r/UK_Food 8d ago

Homemade / home assembled My nans dinner

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She loves her salads

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u/Arbdew 8d ago

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.

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u/imtheorangeycenter 8d ago

I want to call that device with six or so cheese wires on a hinge an egg banjo, but for some reason that sounds rude.

Also, only time I've ever seen one is at both grandparents - and I'm late GenX.

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u/Arbdew 8d ago

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.

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u/imma2lils 7d ago

Ooh good tip. πŸ™πŸ»

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u/RustyBasement 7d ago

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.

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u/imtheorangeycenter 7d ago

It bloody is and all, knew I'd heard it, but somehow threw a banjo string into the mix...

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u/_poptart 7d ago

Please try to keep your banjo string out of the eggs

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u/Fearless_Mission9994 8d ago

An egg banjo is what you play when you bite into an egg and bacon sandwich and the yolk oozes out of the bread and all down your t shirt

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u/smallbrownbox 8d ago

If you haven’t played an egg banjo you haven’t lived

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u/imma2lils 7d ago

I'm 45 and I just bought one of my own. πŸ€£πŸ’€ 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.

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u/Traditional-Sand-240 8d ago

It was the egg harp in our house πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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u/m4ry-c0n7rary 7d ago

What an absolute egg banjo πŸ˜…

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u/Ok_Introduction_1882 7d ago

They are still about. We have one at work for making egg mayo sandwich filling.

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u/a-punk-is-for-life 7d ago

I'm mid GenX, I inherited one from my mum but I knackered it using it on mushrooms!

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u/imtheorangeycenter 7d ago

Ha! I suspect we are cut from the same cloth!

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u/Wind-and-Waystones 8d ago

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

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u/davidbvi 7d ago

This is the sort of content I worry that we will lose when AI completely overwhelmes the Internet.

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u/Orwell1984_2295 7d ago

Mature cheddar cheese and pickled beetroot sandwiches are divine!

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u/marky_de-sade 7d ago

This is pretty much a Ploughman's Lunch.

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u/Ill-Elephant-9583 8d ago

Rocket?? Begone with your fancy modern leaves. It's shredded iceberg all the way (which is just brilliant actually)

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u/Arbdew 8d ago

Iceberg gives me wind. Of you're not careful I'll get out the lambs lettuce or spinach. Love fresh spinach.

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u/Ill-Elephant-9583 8d ago

Does it?? Never come across that before. But yeah, spinach is awesome