UK vs USA Sandwiches! // fascinating differences

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[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

What's your favorite type of sandwich and which country do you live in?

[@Michael_Brock]

This sounds crazy, i though same until trying. Marmalade and sausage sandwich. Make your sandwich preferred method, i toast and butter the bread, bake the sausage then cut in half and grill both the interior halves (doubles Maillard surface, then assemble sandwich with a generous amount of marmalade before closing sandwich.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

okay it does sound weird, but I will try it!

[@SoundtrackAudioCom]

UK - BLT ... or ... for the weirder ones ... Sausage and salad cream (an unbelievably good combination) ... or... peanut butter and (actual) banana

[@katrinabryce]

Lorne (or square) sausage - Scotland.

[@billyhills9933]

@@katrinabryce I don't know why flat sausages haven't revolutionised sandwich making in the UK. Sausage in a bun, lorne in between bread.

[@hiramabiff2017]

You can debate all you like but the is one British sandwich that shines bright above all ! " Bacon Sandwich ". Cut the fancy rubbish. A fried bacon sandwich that dribbles melted butter and a hint of red/brown sauce. Sheer gastronomic bliss. 😁

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

You're definitely making it sound amazing!! You should be the PR person for bacon sandwiches. ;)

[@oopsdidItypethatoutloud]

Heaven on Earth ❤❤❤

[@hiramabiff2017]

@@GirlGoneLondonofficial hahaha Bacon needs no sales pitches or PR... It's a gift from God. And the piggy 😉

[@zzyya]

Bacon butties don't need butter. There's plenty of grease/fat in the bacon.

[@6panel300]

Not if you don't like bacon. I ate 1000s over the years, then I went off of bacon. I probably overdosed. Now I can't stand the smell of bacon.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

I shall never forget the first time my late mother visited my children and I during the years I worked in the US. We visited a deli near Dupont Circle one day. My mother - a lover of good beef - ordered a brisket sandwich. Upon its arrival, a huge plate with a 4-inch thick sandwich and chips (crisps), pickles, and a ramekin of jus, mother's eyes popped and she gasped, "I was expecting a sandwich, not half a cow"!!

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Haha!! Great story!

[@philipmason9537]

Spreading butter over the bread before adding the filling is a must for me.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Seems to be for a lot of people!

[@ianmontgomery7534]

@@GirlGoneLondonofficialI am Australian and I always put butter or olive oil spread on any sandwich I have except a bacon and egg sandwich where I did one of the pieces of bread in the fat I cooked the bacon in. I make all sorts of sandwiches - often make a sopresso, lettuce tomato pineapple and capsicum sandwich and sometimes I also add a mix of mayonnaise and wasabi for lunch.

[@JOHNSMITH-if9jr]

same in oz . or Margarine

[@katrinabryce]

@@ianmontgomery7534 If it is an egg sandwich, I would mix the chopped up egg in butter, and then not bother with adding more butter to the bread, but for bacon, butter is a must.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

@@katrinabryce That makes sense to me. I sometimes put olive oil spread on toast with bacon and egg but not when I have plain bread - I am bit strange with food. Living in China for four years changed my food tastes a lot.

[@charlestaylor9424]

If you don't butter toast how does it know which side to land on when you drop it.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

an excellent question

[@Poliss95]

@charlestaylor9424 That's easy. You tie the slice of toast onto the back of a cat.

[@davidmckie7128]

Have you tried a fried egg sandwich (the way the English fry their eggs). Not only is it great, but the trick is to suck when you bite into the yolk otherwise it dribbles down your arms.

[@michaelpierce826]

Yep love bacon and eggs sandwiches

[@jomo5242]

Cor, yeah!

[@robharris8844U]

The sandwiche originated in Britain, because Earl of Sandwiche who loved going on hunts and did not like having to break gambling and hunting for food. Europeans on the continent of europe had OPEN SANDWICHES But the Earls versions had other contents and was TWO SLICES to keep everything secure🥪 Gawd bless Earl of Sandwiche.❤

[@chloedevereaux1801]

no e in sandwich...........

[@chloedevereaux1801]

sandwich not sandwiche....

[@robharris8844U]

@@chloedevereaux1801 yeah, I dunno why I did that! Maybe sandwich 🥪 with e- xtras!-😋😁

[@carlatate7678]

I was raised the US south and have lived in the UK for 22 years. My childhood favourites were fried baloney on white bread with mustard, grilled cheese, and peanut butter and honey. As an adult in the US, I didn't eat a lot of sandwiches. In the UK, I quite like falafel and hummus, cheese and pickle, cheese and tomato, and Coronation chicken, which you don't see as much as when I first moved here. I went vegetarian shortly after moving here, thus the veggie ones.

[@robert3987]

Sandwiches MUST HAVE BUTTER.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

not in America they don't! ;)

[@jeaniehale1847]

Never made a sandwich without butter. It adds another layer of flavour. I rarely add sauce of any type.

[@hooplyhobla]

I’m a Brit and I never have butter on mine. I use mayo instead.

