Milsurp After Hours

From last nights Skype conference call...........Photo's by blackisler

Well, hopefully my SMLE is now in Chaterault and should arrive tomorrow at about 11:30 a.m.
I have 5 rounds loaded and ready to try...............( Also 100 cases ready to load BUT first, have your rifle and try a small sample. )

The plan is to go to the range in Merignac for 14:00 and try it out - along with about 10 other rifles. Just to make it feel at home it will be bacon butties all round.

and wash it down with Guinness....

Bacon...what?

Yes, not sure as to why it is called a butty because there is very little or any butter in it. An all time favourite with the bread fried in the bacon grease to a crispy golden brown and topped with the thinest smear of Marmite.

Sounds good, don't it? Makes my mouth water just thinking about it. I gotta go check the fridge!

Butty
Not to be confused with a sandwich, a butty is formed by folding a single slice of buttered bread around whatever takes your fancy and is readily available (i.e. requiring no further preparation). In its purest form a true butty is filled with ingredients, in any combination, from a meal already underway. For example, if you are eating a "Full English" breakfast, you may butter a slice of bread and pile on any one or more of the items on your plate (e.g. egg, sausage, beans, black pudding, bacon, mushrooms). No food is excluded as a potential ingredient of a butty provided it is ready to eat at the time. The all-time favourite though must surely be chips (as known in the UK, french fries elsewhere).

Gorging on a butty is always a more joyful activity than eating a sandwich as it embodies the pleasure of mild gluttony, rather than being a technical exercise in meeting nutritional needs. The contents are selected in a spontaneous fashion and usually involve a certain excess, preferably challenging the structural integrity of the bread and hand control / oral capacity of the consumer.

You ought to try a Chicken fajita on a folded tortilla. No butter required. I'll do a food post on it next time we have them just for fun.

Only thing I've occasionally had on a single slice of folded bread is a slice of cheese with a swipe of mustard. When I was a kid, sometimes a folded slice with peanut butter filling.

It arrived as scheduled this morning and we shot it this afternoon. Exceptional grouping..............

Bacon Butties.................
First you go to the bakers and get your Teacakes.....................
Cook the bacon, slice and butter the bread. Add sauce to taste, Yummie

Sauce? Wot sauce? You need lard and the black crunchy bits in the bottom of the fry pan for flavour!



Fry that bread!