Can James May reintroduce the 'sugar sandwich' to 2020?

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  • Опубліковано 6 гру 2020
  • What is the ultimate sugar sandwich? James May takes Lucy on an intrepid journey into the 1970s to see whether the sugar sandwich can find a place in today's society.
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  • @hazza7863
    @hazza7863 3 роки тому +6886

    James may might just be the most entertaining boring man ever on TV.

    • @prince2139
      @prince2139 3 роки тому +43

      I sorry he's not acting black for you lol

    • @echodelta2172
      @echodelta2172 3 роки тому +250

      It's because he's incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about things that may not be flashy, but are still of cultural interest and historical value

    • @error-2594
      @error-2594 3 роки тому +256

      @@prince2139 eh?

    • @parkerrailton9774
      @parkerrailton9774 3 роки тому +162

      @@prince2139 can you elaborate?

    • @WhoAmi-kt1qb
      @WhoAmi-kt1qb 3 роки тому +5

      no i find jamie off mythbusters more boring

  • @majmunchies1077
    @majmunchies1077 3 роки тому +2911

    It seems like he’s holding people hostage to eat sugar sandwiches

    • @jimmylundblom9370
      @jimmylundblom9370 3 роки тому +32

      It's not kidnapping if they gave consent

    • @yerboykakyoin624
      @yerboykakyoin624 2 роки тому +15

      As one does.

    • @Lifesizemortal
      @Lifesizemortal 2 роки тому +3

      take my advice: buttered white bread toast, sprinkle nestle powdered strawberry mix on it. This was actually a recipe that used to be on the canister for nestle quik. I can assure you it's 1,000,000,000x better than whatever crud James just made here

    • @richerd4266
      @richerd4266 2 роки тому +14

      @@Lifesizemortal Nestle strawberry powder didn't exist in the 1970s.

    • @KnightOwl1881
      @KnightOwl1881 Рік тому +1

      Is he not?

  • @spicylemon8501
    @spicylemon8501 2 роки тому +1121

    I can imagine James May on his deathbed just muttering to his family “Lurpak spreadable butter invented in 1903”

  • @mostlypeaceful1817
    @mostlypeaceful1817 3 роки тому +441

    “Remember…. if this was 1940, this would be the best thing you’d ever had and it would be the best thing you could hope for for the next four years.”
    Literally sobbing😂🤣

    • @Christackleberry
      @Christackleberry 2 роки тому +10

      In the South of America during WWII, there was a treat known as “cheese toast” it was literally a slice of bread, slice of cheese, sprinkled with sugar and then toasted in the oven.

    • @lhaviland8602
      @lhaviland8602 2 роки тому +3

      @@Christackleberry It's still a thing and not just in the south, my mother loves to make this lol.

    • @annpartoon5300
      @annpartoon5300 2 роки тому +4

      sugar was rationed until the late 50s and not much fruit so could not make jam

    • @Lisarata
      @Lisarata 2 роки тому +2

      It's true. It was as close to chocolate chip cookie dough as we'd ever had.

  • @sarangrewal9882
    @sarangrewal9882 3 роки тому +1429

    no one:
    James: "invented in 1903 like, comment, subscribe"

    • @ayyypizzarolls2331
      @ayyypizzarolls2331 3 роки тому +29

      You don't need the no one

    • @sean6992
      @sean6992 3 роки тому

      @@ayyypizzarolls2331 yeah but it's fine

    • @thedeadguy
      @thedeadguy 3 роки тому

      I usually say I’m sorry I cannot do that. It’s hardwork to like,comment and subscribe.

    • @iiqueenjessiciaii
      @iiqueenjessiciaii 2 місяці тому

      1903? Which period was that? Before the snacks? Or what..

  • @DJAllOut
    @DJAllOut 3 роки тому +1329

    This week on Poverty Sandwiches: James finds some poo, Lucy inhales white powder, and everyone gets diabetes

  • @flaafeon
    @flaafeon 2 роки тому +791

    I would watch grass growing with James May. He makes everything so entertaining.

    • @WaRLoKWYATT
      @WaRLoKWYATT 2 роки тому +4

      Simply because he's an old codger.

    • @muscleman6188
      @muscleman6188 2 роки тому +3

      Right like WHO ELSE ACTUALLY DOES THIS?

    • @Tkoski
      @Tkoski 2 роки тому +1

      My feelings exactly

    • @dawn1694
      @dawn1694 2 роки тому +1

      Exactly!❤

    • @NoDream424
      @NoDream424 2 роки тому

      Instead watch it with Jeremy Clarkson

  • @honkhonk8052
    @honkhonk8052 2 роки тому +267

    "butter and sugar don't go together" Buttercream.

    • @vincentphan1595
      @vincentphan1595 2 роки тому +8

      Literally whipped cream also

    • @hoodless_1
      @hoodless_1 Рік тому

      is terrible

    • @honkhonk8052
      @honkhonk8052 Рік тому +3

      @@vincentphan1595 not really because it’s cream not butter. I mean yeah butter has milk and cream in it, but I wouldn’t say whipped cream is the same as butter and sugar

    • @vincentphan1595
      @vincentphan1595 Рік тому +3

      @@honkhonk8052 butter is basically over whipped cream but I get your point. Toilet paper and paper for writing are both deprived from the same material but I know which one I am not going to be wiping with lol.

    • @chrishargreaves8016
      @chrishargreaves8016 Рік тому

      Have you ever had to use Izal toilet roll? It was like wiping my backside with tracing paper when I was at school.

  • @matchc0635
    @matchc0635 3 роки тому +1184

    I am convinced that the 20 century British cuisine is mostly (1.)Fish and Chips and (2.)Someone tries to put every single ingredient between two pieces of bread can call it a sandwich.

