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[peach0000]

2 hours ago, Blarmy said:

So true. Good bacon in a cob, happy days. In a burger - no. 

Exactly, in a cob or part of a full English it's great but just shoving it in anything for no reason just ruins some great food. I'm happy I'm not the only one who thinks like this.

[Webbo]

Sausages vary in taste and quality far more than bacon. 

 

The perfect bacon sandwich imo, 2 slices of seeded batch loaf bread, thickly spread with butter, 2 slices of (not crispy) back bacon, no sauce. A fried egg on top sometimes. 

 

Brown sauce should only be used on baked beans or tomatoes. 

Edited 27 February 2021 by Webbo

[Blarmy]

13 minutes ago, Webbo said:

Sausages vary in taste and quality far more than bacon. 

 

The perfect bacon sandwich imo, 2 slices of seeded batch loaf bread, thickly spread with butter, 2 slices of (not crispy) back bacon, no sauce. A fried egg on top sometimes. 

 

Brown sauce should only be used on baked beans or tomatoes. 

For me, brown sauce is best with bacon and sausages.  No sauce needed with beans or tomatoes...

[Webbo]

3 minutes ago, Blarmy said:

For me, brown sauce is best with bacon and sausages.  No sauce needed with beans or tomatoes...

Sorry, but you won't be getting a Michelin Star from me. 

[Stoopid]

20 minutes ago, Webbo said:

Sausages vary in taste and quality far more than bacon. 

 

The perfect bacon sandwich imo, 2 slices of seeded batch loaf bread, thickly spread with butter, 2 slices of (not crispy) back bacon, no sauce. A fried egg on top sometimes. 

 

Brown sauce should only be used on baked beans or tomatoes. 

I love a bacon cob, but it is best with crispy, inflexible, overcooked crunchy rashers in a white-bread cob and HP sauce spilling down your chops as you eat it.

Swiftly followed by hot sweet tea. 

Must be my proletarian upbringing, but I can't do with weird bread or soft bacon. 

[Manini]

2 hours ago, foxile5 said:

There's a lot of credence to this. My take is this:

 

The most basic bacon you can get is better than the most basic sausage. However, when you start looking at quality products - butchers and so forth - sausages start to outstrip bacon by a fair distance. A butcher's pork and leek sausage cob is infinitely better than a butcher's bacon cob. 

 

Bacon has a better bottom end but sausage beats it all over the place in the higher margins.

The wafer thin rashers of bacon you get from dodgy corner shops, usually branded as DANEPAK or similar that shrivel up to the size of a 50p piece aren’t fit for purpose and are a disgrace to the good swines all around the globe who gave their lives for us. 
 

Veggie sausages are also usually very palatable whereas “Facon” is a disgrace. 

Edited 27 February 2021 by Manini

[Manini]

Can I also say how refreshing it is to see everyone, to a man and woman, referring to it as a Cob. A home comfort I often miss. 

[Heathrow fox]

37 minutes ago, Manini said:

Can I also say how refreshing it is to see everyone, to a man and woman, referring to it as a Cob. A home comfort I often miss. 

How I miss Coombs 😭😭

[peach0000]

2 hours ago, Webbo said:

Sausages vary in taste and quality far more than bacon. 

 

The perfect bacon sandwich imo, 2 slices of seeded batch loaf bread, thickly spread with butter, 2 slices of (not crispy) back bacon, no sauce. A fried egg on top sometimes. 

 

Brown sauce should only be used on baked beans or tomatoes. 

You lost me at the word butter sadly! 

[The Bear]

Only 2 slices of bacon on a sandwich? I use 4!! Cut it in half, one half ketchup, one half Daddies Fruity sauce 

[foxfanazer]

4 hours ago, Manini said:

Can I also say how refreshing it is to see everyone, to a man and woman, referring to it as a Cob. A home comfort I often miss. 

Living in Norfolk now and the amount of stoney faced looks I get when I ask for a cob makes me realise how far away from home I am

[String fellow]

Cob has lots of meanings. A male swan, a short-legged horse, corn on the cob, a hazelnut, a round lump of coal, clay/straw building material, a round loaf, an old silver coin, having a cob on, to spank.

[bovril]

50 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

Living in Norfolk now and the amount of stoney faced looks I get when I ask for a cob makes me realise how far away from home I am

lmao don't tell me you don't know what "cob" means in Norfolk dialect? 

[The Bear]

A cob is a thick round bread sandwich. Either crusty or soft. Bap is also acceptable. 

[foxfanazer]

20 minutes ago, bovril said:

lmao don't tell me you don't know what "cob" means in Norfolk dialect? 

Please tell me you're on a wind up and I haven't  been asking to be spit roasted by 5 burly farmers

Edited 27 February 2021 by foxfanazer

[bovril]

Just now, foxfanazer said:

Please tell me you're on a wind up and I ain't been asking to be spit roasted by 5 burly farmers

so you don't know

 

oh my

[Stoopid]

14 hours ago, The Bear said:

A cob is a thick round bread sandwich. Either crusty or soft. Bap is also acceptable. 

Bap is NOT acceptable. 

Not in Leicester. 

[Nalis]

The minute someone mentioned cob, I knew we'd have loads of posts on the terminology of a cob / bap / roll, etc....

[Sly]

It’s a roll isn’t it?!? A bacon roll?!? 

[The Bear]

To me a roll is a longer finger style ones. 

[Webbo]

7 hours ago, Stoopid said:

Bap is NOT acceptable. 

Not in Leicester. 

Bap is a soft bun. A cob is more crusty.

[Stoopid]

4 hours ago, Webbo said:

Bap is a soft bun. A cob is more crusty.

'Bap' is just a term that was never used in Leicester when I was growing up. 

Maybe now - when admittedly the language has become more generic, less specific - certainly less regional -  things have changed. 

'Cobs' could be hard or soft by the way. 

[Bamboo]

Not adopting a 'minimalist' approach to living is such a waste of non-renewable resource and is damaging to us as conscious beings. Less is more, in all almost every aspect of human life. 

[Mike Oxlong]

30 minutes ago, Stoopid said:

'Bap' is just a term that was never used in Leicester when I was growing up. 

Maybe now - when admittedly the language has become more generic, less specific - certainly less regional -  things have changed. 

'Cobs' could be hard or soft by the way. 

“Get ya baps out” was a not uncommon greeting back in the day 

Edited 28 February 2021 by Mike Oxlong

[Webbo]

1 hour ago, Stoopid said:

'Bap' is just a term that was never used in Leicester when I was growing up. 

Maybe now - when admittedly the language has become more generic, less specific - certainly less regional -  things have changed. 

'Cobs' could be hard or soft by the way. 

Not sure how old you are mate, but I'm 55 and we had baps when i was a kid.