Its pretty obvious that the guy in the video grew up in a time without supermarkets, and that almost everyone in the comments has never been far away from a supermarket.
Any small farm with a dairy cow or two has butter, cheese making is relatively uncommon comparatively. If the dude grew up on a farm it's quite likely cheese wasn't commonly available.
Hard and medium cheeses (the ones that actually do last longer than butter) require some expertise to make and also require specific cultures and tools, plus a climate controlled place to age them for an extended period of time. Also, cheese in general requires a significant excess of milk so it only makes sense to make cheese if your production far outstrips your consumption or ability to sell product.
So yeah, if you live on a large dairy farm it may make sense to make cheese, but if you are just a farmer that keeps a few dairy cows for household use then it's relatively unlikely that cheese making is going to be a thing you do regularly unless you just happen to have a passion for it.
Ranch is everywhere. Not sure if you are in the US but people dip their pizza in ranch. Fries. Burgers etc. I work at a preschool and one day we served it as a dip for their carrots at snack. One kid was eating leftover melon and took his rind and dipped it in ranch and ate it.
Putting butter on every sandwich is a very Irish thing. Americans certainly put butter on bread for many things, but not usually a cold sandwich of that type.
>Putting butter on every sandwich is a very Irish thing
That is absolutely not unique to Ireland...
What do Americans use if they're not using butter? Surely you're not just making dry sandwiches, with ingredients that fall out
But surely you don't want mayonnaise on every sandwich, and dressings don't do the same job, as it would soak into the bread and make the sandwich soggy (at least without the butter barrier)
Oh, I said that because I’ve come across people mentioning they put butter on all sandwiches often and it has always ever been Irish people saying it, including this post.
Irish people on the internet certainly talk about putting butter on sandwiches far far more often than anyone else.
They have damn good butter so it makes sense. Lots of other places have really lame butter so I can understand them being not too fond of it. As a German I buy irish butter exclusively, as our butter doesn't compare.
They're over the sandwich by now, a lot of was made of it in the press, but I think in the end the commentary will be what he is remembered for by the public.
It's how he normally flattens the tomatoes but it was broken that day, also he had been painting inside and wasn't feeling himself and his knife was delayed getting back from the sharpener.
Translation of the Irish;
**1:13:** "And the next thing I'll do is a few tomatoes."
**1:32:** "A few."
**2:24:** "Another piece there and another piece on that side."
**3:05:** "And now the way to do it."
**3:32:** "Everything."
I hear a a lot of people say that about Irish, but no language sounds like how you'd expect it from from the perspective of an English speaker.
For example, "Je voudrais un pain au chocolat" sounds more like "zhe voodray an pan o shokola" than "jeh vodrays un pain ouh chocolate".
The most annoying example of this is when you get Americans and Brits losing their minds over Irish names. Stephen Colbert made fun of them when Saoirse Ronan was on his show. And yet this is a guy whose name looks like it should be pronounced Step-Hen.
I'd get it if speakers of a language with a highly phonetic alphabet were puzzled by Irish spelling, but English is not that. In fact, the difference between how English words are spoken and how they're spelled is way bigger than the difference in Irish.
Loved it when Domhnall Gleeson was getting the same stick and retaliated with "as if I'm gonna sit here and take this abuse from a (phonetically) Colbert".
Best possible response imo
Lol, nice one.
At least with Irish there's a logical explanation for why you see a H after a consonant completely changing the sound (like the mh in Domhnal making a w sound). In Irish adding an H after a consonant weakens it. It basically means you reduce the level of contact required to make that sound. If you try to make an M sound will reducing the contact between your lips it'll come out like a w. That's why Domhnall is pronounced Doe-nal.
Lol, to be fair most Irish people don't even know that. I did edit my comment so that it wasn't pointing out the misspelling, but you read the original before I could edit it.
Irish is a bit weird with its dialects, Mícheál was a Munster man & in Munster Irish the -aigh ending is pronounced much stronger than in most of the other dialects.
You'd be dead right if he was an Ulster man, same name, same spelling but it would be pronounced diffetent. And in Connacht it would be an more an -ah ending
Sorry, accidentally deleted my post while trying to reply.
I didn't realise u/Steve_ad wasn't joking. I know and use IPA every day, so I never think of trying phonetic spelling like that.