    • @scrithen2836
      @scrithen2836 2 роки тому +34

      I mean as an american i do the second one except instead of every ingredient i just put every meat i have on the sandwich

    • @muscleman6188
      @muscleman6188 2 роки тому +40

      @@scrithen2836 you know who else puts their meat in a sandwich?

    • @HallowedOstelogist
      @HallowedOstelogist 2 роки тому +43

      @@muscleman6188People who also put meat on sandwiches

    • @embb82
      @embb82 2 роки тому +13

      The existence of the bread sandwich pretty much proves your point. It’s just bread in between slices of bread but it’s still somehow a thing that exists

    • @Elldeeve
      @Elldeeve 2 роки тому +2

      @@muscleman6188 subway

  • @choojunwyng8028
    @choojunwyng8028 3 роки тому +767

    The random "like comment subscribe" parts just make me laugh, I am sorry

    • @lostcause2195
      @lostcause2195 3 роки тому +5

      For a second I thought he had tourettes

    • @aayushdas19
      @aayushdas19 3 роки тому

      Forgiven.

    • @upstairsdownstairs
      @upstairsdownstairs 3 роки тому

      I... can’t... not, like comment and subscribe. Welp I’m mind controlled.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Рік тому +81

    Can confirm, Lurpak spreadable butter became a thing in October 1901 (not 1903; like and subscribe) after several Danish dairy farmers decided to form a common brand and mark for butter to increase sales.
    Meanwhile in Australia, instead of putting sugar on top of butter, they put rainbow sprinkles on it and call it fairy bread. It has become the quintessential Aussie thing to serve at Australian birthday parties. The Netherlands has something similar to fairy bread but instead of rainbow sprinkles, it's chocolate sprinkles and they have it for breakfast, called Hagelslag.

    • @olivierb9091
      @olivierb9091 Рік тому +1

      We Dutch also have some sort of variation on those rainbow sprinkles; blue/pink (boy or girl) and white hard sugar sprinkles with anise when celebrating a newborn

    • @dualwieldroxas358
      @dualwieldroxas358 11 місяців тому +1

      And i thought cinnamon toast was an unhealthy breakfast....

  • @brandonochs1372
    @brandonochs1372 Рік тому +23

    James giving his film crew type 2 for entertainment for the whole world, I love it

  • @iaw7406
    @iaw7406 3 роки тому +1287

    "Can we get doughnuts ?"
    "We have doughnuts at home."
    The doughnuts at home:

    • @harshithsadhana7475
      @harshithsadhana7475 3 роки тому +1

      here is a recipe, i just thought by looking at your comments,. stack bread slices, put jam between them, make a hole in the stack of jam filling bread . & cut the stack of jam filling bread in circle shape. there you go doughnuts at home. nice right?

    • @hardfugoo1
      @hardfugoo1 3 роки тому +11

      The only time this format of comment has made me chuckle.

    • @iaw7406
      @iaw7406 3 роки тому +7

      @@hardfugoo1 yeah i know its overused but this is the only time i'll ever use it because its what i used for substitute doughnuts

    • @xXKuroXx100
      @xXKuroXx100 3 роки тому +3

      Well done.

    • @quintupleaxel
      @quintupleaxel 3 роки тому +2

      Ha! Know that feeling!

  • @maxbryson9419
    @maxbryson9419 3 роки тому +704

    James is killing clarkson and Hammond when it comes to non-grand tour content. Such a legend.

    • @fdk7014
      @fdk7014 3 роки тому +33

      James is my favorite of them

    • @vrakula
      @vrakula 3 роки тому +42

      He's done so many great programs/series last few years it is ridicilous.

    • @buckbumble
      @buckbumble 3 роки тому +43

      Clarkson has been around far longer. He has actually done some great documentaries on engineering, the Victoria Cross, war etc. Some of them can be found on UA-cam. I love the Hamster but his non TG/Grand Tour output has been the weakest.

    • @hertzair1186
      @hertzair1186 3 роки тому

      He is prolific

    • @evandavis5223
      @evandavis5223 3 роки тому +21

      @Nic Lazzari Hammond is an excellent tv presenter. I think James just likes to talk, and Jeremy just doesn't.

  • @Stagg369
    @Stagg369 3 роки тому +130

    "The butter and the sugar don't go together" dear lord in heaven what did you just say.

    • @timwitvliet8155
      @timwitvliet8155 3 роки тому +24

      i think he used salted butter which really doesn't combine well with sugar

    • @Stagg369
      @Stagg369 3 роки тому +6

      @@timwitvliet8155 yeah now that you say that it is the blue package from lurpak which has salt, but I don't think it's as salty as ordinary salted butter since this is made for spreading but that's just a guess.

    • @doperat9630
      @doperat9630 2 роки тому +24

      @@timwitvliet8155 sugar combines great with salt imo

    • @DrKampfpudding
      @DrKampfpudding 2 роки тому

      @@doperat9630 no. Just no

    • @999mi999
      @999mi999 2 роки тому +13

      @@DrKampfpudding You never had cookies or muffins? Those have salt in them.

  • @jesssssie76
    @jesssssie76 2 роки тому +77

    i’m 18 but i used to eat these all the time when i was about 5, my family couldn’t really afford sweet treats so this was our substitute. this brought back so much nostalgia from my childhood wow

    • @psythe2378
      @psythe2378 Рік тому +3

      fr!!!!!! me too, im 19 and we were down broke its literally the "we got little debbie at home" lol

    • @dooomswear3034
      @dooomswear3034 Рік тому +1

      @@psythe2378 bruuu samee iam 17 and when we wouldnt have anything to eat we would eat these

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios Рік тому +1

      I went so far and used cocoa powder.

  • @CuriousDiscourse
    @CuriousDiscourse 3 роки тому +555

    "Be careful not to inhale the powder, kids, just say no!" LOL James May never change.

