toast sandwich is U.K.s cheapest meal

[alocispepraluger102]

toast sandwich bbc link

[RDK]

And it immediately jumped into the Top Ten of Britain's tastiest dishes!

[alocispepraluger102]

[Chuck Nessa]

How do they boil it?

[alocispepraluger102]

i'm thinking of trying a creamed and aged rare vinyl sandwich.

i wouldn't know what to call it, though.

some of those emi pressings from the 70s were pretty cheesy at that.

[JSngry]

This is like the equivalent of instant water, right?

[sidewinder]

I'd have thought bread and dripping or jam and bread would be a bit cheaper. And deep fried Mars bars for the Scots brethren..

The way the economy is going, these might well be the new staples.

[cih]

I can think of at least three cheaper "meals" - a) two slices of toast, b) one slice of toast, and c) one slice without the seasoning.

And it immediately jumped into the Top Ten of Britain's tastiest dishes!

they're working on an 'improved' US version, which involves 6 slices

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[David Ayers]

Toast sandwich? You were lucky...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDaSvRO9xA&feature=related

[cih]

There's a new Marty Feldman biography out that's on my Christmas list - sounds entertaining. And it's well known he wanted to be a jazz musician and left school at 15 to pursue it. On meeting Charlie Parker:

"All he did was talk about snooker. I was so pissed off,"

[crisp]

Word to the wise on that Feldman bio: Robert Ross is a terrible writer, unless you like "awesome stunning" hyperbole in place of solid research and sentences that go on forever with about a million clauses. I'd wait until somebody better, such as Graham McCann or Christopher Stevens, tackles it. Sorry.

[cih]

noted - thanks. I enjoyed McCann's book on Frankie Howerd. Maybe I'll go for that Kenneth Williams one by Stevens, I had heard conflicting opinions so wasn't sure..

[crisp]

I'm halfway through the Kenneth Williams book -- highly recommended. Never realised before the extent to which his career difficulties were largely of his own making: he turned down so many great opportunities through low self-esteem and insecurity. Stevens writes very nicely and has done his research. It's going cheap in the remainder shops at the moment.

[cih]

94p on Amazon marketplace (which might have prompted a diary entry).

Now I look - I remember I was put off a previous Robert Ross by the cover and the title (the one on Sid James). Thanks again for the nudge, the Feldman one has quite a nice cover!

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[RDK]

If the book's no good you could always use it as a cheap meal! That's what we did back when I was young...

[crisp]

I remember I was put off a previous Robert Ross by the cover and the title (the one on Sid James).

Cockney Rebel? About an actor who was neither a cockney nor a rebel? I actually turned down a free copy of that one -- it wasn't even worth that.

If the book's no good you could always use it as a cheap meal! That's what we did back when I was young...

Hence Reader's Digest.

[A Lark Ascending]

Well, in the last Age of Austerity we had carrot cake and Woolton Pie.

Toast sandwich for this one.

[sidewinder]

I'm halfway through the Kenneth Williams book -- highly recommended.

His 'Diaries' are unmissable !

[cih]

yes - Cockney Rebel(!) Not just the title, but also the photo on the front just seemed to sum up everything that everybody thinks they already know about Sid James - the kind of best-mate 'Loaded' Sid.

Well, in the last Age of Austerity we had carrot cake and Woolton Pie.

the period during which we were at our healthiest (diet-wise)?

KW diaries - I still go and look up what he thought of this or that celebrity or tv show every now and then. I wish they'd all written some