[@michaelpierce826]

I'm a brit aswell I don't use butter I use salad cream 😊

[@pjschmid2251]

300 million Americans beg to differ.

[@akula9713]

On a visit to Boston, we popped into somewhere to get a quick sandwich. I ordered a chicken sandwich. I was expecting two slices of bread, with chicken, bread cut diagonally. I got almost half a chicken! A huge bun, French fries and salad. This was at 1100hrs, just a quick bite to eat before lunch is what we thought. Everywhere we went portion sizes were huge!

[@garethjohnstone9282]

That's a " sangwwweeech"

[@lifestoryguy]

So we better pack the Tupperware if we go to the US?

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

Sweden here. Typical toppings are ham, cheese (or both), salami/pepperoni, liver paste, or egg and caviar. Leftovers from the sunday roast is also fairly common, chicken not so much. Messmör and mesost (brown paste/cheese made from goats milk sweet and salty, and a bit gamey) is popular in some circles, I eat it every day. We don't usually put wet things (like mayo) there, and (while it happens, usually on restaurants) not so often lettuce, bell peppers, or tomatoes. Our sandwiches are so called open (usually), meaning it's a piece of bread with toppings, like a pizza, if we use two slices of bread with toppings in-between, we call it dubbelmacka (double sandwich) (which btw is a term also used for a genre of erotic movies)

[@wessexdruid7598]

Toppings. i.e. open sandwiches. It's odd how a term meaning 'between' is used for 'on top of', isn't it? 😀

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

@@wessexdruid7598 It's more odd that we call our open sanwiches "smörgåsar" (Butter Geese)

[@nealgrimes4382]

Do you Butter your Sandwiches ?

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

@@nealgrimes4382 Always

[@robertwatford7425]

Never understood PB&J but then I hate Peanut Butter. If I cook sausages for breakfast I'll save a couple to split and re-heat for a butty in the afternoon. I buy a tub of Coronation Chicken sandwich spread and then just eat it with a spoon :-) As a child of the Fifties when rationing was still on my treat was a sugar sandwich, white bread, thick butter and sugar. And now I'm just off to make a ham and cheese; processed ham, Kraft cheese slices and Coleman's mustard!

[@oopsdidItypethatoutloud]

Sandwiches hold my marriage together. Wife smiles at me... I say, What are you smiling at me for, I don't even like you.... wife throws her sandwich at me... I eat what WAS her sandwich.... she goes to make herself another.... I shout, Make me one.... she swears... PLONKS sandwich in my lap.... I eat quick and look at hers.... death ray glare from wife... she comes over and snuggles... after punching me in the ribs (obviously) HAPPY MARRIAGE 🎉🎉🎉

[@willowpaws5078]

Turkey and stuffing sandwich is my favourite but we typically in the UK don't get this until Christmas time. I could eat it all year round.

[@nigeldewallens1115]

I don't know about you, but I love a fried peanut butter sandwich! I have to tell you when my mum first tried peanut butter during the war! My mum, worked in a special department called SIRO'S reporting on at first, the V1'S, then the V2'S to the office directly to Churchillbut not to him it was his second in command! My mum duly reported about the dutch resistance reporting to her, about a launched V2 and then went up above ground to eat a new sandwich that was peanut butter! Just as my mum bit into the said sandwich the very V2 landed next to her wooden hut and blew up! The blast went up and over the wooden Hut and blew out all the windows in the base! It makes me realise just how lucky I am to be here to tell you all this! My mum passed away in 2019 aged 95

[@jamesbeeching6138]

Elvis favourite!!!❤❤❤❤

[@papalaz4444244]

what an obviously overdetailed fake story that is

[@nigeldewallens1115]

@@papalaz4444244 do you mean mine ? I promise you it was true!

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@jamesbeeching6138 Probably what killed him.

[@jamesbeeching6138]

@@nealgrimes4382 yep!! They did an interview with his cook....She showed how it was made and it was SUPER fatty...She could make one in about 30 seconds!!

[@LeeFranks]

My favourite is the following. "Experience a complete meal in every bite with my delicious sandwich. Savour the perfect blend of flavours and textures that will leave you feeling satisfied and energised. 2 slices of buttered wholemeal bread, toasted with a thin spread of tomato ketchup on both pieces of toast. 1 Birds Eye Potato Waffle oven baked. A pile of the following fried in butter, onion, mushroom & garlic. Just enough to fill the holes in the Potato Waffle then a fried egg on top (yolk side down). Delicious. A cup of tea to follow.

[@shaunfarrell3834]

Never come across that. Think I might have to try it!

[@b3564]

Black country pork and stuffing with gravy, crackling on the side, on crusty bread! BOSTIN'! Touch of Tabasco sauce will surprise you!

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

will have to try it!

[@Canalcoholic]

Or simply bread and scrape. For the uninitiated, that's the fats, dripping and meat juices from the bottom of the roasting pan.

[@b3564]

@@Canalcoholic ended up having to make pokoras after nowhere to get a sandwich local today! Oh well BILSTON market or Great Bridge is going to be on the agenda in the next couple of days!

