British Traditions

Sandwiches

in

England

A lot of people in England eat sandwiches for their lunch. There are a lot of sandwich

shops in London. You can buy all sorts of sandwiches in

these shops.

The word sandwich was named after an English

nobleman John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, in

1762. The legend goes that he ordered a

waiter to bring him roast-beef between two slices of bread because

he was too busy to

stop for a meal.

Then others began to order "the same as

Sandwich!"

A sandwich is a food item, typically consisting of two or more slices of bread with one or more fillings between them, or one slice of bread with a topping, commonly called an open sandwich.

Sandwiches generally contain a combination of salad vegetables, meat, cheese, and a

variety of sauces. You can get meat sandwiches, or salad sandwiches, or meat-and-salad sandwiches. And you can get cheese, egg or fish sandwiches. You can even buy fruit sandwiches.

They can be made using lots of different types of bread – sliced white bread or brown

bread or rolls.

What do you need to make them?

• Rules of making sandwiches:

• Use softened butter and put it evenly on the slice of bread.

• Use a lot of filling.

• Use a clean knife.

• Wash your hands before you start making the sandwiches.

This is a list of notable sandwiches:

• Bacon - Often served with ketchup or a brown sauce.

• Breakfast roll - Contains sausages, bacon, white or black pudding, with butter, mushrooms, tomatoes and ketchup or brown sauce, and sometimes a fried egg.

• Chip butty - A sandwich made with chips, usually with ketchup or a brown sauce added.

• Crisp - Crisps and pickles on white bread.

• Cucumber - Two thin slices of crustless, lightly buttered white bread, containing paper-thin slices of cucumber.