The news that Tesco had succeeded in tracking down a ‘non-leaking’ tomato (which decoded means it won’t make your sarnies soggy) has seen tomato sandwiches lovers donning tin loaf hats and coming out, fighting in protest. From ‘most pointless achievement of all time’ to ‘I like soggy’, these efforts seem to have gone unappreciated.
As hard as the dry tomsteiners have been working on eliminating the s0urce of the problem so others have been working on monuments to celebrate it.
Daily Mail reader, Dennis Ogden has spent, as he describes it, years developing the perfect tomato sandwich. A double-decker, created to rejoice in the sogginess that only a fully leaking tomato can bring to a bread construct.
His recipe:
- Take 1 slice of bread and butter it.
- Lie sliced tomato on top of it.
- Take a 2nd slice of bread. Do not butter it. Place it on top of the tomatoes.
- On top of this 2nd slice spread sweet pickle. On top of the pickle layer slices of cheddar cheese.
- Take a 3rd slice of bread. Butter it. Lie it atop the cheddar.
- A gentle press down on the top slice will complete your sandwich.
Sandwich of the Week:
A Double Decker White Bread Sandwich with TOMATO, Cheddar Cheese and Pickle.
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Whilst on a memorable canal holiday, specifically on the ‘Wolverhampton 21′ (flight of locks) and just behind the Wolverhampton refuse disposal depot, she who must be obeyed went off in quest of a bacon sandwich, as it was raining and the compelling odour of rampant rashers was wafting over the whole area. Her return was memorable, for there were raindrop diamonds in her hair and succulent treasures in her arms for each of the crew, unwashed in honour of the location: ‘Wolverhampton Greedies’ – triple-deckers with bacon, whole fried eggs, beans and….. fried tomatoes! The bliss, the immeasurable delight, the drooling ecstasy of the moment comes back, accompanied by the delicious droning of the attendant choir of processing disposal trucks, grinding their gears up the ramp to the crusher. This was paradise, as the paddles opened and the waters rushed and the taste of indulgence rose with the vessel in the lock. EEEEEE, it were like being a binman at the trough.
I thought that a triple decker might be a step too far but then I checked out the statistics for the ‘Wolverhampton 21′. 21 Locks over 1.8 miles dropping the canal by 133ft !
Every bite was well earnt !