[@nealgrimes4382]

That sounds good, also Hot Roast Beef with Horseradish and Gravy, Pork, Apple and Gravy also good.

[@b3564]

@@nealgrimes4382 going to have to pay the BILSTON market a visit! The best filling sandwiches on fresh baked bread, mouth will be watering until Saturday!

[@erikschiegg68]

In Switzerland, they had a popular song instructing how to prepare a sandwich, if you would like to listen: Betrachtige über nes Sändwitsch into the search bar

[@kevinduff3584]

Cheese & Pickle is a classic!

[@timothyallan111]

So many of the American sandwiches sound amazing! I adore things like pickles and saurkraut, which you don't see so frequently on British sandwiches. I was thrilled when UK supermarkets started doing pastrami with swiss cheese, mustard and pickles as a reasonably common ready-to-eat sandwich! Certainly, if I am making a sandwich at home, I will use either butter OR mayo, never both. The one English sandwich I get a true craving for in the summer is really thick good quality ham, on thickly sliced, buttered, homemade white bread, with ripe tomatoes and crisp lettuce from a friend/relative's garden (I am not green-fingered!).

[@lemdixon01]

In French and German they also use the word sandwich for a sandwich and same too in Spanish but when I was over in Barcellona they called it bocadillo

[@wesleybush8646]

Jelly-made of fruit juice, jam- made of mashed fruit, preserves-whole fruit or pieces of fruit, fruit spreads-no sugar

[@jeaniehale1847]

Brie, Bacon and Cranberry Sauce, toasted so that the brie melts

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

excellent choice!

[@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO]

That Cranberry Sauce needs replacing with Chilli Sauce, Cranberry is a fruit therefore belongs in desserts not savoury meals.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

​@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO The sweetness balances the salt of the bacon, _checks rules,_ it passes.

[@nealgrimes4382]

My local Caf does a Cranberry, Bacon, lettuce and Tomato.

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO Cranberry sauce is made to go with meat.

[@wobaguk]

I think the supermaket sandwich thing has a very different cultural peception here and there. In the UK its an actual liked sector of the market, in the US, the storebought prepacked sandwhich is pretty low on the ladder of quality and trust.

[@sandragriffiths9302]

My favourite is a crisp butty (Walkers Salt Crisps), butter is a must and the bread needs to be white and soft and squishy, I’m from the U.K. and i’m 60 years old.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Oooh, going to have to try this!

[@JOHNSMITH-if9jr]

salt and vinegar, cheese and onion , chicken , yum yum

[@dont_give_a_flying_f]

My friends and I used to do this as kids but with pickled.onion space raiders. Was a quick and cheap lunch. A bag of space raiders and a roll. Dry but tasty

[@JOHNSMITH-if9jr]

@JJ-hu4zm that sounds odd but i might give it a go, hi from Australia.

[@ethelmini]

@@GirlGoneLondonofficial Can't make a crisp sarnie without salad cream. I agree cheap white bread defo brings a unique quality to sandwiches, but I'd use other sliced bread as well, but not a roll.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

I think the most common sandwich in Australia and probably the UK is the hot chip sandwich.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Interesting!

[@threestumps7560]

fellow aussie, don't think I agree with that!

[@MostlyPennyCat]

According to the song he just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich.

[@ianwilson8759]

I have to admit that the Reuben sandwich is the greatest sandwich ever invented - it is pure genius when done right. Next up, and a close second, is the BLT, which I think started off as a bacon sandwich in the UK and then got late 20th century "woked" to include toms and lettuce. In third place is a roast chicken sandwich made with leftover chicken and Maldon salt. My two cents worth. Oh forgot, a very near third is the chip butty with either (buttered with Olivio or whatever margarine) soft white sliced bread (preferred) or a white bread bun (has to be soft and full of gluten).

[@stephenlee5929]

Hi Kalyn, I'm from London, England. In general I would not call it a sandwich, if it were in French Bread, a roll, a barm, a sub or Pitta, note you might get any of these from a sandwich shop, but for me they are not sandwiches. Also a burger in a bun is not a sandwich, neither is a sausage or hot dog in a bun. I think of two slices of bread, from some kind of loaf (filled with something) as a sandwich. Note if you use a slice of white and a slice of brown bread, the result is 'piebald', to me. There are also 2 types of toasted sandwich, one where you make a sandwich and toast it, the other where you make a sandwich using toast instead of bread. Thanks that was fun.

[@fox39forever]

B.L.T.s were an import to England in the 1980s. Travel between the two countries greatly opened-up in about 1978, when Freddie Laker started the first low-cost airline across the Atlantic.

[@jerplusjeff]

I'm going to defend your pronunciation of the word 'butty'. In an American accent, t's in the middle of words are pronounced as d's, so your pronunciation was spot on. Keep up the good work Kaylynn, love your content.

[@showman1955]

Best sandwich for me is smoked back bacon with Daddies or HP sauce in 2 slices of bread or a nice white cob

[@Elkfazer1]

Has to be Daddies sauce over HP for me, HP seems to have changed over the years or my tastebuds have and I find it way too sharp.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

After many years I've converted to Heinz tomato, the sweetness balances the salt really well l.

