Does James May make the best bacon sandwich in the world?

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @LucyBrownVids
    @LucyBrownVids 3 года назад +3126

    Which sandwich would you rather have?

    • @danielbyrne916
      @danielbyrne916 3 года назад +475

      James mays one

    • @simonmorris4226
      @simonmorris4226 3 года назад +121

      Apologies to James but I’m afraid I’d sooner have yours except I would skip the mayo and put ketchup under the bacon. Hey, hybrids are the new big thing.........

    • @sherifmourad79
      @sherifmourad79 3 года назад +51

      ur recipe but with james bread, i would add a sunny up or boild egg

    • @WhiskyCardinalWes
      @WhiskyCardinalWes 3 года назад +196

      That's easy, I'll take both!!! You can never go wrong with TWO bacon sandwiches!!

    • @janknudsen145
      @janknudsen145 3 года назад +70

      honestly no toast are you mad ?

  • @Mo-sd1db
    @Mo-sd1db 3 года назад +708

    James: puts anything on a table
    His brain: cheese

    • @jdbruiser
      @jdbruiser 3 года назад

      His brain perpetuates a tired meme that isn't funny.

    • @JW--dc8ri
      @JW--dc8ri 3 года назад +13

      @@jdbruiser you miserable sap

    • @jdbruiser
      @jdbruiser 3 года назад +1

      @@Mo-sd1db That's a fair assessment.

    • @jdbruiser
      @jdbruiser 3 года назад +1

      @@JW--dc8ri Lol I triggered you though.

    • @jdbruiser
      @jdbruiser 3 года назад

      @@JW--dc8ri Lol I triggered you though.

  • @joepavey6761
    @joepavey6761 3 года назад +291

    “That tastes like you’re about to do something useful”. Most accurate summary of a bacon sandwich I think I’ve ever heard.

  • @jayhom5385
    @jayhom5385 3 года назад +2737

    I love James buying into his own meme. I paused and laughed.

    • @tt7762
      @tt7762 3 года назад +168

      *C H E E S E*

    • @mrfreeze2446
      @mrfreeze2446 3 года назад +56

      You "paused & laughed"? & then typed out that fact, very formal of you on both counts lol Wow! That's seriously formal

    • @Atomy111
      @Atomy111 3 года назад +93

      @@mrfreeze2446 get a job dude

    • @laura02665
      @laura02665 3 года назад +3

      ahahahahah same

    • @ProfGoodlife
      @ProfGoodlife 3 года назад +7

      Neither of you know how to make a sandwich. Still entertaining to see you mess it up though.

  • @miserq4189
    @miserq4189 6 месяцев назад +20

    Three years later and I come back to these sandwich vids and I’m entertained all over again. James is iconic.

  • @jayavineshpillai2773
    @jayavineshpillai2773 3 года назад +520

    This is the most peaceful food battle I’ve ever seen in my life

    • @Jacob-sy5xm
      @Jacob-sy5xm 3 года назад +18

      In a world full of Ramsay. We must have more May

    • @Joshua-fb6yz
      @Joshua-fb6yz 3 года назад +3

      @@Jacob-sy5xm May has beat Ramsay in a food battle

    • @basstrammel1322
      @basstrammel1322 3 года назад

      @@Jacob-sy5xm Well... Lucy Marron definetivly adds the most peacefulness to this kitchen.

    • @howdareyou41
      @howdareyou41 3 года назад

      too bad that bacon looks horrendous.

    • @NuttyCuts_
      @NuttyCuts_ 3 года назад

      @@howdareyou41 the back bacon or the streaky bacon?

  • @abdullahfakher9993
    @abdullahfakher9993 3 года назад +1894

    Lucy's slowly become a child that May never had.

    • @Chebab-Chebab
      @Chebab-Chebab 3 года назад +19

      I'm sure he's tried to have her.

    • @abdullahfakher9993
      @abdullahfakher9993 3 года назад +215

      @@Chebab-Chebab Captain slow aint no simp

    • @Chebab-Chebab
      @Chebab-Chebab 3 года назад +17

      @@abdullahfakher9993 Not a simp, yes. Trying to dip his wick with a young lady, also yes.

    • @DerekHartley
      @DerekHartley 3 года назад +186

      @@Chebab-Chebab He's been in a relationship for 20 years, he has no reason to fool around.