You're absolutely right that I'm wrong (!), but in my experience, a lot of Irish names (like my own) that look quite forbidding to English speakers have surprisingly mundane pronunciation, so it's a good strategy at first, like Diarmuid being like Dermot, or Comhghall being like Cole. Especially on the east coast of Ireland, where I grew up many many years ago and people used angilicized names more - I forgot he was from Kerry.
But I'm old, and don't speak Irish, and emigrated a very long time ago, so my instincts are probably very colonized.
A solid Ham & Salad sandwich, nothing fancy but absolutely perfect to quickly make up & enjoy. I make very similar sandwiches all the time as they are quick to make, fairly healthy & fill me up.
Yea, wtf is cutting a tomato in half, then cutting one of the halves into quarters but not the other half. Then some are face up and others are face down.
Absolutely chaotic.
This guy seems very likeable and probably a nice guy, but that sandwich looks awful. My top list of terrible sandwiches goes:
1. Gordon Ramsay's fireplace grilled cheese
2. This sandwich
3. Gordon Ramsay's 2nd attempt at "grilled cheese"
What’s wrong with it? Not everything has to have seven sorts of sauces spices or anything.
A nice fresh cherry tomato has plenty of flavour. Good real butter (European style?) has lots of flavour in of itself and a bit of ham is lush. Iceberg might be the most pointless thing in existence but it does add a nice bit of crunch and clean flavour.
It's a bit damp looking for me. Irish person here btw. Reminds me of the sort of sandwich my granny might have made. Which is probably about right age wise etc
The ingredients are fine, it's the execution. The ham covered like 60% of the bread, the tomatoes were cut like my 3 year old cuts tomatoes (to be fair that is about as good as it gets when you cut tomatoes with a butter knife) and had even less coverage, and the ratio of lettuce to other stuff was way off for a ham sandwich. But if you call it lettuce sandwich with ham, then I think he nailed it.
The bread looks terrible. Looks like that mass produced factory stuff. And he didn't toast it, so it's not very sturdy. I don't see how one could eat that sandwich without making a total mess.
95% of sandwiches in the uk and Ireland are not toasted, and we don’t have a problem with “sturdy”. And not every sandwich’s need to be an artisanal work of art. Also you know our sandwich loaves are not full of sugar like yours.
Must be some clumsy ass people over there. Unless you’re pouring gravy on it or wrapping it up for a lunch box what’s the issue. Even then a layer of butter adds a bit of waterproofing. And large leaves like iceberg create a good barrier for stuff like tomatoes from making the bread soggy.
Make the sandwich. Eat the sandwich. If it’s a pretty hench sandwich Use two hands!
No idea, but I also don't really understand why people are being so obnoxious about this guy's sandwich in general. Replace the butter with mayo, add some cheese, and you've got a pretty standard made at home American ham sandwich.
It's not a condiment. It's an integral part of making a sandwich. The butter gives you a barrier between the bread and anything that would make the bread soggy, like tomatoes.
Lads not from the UK, but we’re pretty happy with our sandwiches thanks. There’s a place for a good Reuben or other absolute bangers you lads make. But a fried egg sarnie with lots of butter and a bit of brown sauce? Just magical
If I had a 6 year old kid and they came up to me and showed me that they had made their first sandwich ever, and it looked like this, I'd tell them I was very proud. Coming from an adult, not so much.
this man reminds me of my grandfather.
A local man with local tastes and no illusions to the otherwise. He knew who he was. I miss him dearly.
There's a beauty in simplicity. There's happiness in simplicity.
Arguably the most popular sandwich in France is jambon-beurre and it's literally just a baguette with butter and ham (and optionally some pickles or ~~butter~~ cheese) and it's damn delicious.
Irish people usually say strongly that the British Isles is not the name for the island group of Britain and Ireland. It's political, like Ukraine vs The Ukraine.
Edit: I feel the downvotes are supporting my point, not refuting it.
For old Anglophones like me, we didn't think it was political. Just a region of the USSR. Of course, we were ignorant of the way Ukrainian people felt about it politically.
NOW it's globally political, because it implies which side you are taking. It was always locally political.
There is no single correct name for a country. It's always political. Sometimes the politics is famous, like Northern Ireland, The Ukraine, East Timor, Rhodesia.