  • @goodwizard8598
    @goodwizard8598 3 роки тому +739

    What is it with James May? I can literally watch a video of him making a sandwich and not be bored! That is crazy.

    • @de0509
      @de0509 3 роки тому +20

      Its the absurdity of the whole thing. And the blatant force feeding of an unwilling colleague. And the fact that after much experimentation he himself concluded they all taste nasty

    • @ShannonSouthAfrica
      @ShannonSouthAfrica 3 роки тому +3

      He's Brilliant

    • @tylerelfling7727
      @tylerelfling7727 3 роки тому +1

      Same here and i have no idea why 😂

    • @tt7762
      @tt7762 3 роки тому +3

      Yeah I supposed to be studying for my finals season but I'm just watching him spreading butter " invented in 1903, like comment subscribe " on white bread and different types of sugar, idk why, I've not studied and my exams starts next week lol!

    • @davidnassif5114
      @davidnassif5114 3 роки тому +1

      @@tt7762 literally same😂😂😂
      Teacher: you dont seem so ready what did you do the past week?
      Me: oh i did plenty but mainly watch james may spread butter invented in 1903 like comment and sub-
      Teacher: okay thats enough

  • @flowerpower8722
    @flowerpower8722 2 роки тому +93

    I remember being given sugar sandwiches as a kid. The Aussie variation still popular with kids is fairy bread, using hundreds and thousands, which is just coloured sugar.

    • @Pahhu
      @Pahhu Рік тому

      Loved me some fairy bread as a kid.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Рік тому +17

    Butter and sugar sandwiches were also a thing in the US during the Great Depression, as well as ketchup sandwiches, onion sandwiches, and even carrot and salted peanut sandwiches. Another thing that became popular in the US during that era was the red velvet cake which spread to kitchens across the nation thanks to Adams Extract selling red food coloring and other extracts with tear-off recipe cards and point-of-sale posters. When foods were rationed during WWII, beet juice was used to enhance the cake's color.

    • @raifthemad
      @raifthemad Рік тому

      Had butter and sugar whitebread sandwiches in soviet union in the 80s.

    • @terminator572
      @terminator572 Рік тому

      Jeez those foods sure are depressing

  • @Riley_Mundt
    @Riley_Mundt 3 роки тому +298

    "That's rather nostalgic, that brings me back, like seeing a kid with mumps. Like, comment, subscribe."
    Only James May could say that with a straight face and nobody bats an eye.

  • @SockUuno
    @SockUuno 3 роки тому +280

    "I was briefly 8 years old then", that must mean he saw flashbacks to the medieval age then.

    • @thelambsauce7307
      @thelambsauce7307 3 роки тому +6

      Said it as soon as I read it

    • @jwilliams703
      @jwilliams703 3 роки тому +7

      Likely a vision of Christs crucifixion.

    • @warmstrong5612
      @warmstrong5612 3 роки тому +6

      All black and white before they invented colour.

  • @Maj_Problem
    @Maj_Problem 2 роки тому +20

    This is actually still a thing here in the Philippines and is still brought as school lunches to this day, you can even buy sweetened margarine where you can actually feel the granules of sugar inside.

  • @IvanYorgov
    @IvanYorgov 2 роки тому +14

    When I was a kid I had sandwiches similar to this.
    It was pork lard and sugar. I know that my father also had those when he was a kid. Interestingly they were made for us by the same woman :)

  • @Miguel_morales99
    @Miguel_morales99 3 роки тому +496

    Take shot everytime James says "like, comment, subscribe" or "lurpak spreadable butter made in 1903"

    • @Bella_Deer7504
      @Bella_Deer7504 3 роки тому +7

      Like the amount of times he said cheeeese tooo many...... or maybe the amount he said Lucy brown

    • @mcewb726
      @mcewb726 3 роки тому +4

      I think if his butter was _made_ in 1903 it would be a bit off by now

    • @jackbrown6859
      @jackbrown6859 3 роки тому

      @@mcewb726 Lurpak spreadable butter was invented in 1901.

    • @jimmylundblom9370
      @jimmylundblom9370 3 роки тому

      I'd rather die. Oh wait

    • @BeardedDanishViking
      @BeardedDanishViking 3 роки тому

      @@jackbrown6859 That's the joke -.-

  • @crestgamez
    @crestgamez 3 роки тому +806

    Mad props to James for trying his hardest to sell that British food is decent

    • @countclamface
      @countclamface 3 роки тому +5

      :(

    • @itadapeeza8559
      @itadapeeza8559 3 роки тому +71

      I've never understood this stereotype... Lived most my life in Devon England and absolutely adore Cafe brunch food, the full English is amazing, Sunday roast dinner... I could go on and on.

    • @jakelegrice4773
      @jakelegrice4773 3 роки тому +6

      @@itadapeeza8559 devon 💪💪

    • @OsellaSquadraCorse
      @OsellaSquadraCorse 3 роки тому +49

      @@itadapeeza8559 Most American food is British food, or German food - they just don't realise it...

    • @motherofallemails
      @motherofallemails 3 роки тому +5

      if this is British food, no wonder there's so much depression.🤮

  • @DuQey
    @DuQey 2 роки тому +7

    We used to eat this in Poland back in early 2000s, great childhood memories

    • @TheNapaljenik
      @TheNapaljenik 2 роки тому +2

      I think whole eastern block ate it in early 2000s. We surely did in Serbia and Montenegro, and I have fond memories of it.

    • @dirtyhannie
      @dirtyhannie 2 роки тому +1

      I used to eat it in the Netherlands in the early 2000s. But I'm from a small and rather isolated village.

  • @rea8959
    @rea8959 2 роки тому

    I can't believe i watch this and actually enjoying every act of how the sandwich make and words James May said till end

  • @Iloveidiots1
    @Iloveidiots1 3 роки тому +248

    I just watch 15 minutes of James May making Sugar Sandwiches, and it's the most entertaining thing I've seen all week.