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@MostlyPennyCat Also Brown sauce is sweet.

[@TheGDJames]

I'm guessing that as the British list was compiled by Marks & Spencer and Costa Coffee it only contains sandwiches sold in shops. So, it excludes loads of popular sandwiches, which you mentioned later on, such as chip butty, crisp sandwich, jam sandwich, cheese & jam sandwich, bacon (hot) sandwich, egg & bacon sandwich, egg sandwich, cheese & onion sandwich.

[@tallmale188]

Hi there, on the subject of buttering the bread in British sandwiches, I may have come across this in Mayhew's book London's Labour and London Poor. In it he referrers to "The Jewish Peddler" and he observed that the Jewish would not use the same knife to cut butter and meat. This would be in line with "Though shall not boil a kid in it's mothers milk" (If you make it to the National Maritime Museum, you will see the cups for the immigration ships marked in stylised Hebrew saying "Milk".) So they would not butter bread when meat was being used as a filling. If you visit any devout Jewish home you will see that they have two sets of kitchenware (Including ovens) I think when Jewish migrants went to the States they brought the practice with them.

[@nealgrimes4382]

I'm a bit like that with Chicken and egg together it just seems wrong having 2 stages of a Chicken on a Sandwich ( Milk Goat thing ).

[@lifestoryguy]

We also call a sandwich "a piece" in Scotland, and I'd say you'd want to try a piece and crisps soon, especially if you like a piece and chips/ chip butty. Salt and vinegar or pickled onion flavour are the business for a crisp sandwich.

[@charlestaylor9424]

My favourite ready made sandwich at work was "fresh water crayfish in lemon mayonnaise".

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

very interesting combination!

[@user-ou7di7ob2l]

Pastrami on rye. An egg sandwich is common here in New Zealand. Boil an egg half way between soft and hard, de-shell, mash it with butter and condiments (a little mustard is good) spread on bread. No need to butter the bread first.

[@benhodkinson6467]

This list seems to exclude hot fillings, because as we all know a bacon sandwich is not just the best sandwich in the world, it is also one of the finest culinary experiences you can have. British bacon(of course) toasted bread, lots of butter, red or brown sauce(I don’t want to get into it) all served hot! so all ingredients mingle freely, accompanied by a hot cup of sweet Tea.

[@gamingtonight1526]

Very well covered and researched - you should be proud!

[@robharris8844U]

I'm British but would like to give a personal sandwich suggestion; buy italian Focaccia sliced bread and put in it your choice of British cheese slices Cheddar carmalised cheese personal favourite.Put cheese slice in bread and put in toaster and gently heat 🥵 and remove add beetroot or chutneys of personal taste 😋Thank me later!

[@benhodkinson6467]

Fish finger sandwich with copious mayonnaise and sweet chilli sauce. My wife introduced me and I’m hooked.

[@PhotogNT]

I love a toasted sandwich, butter both sides of the bread then cheese, ham, cheese, tomato, cheese then the second slice of bread again buttered on both sides then into the pan cook until the bread is golden both sides and all 3 slices of cheese is melted. Second favourite fried streaky bacon fried egg with runny yolk and tomato sauce YUMMO 🇦🇺

[@michaeltovey02607]

I attended a UK army course many years ago and we were given sandwiches for our “field lunch” The soldiers had *doorstops* ie very thick bread with a chunky filling. The NCOs were given normal sandwiches cut in the horizontal. Officers were issued delicate sandwiches, crust cut off and cut in the diagonal. Who would have guessed that sandwiches had class distinction built in? Anyone who has not enjoyed bacon, Brie and cranberry sandwiches has not lived!

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

so interesting!!

[@FuriKitten]

A bin lid breakfast stottie, cut the top of your stottie pluck out some of th bottom to make a shallow bowl, butter it, fill with Black budding, Bacon, egg, mushroom, tomato, bean and fried eggs, fry the plucked bread in all that nice fry up fat place on top of brekkie, you will of course have aleady toasted the top slice of stottie and buttered it, maybe turning it into cheese on toast, reassemble and consume with a pint or 2 of tea.

[@Loneguy22]

Having gone to an English style tea shop I've had occasion to eat some of the UK sandwiches you discussed. I must say that I very much enjoyed both the cucumber sandwiches as well as the Coronation Chicken. They also had really good prawn sandwiches. If anyone watching is in or near Baltimore, look up Emma's Tea Spot.

[@MartinSteed]

Hard to narrow it down to a single favourite! Left over roast dinner - anything left over : meat, vegetables, sauces Bacon + Fried Egg Salt & Vinegar crisps + cheddar + marmite I'm clearly in the UK :)

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Oooh, you've reminded me with your excellent choices that I do love a left over roast dinner sandwich with bread sauce in it...amazing.

[@cadifan]

About 30 or 40 years ago here in New Zealand you could buy peanut butter and jam in a jar... yep, in the same jar. And it wasn't mixed, it was like vertical layers, like vertical stripes in the jar. For some reason it didn't last long, but I liked it. My most favorite sandwiches are club (finger) sandwiches. I would stand there and eat the whole platter if I could.

