Sandwiches from your childhood.

[Juan Kog]

Thread revival time

I had a mature cheese and low salt Marmite on seeded wholemeal bread sandwich today. It was very nice!

I didn’t have you down as one of those namby pamby low salt healthy eaters .

 

[Accy cyclist]

I didn’t have you down as one those namby pamby low salt healthy eaters .

Yes, the lower salt the better. Though I do have some salt in my diet as it's supposed to keep leg cramp at bay. Though if it does it didn't work today as I was in leg cramp agony for 10 minutes after it got me while in bed! 🧐

 

[Juan Kog]

Yes, the lower salt the better. Though I do have some salt in my diet as it's supposed to keep leg cramp at bay. Though if it does it didn't work today as I was in leg cramp agony for 10 minutes after it got me while in bed! 🧐

As a fellow sufferer you have my sympathy, it can be agony. I have taken a magnesium supplement in the past which I think helped, but I prefer to go naturally and up my intake of magnesium rich foods .
Plus stretching .

 

[Accy cyclist]

As a fellow sufferer you have my sympathy, it can be agony. I have taken a magnesium supplement in the past which I think helped, but I prefer to go naturally and up my intake of magnesium rich foods .
Plus stretching .

I have all of these in my diet apart from avocados and tofu. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-foods-high-in-magnesium#whole-grains I've had leg cramps on and off since I gave up cycling and most forms of exercising, going on for 5 years now. 🤔

 

[tyred]

I've always felt cramps were a measure of how fit I am.

When I am fit and regularly cycling big miles, I never suffer from cramps.

When my fitness isn't what it should be, I often experience cramps when riding. A cramp on a fixed wheeler at high cadence is not fun.

 

[Chris S]

or conny-onny (condensed milk) butties............I never did get to like them.

As popularised by Lenny Henry on Tiswas.

 

[Paulus]

I used to eat banana sandwiches sprinkled with sugar as a kid, and as mentioned by some others, sandwich spread, which you can still buy.

 

[gbb]

Beef dripping, definitely. You just don't seem to get the fat on supermarket joints to replicate it anymore.
Sandwich spread seems to have re appeared on shop shelves. I used to like it, not sure I want to try again.
Fish cake and tomato sauce.
Ditto fish fingers...

At Christian Salvesens in the 70s and 80s , they had a contingent of Italians who had stayed after the war apparently, a whole community in Peterborough They came from very rural stock and Sebastian was legendary for his sandwiches. Typically each slice was easily 1 inch thick, stuffed woth all sorts of traditional and rustic ingredients. One day we looked up to see him with this jaw breaker filled with what looked like a half inch of spinach...and raw (we assume) anchovies, the heads and tails hanging out the edge, looking like they were trying to escape 😀
Legendary...he was a big big hulking fella, a simple but wonderful fella. Funny how a post here can remind you of someone years ago...

 

[stephec]

I've just remembered another one, my Dad used to make me fried Spam sandwiches; On it's own it's truly disgusting stuff, but when it's shallow fried until crispy it becomes more than acceptable.

Very much more than acceptable.

Especially if you add a fried egg, bacon, and a hash brown as well.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Very much more than acceptable.

Especially if you add a fried egg, bacon, and a hash brown as well.

Er, that doesn't sound quite healthy to me!! 🧐

 

[stephec]

Er, that doesn't sound quite healthy to me!! 🧐

I had Flora instead of butter to balance it out.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I had Flora instead of butter to balance it out.

Ah! That makes it acceptable then, I suppose! 🧐

 

[postman]

Dripping loved it.Potted meat,today's paste is shoot.Dairy Lea cheese spread.