Non-Americans - name a thing you know about the US you got from the SDMB

Ambrosia, and I don’t normally eat sweets.

Give 'em a try - see if they’re too sweet for you. :slight_smile:

I do, sometimes.

I love a bacon sandwich as well as the next person (more than many, I suspect) but I’ve never understood this BLT thing. Doesn’t the tomato and lettuce - not to mention the mayonnaise - make the bacon cold? Blech.

Not if you eat it right after you assemble it from freshly cooked bacon; if you know you’re making it for later sandwiches, you drain and pat the bacon well so there’s no (visible) congealed fat when it’s cooled. But warm mayo? That’s nasty.

I might just try it (without the mayonnaise) but I do reserve the right to spread the bread with butter first.

I’ve never had a BLT with warm hot bacon. It’s always served cold. A BLT is a cold sandwich.

Cold bacon? Oh, no. I can’t be doing that.

It’s like cold ham. Haven’t you ever eaten cold ham? Bacon is great no matter the temperature!

But it’s still bacon; it doesn’t taste like cold, it tastes like wonderful. And the tomato’s juicy and the lettuce is crunchy along w/ the bacon and it all soaks into the toast by the time you pick up the second half of the sandwich. Then it’s even lovelier because it won’t scrape the roof of your mouth so badly as the first half.

We ate bacon sandwiches and bread, butter and sugar all the time growing up (not on the same sandwich, obviously). My great-grandfather was from England. I wonder if that’s why my Mom’s side of the family did this.

Bacon’s doomed.

Well it is a darn good thing I know a farmer who slaughters her own pigs and cures her own bacon! She runs a small self sustainable organic (the term makes me laugh) farm which specializes in sorghum cured ham and bacon. Yummy