Food History: Bacon Egg & Cheese
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- The bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich is a quick, cheap, and delicious breakfast favorite. But how did it become a city staple? How long has bacon been the go-to morning protein? Is American cheese actually made of plastic? And whose idea was it to put three delicious ingredients together under one crispy roll?
In this episode, host Justin Dodd delves into the story behind this beloved sandwich.
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My favorite breakfast sandwich is generally sausage, egg, and cheese, but when making it fresh, I tend to go for bacon. And possibly controversial topic....when making my own sandwich, I cook the egg fully on one side then flip it and turn off the heat while prepping the sandwich. I like runny to slightly runny yolks.
I often do this, but sometimes scrambled.
We can be friends.
That’s disgusting
I'm with the runny egg, yes.
Runny, yes, but not so runny it goes down to your elbow.
BEC, the dollar slice and coffee in the greek cups. The 3 basic food groups of new york
I like using my bacon in potato soup, and for that, I need something with plenty of fat. That way, it fries to proper crispness and the grease can then be mixed with flour to make a roux to thicken the soup.
Tudor's Buscuit World, a West Virginia staple, has my all-time breakfast sandwich.
The Duke. A gigantic, fluffy, buttery biscuit with bacon, egg, cheese, and a potato hashbrown on it.
I can never finish one in a single sitting, but it will eventually be eaten, every time.
Not a breakfast sandwich per se, but I hear there was a cafe in Santa Cruz that offered a breakfast called the "hangover special" which was a slice of pizza and a beer, both served at room temperature. I never explored it for myself, being an hour drive away in the Bay Area, but often replicated it at home.
In NYC it’s the Kaiser style almost everywhere. But one lesser known, almost a secret, is the Portuguese roll! I have only found it served in the SW CT area, but for me it is superior, and fresher.
UP Michigan features a dish favored by miners, the pasty (rhymes with nasty) contains ground beef, carrots (or rutabaga), diced onion and potatoes, all within a pastry shell. Salt, pepper, and gravy or catsup complete the dish. It was brought over by Cornwall immigrants who brought it into the mines as a lunch that would keep in their packs.
*Ketchup. Only correct way to spell it in my opinion :3, thank you Heinz
Kaiser rolls are very hard to find outside of the northeast US. Almost as hard as Taylor pork Roll. Now there's a sandwich. Swap the bacon with the pork roll. It's a NJ thing.
Both streaky and "back" bacon are common in the UK - both in smoked and "green" (unsmoked) varieties. Streaky is the cheap one because it's only about half meat, half fat. Back bacon is a bigger cut with a lot more meat - it's delicious! Mind, streaky can make a fine "sarnie", especially if it's cooked till it's crispy.
Hubby will happily eat cheese with egg, with or without bacon or ham (a common alternative to bacon), but I can't. I can have bacon and cheese, or bacon and egg, but cheese & egg - especially fried egg - makes me nauseous. I never used to be but my first pregnancy changed my taste for a whole load of ingredients and mixes of them. That "baby" has just turned 32 but I am still unable to eat or even be in the same room as certain foods!
i believe a burrito can be considered a sandwich, thus, breakfast burrito with roasted potatoes, shredded cheese, white gravy, scrambled eggs, and sausage. oo, baby.
s/: The cheese statue of Willie Brown: new meaning to the term “cheesy politician”. (He was actually a good mayor. I just couldn’t resist the joke.)
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Bacon egg and cheese (cheddar) on a biscuit is my favorite food, I'm from Minnesota
I expect the reason it's hard to be sure of the origin is that surely bacon and eggs were put on bread within weeks of the invention of bacon.
Hola from Baja. I grew up in NYC and you made me homesick and hungry. Deli egg sandwich with butter on a roll
I work in a very large automotive plant, and it serves thousands of bacon/egg/cheese and sausage/egg/cheese to use every morning but on a biscuit!
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I love bacon, egg, & cheese! Handy, cheap, & delicious.
A butty doesn't have to have butter in it, it's just better that way
My preferred cut of bacon is the leanest I can find, then I slow-cook it to melt out most of the remaining fat. When it gets anywhere from slightly crispy to slightly burnt, it’s just right. Then I drain all but a teaspoon of bacon fat, leaving just enough to coat the pan for cooking the eggs.