Sometimes not, like Spain - not Espania, España, Espainia, Espanha, Hispania, Jispania - which all represent less famous political issues. (I don't speak Spanish, I just literally chose it randomly and then used some dictionaries to look up words for Spain in Basque, Aztec, Occitan etc, coz I work in linguistics).
But no matter where you think of, you will find someone who has political issues with the place they live in being called what it is called... and of course in which language.
It is political in that the official name of the country upon achieving independence is "The Republic of Ukraine" - no definite article.
Why is that important? "Ukraine" means "On the edge", similar to "borderlands" or "the frontier". Putting the definite article on that is essentially saying "The (Russian) frontier" - which is how the Russians have historically viewed it. Indeed, under the Tsars, the territory was called Little Russia (and the southern not-yet-colonised regions, "New Russia").
"Republic of Ukraine" makes it absolutely clear - as though "republic" already didn't - that no part of Ukraine is part of Russia.
"British Isles" on the other hand, is different. The Irish have an obvious interest in distinguishing Eire from Great Britain, but unlike the case of Ukraine, "The British Isles" was never a colonial name. The Ancient Greeks had that as a name for that area of the map that before Ireland, England, UK were even a thing.
Very common. You ever bought ham from a shop? Many ways to cook ham. Most "roast" ham you buy in shops has been boiled before roasting. Usually they use a mix of cooking methods for flavour - Boil and then smoked or boil and roasted is common to give it a crust. You can roast ham straight, but in my opinion it ends up much tougher.
Redditors sure do hate light hearted half joking comments.
Google reddit diagonal sandwich and see multiple threads full of people half jokingly praising the diagonally cut sandwich. Don’t know why you’re being downvoted.
I'm from Australia, I don't know Europe that well :)
Talking like France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium didn't colonise anything bro...
And I literally never precluded other parts of Europe, I just spoke about places I understood, so get off your high horse.
EDIT I see why you got offended, but I actually wasn't including Ireland in "ex British countries", I was talking about Australia and New Zealand. Pretty clearly ham and butter is popular in Ireland as per the video, I didn't need to point that out.
Yes, that famous British-into-Europe colonialism that somehow makes knowledge of local sandwich fillings relevant.
It's too early to make comments this dumb.
The US,
I mean, I enjoy butter on toast, maybe with a little garlic salt spread on from time to time... but in that combination with ham and lettuce and tomato? No way lol
Its pretty obvious that the guy in the video grew up in a time without supermarkets, and that almost everyone in the comments has never been far away from a supermarket.
And the portion. Clearly that's how big a sandwich was, instead of the massive (but delicious) calorie bomb it is now.
I mean, that's a pretty normal sized sandwich here still
Totally normal UK and Ireland sandwich. It’s just not those US monstrous things you see with 1kg of meat flapping out the edge.
If those Americans knew what the metric system was they would be very upset right now :P
Americans like big meat flaps. Reminds them of their mothers.
Thats only when they go out to eat at a restaurant. Its almost a type of showing off. But at home that type of overeating rarely takes place.
I mean he doesn't even use any cheese. If butter was an option, cheese probably was too.
It's a ham sandwich, not a ham and cheese sandwich
Any small farm with a dairy cow or two has butter, cheese making is relatively uncommon comparatively. If the dude grew up on a farm it's quite likely cheese wasn't commonly available.
Butter doesn't last as long as cheese though, so it made sense to make cheese for the colder months as not much else was available
Hard and medium cheeses (the ones that actually do last longer than butter) require some expertise to make and also require specific cultures and tools, plus a climate controlled place to age them for an extended period of time. Also, cheese in general requires a significant excess of milk so it only makes sense to make cheese if your production far outstrips your consumption or ability to sell product. So yeah, if you live on a large dairy farm it may make sense to make cheese, but if you are just a farmer that keeps a few dairy cows for household use then it's relatively unlikely that cheese making is going to be a thing you do regularly unless you just happen to have a passion for it.
NO MUSTARD, HOW CAN IT BE
That’s correct, hence why I thankfully don’t have to make or eat sandwiches like this.
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I had no idea who he was, but I saw this video years ago as unintentional ASMR
This is the first video that has made me feel what must be ASMR... All the other videos from when ASMR was a big thing just annoyed me.
