I fear the cafe at lunch time

Eggy bread spread with marmite is delicious (just to be really provocative)!

Ewwwwwww.

Eggy bread spread with marmite is delicious (just to be really provocative)!

Ewwwwwww.

Yeah, ear wax on toast doesn't really do it for me either! 

My brothers used to eat peanut butter and golden syrup on bread when we were kids.

That sounds like it could be nice! 

I really don't like that every sandwich or salad is absolutely slathered in mayo in Britain. I absolutely hate mayo more than anything, and I can never find a packaged sandwich without it. England has great mustard, but it seems impossible to get a sandwich with only mustard here. It's either just mayo, or mayo-mustard! It drives me crazy.

Where do you shop?  That was one of the things that wierded me out the most when I first moved here--the sandwiches all seemed so prosaic.  I bought a "chicken sandwich" at a supermarket on my first jet-lagged day without looking closely, expecting that it would have some kind of mayo or something, perhaps a bit of lettuce and tomato.  Nope.  Just chicken and bread.  Same thing with cheese sandwiches (plain bread stuffed with shredded cheese).  I find that a lot of the offerings at Tesco are like that. 

But I don't think I have ever even seen a sandwich with mustard on it, let alone mustard by itself.  Maybe in a slightly more upscale chain, like O'Brian's.

On the original post, I think that the sausage, bacon, mushroom, egg baguette with mayo seems perfectly normal.  I'm sure I have had a similar combo in the States before I moved here, although maybe not on a baguette.  In fact,  just reading this makes me want one right now!  I've grown accustomed to tuna salad with sweetcorn, but my Mom always made tuna salad with sweet pickle relish in it, so the sweet corn kinda takes the place of impossible-to-reliably-locate pickle relish. I don't like it on potatoes, though. 

Years ago, when my Dad was recovering from heart surgery, the doctors put him on this low-fat diet and recommended that he make his own pizzas with low fat toppings and no cheese (using those ready-made pizza bases that were all the rage at the time).  His favorite combo, which made the rest of us retch, was tuna and corn.  The first time I visited Scotland, every pizza shop I went to (admittedly a small sample of places in Drumnadrochit, Inverness, and Kirkwall) featured this combo.  Dad felt vindicated at last!

But at least in Scotland they put cheese on their pizzas...

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Years ago, when my Dad was recovering from heart surgery, the doctors put him on this low-fat diet and recommended that he make his own pizzas with low fat toppings and no cheese (using those ready-made pizza bases that were all the rage at the time).  His favorite combo, which made the rest of us retch, was tuna and corn.  The first time I visited Scotland, every pizza shop I went to (admittedly a small sample of places in Drumnadrochit, Inverness, and Kirkwall) featured this combo.  Dad felt vindicated at last!

But at least in Scotland they put cheese on their pizzas...

HA. I don't mind most of the foods on here, but DH *loves* tuna and sweetcorn on his pizza and just imagining it makes me want to retch.  I don't mind it in a sandwich, but there is something wrong with the idea of it hot...with cheese... blech.

I do love just about anything + jacket potato though.

It says you are in Yorkshire, so I assume your husband is a Yorkshireman and you say he's never tried it! Ask him - it was more a thing when we were kids

You're right, he says he used to eat them all the time.  But he says the crisps flavour gets lost in the bread & butter.    

I had a veggie pasty yesterday and it was pretty much just swede in dough  really quite disappointing.

HA. I don't mind most of the foods on here, but DH *loves* tuna and sweetcorn on his pizza and just imagining it makes me want to retch.  I don't mind it in a sandwich, but there is something wrong with the idea of it hot...with cheese... blech.

I do love just about anything + jacket potato though.

I horrified my dad by getting sweetcorn on a pizza last summer.  It was tasty.  I hate tuna, though, so the tuna + sweetcorn combo is just barfy in any country on anything.   

I have to admit that I find corn (sorry, can't call it sweetcorn) on/mixed with so many things a bit odd. 

DH likes sweetcorn but won't eat corn on the cob.

What's the difference, other than that it has already been taken off the cob?

Nothing!  Gnawing corn off a cob is one of the pleasures of summer.  

I like to put butter, salt & pepper, and sour cream on mine - very decadent.

Nothing!  Gnawing corn off a cob is one of the pleasures of summer.  

I like to put butter, salt & pepper, and sour cream on mine - very decadent.

Oooh... I've never tried the sour cream. Sometimes I like to slather it with butter and sprinkle with chili powder. Mmmm.

I totally agree that both countries have their own version of comfort foods and traditions and in both countries some are good, some are only good if done well, and then there are the not so great choices.

I do thing the cafe experience here can be hard/ fearful at the beginning because it take a while for those choices to be lunch choices for you too.   Even when traveling within the US you can walk into a place you have never been and sort of understand what the menu means and what you potentially will get.  IMO traveling in other parts of Europe it was easier to understand the cafe choices.   It took longer to adjust to English choices, not because they were bad, but because you don't know what comes with what and how to ask to get the product you want.   In South Yorkshire, I have to clearly state that I do not want butter on my sandwich - it always comes standard.   I now know that and it is easier/ less intimidating to order.   There are many assumptions/ unstated understandings in both US and UK cafes that outsiders can find fearful.  If you are from the US you know what 7 layer dip would likely contain, in the UK you know what Coronation salad would contain.

DH likes sweetcorn but won't eat corn on the cob.

What's the difference, other than that it has already been taken off the cob?

I can understand this. I don't like corn on the cob either but I love corn off the cob. For me it's the fact that you get bits in your teeth when you eat it off the cob. It bugs me. So I always cut the corn off when we're having it on the cob.

Sometimes the bits that get stuck in your teeth are blackened too - if it's done on the BBQ, and then you (I) end up looking like a right hillbilly! 

I have to admit that I find corn (sorry, can't call it sweetcorn)

I am the same way!  It's one of my pet peeves.  It's *corn* unless it's a particular variety like sweet white corn, etc. (ah, NJ roadside stands always had the best!)