You can't beat a bacon butty...
 

Special treat for lunch today. Defrosted the last three slices of decent back bacon I'd smuggled into Italy last November. (Finished the gammon a while back -they don't know what they are missing here using all their pigs to make salami and prosciutto!)

Fried up the bacon (non of that healthy grilling) and layered it up on some nutty cereal bread which was spread thickly with Lurpak salted butter. A real feast, washed it down with a large mug of English breakfast tea(Twinings).

Yesterday I heard on Sky news that 2 rashers of bacon a day gives you a 20% higher chance of getting something or other...what the hell, you can't beat a decent bacon butty.

Sausage butties, chip butties and another secret favourite of mine, fish fingers with ketchup, aren't bad either (butter is not an optional it is a necessity on a good butty)...what's your favourite? :p

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Ignore the sensationalist media - if you believe everything they say, even breathing can cause development of terminal illnesses. Can't beat a good bacon butty. No sauce on mine - you can't improve on perfection.

Careful smuggling food in suitcases though. Not sure what Italy is like, but other countries give quite heavy fines for minor foodstuffs.

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Bacon and mushroom is one of mine and also a good old plain fried egg butt , good quality free range eggs and touch of salt plenty of black pepper yum yum starting to slaver now:p:D

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I take no notice of these studies.......after all, you have to die of something.
They talk about processed meat being a trigger for pancreatic cancer....yet there are only 8000 people per year who are diagnosed with this form of cancer.....surely with all the people who eat processed meat it would be more, if this study is to be believed.

Anyway, for me it has to be bacon....streaky, the fattier the better, crisped up and put onto soft white bread...or an oven bottom with a mug of hot strong tea(leaves....not bags)...that is my idea of heaven. I often muse(while eating my bacon butty) if her Maj gets to eat such delicacies.

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Streaky bacon very crispy with white bread even better when cold for lunch - it was one of my grandma's picnic items when we were off to see my auntie in Suffolk and takes me back to the 1950's - delicious!

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You are right of course - but decent bacon is worth the risk. I always take it vacuum packed after mum was onced stopped by the sniffer dogs in Milan -they didn't make her open her bag as she didn't look like a typical drug smuggler -but it did scare her and she was carrying some bacon and english sausages for me!

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Bacon, Egg, mushrooms, beans, sausage, fried bread every sunday morning for breakfast best of the week, that will be in about an hour from now:D

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Yummy -we're on risotto!

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Yeh forgot the Black pudding.;):D

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Did the full English last week-end (including the Black puddin' Cashy) as we had friends over who'd stayed the night & today it was just Sossy & eggs on toast, can't kick the arse out of it every week. :)

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Ya Joan can't have it so neither can I, I just had haggis for lunch yesterday:D

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eeeeewwwwww...pass me a bucket. Just the mention of the stuff makes me heave John.

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I prefer sausage buttys tbh

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Argh, Cannibal ! :D

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I remeber those cold bacon sandwiches ... used to take a bunch when I went train spotting. Sitting on an embankment, waiting for the Midday Scot, and eating the cold bacon butties:alright: ... cold sausage was good too. And I was an HP sauce kinda kid. Had to be a splash of it on the meat. Although I understand the position of the purists.;)

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Can't beat a good ole bacon butty :) but my favourite is pork and apple sausage and a nice runny (not snotty though!) poached egg washed down with a mug of tea got to be tea if eating egg (don't really know why!) mmmmmm.......

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Oh they're lovely Margaret, especially when they come by SD from Scotland:D

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Lovely tale Eric but i never had you down as an "anorak":eek:Lol!

Only ever had cold bacon on a B.L.T. which is good. Cold sausage is good too - with English mustard for me though. Have made Scotch eggs a few times for picnics with friends here in Italy and everyone thinks they are amazing.

My Grandma used to make wonderful oven-bottom muffins which were the absolute tops for any kind of butty - used to go off for days out with them up the Trough of Bowland and to Freshfields near Southport - wonderful picnics and she always took full tea-making facilities! No tepid flasks!
Better stop reminiscing or I'll start getiing Maudlin again.:rolleyes::D

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Only tried haggis once Jay -can't honestly remember what it was like. I do remember Finnan Haddock which I had once for breakfast in Edinburgh after my porridge(yum!), the only reason I remember it is so that I'll never have it again, could taste it all day long:rolleyes:

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"K" to you for the "snotty" egg -haven't heard it called that in years.:D

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Nope, I can't be converted John. I have tried it,(broke one of my own cardinal rules doing it - Never put into your gob something that looks horrible) but found it gruesome.......I would rather eat my own eyeball.
Nasty! Must've been a bad day for meat when they invented Haggis.

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You must have got one out of season, they're better fresh, and make sure they've been cleaned too, you don't want to get lead shot stuck in your teeth:rolleyes:

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It was fresh alright...had the haggis at Gretna Green.......no lead shot in it, but it was like a freshly fried cowpat on my plate. I had to spit it into my hankie......and it took two glasses of orange juice to shift the taste from my mouth. Won't be doing that again!

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I was served haggis at a hotel in Scotland when on a Fraser Eagle coach holiday.

It smelt like a sewer, and the first mouthful confirmed it tasted that way too - spat out - not swallowed.

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OK knock it off you lot, sat here at 1-23 AM just browsing accy web , like you do, and here you are, tempting me to get the frying pan out and waken H.I.D...up...But in a few hours I will be thanking you very much, since I will not sleep till I get my BACON BUTTY-- .....Tony

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I think yall' started with bacon butties , did ya ?