[@JohnWilson-hc5wq]

Smuckers makes that in the USA.

[@charlestaylor9424]

You used to get that in UK but now you can get Marmite Peanut Butter.

[@raystewart3648]

I go to a take-away cafe called Miss Piggies (such a great name) there you can get over 60 types of fillings in Buns, Rolls and Baps. Cooked or Cold. My fav is Egg, Bacon, Hash Brown and Onions with a dash of Tomato Sauce.............its Thick its Hot and its so Filling.

[@user-mh4hq7rg3z]

You did very well indeed young lady. The differences were identified accurately especially on the subject of fillings.

[@artensoll]

Favourite sarnie - leftover Christmas turkey with pickled red cabbage on thick cut white crusty bread. For the rest of the year it's a grated cheddar and branston pickle on white bread with added salt & vinegar crisps. And a Twix.

[@rolos140670]

the hawaiian islands were originally mapped as the sandwich isles. changed when they found out of course

[@lemdixon01]

What about egg and cress ? It's cheap. Mash a hard boiled egg and mix in some mayo.

[@MrGratefulNC]

PB & Banana, as for non common my after TDAY sammich Turkey, stuffing/dressing, cranberry sauce (must be the jelly version from the can) and Mayo

[@garethjohnstone9282]

My grandmother was from Blitz era London. She used to have lard and sheeps brain sandwiches. Uggh. Personally my favourite sandwiches is a good quality pork and black pepper sausage from my local butchers, grilled bacon, and burford brown fried egg, runny, on a very very slightly toasted thick sliced crusty bread, with salted butter. No sauce. Egg is good enough.

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

B fast has to be Lourn sausage which is sauare sausage and Scottish, in a morning roll with butter and red or brown is heaven.

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

Bacon and chicked with cranbery sauce and mayo or Trout with dill mayo is amazing..

[@sallycostello8379]

I love some of our UK sandwiches but I gotta say the US wins hands down. I'm craving a reuben, or a Cuban or a monte cristo or a salt beef/pastrami with pickle and mustard on rye, or a cheese philly steak with onions... I could go on. And don't get me started on the amount of filling. Yum!

[@lucyrakauskas]

Ham and cheese sandwich with some crisps hidden inside! 🤭😅🥰

[@adamclark6756]

It all depends what is in my fridge/cupboards as to what goes in a sandwich. It has made for many interesting combinations but one of my favourites is a peanut butter and marmite or cheese and marmite. I have had deli sandwiches in New York that took two sittings to eat!

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Another peanut butter lover! Hoorah!

[@deanwalker38]

Begone you demon, I caste you out 😂😂😂

[@adamclark6756]

@@GirlGoneLondonofficial Smooth or crunchy? It's crunchy every time for me.

[@braces2]

John Montagu was the 4th Earl of Sandwich but the first Earl of Sandwich originally wanted to be called the Earl of Portsmouth but later changed his mind. If he hadn't changed his mind then we would all be eating cheese and ham Portsmouths for our lunch.

[@ghall4141]

two sarny`s i had as a kid and still eat at 72 yoa are cheese and onion crisps (with butter on bread ) and golden syrup (no butter on bread )

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

interesting! Never thought about golden syrup on bread!

[@ghall4141]

@@GirlGoneLondonofficial i would not recommend it to folk with delicate teeth 😅 another one i loved was sugar on brown bread.

[@simonbaker5972]

There really is only one sandwich that's worthy of a mention. A Bacon sandwich on doorstep sliced bread Any other sandwich shale be excluded and not mentioned in the same sentence! 😂

[@davidjackson2580]

I'm in the UK. Firstly, butter is a must for me. i really enjoy a chicken butty, by which I mean just butter and chicken, with more salt than is good for me. I like gammon, or ham and I also like beef butties. Strangely perhaps, I like English mustard on ham and Dijon mustard on beef. Bacon and sausage, either together or separately with HP sauce is really nice. Note I really hate lettuce, or tomato, so I never have these on my butty. Another good option is the fish finger butty and the chip butty, but I prefer a chip barm. Of course the name of a bread roll changes every few miles in the UK. Of course this lot is what I like and sandwich preferences are very individual, so everybody has their own, often very different, tastes in these things, which is as it should be. Very interesting video and a good generalisation of the differences (which is all that can be done, given the variety of tastes); thanks for doing a good job.

[@johnstaples1606]

I recommend corned beef onion and Branson pickle on buttered bread… in Wigan they eat their pies in a buttered barm cake… Love your work.. !

[@Spiritof1955]

My favourite sarnie is Strawbeery Jam and Cheese. Second favourite is banana sandwich...it's important that the bread is buttered for this.