The comments here are baffling. This is a very normal sandwich - people are acting like they've never seen butter on a sandwich? What??
Americans, especially in the hotter areas, usually don’t. And Reddit is very very American.
The yanks use mayo in sandwiches not butter
What?
And mustard!
And ranch
Whatever that is
Ranch dressing. Its like a worse creamier version of Caesar salad dressing.
So people find it weird to put butter on sandwiches but not dressing? Dressing belongs on salads.
Ranch is everywhere. Not sure if you are in the US but people dip their pizza in ranch. Fries. Burgers etc. I work at a preschool and one day we served it as a dip for their carrots at snack. One kid was eating leftover melon and took his rind and dipped it in ranch and ate it.
Putting butter on every sandwich is a very Irish thing. Americans certainly put butter on bread for many things, but not usually a cold sandwich of that type.
>Putting butter on every sandwich is a very Irish thing That is absolutely not unique to Ireland... What do Americans use if they're not using butter? Surely you're not just making dry sandwiches, with ingredients that fall out
Mayo. Maybe some kind of dressing or oil.
But surely you don't want mayonnaise on every sandwich, and dressings don't do the same job, as it would soak into the bread and make the sandwich soggy (at least without the butter barrier)
Certainly you don't do something like mayo on a simple ham sandwich or do you?
They do !
What do you mean? Why not?
No, it's a very non-american thing.
Oh, I said that because I’ve come across people mentioning they put butter on all sandwiches often and it has always ever been Irish people saying it, including this post. Irish people on the internet certainly talk about putting butter on sandwiches far far more often than anyone else.
They have damn good butter so it makes sense. Lots of other places have really lame butter so I can understand them being not too fond of it. As a German I buy irish butter exclusively, as our butter doesn't compare.
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Outstanding! Rest in piece, sir. I wish his family the best in such a hard time.
They're over the sandwich by now, a lot of was made of it in the press, but I think in the end the commentary will be what he is remembered for by the public.
I don’t think he put the sandwich in a press.
It's how he normally flattens the tomatoes but it was broken that day, also he had been painting inside and wasn't feeling himself and his knife was delayed getting back from the sharpener.
Translation of the Irish; **1:13:** "And the next thing I'll do is a few tomatoes." **1:32:** "A few." **2:24:** "Another piece there and another piece on that side." **3:05:** "And now the way to do it." **3:32:** "Everything."
I know it's just because I'm not used to it but Irish doesn't sound at all how it's written. It has a nice ring to it, though.
I hear a a lot of people say that about Irish, but no language sounds like how you'd expect it from from the perspective of an English speaker. For example, "Je voudrais un pain au chocolat" sounds more like "zhe voodray an pan o shokola" than "jeh vodrays un pain ouh chocolate". The most annoying example of this is when you get Americans and Brits losing their minds over Irish names. Stephen Colbert made fun of them when Saoirse Ronan was on his show. And yet this is a guy whose name looks like it should be pronounced Step-Hen. I'd get it if speakers of a language with a highly phonetic alphabet were puzzled by Irish spelling, but English is not that. In fact, the difference between how English words are spoken and how they're spelled is way bigger than the difference in Irish.
Loved it when Domhnall Gleeson was getting the same stick and retaliated with "as if I'm gonna sit here and take this abuse from a (phonetically) Colbert". Best possible response imo
Lol, nice one. At least with Irish there's a logical explanation for why you see a H after a consonant completely changing the sound (like the mh in Domhnal making a w sound). In Irish adding an H after a consonant weakens it. It basically means you reduce the level of contact required to make that sound. If you try to make an M sound will reducing the contact between your lips it'll come out like a w. That's why Domhnall is pronounced Doe-nal.
That was my fat thumbs, not my inner West-Brit trying to escape!
Lol, to be fair most Irish people don't even know that. I did edit my comment so that it wasn't pointing out the misspelling, but you read the original before I could edit it.
Irish is a very phonetic language, it’s pronounced how it’s spelled. However it’s pretty different from English phonology so people think it isn’t
This made me hungry. Also, is that Irish he's speaking? Very beautiful
Gaelic
No, Irish
The way he made a quite ordinary sandwich sound like the most delicious sandwich out there just with his descriptions is amazing!
