Any body Remember that Lee Evans Sketch when he was on about AA Aproved Hotels?

Basicaly he said chap from the AA walked in and and went "Yeh thats alright" and walked off....

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GPS co-ordinates? Google Map Ref? ANYTHING!!!!!?????

You can't just go round willy-nilly dangling hope of this Shangri-La only to then not actually say exactly where it is. It's cruel. Inhuman, even.

I DEMAND satisfaction Sir!

I can't remember exactly where it is/was (it was almost thirty years ago), but the Sun Inn in the Dales had the best pub food I ever had ... I *think* it was in the vicinity of Skipton / Pateley Bridge / Otley ... Wharfedale-ish, anyway. I'm drooling at the thought of one of their bacon sarnies, at 1:40am Pacific time ... Was a good place for a pint & a bite. Or three of each.

The icing was that the publican personally went to Ireland to bring back Guinness (which doesn't travel worth a shit, unless you baby it) ... Good food, the best Yorkshire bitter, and the best Guinness outside Ireland. All beers hand-drawn, and all food served with love.

I have permanent roots in Northern California, but sometimes I really miss the Yorkshire Dales.

Sounds like the sort of research I could easily do. Where do I sign? Just for the record, Mickey's Diner (best toilets!) is near me and is not actually in Aylesford village. It's on the the A229, halfway up Bluebell Hill in Kent, north-bound carriageway, next to the Shell garage. I'll call in for the cheque later.

The only people grilling bacon are southern health-obssessed twonks.

Thanks for that, now I'm f'in starvin'!

HP isn't the best sauce for a bacon sandwich, the best sauce for a bacon sandwich is the best sauce full stop, and that is HP'S SPICEY WOODSMOKE BBQ SAUCE

Try it with a bacon sandwich it's the nuts!! I don't think i'll consume another condiment as long as I live, until I find a better one

Don't bother with the 'non-spicey' woodsmoke's though, they're not as good, and don't get the jack daniels one either, its twice the price for half as much and its not really very nice at all! bleurgH!

bacon what?

Hp sauce plus fried bread.

Ambrosia and nectar.

Of course not. A "perfect" bacon sandwich has no need of HP Filth or any other sauce.

Bread, butter and bacon is all.

Is made by my Mum. Understandably, I only have it once or twice a year. She always makes the mistake of half filling the pan with olive oil such that the bacon is completely covered. Then there's the butter she puts on the bed (oh yes, the taste of bacon, bacon fat, butter and HP combined) and then there's the fact that once she's made the bacon sarnie, she dips the sarnie in the olive oil/bacon fat.

As I said, once or twice a year at most. The best things in life might not be free but are, quite frankly, lethal to us mere mortals.

Those researchers made a few miscalculations. The ideal bacon sarnie has 3 slices of toasted bread, 4 rashers of crispy bacon, lettuce, tomato, brown sauce and a bit of mayo, and it's currently on a plate in front of me. Cheers for the inspiration!

Butter? Are you lot all poofs or something?

The best bacon sarnie is done using a frying pan containing a small scoop of lard.

One slice of the sandwich should be fried bread, dipped in the same pan as the bacon.

No red sauce unles you're under 9 and being . A drizzle of Daddie's is allowed.

Wash down with a large mug (faded blue stripe is recommended) of strong tea with two sugars and a splash of whole milk. Gulp it, don't sip like a fairy trying my home brew! And anyone even thinking of a latte should leave right now. Jumped up ponce.

Nick, been to Busters a few times, good nosh there. My favourites were Jean's Cafe on the Bilston Road in Wolverhampton and a place in Helena Street in Brum (look for the mucky book shop in Edward Street and it's just round the corner)

Isn't it great that you can count on The Register to give you tips about fine dining?

What? He sells his wears from the back of his silver Ford Mondeo?

Doesn't sound right to me - are you sure?

Any red-blooded American knows that the culmination of the bacon+bread experience is the BLT: bacon, lettuce, and tomato. Mayo is optional; the bread may be toasted or not.

Wimps, the lots of you. Fried bacon, hand-sliced white bread, good and thick, and the hot, hot greasy bacon straight into the butty, fold butty and eat. Good bacon needs no adornment.

In Canada, a bit of butter on the bread, as the best Canadian back bacon is slightly less greasy.

Heaven hold no greater promise of rapture, nor earth a crown.

Fry lots of bacon, smoked if you have it, in some goose fat. Fry it hot and make sure you have decent bacon dry cured and not crappy wattery bacon that drips water all over the pan

Toast at least 2 very thick slices of bread. uncut or sliced is ok. make sure its proper white bread as well..

Fry an egg or two in the bacon/goose fat and add to the sarnie. Add sause eitehr brown, HP, or tomato. BBQ can be added if you are weird.

Use butter on the toast.

Extra mature cheese can be grated or sliced into teh sarnie as well.

Eat.

I reckon you have to do about 200 miles if you want a decent abcon sandwich, a proper cup of tea and a comfort break.

Well i can going to mega bites, it's only just round the corner, i'll be buggered if i'm going to Stourbridge to get the sarnie to go with it though.

(Again, non-Stourbridge folk, sorry).

Pete, a friend of mine has done some research (!) and found it's on St. John's Road. Which is (you guessed it) the little caravan on the ring road. Can't believe it, I've always avoided the place! Will certainly be going there to sample it now.

Incidentally, For my "quality" "local news" I'll rely on the Chronicle;) (although I'm Halesowenian now).

New one on me .,.. WTF is "watery bacon"?

On second thought, maybe I don't want to know ...

Americans don't know what real bacon is! All you can get in this Godforsaken country is thin strips of crunchy flavourless gristle, and a lot of the time it's sweetened!

Can someone please try this bacon butty and let me know if it really is as good as they say before I book my flights. I haven't had a proper bacon butty in over a year and I don't want it to be an anticlimax.

I live literally 100 yards from it.. i will indeed sample it on Saturday for you and post back if able!

American bacon - is a trades description act issue!

"Americans don't know what real bacon is!"

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"American bacon - is a trades description act issue!"

Eh? Granted that I generally cure my own, rather than purchase the plastic-wrapped crap that most of America thinks is bacon, it's pretty easy to find real bacon, in several varieties, here in the states. It can get spendy, but if you know your butcher, even at yuppie chain supermarkets (Whole Foods springs to mind), they will be happy to get the it in if you ask. Locally, we have the Sonoma Market, which does a pretty good job with animal/fish/fowl protein.

As a side note, I figured out what "watery bacon" is ... Who in their right mind would EVER purchase ANY variety of meat that has been injected with a water-based liquid? Heathens!