"Baconaegganaroll with a sli(ce)" -- guy on Lex
Well now I’m hungry 🤤
The reason that American cheese comes in individually wrapped slices is because they would turn into one big block if they weren't. Cheddar is my cheese of choice on Bacon Egg and Cheese.
Duh.
It is truly idiotic to opt for processed cheese food over cheddar cheese. Why now? Because it melts? I mean I think shit melts better than she is too.
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I watched this while eating a bacon egg and cheese on a roll.
The only thing better is a breakfast taco. Fewer carbs and somehow the tortilla makes the hot sauce taste better than it would on a biscuit, roll, English muffin, or waffle.
Mama if you please pass me the porkroll egg and cheese, if you please, on a kaiser bun
Since it's Sunday morning and I'm home, I'm getting ready to go downstairs and do what I can to make my version. I have no Kaiser rolls even though I grew up in Chicago and know what a Kaiser roll is. That was never my favorite bread in the first place. To chewy. I think when McDonald's turned it into a muffin option. They took it to a better place. But I have ciabatta and that's what I'm gonna do today.
CHEDDAR BTW! CHEDDAR!
Buttermilk biscuits are as good or better for these sandwiches. Might depend on what you grew up with
my first choice is sauage egg scrambled and cheese
I'm a weirdo that doesn't much care for bacon in pretty much anything, apart from fake bacon crunchy bits in salad. My breakfast sandwich preference is for a sausage patty instead. And on a buttery croissant as well; though I don't think I've ever had a kaiser roll.
You skipped the holiest of breakfast meats, the Pork Roll.
I think Cheddar is an acceptable choice of cheese on a BEC, and I have never been offered any choice other than fried for the egg anywhere in NYC or Long Island
Example as to why there isn't Turkey bacon, as there isn't Pig wings.
Imagine my surprise when I found out that nobody outside NYC (and the tri-state area) knew what a buttered roll was. And that, until about 8 or so years ago, very few even know what a Jamaican patty was, much less get one at a pizzeria.
Also, I always get a sausigegncheez.
Seems like it's just legit bread and butter. I think people know that combo, and it's like something your resort to after you eat cold hot dogs with taco bell sauce packets. That level of gourmet. So maybe they don't care to know it lol.
@@FlameMage2 It's a Kaiser roll with butter. It has to be a Kaiser roll or else it is just bread and butter.
BX all day
The sheer disrespect porkroll gets
The croissanwich was introduced in 1983, so I think the comment at 5:30 isn't 100% correct.
Ah, yes, the "beneches". Barely have to say it, but if your from it's homeland, they'll know what you mean.
Surprised there's no mention of the NJ variation of tailor ham/pork roll egg and cheese
BEC, SPK
Have you done porridge/ oatmeal? I feel like it has a history tied with abstinence. Or is that corn flakes?
We have done breakfast cereal, which is tied into some interesting ideas about sexuality/masturbation: czcams.com/video/4l_GOr7ELK4/video.html
Bec with home fries on top
Bacon, egg, and cheese....salt, pepper, ketchup....😁
(And yes, a good Kaiser roll is essential to bringing it all together, otherwise it's just a regular old egg sandwich)
reminds me of smore chocolate cookie. any 1 ingredient could be just as good as all 3 and in some cases, better.
...a tasteless roll with chewy texture, a mild cheese with gelatinous quality, a very smokey and tender bacon, and a mild complementary seasoning is one of the few indulgent pieces where the combo is greater than the sum of its parts.
salt is good if the bacon isnt very salty, pepper if the cheese or smoky flavor is mild, and ketchup if you had covid/hate yourself or grew up with ketchup on everything. :3
You have to say it as one word it's a baconeggandcheese
I heard “I’m just a dude” instead of “I’m Justin Dodd” 😂
I love a bacon, egg, and cheese, but...and maybe this is my New Jersey showing...a Taylor Ham, egg, and cheese is superior.
Bacon, fried egg over medium, and HP sauce on a soft buttered white roll is perfection
Doesn't everybody eat bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches? Pretty much every breakfast place in Texas sells them.
Right. Just New York City trying to be better than everybody else again.
The people who pay attention to the bible probably don't, no
@@Hyper-Linkman wow! That took a truly hard turn to weirdness. I am a Christian minister's daughter, and I eat bacon all the time, and I know everything that Jesus said. The MAGAs are Jews not Christians. They ignore the teachings of Christ.
@@nicolechafetz3904 Read more then.