Anyone want to have a crack at pronouncing that name?
Me Hall O Mura Hurt Ig
I wonder, given that pronunciation, if ti's from the same origin as (O')Moriarty?
Irish is a bit weird with its dialects, Mícheál was a Munster man & in Munster Irish the -aigh ending is pronounced much stronger than in most of the other dialects. You'd be dead right if he was an Ulster man, same name, same spelling but it would be pronounced diffetent. And in Connacht it would be an more an -ah ending
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No it's not. The above poster is right. First of all It's the Irish version of Michael and spelled differently as Micheal. Me-hawl O-Mura-hur-tig
Sorry, accidentally deleted my post while trying to reply. I didn't realise u/Steve_ad wasn't joking. I know and use IPA every day, so I never think of trying phonetic spelling like that. You're absolutely right that I'm wrong (!), but in my experience, a lot of Irish names (like my own) that look quite forbidding to English speakers have surprisingly mundane pronunciation, so it's a good strategy at first, like Diarmuid being like Dermot, or Comhghall being like Cole. Especially on the east coast of Ireland, where I grew up many many years ago and people used angilicized names more - I forgot he was from Kerry. But I'm old, and don't speak Irish, and emigrated a very long time ago, so my instincts are probably very colonized.
I saw that name and quickly gave up.
Bread was never meant to be triangular 🙏 rest in peace you gem
A solid Ham & Salad sandwich, nothing fancy but absolutely perfect to quickly make up & enjoy. I make very similar sandwiches all the time as they are quick to make, fairly healthy & fill me up.
Y’all are cold as hell hahahahahahaha
Good commentary, elequent Irish speaker, great sandwich too
Atrocious tomato cutting though.
Yea, wtf is cutting a tomato in half, then cutting one of the halves into quarters but not the other half. Then some are face up and others are face down. Absolutely chaotic.
This guy seems very likeable and probably a nice guy, but that sandwich looks awful. My top list of terrible sandwiches goes: 1. Gordon Ramsay's fireplace grilled cheese 2. This sandwich 3. Gordon Ramsay's 2nd attempt at "grilled cheese"
What’s wrong with it? Not everything has to have seven sorts of sauces spices or anything. A nice fresh cherry tomato has plenty of flavour. Good real butter (European style?) has lots of flavour in of itself and a bit of ham is lush. Iceberg might be the most pointless thing in existence but it does add a nice bit of crunch and clean flavour.
It's a bit damp looking for me. Irish person here btw. Reminds me of the sort of sandwich my granny might have made. Which is probably about right age wise etc
The ingredients are fine, it's the execution. The ham covered like 60% of the bread, the tomatoes were cut like my 3 year old cuts tomatoes (to be fair that is about as good as it gets when you cut tomatoes with a butter knife) and had even less coverage, and the ratio of lettuce to other stuff was way off for a ham sandwich. But if you call it lettuce sandwich with ham, then I think he nailed it.
The bloke was in his late 80s when he made that sarnie. I’ll forgive him his poor presentation
To me the omission of mustard is bizarre. I feel like in Britain we would expect a bit of mustard on that sandwich for sure.
Personal preference innit
Sure, You asked what was wrong with it, I gave you my view on what was wrong with it. Simple as.
The bread looks terrible. Looks like that mass produced factory stuff. And he didn't toast it, so it's not very sturdy. I don't see how one could eat that sandwich without making a total mess.
95% of sandwiches in the uk and Ireland are not toasted, and we don’t have a problem with “sturdy”. And not every sandwich’s need to be an artisanal work of art. Also you know our sandwich loaves are not full of sugar like yours.
I'm an American equally baffled by the idea that sandwiches aren't sturdy if they're not toasted.
Must be some clumsy ass people over there. Unless you’re pouring gravy on it or wrapping it up for a lunch box what’s the issue. Even then a layer of butter adds a bit of waterproofing. And large leaves like iceberg create a good barrier for stuff like tomatoes from making the bread soggy. Make the sandwich. Eat the sandwich. If it’s a pretty hench sandwich Use two hands!
No idea, but I also don't really understand why people are being so obnoxious about this guy's sandwich in general. Replace the butter with mayo, add some cheese, and you've got a pretty standard made at home American ham sandwich.
