Peas on what now?
Peas on toast???
Come on, you’re joking, right? Aren’t beans on toast horror enough? Who tf puts peas on toast? You might as well put toast on toast. You don’t pile starch on starch on starch; that’s not how any of this works.
I’ll spell it out for the confused. No mashed potatoes on toast, no pasta on toast, no baked potatoes on toast, no lima beans on toast, no hashbrowns on toast, no toast on toast. If you’re going to put something on toast make it something that’s not bland heavy carbs.
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45 responses to “Rethink your whole life”
I see your “no pasta on toast” and raise you lasagna on garlic bread.
Starch on starch on starch? Check Peruvian cuisine.
No peanut butter and banana on toast.
Let’s not get carried away now, chigau
So you’d be horrified to see a bocadillo de tortilla in Spain (that’s a Spanish tortilla de patatas, not a Mexican tortilla).
Of course, in Spain there’s no such thing as a meal without bread.
Peanut butter doesn’t belong on anything. It is not edible.
I love peas. They are probably my favorite vegetable, and I never get to eat them. I’m going to have to try that.
My mother was determined that every dinner should contain a protein, a vegetable, and a starch. Corn was ambiguous, but usually a vegetable. Potatoes and rice were starches. Peas were vegetables. Reality is more complicated, I know, but it’s hard to switch these categories in my mind.
Peas and beans are delicious plain, and do not benefit significantly from adding bread. I don’t eat bread often.
Now I want a potato knish.
Now you lot have me wishing I’d at least tried some of those abominations, before I couldn’t.
No chip butty?
I had oatmeal over an English muffin yesterday morning, now I feel horrible about it. ;)
In my defense, hotel breakfasts leave me few options. Now if they had peas on toast, I surely would have opted for that! Maybe peas porridge over toast, that doesn’t sound so awful (to me).
Is it weird that I don’t like avocados anyway? :D
@9 I was about to say, when I want to reveal the true horrors of English food in two words, ‘chip butty’ is one of those two-word phrases. (‘Mushy peas’ and ‘blood pudding’ are the others.)
I adore potato gnocchi, knishes, and perogies. Now you’ve got me thinking about mashed potatoes on toast.
Mmmm, mashed potatoes on toast. (Homer Simpson drool.)
@twiliter
Yes. Yes, it is.
Baked beans with cheddar cheese melted into them over hot, buttered toast and a mug of industrial strength tea is the breakfast of champions.
Guest, #12: that would be black pudding, if you please, and when properly made is delicious. And home-cooked, thick-cut chips between two doorstops of buttered bread with HP Sauce and a bowl of minted mushy peas is manna from the gods.
twiliter, if you put porridge on a muffin you deserve to feel horrible. However, no, it isn’t weird to not like avocado. That stuff was never intended for human consumption, it’s proof that the Universe has a cruel streak.
There’s no accounting for taste.
I don’t like avocados, but guacamole is good stuff.
IMO, peas don’t belong in or on anything, let alone by themselves, but split pea soup is excellent. Unless, of course, they put fresh peas in it too. Honestly, I once sent back a bowl of split pea soup, because they put peas in it! (True story.)
It’s funny, my sister could live on avocados, while I can only bear a few corn chips with guacamole occasionally, and the guac has to be spicy as hell. No accounting for taste I suppose.
Cross post maddog 1129, looks like we’re on the same page. I can’t stand peas either, but split pea soup? I could eat that all day. :)
I bet mashed potatoes on toast would be good with gravy.
No it WOULDN’T. Mashed potatoes with gravy yes; on toast, NO in thunder.
My wife adores peanut butter and dill pickles on toast. Still affordable too!
Now, I will say, I could see a light sprinkling of garlicky toasted bread crumbs mixed into peas. That could be ok and not absurd.
As for stuff on tortillas, that’s a whole different thing.
As for avocado, for some reason it’s a great sushi ingredient. Talk about world cuisine…
Avocadophobes! AERFs!
I feel unsafe.
My mom told me she ate peanut butter and pickle sandwiches when she was pregnant with me, so I suppose i got acclimated, I love both. I have a hard time understanding ikn’s aversion to peanut butter. To a lot of people it’s ambrosia, but then again if avocados are ambrosia to my sister and Lady M, while I find it yucky, then it’s off to a very diverse buffet when we have our inaugural B&W get together. :)
Make a deal with you twiliter. I’ll give you my peanut butter, and you give me your avocados. I love avocados. Then we will both be happy.
When I was five, a cousin told me you had to take peanut butter sandwiches and milk for school lunch. I had been eager to go to school; I went home and told my mother I wasn’t going to go. She told me I didn’t have to have peanut butter (though I did end up having to have milk). Little did I know I was going to be stuck with pickle loaf. Ugh.
Oh yes ikn, you have a deal. ;) I didn’t have PB or PB&J sandwiches for school lunch, it was usually bologna with cheese and mustard. I still crave those to this day. I don’t eat that way, but the cravings persist.
So the problem is the toast.