    • @YourDadsBoyfriend
      @YourDadsBoyfriend 3 роки тому +1

      You sir need a life if this was entertaining 🤣

    • @possibly8180
      @possibly8180 3 роки тому +1

      @@YourDadsBoyfriend pretty sure he's serious. Personally I think this is entertainment at its finest.

    • @NoNoseProduction
      @NoNoseProduction 3 роки тому

      Welcome to lockdowns, window lickers!

    • @Iloveidiots1
      @Iloveidiots1 3 роки тому +2

      @@YourDadsBoyfriend Didn't realize I had to like what you do... I'll do better next time.

  • @dod6031
    @dod6031 3 роки тому +2184

    There’s dry humour
    Then there’s British dry humour
    Then there’s James May dry humour...

  • @lorivattes2187
    @lorivattes2187 Рік тому +2

    I remember this treat in the 1970s. We had friends in the neighborhood that were from England and they introduced this snack to us. It's kind of a weird combination but I still crave it some times to this day which led me to this video.

  • @davidwinfield4948
    @davidwinfield4948 2 роки тому

    Liked all ready Subscribed and here is my Coment....I really Really Remember these Sarneys ....Happy Days 🙂

  • @not_halk
    @not_halk 3 роки тому +746

    Lucy: Too much sugar
    James: Are you crazy? Imagine saying that in the 70s. There was no such thing as too much sugar.
    James 2 seconds later after tasting: Too much sugar

    • @Werhgrjdtvrykum
      @Werhgrjdtvrykum 3 роки тому +11

      1940, not the 70s

    • @bloodyfunguy9025
      @bloodyfunguy9025 3 роки тому +13

      He never said it has too much sugar. He said it's too posh. That means it's too "fancy". Aristrocratic.

    • @basic-os
      @basic-os 3 роки тому

      S U G A R

    • @TheSocketshock
      @TheSocketshock 3 роки тому

      he was 8 years old again for a whole 5 minutes!

  • @QwQAAAAA
    @QwQAAAAA 3 роки тому +574

    Old people: Kids these days eat so unhealthily!
    Also old people:

    • @TheHarleyEvans
      @TheHarleyEvans 3 роки тому +40

      it was healthy back then! the adverts said so!

    • @rnichol22
      @rnichol22 3 роки тому +29

      Yeah but back in the 40,s that's the whole sugar they got for a month. Kids get 4 times that daily.

    • @imaner76
      @imaner76 3 роки тому +39

      Yep sitting there with lead paint and asbestos everywhere, watching all the cigarette ads while eating your sugar sandwich. A least there was no pedos... oh wait. 🤔

    • @imaner76
      @imaner76 3 роки тому +1

      @but ton Becoming widely used in homes and available are totally different things. And never associate wealth with healthy eat ;)

    • @volgg
      @volgg 3 роки тому

      as they said back in the day, a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down

  • @samaelsandalphon5600
    @samaelsandalphon5600 2 роки тому +24

    It's better toasted, this is one of those things that people eat because they're poor.

    • @glxywlf
      @glxywlf 2 роки тому +1

      That or melt the butter

    • @Lifesizemortal
      @Lifesizemortal 2 роки тому +1

      too poor to afford a peanut butter and honey sandwich thats a million times tastier?

    • @Rahl692
      @Rahl692 2 роки тому

      Nah, when I was lazy I did that.

    • @TheNapaljenik
      @TheNapaljenik 2 роки тому +1

      @@Lifesizemortal Youd be surprised.

    • @BeKindToBirds
      @BeKindToBirds 2 роки тому

      @@Lifesizemortal Ah that was my luxury back when I was a kid and we were poor. Saltine crackers and toast were staples and a peanut butter honey sandwich was the greatest treat imaginable

  • @simplelifelost
    @simplelifelost Рік тому +1

    As an 80s kid in Australia we had “Fairy Bread”. Coloured sugar sprinkles on a buttered open sandwich.

  • @Unknowelement25
    @Unknowelement25 3 роки тому +502

    “It reassured me, like seeing a child with mumps” 😂

    • @badsenseofhumor
      @badsenseofhumor 3 роки тому +1

      What does mumps mean in American English?

    • @artvandelayimports
      @artvandelayimports 3 роки тому +16

      @@badsenseofhumor Mumps is a disease that affects your salivary glands. We also use the word here in America lol

    • @IncredibleMD
      @IncredibleMD 3 роки тому +4

      That's not even the first time he's compared something to seeing a child with mumps.

    • @padraigodonnell6081
      @padraigodonnell6081 3 роки тому +3

      @@IncredibleMD that's why he said " as I've said before" done it on james may the reassembler when he heard the bell of an Bakelite* telephone

    • @darknekosan2091
      @darknekosan2091 3 роки тому

      When?

  • @shiggymartin9722
    @shiggymartin9722 3 роки тому +269

    I love how James thinks he's serving Embassy quality sandwiches to the crew.

    • @kevinwestermann1001
      @kevinwestermann1001 3 роки тому +13

      Because he IS!

    • @b.m.r221
      @b.m.r221 3 роки тому

      Its all part of the act

    • @kerneldave
      @kerneldave 3 роки тому +2

      You sound like one of those people under a certain age. These were amazing, as was honey and banana sandwiches or basically if it can go between 2 slices of bread it’s going to be a sandwich.

    • @EldestZelot
      @EldestZelot 3 роки тому

      @@kerneldave I'm 21 and I still remember the days. One that has stuck around in the UK though is sandwiches using crisps.

  • @Ahmed_ElSayed01
    @Ahmed_ElSayed01 2 роки тому +2

    My grandma used to do me this when I was a kid and I absolutely loved it.
    And we are Egyptian, maybe the British introduced them to us but I never seen anybody talking about those sandwiches maybe they weren't as popular.

