We called it Heinz data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Was ketchup in my part of the midlands and have to say I've never even heard of it being considered an americanism.... ok an american person/firm changed the recipe of what was tomato ketchup to not require preservatives but the word ketchup had been used by the British since the late 17th centuary and somewhat evolved from its far eastern fish sauce into what we have today via several itterations.
The cure is too often overlooked.Dry cure is more expensive by worth it. It's real bacon.Wet/Wiltshire cure which is brined can have the curing artificially accelerated and always leaves that nasty white gunk and a gallon of water in the pan.
Smoked back bacon for me. Thick white bread, butter and HP brown sauce data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
With reference to the bread, it has to be Jackson's White Bloomer
Not found a better bread yet for sandwiches.
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Lunch today, nice crusty French stick no ketchup or brown sauce as that impairs the flavour and let the fat soak into the bread a bit before eatingdata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 https://www.avforums.com/attachments/20170830_141708-jpg.904753/
Nosir.... now - elsewhere, some fool mentioned mustard (or Satan's seed, as we know it in my house). There's your perversion, right there.... data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Thanks for considering my well-being.. Maybe it's a Welsh thing. The Hayes Island Snack Bar, right in the centre of Cardiff does a staggeringly good bacon and egg roll and has those huge sauce dispenser bottles with the plungy-tops. All sorts of coloured sauces for your delight and delectation. Thoroughly recommended if you're in town.
Ah - the hotel toaster..... Now, that's worth a thread all of its own. How come no two are EVER alike. Even when they have 2 in the same hotel - side by side - with the same settings - totally different results... data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Re: international cultural differences (I'm ignoring the USA, because their bacon isn't even bacon, IMO), 4 years ago I was in Sydney and after some unsmoked bacon, couldn't find any in the supermarket and went to a local butcher and got into a debate as he insisted all bacon is smoked; his point being that this is the definition of bacon. I pointed out to him that this might indeed be the case in New South Wales, but back home in "old" South Wales, you can get both....
Buttered?
Yes, with butteras it fuses with the bacon fat so well.
Soft or Crusty roll? Surely a landslide win...
Buttered crusty white roll, two rashers with crispy fat, brown sauce, cup of tea. The perfect roll and bacon in its purest form. For total indulgence chuck in a fried egg with runny yolk - and repeat! slobber...