Peanut butter, gherkin and spicy chilli crisp sub

From Baguette to Regret: How One French Roll Met Its Unholy End in an English Pantry

Following a large scale raid on French territory sometime during the 100 years war, many captured French baguettes found there way into English pantries ultimately meeting their fate on the lunch tables of various households across the green and not unpleasant land.

One unfortunate baguette was rather unceremoniously sliced open from top to tail, toasted in front of a fire before being fully stuffed with a random assortment of peanut butter, gherkin (or pickle) and spicy chilli crisp. To make matters worse the final act of desecration inflicted on this poor unsuspecting French roll was to be consumed by the lout responsible for its godless creation.

However, the unusual mixture of flavours and textures attracted the attention of passing culinary adventurers who happened to be on a quest to seek out the answer to the age old question of, “Will there ever be something on the menu that bridges the gap between light, mid afternoon snack and full-on, slap-up evening supper?”

As the popularity of this stonking sandwich grew, English folk aplenty bandied together in great numbers to partitipate in competitive eating contests devouring multiples of these nutty, pickly, spicy batons while simultaneously considering it an act of defiance against the French and their armies in particular.

Learned and incredibly uptight scholars responsible for writing history during this period were somewhat indignant with these uncouth eating practices and chose to refrain from documenting this savoury tradition. However, the monks at Bolton Abbey thought better of it by including this recipe in their cookbook for present and future generations to fully appreciate.