[@mpersad]

That was a terrifically tempting, tasty video! Favourite sarnie? Has to be bacon, on wholemeal bread, no butter but with red sauce, maybe brown too on a whim!😊

[@nigelmacbug6678]

l can just imagine the face of a American, if you served a sarnie where you substituted the butter for English mustard 4:13

[@daveoconnell3833]

Love pb and jam toasted and grilled cheese and corned beef with jalapeno and bacon egg and sausage from UK and yeah crisp sandwich cheese and onion and salt and vinegar mix

[@Dionysos640]

British sandwiches are better simply because American bread and cheese sucks. You can only work with the ingredients you have.

[@michaelpierce826]

Peanut butter and jelly 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

[@ChuckFickens1972]

Not 100% true America makes some lovely bread and cheeses, but they tend to be the expensive "artisanal" bread and cheeses In the UK our mainstream stuff would be called artisanal in the US

[@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO]

British sandwiches sold in supermarkets and Greggs suck too, because they have very little in the way of fillings, the manufacturers are EXCRUCIATINGLY conservative about the amount of fillings in their sandwiches, yet the retailers charge extortionate prices for them. Whereas in America they make proper sandwiches with generous amounts of fillings.

[@Dionysos640]

@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO Don't buy cheapo sandwiches then. The whole ethos of Greggs is to make everything they sell as cheap as possible. I used to pop in there occasionally when the pasties were kept warm. Never go near them now.

[@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO]

@@Dionysos640 Your comment is an assumption, I don't buy cheap sandwiches, besides supermarket sandwiches are far from cheap.

[@threestumps7560]

Nice discussion Kalyn. I can't imagine eating a sandwich without butter or marg spread on it. (one exception..) My favs are curried egg or egg & parsley, club sandwich or meat & salad sandwich, to name a few. I also love toasties; my favourite at the moment being BLT & avo or a roasted vegetable toastie. I'm backing up another commenter here about the vietnamese pork roll which have been popular here in the last 10 years. Used to have them every Friday lunch at my workplace a few years ago. If you ever visit Australia one day, you will have to try the Bunnings snag. Although technically not a sandwich; it is only one piece of bread with a sausage in it, fried onion and tomato sauce or mustard if you choose. It is not sold at a restaurant or a cafe, but a hardware store; but is very popular down here.

[@pragmatastic]

Suitably thorough, accurate and well organised. You deserve to be awarded a PhD for this one! ;-)

[@craftsmanwoodturner]

Two things that you didn't touch on. As a Brit, I would never refer to a burger as a sandwich, but this seems to be common in the US. I get that it is sort of a sandwich, we just don't think of them as such, and would only ever call them a burger. The other thing is the simple jam sandwich - not one we would buy when out, so it's not on your list, but at home, this is very common. Usually strawberry jam, which is a preserve with whole fruit left in; a jelly (e.g. bramble jelly or redcurrant jelly) is one where the fruit solids have been strained out.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Brit in my 50s here. I don't think I've ever seen anyone eat a Ploughmans sandwich. I don't recall ever seeing that as an option in the shops either. I'm also pretty sure that the UK top ten list would look very different, if it was done by the biggest sellers of take away sandwiches, the supermarkets (M&S doesn't really count, as it's not a supermarket, just a mixed shop where you can get some food items, clothing etc.). Also the likes of Greggs and similar food shops, would likely have very different lists to the M&S/Costa list.

[@cookielady7662]

So entertaining. Let's hear it for the Earl! My favorite sandwich is BLT, made with American bacon. I also like PB&J. Now and then I want an "Elvis," peanut butter with banana, reported to be his favorite sandwich. My favorite sub is meatball. This was fun. Thank you for doing such a great job with this subject.

[@annaburch3200]

My SIL is a HUGE Elvis fan and served upscale peanut butter and banana sandwiches at her wedding reception! Yummy!!!

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Mmm, I love a peanut butter and banana sandwich! Thank you for watching!

[@cookielady7662]

@@annaburch3200 very cool!

[@cookielady7662]

@@GirlGoneLondonofficial 🍌

[@delboy1727]

I'm quite partial to brie and tomato in a baguette, or roast beef and horseradish if going for a meat option. Smoked salmon and cream cheese is also a favourite. Mmmm, making me feel hungry now.

[@chixma7011]

The best indulgent sandwich I ever ordered was mashed avocado, watercress and poached salmon on buttered wholemeal bread, seasoned with a little lemon juice and black pepper. It was fabulous! My daily sandwich bar order for the seven years I was working in London (retired for 16 years so this was a while ago!) was shredded roast chicken and coleslaw on buttered granary bread with a packet of plain crisps and a Diet Coke. I’ve always made toasties in a pan, buttering the outside of the bread and not cooking it so fast that the bread burns before the contents are heated through. Cheddar cheese in white bread is the standard filling but I also highly recommend corned beef mashed together with some leftover boiled or baked potato (or a dollop of instant mash) and some finely chopped or grated onion, ie a corned beef hash sandwich. It’s very much worth the effort! ❤

[@Poliss95]

There's a village called Ham very close to Sandwich. They're even on the same road sign.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

so funny!

[@scottmasson3336]

Scottish morning rolls and square Slice sausages...with brown sauce.

