A quarter-century ago, I went to Oxford, Britain to learn English while staying at a British home.
The school assigned me to a home of an elderly woman.
For two weeks she offered me a bed room with a bathroom as well as served me with breakfast and supper.
The room was lovely and comfortable, the meals were really nice; now I remember her with a deep affection and gratitude.
Two years after my staying I called on her and had an afternoon tea together.
Then she made me a cucumber sandwich.
I have read in a book that the cucumber sandwich is typically served with tea in Britain.
The fresh cucumber matched with the texture of thin, dry bread.
My mother used to make me a cucumber sandwich, a ham sandwich, and a marmalade sandwich when I was a little girl.
We don’t see such simple sandwiches at shops and cafes recently.
I see sandwiches with a number of stuffs like a dish of meal between slices of bread.
We see different kinds of sandwiches in Japan.
The key of Japanese sandwiches is a property of Japanese bread.
We have variety of bread in Japan such as graham bread, rye bread, brown bread and so on.
Anyway, Japanese bread is generally softer and contains more moist than Western bread.
Pieces of fruit with whipped cream sandwich is very popular.
Interestingly we call soft white bread “Igirisu-pan” which literally means “British bread”.
I have long thought that the British eats this Igirisu-pan every morning. However, I haven’t had such soft bread in Britain. Seemingly, British people eat harder darker breads.
We should rename this soft white bread.
*1:The answer for the quiz in my last blog is the lap-top computer I use to write this blog.
