During the week, I try to take a sandwich and crisps to work for noon meal. At the grocery store (and also available at the deli counter at work), they serve sandwiches with different spreads (sandwich filler). Some of the more common items......egg salad (LOTS of mayo), chicken tikka (which I think originated from India, is a spicy chicken salad), corned beef & onion, tuna with corn (I know, not a good mix), and that ever-favorite prawn cocktail. But my favorite is turkey and dressing (mixed with mayo), then served between 2 slices of bread. By the way, it's not muli-grain bread here, it's called "grainary".
The fact that they server "grainary" is quite surprising, as most of the diet here is unhealthy. I'll elaborate later on the traditional English breakfast, but it's lots of fatty, fried food. Fish & chips is a key food item. The potatoes are obviously fried, but the fish (haddock, plaice or cod) is usually battered and deep-fried. As mentioned above, those common sandwich fillers are heavy with mayo (and they even butter the bread on top of it!!).
The other quick foods people like as snacks, especially in the morning, are savory eggs and sausage rools. Savory eggs are basically a little bit of scrambled eggs surrounded by a mixture of bread crumbs and mixture. They are actually pretty good, especially if heated up and served with a little bit of HP (similar to BBQ) sauce. Sausage rolls are basically a sausage mix within a puff pastry, not that good and they are usually very dry!
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