[@jamesbeeching6138]

Love a sarnie!! Great video GGL!! My favourite baguette which I "invented" as a joke for our sandwich lady Ruth....Was a steak and kidney pie with chips and gravy ...In a baguette!! Plenty of carbs to keep you going for a month!!! Also I can't believe you have never had a crisp sandwich??? They are an amazing comfort food!!! Try one this afternoon for tea!!

[@lemdixon01]

I'm more of a pie man. Steak pie, meat and potato, steak and kidney, pork pies, sausage rolls, cheese and onion, cornish pasties, minced beef and onion. But not from Gregs but from a proper local independant bakery or butchers, maybe from morrisons or sainsburys.

[@timhannah4]

Corned Beef & Vine Tomatoes, Egg (Boiled) & Ham. Either White Bread or Seeded Brown Bread. Simple but delicious; South Wales but from Plymouth England 🤘

[@user-yq4bi3wk7v]

My favourite sandwich is a bacon butty made with Lancashire bacon and Lancashire tea cakes, I live in Canada now and I can't get Lancashire bacon so have to put up with Tayshire bacon. Can't get tea cakes neither. Second, Montreal smoked meat on rye with a side of fries.

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

Great video, Kalyn. Can I just tell @Review 325 that I tried Toad in the Hole with bacon instead of sausage, and it was very nice. Will definitely have it again, although I still prefer it with sausage. It goes better with onion gravy. Sorry about that, but I hope they get the message.

[@scollyb]

As a kid I enjoyed peanut and jam sandwiches and wondered what lunatic would put jelly in a sandwich You really should try a crisp sandwich. It's amazing I think there's an important difference in quality of ingredients. Good bread, good butter, good cheese or ham is amazing (France is best of example of this) But outside of specialist shops , like new York delis, American sandwiches tend to compensate for poor ingredients by adding more of them. (Yes NY deli sandwiches are huge but they tend to be one or two main fillings)

[@lemdixon01]

@@marydavis5234 yes it is almost like jelly (or jello) because I think they distinguish it from jam or preserve

[@CherylVogler]

Jelly in the U.S. is fruit juice, pectin and sugar. Jam has smooshed up pieces of fruit in it (same as what you have); preserves contain whole pieces of fruit. Jello is a brand name for flavored gelatin, which you call Jelly. We call it Jello, which is sort of like the way British call vacuum cleaners Hoovers.

[@lemdixon01]

@@CherylVogler jelly and ice-cream

[@adriangoodrich4306]

Brit here in Yorkshire. Defo need butter, and can't be doing with dry sandwiches! Personal favourites, which I confess also cross the line into butties and rolls and toasties (please don't ban me...!) - Bacon buttie - preferably with crispy bacon, which will not be viewed with a friendly eye by many other Brits! - BLT - again preferably with crispy bacon - Cheese and onion/tomato/chutney/all of the above... - Prawn Mayo - with nice big fat juicy prawns - Cheese, roast ham and English or wholegrain mustard - proper thick-cut roast ham, not the slimy stuff that comes in two-nanometre thick squares... - Cheese and salami/pepperoni/chorizo/all of the above toastie - Stilton Cheese and onion toastie - Come to think of it, MOST sandwiches, toasties, rolls, whatever really...!

[@sharonmartin4036]

Definitely crispy bacon!! Not burnt, just crisped nicely. And yes, butter of course. Mayo, and other things, without butter just make the bread soggy. I use butter first even if I am also going to put mayo in the sandwich.

[@nealgrimes4382]

I think most like crispy Bacon, i am viewed as weird because i like it just cooked or Aneamic as my friend calls it.

[@sharonmartin4036]

@@nealgrimes4382 I was taught by my mum and grandma that undercooked pork of any kind is risky. Anyway, crispy bacon tastes better.

[@AutoReport1]

Jelly is strained to remove the fruit pulp. Even in the UK some fruits (like quince) are made into jelly rather than jam. They are not the same. You can try and make quince jam, but you will fail. If you don't strain the fruit pulp, you'll get paste, not jam. So jelly it is.

[@alanj9391]

Was thinking similar - my mother used to make jam/jelly from fruits available locally, jam contained chunks of the fruit, jelly (jeely) was strained through a fabric cone hung over a large pan, took hours. We never had quince, but both apples and gooseberries were always strained into jeely, blackcurrants could be made as either jam or jeely, and strawberries, raspberries, etc were always jam.

[@jameslewis2635]

Something that was missed here is the differences between what Brits call a 'toastie' and the American 'grilled cheese sandwich'. Firstly, while both have very similar basic ingredients (bread buttered on the outside of the sandwich with cheese in the middle) in the UK you can find a number of variations either domestically or in shops like Greggs (the UK's most widely spread bakery chain). These include additional ingredients like pickles (often something like Branston Sweet Pickle), sliced tomato, baked beans (based on tomato sauce), onion or ham. Then there is the cooking method. In the UK many people have a special device for making these which is very similar to a 'George Forman Grill' that we just call a 'sandwich toaster'. From that you can probably guess that the reason we call them 'toasties' is that by our point of view it is a sandwich where the bread is toasted. Older methods of making them include using a 'AGA toaster'. This is essentially a hinged wire frame in the shape of a tennis racket that folds around a sandwich to hold it in place before you put the sandwich on the hot plate of an AGA cooker (an old style range cooker which was able to use a variety of fuels depending on the version that sometimes included water heating {as in through pipework} as a function). The main difference in results from this to more modern methods is that you often got more charring from the AGA method which effects the flavour depending on how long you left the sandwich on the hot-plate for each side and unlike with 'sandwich toasters' the edges are not sealed. Also with the AGA version you don't need butter on the outside of the sandwich.