You can eat any combo: peanut butter and avocado, gravy and jam, pickle and milk, …
just don’t put it on toast …
All of you folks are Full Core Brilliant!
There exist
toast sandwiches
two slices of bread with a slice of toasted bread in between
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We are closer to the end than to the beginning.
I love avocados. Especially in guacamole, but also in burritos, on sandwiches, etc. etc.
But I read that like so many things I enjoy (excessively?), like chocolate and coffee and maguro tuna, that it is another food that is morally questionable. Turns out that the cartels, which are now far, far, far more than mere “drug cartels” these days, control much of the avocado trade. And they are wiping out the native pine forests to plant more avocado groves, which dry out the climate horribly. Ugh…maybe I should stick to mashed peas on toast from now on?
A fascinating insight into my fellows. I didn’t get to try avocados until I was in my early twenties. Didn’t really care for them as they tasted vaguely of mashed peas, but less fresh. I love fresh peas, even frozen peas. I’ve grown to appreciate avocado, although it’s definitely better as guacamole (sorry, not sorry). I love bread in all its forms, and potatoes, but chip butties somehow not at all. Mashed potatoes on toast I haven’t tried, but it seems redundant somehow. Now a well made vegetarian samosa is a thing of delight, with that fragrant spiced crushed potatoes and peas in a deep fried crisp pastry.
Chip sarnies are almost godly – just mix some fish fingers in there for the killer finish. Oh and people of taste and class know the ideal inclusion in pea soup is a meat pie.
Avocados are green grease and slime, ugh.
The only thing that belongs on toast is butter, and the butter side always goes down. We’re nothing like those heathens who eat their toast butter side up.
There’s no accounting for taste!
Jam on toast is wonderful, and carb on carb.
Beans and peasant already protein, so add something to the carbs in the toast. If that’s your thing go ahead!
A sandwich with hummus, grilled pebers, grilled spring onion, tomato is just heaven!
The only thing sane people don’t know put on toast is mayonnaise, or cheese that’s just horrible!
I love how this post now has 34 comments (well 35 in a minute). I’m happy with both peanut butter (which has an interesting history) and avocados. And I moved as an adult from somewhere where peas are disgusting to somewhere where peas in season are sweet like candy, so I’ve become a pea convert. @34 how can you be such an anti-Welsh bigot?
Peas in season are indeed amazing. So amazing that I remember the first time I tasted them, at a diner somewhere between NYC and Princeton with my mother a thousand years ago.
I grow a lot of veg. It’s hard to appreciate just how much flavour has been lost by store-bought veg until you’ve eaten it fresh from the ground or from the plant. The problem with home-grown peas is that I need to pick twice as many as I need for dinner to account for all of those that mysteriously vanish when they’re being shelled. The smaller peas at the ends of the pods are good raw in salads, as are the shoots that are pinched off to prevent overcrowding the plants. The pods themselves are great in stir fries, and again the smaller ones are sweet and.juicy and can be eaten raw in salads.
But peas on toast? I think that’s the sort of thing that is only eaten by the impressionable idiots that shop at Waitrose in the first place because they’d rather pay more for their shopping than risk meeting the hoi polloi in ASDA.
I’m not sure about mashed potatoes on toast as a meal, but there is a sandwich that I love but full of carbs. I don’t think it’s limited to the midwest but it’s an open faced hot turkey or hot beef sandwich. It’s usually made with white bread. Someo people substitute pot roast beef or meatloaf for the standard sliced beef. The mashed potatoes are served an scoop between the two separated open face halves of the sandwich and it’s all topped with gravy. It all kind of mixes together as you eat it so there may be a bite or two of mashed potatoes on bread, which tastes good, and I can’t imagine the bread being toasted would spoil it.
As for peas on toast, I’m not sure I see the point. Have the peas and the toast separately.
I like peanut butter and eat it every day.
When my family lived in France in 1972, my mother searched high and low for peanut butter, finally finding it packaged in tins at a health food store. I would eat peanut butter sandwiches for lunch at the French high school I attended. My fellow students saw this weird, brown, sticky, strange-smelling stuff and… were not impressed.
In honour of this, uh, exchange I’m now eating houmous on toast.
Growing up, we had Corporate peanut butter made by Kraft. Once I tasted peanut butter made of nothing but peanuts and electricity, I could never go back to the sweetened, pasty, brown goo of my childhood.
Seeing the above discussion lets me understand how there could have been such a falling out between Lilliput and Blefuscu…
When I was a kid I used to eat mashed potato sandwiches, with masses of butter. The potatoes, bread and butter were all good quality, and my mother used to point to my good health as her letting me eat what I liked, as by the fourth child she was sick of worrying about what we did and didn’t eat.
I eat cheese sandwiches which consist of two slices of generously buttered Cheddar with some other cheese between them.
AoS, I get you. I tried to convince my husband he would love radishes if he’d ever pulled them out of the ground, washed them off with a hose, and eaten them right then and there. He wasn’t convinced. When I told him about white radishes, he thought I was making it up…we found one in a store here in Maine last week, so I could show him there really was such a thing.
@twiliter
Wouldn’t that be grand? We can dream.