  • @luissfalz8822
    @luissfalz8822 11 місяців тому

    I don't know why I love this show and keeping watching it all the time I can 😅

  • @harshsonawane6076
    @harshsonawane6076 3 роки тому +386

    Mind you, this is the same man who beat Gordon Ramsey on his own show, his knowledge is priceless

    • @mauirandall8176
      @mauirandall8176 3 роки тому +13

      Mind you Gordon Ramsay's also from England where the food is terrible

    • @forzamotorsport1998
      @forzamotorsport1998 3 роки тому +46

      @@mauirandall8176 Gordon Ramsay is not from England... He's scottish...

    • @BeansAndWeens
      @BeansAndWeens 3 роки тому +12

      @@mauirandall8176
      no, american food is

    • @Phantom_Aspekt
      @Phantom_Aspekt 3 роки тому +12

      @@BeansAndWeens Agree, a lot of American food is either too much salt, too much cheese, too much sugar, too much oil or too much of all those at the same time haha

    • @BeansAndWeens
      @BeansAndWeens 3 роки тому +7

      @@Phantom_Aspekt
      you forgot ranch dressing, or the fact that they just cram it onto a plate

  • @Stuffthatsfunny1
    @Stuffthatsfunny1 3 роки тому +290

    Maybe Lucy doesnt like any of the sandwiches because they arent cut diagonally

    • @WacKEDmaN
      @WacKEDmaN 3 роки тому +44

      @Ross Bourne so you missed where May says if she asked for diagonally she'd be denied...

    • @natalie6117
      @natalie6117 3 роки тому +16

      @Ross Bourne James May doesn’t allow diagonal sandwiches in his bunker!

    • @just_bickers
      @just_bickers 3 роки тому +6

      She’s intolerable lol

    • @TheRustAdmin
      @TheRustAdmin 3 роки тому

      Have you heard of the apostrophe?

    • @voornaam3191
      @voornaam3191 3 роки тому +1

      It's about the area and circumblabla ratio. With a diagonal that's minimal. That's the hard way to say, you don't really need a big mouth to eat a diagonal sandwich fast. Understood?

  • @lhaviland8602
    @lhaviland8602 2 роки тому +7

    James: Calls Americans weird for liking PB&Js.
    Also James:

  • @plazmaxii7991
    @plazmaxii7991 2 роки тому +1

    Liked commented and subscribed, love you James May

  • @slickstrings
    @slickstrings 3 роки тому +314

    My predictions for the episodes until the end of time:
    James: have you heard of 'x'
    Lucy: no
    James: would you like some?
    Lucy: no
    James: do you like it?
    Lucy: no (what a surprise)
    James: like, comment, subscribe.

    • @fyshfysh
      @fyshfysh 3 роки тому +19

      hehe. still baffles me why someone with one of the most boring palettes in the world would work on a food channel 😂

    • @chaithanyakm7527
      @chaithanyakm7527 3 роки тому +6

      @@fyshfysh Therein lies the challenge. Try to please the un-pleasable!

    • @SarbajitBasu575
      @SarbajitBasu575 3 роки тому +3

      That's the most accurate representation of FoodTribe ever, except of course, when Rachael cooks and James eats or the other way around

    • @isaacibbotson4632
      @isaacibbotson4632 3 роки тому +6

      Lurpak spreadable butter, invented in 1903. Like, comment, and subscribe

    • @kylenetherwood8734
      @kylenetherwood8734 3 роки тому

      It usually annoys me but it's fair enough with this one

  • @IchibanMoto
    @IchibanMoto 3 роки тому +2413

    we had sugar toast as a kid. it was just buttered white toast with sugar and cinnamon on top . i remember it being tasty, however we do need to re-evaluate in 2020 as well lol

    • @Aquatendo
      @Aquatendo 3 роки тому +126

      I still eat this. An even better variant is a toasted bagel with cream cheese and cinnamon and sugar.

    • @runeofaia4465
      @runeofaia4465 3 роки тому +109

      Cinnamon and sugar buttered toast is delicious.

    • @xblowsmokex
      @xblowsmokex 3 роки тому +153

      That’s called cinnamon toast my dudes.

    • @El-Burrito
      @El-Burrito 3 роки тому +12

      Oh yeah. Demerera sugar, butter and cinnamon powder mixed together and spread on toast is incredible

    • @ZIA9421
      @ZIA9421 3 роки тому +12

      I just had one yesterday
      I eat sugar sandwiches quite often

  • @WRXMK
    @WRXMK 2 роки тому +2

    I actually enjoy the occasional sugar sandwich. I use Warburton's medium or Roberts bakery bread, President butter and a nice teaspoon or two of sugar, depends on my mood, but usually 2 does the trick. Makes for the perfect sugar Sandwich. I occasionally throw some cinnamon into the mix if I'm feeling the autumn or festive vibes.

  • @LaddieT
    @LaddieT Рік тому +1

    I'm too young to have ever heard of a sugar sandwich. I always got upset when Americans say our food is terrible but now I see there might be some truth in it.

  • @gideonmele1556
    @gideonmele1556 3 роки тому +206

    Won’t eat cheese, won’t drink wine, but cat food pies and diabetes sandwiches are fine. Lucy “the Enigma” Brown

    • @Rokudaimedono
      @Rokudaimedono 3 роки тому +6

      She didn't like the cat food pies or sandwiches either though.

    • @gideonmele1556
      @gideonmele1556 3 роки тому +8

      @@Rokudaimedono but she ate them which knowing what is in them is what is perhaps the most perplexing part

    • @JokkeHimSelf
      @JokkeHimSelf 3 роки тому +1

      Lucy I don't like it Brown... is she trying to be Andy from Little Britain?? :(

    • @jakeswallow877
      @jakeswallow877 3 роки тому

      Why did i read it as cat poo

  • @mr_slowly
    @mr_slowly 3 роки тому +217

    "I was briefly 8 years old then" Mr. May was 8 years old for a day or so...

