A bacon sandwich (also known in parts of the United Kingdom and New Zealand as a bacon butty or bacon sarnie, in Ireland as a rasher sandwich and as a bacon sanger in certain parts of Scotland) is a sandwich of cooked bacon, usually containing butter or margarine, often including ketchup or brown sauce, and usually served hot. The BLT is a popular variant of the bacon sandwich with the additional ingredients of lettuce and tomato.
Bacon sandwiches are an all-day favourite throughout the United Kingdom. They are often served in greasy spoons, and are anecdotally recommended as a hangover cure. Australian hamburger shops sell a bacon sandwich, which is made much like a traditional Australian hamburger with fried bacon, fried onions, lettuce, tomato, tinned beetroot and barbecue sauce or tomato sauce. In some establishments the sandwich will be made from bread toasted on only one side, while other establishments serve it on the same roll as is used for hamburgers. In Toronto, Canada, peameal bacon served on a kaiser roll is a popular version of the sandwich.
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“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
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Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind
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Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
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—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)