it up again.
Here’s a site with a picture
bacon and banana sandwich (scroll down)
It looks nothing like the recipe I found. The thought that bacon and banana sandwiches are popular enough that there’s more than one way to make them is a bit disconcerting.