    • @sibulelemancunga4014
      @sibulelemancunga4014 3 роки тому

      Was literally thinking the same 😂😂

    • @Durka-Durka
      @Durka-Durka 3 роки тому +3

      I was 8 years old for a whole year right before I turned 9.

    • @ChampionBlueRacing
      @ChampionBlueRacing 3 роки тому

      I haven't been 8 years old for about 21 years XD

    • @Adam-nb6im
      @Adam-nb6im 3 роки тому +4

      You realise that's not what he meant don't you...
      He said he briefly felt 8 years old again for the split second when he cut into the bread lol

    • @mr_slowly
      @mr_slowly 3 роки тому +1

      @@Adam-nb6im yes mate, I just took the sentence out of its context to make an absurd joke :)

  • @georgiasmith7732
    @georgiasmith7732 10 місяців тому

    very nice looks absolutely delectable 👍

  • @hildajensen6263
    @hildajensen6263 2 роки тому

    Brown sugar on rolls was my grandfathers favorite thing. It was a real treat when he made one for me on a Sunday morning.
    I haven't had one in about 25 years, but I want one now. - And I don't care what James May will think of it.

  • @ethapnerry5740
    @ethapnerry5740 3 роки тому +150

    5:58 the way he just said “ok” like he was a disappointed father😂😂🤣

  • @godzillanismo4892
    @godzillanismo4892 3 роки тому +92

    A few people watch this coz they like food. We all just like James

    • @just_bickers
      @just_bickers 3 роки тому +4

      And hate Lucy brown haha. Which ruins it.

    • @IncredibleMD
      @IncredibleMD 3 роки тому +3

      No one who likes food likes watching James May around food.

    • @mickey1175
      @mickey1175 3 роки тому

      You got that right!😂👍

  • @fathimashares
    @fathimashares 2 роки тому +1

    I used to work at tescos and alot of low income colleague of mine used to just have buttered bread with sugar sprinkled on and its filling. My mum used to pack me some for school lunch when I was younger too.

  • @agentsus9681
    @agentsus9681 2 роки тому +48

    Badger: Is there at least butter in a sugar sandwich?
    Grouse: No, butter implies money.

  • @fiftyways
    @fiftyways 3 роки тому +49

    Credit to James for making a 15 minute video about sugar sandwiches and making it entertaining enough to watch all the way through

  • @samuelyap9367
    @samuelyap9367 3 роки тому +110

    “it reassured me… like seeing a kid with mumps”
    James May - 1913

  • @TrueAloy
    @TrueAloy Рік тому

    When he finished the first sandwich, I didnt expect the video to go up to 15 minutes. Time flies when you talk about Lurpak.

  • @bobrussell1957
    @bobrussell1957 Рік тому

    I'm Canadian and 64 years old and we ate brown sugar sandwiches. Buttered white bread of course. Fried SPAM (Canadian brands), fried bologna sliced thin and to help prevent the curling as it cooked a notch was made in 3-4 places around the slice. Macaroni, cheese and stewed tomatoes. Mmmmmm

  • @hotmojoe2483
    @hotmojoe2483 3 роки тому +64

    2:30 James May's entire childhood was brief, he has been 50 years old since he turned 13

  • @agehlaberned
    @agehlaberned 3 роки тому +58

    Amazon be like: Let´s give this man a cooking show

    • @thomas5
      @thomas5 3 роки тому +1

      and get someone else to do the cooking lol

  • @sierralvx
    @sierralvx 2 роки тому

    I'm 23 and from Canada, and my mom used to make this exact sandwich, just toasted, to me and my siblings when we were sick. It was nice to have something sweet when we were ill.

  • @d0llerp
    @d0llerp 2 роки тому

    I got those as a kid as well 🤤🤤
    I still make one every now and then! Delicious! 🤩

  • @zankfilms2898
    @zankfilms2898 3 роки тому +407

    "Spreadable butter invented in 1903 I think"

    • @inspire.610
      @inspire.610 3 роки тому +37

      before 1903, they had solid blocks of butter

    • @Seadg
      @Seadg 3 роки тому +36

      @@inspire.610 You had to heat it into a plastic state and forge it onto the bread.

    • @inspire.610
      @inspire.610 3 роки тому +10

      @@Seadg with of course, a forging hammer

    • @DonZollFL
      @DonZollFL 3 роки тому +4

      How could he forget that he said 1901, the actual correct answer, in his first few videos?

    • @antrax607
      @antrax607 3 роки тому +4

      Not just any spreadable butter, its the lurpak spreadable butter

  • @thiagozlin
    @thiagozlin 3 роки тому +125

    James May's take on "like, comment and subscribe" is so unique it genuinely convinced me to do so

  • @XxShantilisxX
    @XxShantilisxX 2 роки тому +3

    As a Mexican American born in the early 80's, we used to do peanut butter on tortillas with sugar sprinkled on then folded over. I know she said it was a treat when she was a child, so that tracks with the 70's.

  • @cboy5oc
    @cboy5oc 11 місяців тому

    I remember my mother making a version of this in the USA, (Connecticut) in the 1950-60s. She mixed the sugar into sofened butter and spread it on bread. No spilling that way. We also had shredded cabbage sprinkled with fresh lemon juice and...sugar.

  • @thespicemelange4536
    @thespicemelange4536 3 роки тому +293

    Me: “I prefer a jelly sandwich”
    James: “Isn’t that just a sugar sandwich with extra steps?”

    • @vivekraychowdhury4348
      @vivekraychowdhury4348 3 роки тому +1

      You are right,May should visit South Asia. Sugar,jam and jelly toasts are staple breakfast for many.

    • @Hypnotize4578
      @Hypnotize4578 3 роки тому +4

      A tad too sweet!

