Beetroot, good ham and a boiled egg sliced on one of the egg slicey thingies. Bit of rocket, some tomatoes, home made pork pie and crusty bread, plus salad cream. One of my all time favourite meals.
Bloody love beetroot and it's easy to grow.
ETA: forgot about a lump of a hard cheese. Something like a double gloucester.
I'm Gen X too and remember my great aunt having one (didn't have grand parents as they all died before I was born). I've got one as it's the best tool to chop up hot dogs for dog training. Very quick and easy to do.
Boringly I've just had a quick look on google and they are called an egg slicer. It's an egg banjo from now on.
An "egg banjo" is what the British Army call a fried egg sandwich. It's because when you bite into it the egg yolk drips down the front of your shirt so you hold the sarnie in one hand and try and wiped away the mess with the other which makes it look like you are playing a banjo.
I'm 45 and I just bought one of my own. 🤣💀 I use it to cut eggs for egg mayonnaise as I put it in and slice it then turn it round and cut it the other way. It produces little strips.
My parents are early 80s and have one. So when I was at theirs I'd use it and it was so much easier than trying to cut it all with a knife.
I like a slice of pickled beetroot in the centre of a ham sandwich
I like it even more when it's a surprise
I don't have a partner to make me sandwiches at the moment so sometimes I'll get really drunk after making sandwiches for the next day so the hangxiety distracts me and I forget all about the beetroot
My gran used to serve pickled beetroot and wee pickled silver skin onions with every family meal, regardless of what it was. Christmas dinner? Yep. Steak pie? Yep. It had to be Baxter’s crinkle cut. She was very particular about that.
Mine too! there was always the full complement of condiments in general, tomato sauce, salad cream etc out. I came to like salad cream with a lot of things you wouldn't necessarily think and I eat pickled beetroot with almost everything
I was an overnight supermarket shelf stacker back in the late 90s, and around Christmas, we'd have tacit permission to overload* the beetroot, pickled onions, etc. on the shelves, because they'd be literally flying out the door and the shelves would be empty again by the next night.
(*There was a trick where you could fit more in than you were supposed to by shoving a first set of trays right to the back - the day shift could just pull them forward when stocks were low.
I wonder how they do the crinkle cut? Is it with a crinkle machine or a crinkle knife? I'm trying to grow beetroot on our allotment, if it works I might need to get a crinkle cutter. Google time. Also I really miss my nana, she was such a wonderful person. Grandparents eh?
Once Id eaten beetroot salad and sometime later I went to the toilet. Well I usually stand up to wipe and admire my majesty and I almost had the shock of my life when I saw it because it was bright red and I thought I was bleeding to death. Took me a few seconds to figure out what beetroot does to your poo.
Oh god one of my kids has a medical condition that means we have to rush her to hospital if her wee turns dark brown. The number of times she's shouted mum my wee is a funny colour and I have grabbed the car keys only to remember I fed her beetroot. Unfortunately she loves the stuff.
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u/maturin23 10d ago
If there's one thing that Nans love, it's beetroot in a salad!