[@davidmartin8211]

Americans also use a sandwich press for some types of hot sandwiches, usually made with cheese and some meats. This is called a panini press.

[@phoebus007]

It's staggering that your British Top Ten did not include the Bacon Butty, but that's possibly because it's so ubiquitous nobody thinks of it as a sandwich. Also, in the military the most common sandwich was a runny fried egg between two thick slices of white bread, probably because eggs were easy to obtain and store, it's hot and simple to make. It was known to one and all as an egg banjo. You could usually tell who made it from the oily fingerprints on at least one outer side.

[@chazM6116]

Peanut butter and banana and peanut butter and cream cheese are ones I love here in UK

[@robclaridge6236]

If you ever visit Bristol, we have a couple of takeaway joints called "Sandwich Sandwich". You NEED to try that place. Check out the website and picture galleries on-line if you can't get there. Insane sandwiches.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

Although it uses a roll rather than bread Australians in my area are very keen on a Vietnamese pork roll ( well the Muslims and Jews don't eat them) called a BahnMi.

[@threestumps7560]

Yes love Vietnamese pork roll, few years ago used to eat every Friday at work

[@dib000]

Bah Mi is my favourite sandwich 😍

[@djs98blue]

PBJ sandwiches are not allowed in UK schools as children cannot take in food with nuts. I wonder why the US, which is relatively more litigious, does not ban nuts in schools?

[@annaburch3200]

Many do, actually. It's much more common place to ban peanut butter in schools now than when I was a kid in the 80's. At my son's elementary school, the kids ate lunch in their classroom, so the rule was on a class-to-class basis, but in my nieces' school, they had a no nut rule.

[@clivewilliams3661]

Rather than the fillings that in both countries will be varied and very often personal, what about the bread used? Plastic bread, crusty, crusty using French flour, wholewheat, rye, sourdough and even croissant. I was surprised that the 'Ploughman's' merits the term sandwich as to me its a Cob loaf (small round crusty loaf) of white or brown wheat, rye or sourdough with a chunk of cheese (Stilton is my favourite) and pickles (individual or Branston or Piccalilli). At best it could be called a deconstructed sandwich. It has to be a lunch fit for a hard working ploughman not some dainty finger roll.

[@grabtharshammer]

Nice one, but you did miss the Fish Finger Sarni. Bread, four Fish Fingers (Birds Eye Cod), another slice of bread, salt to taste, then squish the Sarni flat thus flattening the Fish Fingers . ... Mmmmm

[@nealgrimes4382]

She mentions it in the Vid, they do make a great Sandwich though.

[@zhukov43]

My absolute favourite sandwich is peanut butter and roast chicken, it is a genuine joy to eat.

[@brianwhittington5086]

One sandwich not to be missed, Kalyn, is the hot roast pork roll. Thick slices of hot pork, straight off the joint, with crispy crackling, sage and onion stuffing, and apple sauce. You can hold back on spreading any dripping or butter on the bread roll for me, though.

[@musicgarryj]

Quite surprised that no-one mentioned the UK corned beef and Branston Pickle sandwich. Very popular as a pre-packaged sandwich in filling stations and supermarkets.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Oooh, that's a good one!

[@apemanhill]

Bacon barm with butter, maybe HP sauce. Peant butter and salad. Peanut butter and banana Peanut butter and separately spread Marmite. Left over chicken tikka masala and rice Crisp butty My favourite is cod fish fingers and either tomato sauce or tartar sauce

[@lemdixon01]

Peanut butter, banana and jam !

[@apemanhill]

I'm on it! 😀

[@lemdixon01]

You say barm (barmcake) like me for bread roll or bap. You must be from Lancashire or Cheshire. I'm from Blackpool.

[@raibeart1955]

Whether you use butter spread or mayonnaise, these are lubricants which helps the bread go down,especially for toast or ‘day old bread” or dryer fillings. all the beast Rab

[@lemdixon01]

I did have a nice sandwich in the US in a local diner asnit was freshly made, I think it was a club sandwich and the bread was a bit toasted. And when I bought a sandwich from a store in the US, I was suprised by how much meat was in the sandwich but I liked it.

[@WookieWarriorz]

if its toasted its just a toastie then haha or a paninis, at that point in the uk youll get similar stuff, we just dont call everything that has bread a sandwhich, british english in general is just a lot more speciific and descriptive.

[@bwrightuk]

I quite liked a saveloy dip growing up; I think it's very regional.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Haven't heard of it, will have to look it up!