    • @dragonsword7370
      @dragonsword7370 3 роки тому

      Sure but it won't dry the mouth lol! All that extra moisture.

    • @lukes7479
      @lukes7479 3 роки тому +2

      What like raw cubes of jelly or actual jelly? Both sounds rank. Definitely prefer my jelly with ice cream.

    • @jakelegrice4773
      @jakelegrice4773 3 роки тому +1

      @@lukes7479 he's probably American and means jam

  • @louisll.nicholls5347
    @louisll.nicholls5347 3 роки тому +45

    I like how James used to begrudgingly say "like, comment, subscribe" and now he says it at the end of every sentence.

  • @Keith_KC8TCQ
    @Keith_KC8TCQ 2 роки тому

    as a kid here in the US, MANY years ago, I was introduced to butter/brown sugar sandwiches, but it was on toast.
    I still like them occasionally
    I also had peanut butter white sugar sandwiches on toast which were awesome.

  • @shantanuchatterjee9056
    @shantanuchatterjee9056 2 роки тому +2

    My grandmother was a fan of white bread spreaded with thick butter (altho' not quite if it was Lurpak), and sugar sprinkled all over the butter. I think she liked with just one bread - unlike a sandwich where you put another on the top. It tastes better that way as you can feel the creamy butter on the top of your lips and mouth.

  • @SloweBro99
    @SloweBro99 3 роки тому +132

    Notice how with every bite he takes he starts talking a little faster

    • @flowerhobi1673
      @flowerhobi1673 3 роки тому +16

      The secret to James May's energy is sugar sandwiches

    • @exudeku
      @exudeku 3 роки тому +10

      @@flowerhobi1673 pretty sure Jeremy switched the sugar with coke everytime in the Studio

    • @mrdrprof99
      @mrdrprof99 3 роки тому +2

      @@exudeku what if he switched it with like pepsi or sumtin?
      Tsssssss
      Homerun! Doubleguns sockcuckas!

  • @mumfordalien1794
    @mumfordalien1794 3 роки тому +204

    “They go together in a cake”.

    • @thethingis4115
      @thethingis4115 3 роки тому +6

      Undeniable

    • @FoolOfATuque
      @FoolOfATuque 3 роки тому +9

      Next up, raw egg and sugar sandwiches. They go together in a cake! LOL!

    • @tehniobium
      @tehniobium 3 роки тому +5

      @@FoolOfATuque Raw egg yolk whisked with sugar is an old school treat in Denmark (Æggesnaps), so not that far of, just need the bread :D

    • @FoolOfATuque
      @FoolOfATuque 3 роки тому

      @@tehniobium egg yolk and sugar doesn’t sound too bad. LOL!

    • @scottneil1187
      @scottneil1187 3 роки тому

      Until you realise some folk called it a horses sneeze!, (see Sorry! TV show for reference)

  • @davidthorp01
    @davidthorp01 2 роки тому +2

    Reminds me a bit of Cinnamon toast I used to have with my Grandmother when I was a boy in the 2000s. It was cooked though, cinnamon, sugar, butter and bread. All on one piece and toasted, used for breakfast. Similar method of covering, sprinkling it on, but I’d never dreamt of it being a ruddy sandwich. Butter I could see maybe, but sugar? Teeth rotting. Mind you, I’m not one to judge, for the longest time I just ate Mustard Sandwiches as a boy. And it is what it says on the tin, Yellow Mustard from the store and a thing of white bread.

  • @theforgottendinosaur
    @theforgottendinosaur 2 роки тому +3

    i live in Canada and grew up in the 90s. we had sugar sandwiches all the time growing up,but it was mainly because our mom was poor and couldn't afford proper food but always seemed to have bread and sugar in the house lol It doesn't taste very nice,but toasting the bread helps

  • @jameshounslow7013
    @jameshounslow7013 3 роки тому +182

    James read the Lurpak lid, it literally states “Lurpak estd. 1901” on it

    • @ryanhoffmann9341
      @ryanhoffmann9341 3 роки тому +39

      That is the whole irony of it. They did a flashback a while ago where he looked at it but still said, invented in 1903. Now it has become a running joke.

    • @jameshounslow7013
      @jameshounslow7013 3 роки тому +13

      Almost as if they do it on purpose to encourage many comments, which in turn helps with the UA-cam algorithms

    • @Ivannbeats
      @Ivannbeats 3 роки тому +6

      @@ryanhoffmann9341 just like the "like, comment, subscribe"

    • @kevinshort3943
      @kevinshort3943 3 роки тому +14

      Maybe the spreadable version was invented in 1903?

    • @alicedoors4826
      @alicedoors4826 3 роки тому

      @@jameshounslow7013 ;)

  • @florilaan
    @florilaan 3 роки тому +123

    We need an episode of Lucy Brown preparing her usual diet and some old dudes ragging on it because of litteraly no flavor.

    • @GwilsonDrums
      @GwilsonDrums 3 роки тому +3

      The gamon in monster?

    • @florilaan
      @florilaan 3 роки тому

      @@GwilsonDrums I don't know if we're supposed to talk about that😂 also no one else tried it on video

    • @Control156
      @Control156 3 роки тому +10

      she said that she only eats takeout food... What a spoiled brat

    • @TheTrooper115
      @TheTrooper115 3 роки тому +6

      @@Control156 Alright mate no need for that

    • @iaw7406
      @iaw7406 3 роки тому +3

      @@TheTrooper115 for most people, its not financially feasible to live off takeaways every day and it certainly isnt healthy.

  • @N-GinAndTonicTM
    @N-GinAndTonicTM Рік тому

    I could genuinely watch and listen to James May talk about anything.

  • @mooncake4371
    @mooncake4371 2 роки тому

    My mom used to toast bread, spread butter or margarine on it, and sprinkle sugar on it. Used to eat it as a child and still do when I have no idea what to eat. It’s delicious!