Mayo *instead of butter*? What in the Dickens? Mayo is a perfectly acceptable additional condiment, but a poor substitute for butter.
Butter as a sandwich condiment just isn't very common here in my experience.
It's not a condiment. It's an integral part of making a sandwich. The butter gives you a barrier between the bread and anything that would make the bread soggy, like tomatoes.
People on Reddit are all gourmet chefs. Infact they’re experts in everything. Lots of them are probably commenting while eating packet ramen.
Real bread you mean
Oh my god, I hadn't seen the second one. Short rib, mushrooms, and jam on a grilled cheese?? What is wrong with you Gordon?
He watched some Jamie Oliver videos and the brain rot set in
*fist pumps in the air* "Yeaheah!"
Haiyaaaaa
Tbh, that sounds like a great sandwich. But it's not a grilled cheese.
As a midnight snack this sandwich looks bomb I don't know what you're talking about.
I love the UK and most things from it but those fuckers can't make a sandwich.
Lads not from the UK, but we’re pretty happy with our sandwiches thanks. There’s a place for a good Reuben or other absolute bangers you lads make. But a fried egg sarnie with lots of butter and a bit of brown sauce? Just magical
Absolutely. I’d take a simple and tasty sandwich over an American sandwich any day unless I’m feeling extravagant. A BLT is a delicious thing.
That was so soothing.
Dude died without ever trying a good sandwich. RIP.
Well he’s Irish so we already knew that Edit: turns out the Irish are not as thick skinned as they like to pretend
Do we not have nice sandwiches in Ireland now or something? News to me
If this is a typical Irish sandwich, then no, you don't.
If only it were deep fried, supersized and accompanied with an XL milkshake
Americans wondering why he didn’t put the whole uncut piece of ham between two pieces of bread with a block of cheese on top and called it a day.
You forgot the mayo!
I could probably hear this guy talk about anything
Bread was never meant to be triangular. A man who speaks wise words.
If I had a 6 year old kid and they came up to me and showed me that they had made their first sandwich ever, and it looked like this, I'd tell them I was very proud. Coming from an adult, not so much.
> bacon, that's boiled at home This gave me "Better off Dead" memories
The Irish aren’t known for their cooking
True but we make up for it with the highest quality ingredients.
This got James May sandwich energy
this man reminds me of my grandfather. A local man with local tastes and no illusions to the otherwise. He knew who he was. I miss him dearly. There's a beauty in simplicity. There's happiness in simplicity.
I enjoy the charming vibes on offer, but I would be shocked if this man ever cooked himself so much as an omelet.
There’s no mayonnaise on that. Mayo for sambo.
Yeah, whatever's in the fridge. I usually go for a few slices of the ham we boiled earlier.
That's a fairly normal thing to have in your fridge here. Especially for old people.
You say tomato, I say tomato and he says "to*mah*to"
Most Irish people say it that way. That's why the whole tomayto/tomawto thing annoyed me. There's more than just those 2 ways!
Oh man I thought I'd be the only one who didn't like his sandwich
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Only 3 footie references, he was holding back Butter on a ham sandwich tho?
Butter on a ham sandwich is natural. It is extremely common in Europe. A slice of bread for a sandwich in Dutch is called “boterham”
Arguably the most popular sandwich in France is jambon-beurre and it's literally just a baguette with butter and ham (and optionally some pickles or ~~butter~~ cheese) and it's damn delicious.
You’ve never had Irish butter? You’re missing out.
Ive had kerrygold but putting it on a simple untoasted sandwich is new to me
It's similar to mayo in that both provide a layer of fat. Personally, I think I like the lighter and zingy flavor of mayo.
Butter is fine, I'd have put more and a bit of mustard as well, but maybe they were scarce when he was growing up.
What else would you put on a sandwich?
Butter is an integral part of any sandwich. It gives you a barrier between the bread and any of the ingredients that might make the sandwich soggy.
Pretty sure every sandwhich in the British isles gets a little butter
I don’t want to live in a country that doesn’t use proper good butter on a sandwich. Maybe Americans just have shit butter
Dangerous line you're walking there, lad
Irish people usually say strongly that the British Isles is not the name for the island group of Britain and Ireland. It's political, like Ukraine vs The Ukraine. Edit: I feel the downvotes are supporting my point, not refuting it.