No need to.
Christ said LOVE your fellow man, not JUDGE your fellow man.
I've been hearing from you bâtardes all my life.
My father was a pastor and a friend of Martin Luther King Jr.'s. They were Christians in the 60s who are trying to change the world. But here we are back now with you guys.
Maybe it is you who should read the Bible. Focus on the red-letter words of Christ please. Clearly, and you ignored that part.
You had me till the plastic cheese.
There is only one best type of Bacon.. That would be Cooked Bacon - does not matter where you're from if it be bacon.. it be the best!
That is until you get to Mastering the Art of French Cooking and Julia Child f@cks it up since she thinks American bacon has too much flavor. Never boil bacon àla Julia, Child! F@@@ the French and their flavorless bacon!
New York invented the Egg & bacon roll with cheese? Sure, ok, if you say so...Bahahahaha
Oh my God that's so funny, dude! Please continue your stand-up routine, I need more! You could be a hit! Is there a laugh track in your house, because you sound lonely!
With ketchup and mayo
Being allergic to eggs makes this sandwich problematic to me.
Consider yourself lucky, it's a recipe for diabetes and heart disease
My nephew can't even have a cook wear the same gloves after touching eggs. No cake, no anything that has even seen an egg.
On a Southern made from scratch biscuit is the superior form.
Are you claiming bacon, egg & cheese sandwich is only a northeast thing? Please.
I am so disappointed in my fantasy boyfriend, Justin, today.
I've actually lost a little bit of respect for him choosing fake-cheese as his preference.
Once I became an adult, I realized that cheddar cheese is the best cheese for most applications where fake-cheese is used routinely.
When my friends say the reason they choose fake cheeses (of different sorts: processed cheese, foods, Cheeze-Whiz, nacho cheese in a can, Kraft singles ---plastic wrapped in plastic, Velveeta...) for...say...cheeseburgers is because it melts and cheddar cheese doesn't melt.
I mean, yay for meltability! But to hell with flavor, not living on chemicals, and farmers sustainability. If the cheese you ate was 100% cheese and not processed cheese food, my niece, a dairy farmer in Connecticut, wouldn't have quarters where she makes no profit whatsoever. She wouldn't have to guess at the beginning of every quarter water. She was raising cows as a business or a hobby.
Also, in what universe do processed cheese lovers live where cheddar does not melt?
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I mean, I guess if meltability were my only factor in determining whether she is as good....
NO! THIS IS INSANITY!
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He keeps calling it a bacon buddy. It's a bacon butty. Emphasis on pronouncing the letter T.
Pork roll>bacon
Long pig>short pig
why are your nails pink?
Why do you care?
Bigots gonna bigot in the post-@Rump world.
Welcome to Babylon 😃 it's a video about sin and gluttony, so you really expect any better?
is american cheese cheese? no. no it's not
"enslaved people"
Please.
Slaves. One syllable.
Why do you have painted nails ?
Dude, calm down with the hands, nobody cares that you're wearing finger nail polish. It's rather distractiong.
There's something wrong with your finger nails. Might wanna go to a therapist or psychiatrist to get that checked out.
I suspect that you were more likely need therapy than Justin. Justin is just being himself. You are criticizing someone else for no fucking reason whatsoever.
I mean…insecure in your own fake-manliness much?
Signed: A 57-year old woman who wishes you would bite it.
The same idiot she didn't want a black woman to be a lawyer, be their genuine selves. We should all conform to the boring ethos of white men born in the 50s.
I feel sorry for the Canadians and the British having to deal with inferior meat, I will not call it bacon. Bacon is from the pork belly, 🎤🚮
Yes, we prefer the meat from the intelligent, most human-like animal. Anything further from human meat is a cop out. But we never eat the long pig.
@@Hyper-Linkman Loser.
@@nBasedAce coming from the guy who worships a show made by a drunken pedophile? Funny
Bruh, Bacon Egg and Cheese has been a staple in Diners all across the US since the 60's minimum. Every single Diner had this on the menu in some form or another. Often called things like "The Bacon Egg n Cheese McSqueeze" (actual menu item from a Diner opened in 1966 that remained open with the same menu all the way to 2009 when they sold out to their kids and retired.
There was a whole world before the Internet. And there's a billion more articles that aren't being curated specifically to sell ad sense. Yall really earned this unsubscribe out here getting it completely wrong in the most lazy way possible.