  • @tomh7647
    @tomh7647 3 роки тому +54

    I love how he randomly says "like comment subscribe"

  • @lookoutforchris
    @lookoutforchris 3 роки тому +69

    James: are there sugar weevils?
    I think they’re called ants 😂

  • @Happy95200
    @Happy95200 2 роки тому +3

    2:10 "Bread was never meant to be triangular" - Irish Legend

  • @appartetutto8929
    @appartetutto8929 Рік тому

    My beloved grandma usually give me a sugar sandwich in the afternoon, when I was a kid, here in Italy. Now, 20 years later, sometimes i prepare one for myself, thinking to the old times. I love you grandma, i miss you every day!

  • @Muppetkeeper
    @Muppetkeeper 3 роки тому +53

    My wife didn’t believe that we used to have sugar sarnies when we were kids, she’s going to have to watch this now!

    • @630hz
      @630hz 3 роки тому +3

      Only after watching this all my childhood memories of sugar sandwiches has come back! It was definitely a thing back then. 👍

    • @roandcheetoh
      @roandcheetoh 3 роки тому +1

      My dad makes these for himself occasionally. I was horrified the first time I saw him make it at my grandma's house and was convinced he just made it up then and there. That's what you get for growing up in Hong Kong during the 60's.

  • @EdinMike
    @EdinMike 3 роки тому +162

    “Hospital bread” and “Disappointment corner” 😅

    • @JohnWick-stardawg
      @JohnWick-stardawg 3 роки тому +5

      I thought he said hospital bread then I read the bread packaging and saw hovis so then I convinced myself that I misheard him until I saw your comment

    • @abomb2371
      @abomb2371 3 роки тому

      Is hospital bread a thing?

    • @falley280otb4
      @falley280otb4 3 роки тому +3

      @@abomb2371 it’s a joke he’s saying it’s hospital issue bread as in its standard quality cheap stuff like you’d find at hospital

  • @daviddurako4604
    @daviddurako4604 2 роки тому

    When I was young my dad used to make me buttered toast in the morning and I always took a splenda pack or two and poured it in the toast and it makes it 10x better

  • @Hammi4Real
    @Hammi4Real 3 роки тому +31

    I liked eating sugar cubes when I was like 4. Didn't think a grown adult/teen in the 70's would like it sprinkled in a sandwich of all places, while in the 90's we were fed with frosted flakes every morning. Now I think I know why.

  • @rylewx
    @rylewx 3 роки тому +106

    I’m at the part where he’s putting whole sugar cubes in a sandwich..

  • @matthewpayne42
    @matthewpayne42 3 роки тому +176

    Does Lucy Brown have a wardrobe full of army green shirts and one fave baseball cap.

  • @stephenufkin6236
    @stephenufkin6236 2 роки тому +1

    As an American of Norwegian heritage, we always had lefsa with butter and sugar on holidays like thanksgiving Christmas and Easter. I can’t imagine sugar sandwiches would be much different.

  • @highdonny
    @highdonny 3 роки тому +1

    I have had something similar here in the US "Christmas toast" just toast with any butter and colored suger sprinkles

  • @foraminuteforaminute4056
    @foraminuteforaminute4056 3 роки тому +41

    9:50 James very tactfully describes Americans without saying our nationality.

  • @gurvinderpanesar8071
    @gurvinderpanesar8071 3 роки тому +40

    Mate I grew up broke, a sugar sandwich and my set of miniature soldiers was all I needed to be happy as a kid

    • @Nova3261
      @Nova3261 3 роки тому +1

      same here me an my brothers were still eating this well into the late 90s lol

    • @samsowden
      @samsowden 3 роки тому

      Pretty much all I need to be happy now. Then again, still broke.

  • @apollo209
    @apollo209 2 роки тому

    I remember when my grandma gave me a white sandwich with brown sugar on it, can't remember when was the last time. So i might make it soon, thanks May!

  • @skicaliph
    @skicaliph Рік тому +1

    As British Asian I can somewhat relate to this but my mum used to make freshly cooked chappatis with butter and a sprinkling of sugar and then rolled it up and I would eat it! And it was the best thing ever 😂🙌

  • @GooseMcBruce
    @GooseMcBruce 3 роки тому +207

    reminds me of the australian "Fairy Bread" which is just hundreds and thousands on buttered bread

    • @metitfour131
      @metitfour131 3 роки тому +9

      In America we call those Jimmies or Sprinkles :3

    • @joshwilliams8863
      @joshwilliams8863 3 роки тому +14

      Literally came here to say this, Australians have been doing this for decades.

    • @Real_Xwisdom
      @Real_Xwisdom 3 роки тому

      Isn’t it hundred and thousand on toast? Anybody Australian can tell me if I am wrong.

    • @joshwilliams8863
      @joshwilliams8863 3 роки тому +13

      @@Real_Xwisdom No, it's fairy *bread*, not fairy *toast*.
      Bread, butter, sprinkles. No toastng required. I have had cinnamon toast before but I don't think that's an Australian thing.

    • @cal6995
      @cal6995 3 роки тому +1

      @@joshwilliams8863 not opposed to trying fairy toast though....

  • @lachye.w2937
    @lachye.w2937 3 роки тому +23

    This may be the greatest thing I have accidentally found on UA-cam.

  • @swagaliciousvettel5609
    @swagaliciousvettel5609 2 роки тому

    I've liked, commented and subscribed.

  • @jesusdamian1874
    @jesusdamian1874 2 місяці тому

    Sugar sandwich was the bomb as a chilhood snack. Growing up, it was one of the best things on Earth. Since we were broke this was usually what we got instead of candy from the store. When my mom taught me you could caramelize the sugar in the oven... that was a game changer. Toasted caramel bread, yup I gotta make one now.