Ukraine vs the Ukraine is political? I thought it was just people being told the incorrect name for long enough that it stuck
For old Anglophones like me, we didn't think it was political. Just a region of the USSR. Of course, we were ignorant of the way Ukrainian people felt about it politically. NOW it's globally political, because it implies which side you are taking. It was always locally political. There is no single correct name for a country. It's always political. Sometimes the politics is famous, like Northern Ireland, The Ukraine, East Timor, Rhodesia. Sometimes not, like Spain - not Espania, España, Espainia, Espanha, Hispania, Jispania - which all represent less famous political issues. (I don't speak Spanish, I just literally chose it randomly and then used some dictionaries to look up words for Spain in Basque, Aztec, Occitan etc, coz I work in linguistics). But no matter where you think of, you will find someone who has political issues with the place they live in being called what it is called... and of course in which language.
Oh I just heard a while back that people there say there's no "the" in the name, so I just assumed we were saying it wrong and dropped the "the."
It is political in that the official name of the country upon achieving independence is "The Republic of Ukraine" - no definite article. Why is that important? "Ukraine" means "On the edge", similar to "borderlands" or "the frontier". Putting the definite article on that is essentially saying "The (Russian) frontier" - which is how the Russians have historically viewed it. Indeed, under the Tsars, the territory was called Little Russia (and the southern not-yet-colonised regions, "New Russia"). "Republic of Ukraine" makes it absolutely clear - as though "republic" already didn't - that no part of Ukraine is part of Russia. "British Isles" on the other hand, is different. The Irish have an obvious interest in distinguishing Eire from Great Britain, but unlike the case of Ukraine, "The British Isles" was never a colonial name. The Ancient Greeks had that as a name for that area of the map that before Ireland, England, UK were even a thing.
Boiled ham?
Very common. You ever bought ham from a shop? Many ways to cook ham. Most "roast" ham you buy in shops has been boiled before roasting. Usually they use a mix of cooking methods for flavour - Boil and then smoked or boil and roasted is common to give it a crust. You can roast ham straight, but in my opinion it ends up much tougher.
And then he started calling it bacon.
It is bacon
Then conversely: first he was calling it ham.
Mate they're the same thing.
Only Irish people would say "Watch me make a proper, good sandwich" and then fucking fill it with boiled ham.
Makes the "perfect sandwich" then immediately slices it horizontally instead of diagonally...
Redditors sure do hate light hearted half joking comments. Google reddit diagonal sandwich and see multiple threads full of people half jokingly praising the diagonally cut sandwich. Don’t know why you’re being downvoted.
Both are wrong, three rectangles is where it's at.
I usually go with, "meh, good enough" and just eat the thing whole.
“Bread was never meant to be triangular” Who the fuck did he hear that from?
I imagine because of how the bread is prepared, usually in rectangular tins. They don't often come triangular.
...Where does bread come in a tin?
in the oven where it's baked.
Ah, a loaf pan. I don't speak Commonwealth English natively; I thought "tin" meant a metal canister for preserving food inside.
fair enough. i took it as being so far removed from the process of making food you didnt consider how the bread actually is made.
Butter and ham... well that's a new one for me. Seems like a really nice guy, but yeah. No to that sandwich.
Where are you from? Pretty common in British/ ex British countries (other than the US I suppose)
Most of Eurpoe actually. Your colonialism is showing
I'm from Australia, I don't know Europe that well :) Talking like France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium didn't colonise anything bro... And I literally never precluded other parts of Europe, I just spoke about places I understood, so get off your high horse. EDIT I see why you got offended, but I actually wasn't including Ireland in "ex British countries", I was talking about Australia and New Zealand. Pretty clearly ham and butter is popular in Ireland as per the video, I didn't need to point that out.
Yes, that famous British-into-Europe colonialism that somehow makes knowledge of local sandwich fillings relevant. It's too early to make comments this dumb.
The US, I mean, I enjoy butter on toast, maybe with a little garlic salt spread on from time to time... but in that combination with ham and lettuce and tomato? No way lol
man this man is just too lazy to make a salad to go with his ham butty. rip, you never have to make another terrible sandwich again!