    • @branchonequal
      @branchonequal 3 года назад +77

      He would've been a great dad, imho.

  • @bellezayverdad
    @bellezayverdad 3 года назад +1863

    Who would have thought that James May was gonna handle old age much more gracefully than Hammond and Clarkson?

    • @fuzzywuzzy5749
      @fuzzywuzzy5749 3 года назад +263

      He lost weight and gained hair.

    • @joeyguitar2056
      @joeyguitar2056 3 года назад +343

      Well James was always old at heart lol

    • @Jason-hr6yt
      @Jason-hr6yt 3 года назад +481

      He's been practicing for 30 years.

    • @freyawion5337
      @freyawion5337 3 года назад +259

      He was born at 53 years old, so unsurprising.

    • @warchild4974
      @warchild4974 3 года назад +2

      @@joeyguitar2056 beat me to it!

  • @hartleymartin
    @hartleymartin 3 года назад +117

    I agree with Lucy's assessment. Industrial for breakfast, posh for lunch. But we all know that breakfast food is always the best food.

  • @TheGerkuman
    @TheGerkuman 3 года назад +276

    James is looking more like a mad professor every day.
    This is not a diss, but a compliment.

    • @grasshopper1292
      @grasshopper1292 3 года назад +3

      I thought he looked like rolf Harris rather alarmingly

    • @devodavis6747
      @devodavis6747 3 года назад +2

      I like the hirsute James. I think he should run with it, a la' Billy Connolly.

    • @hoagy_ytfc
      @hoagy_ytfc 3 года назад

      He’s rocking the full Rolf Harris.

    • @raypurchase801
      @raypurchase801 3 года назад +2

      James frying bacon is better than Top Gear without him.

    • @aidanjanemcintosh6919
      @aidanjanemcintosh6919 3 года назад

      Colonel Sanders wasn't a mad professor… or was he?

  • @owotuna
    @owotuna 3 года назад +1190

    No one talking about how Tom was asked how he would like the sandwich cut.. but never given the sandwich :/

    • @CarKiller92
      @CarKiller92 3 года назад +44

      well it's bacon sandwich, I wouldn't have given him it either

    • @owotuna
      @owotuna 3 года назад +21

      @@CarKiller92 lol, I guess there's only peanut butter sandwiches left for him then

    • @TribicalFonzo
      @TribicalFonzo 3 года назад +5

      An *Unfinished deed....* if I've ever seen one...

    • @njsr81
      @njsr81 3 года назад +11

      Justice for Tom!

    • @kennethpope4311
      @kennethpope4311 3 года назад +23

      Cruellest torture of all, to smell the bacon cooking and not get any.

  • @luisbalderrama8145
    @luisbalderrama8145 3 года назад +237

    Mind you, this is also the man who beat Gordon Ramsay in a cooking competition.
    Rock on, James.

    • @Nanashi20
      @Nanashi20 3 года назад +9

      and the right of passage for becoming a man, eating rotten shark meat or whatever, and not throw up

    • @danm8004
      @danm8004 3 года назад +3

      *rite of passage

    • @bycrystiam
      @bycrystiam 3 года назад +2

      The same,and this time,he ain't taste any bit of wine.

    • @Nanashi20
      @Nanashi20 3 года назад

      @@danm8004 ah yes thank you for pointing out my phone correction problems.

  • @mattswinnerton9892
    @mattswinnerton9892 2 года назад +651

    What Lucy unfortunately forgot is that James may once beat Gordon Ramsay when cooking a fish pie. May is an arc de triumph as the french probably say

    • @JK_Clark
      @JK_Clark 2 года назад +24

      I'm shocked at the gaulle of her, thinking she can do better.

    • @youtubeis...
      @youtubeis... 2 года назад +2

      Gordon ramsey will one day be next to cosby where he belongs

    • @LoonieMoony
      @LoonieMoony 2 года назад +10

      @@youtubeis... ? what?

    • @TheStephenmonroe
      @TheStephenmonroe 2 года назад

      @@youtubeis... do you mean Bill Cosby?

    • @Evan490BC
      @Evan490BC 2 года назад +6

      @@youtubeis... Explain yourself, sloth!

  • @mizterypwn
    @mizterypwn 3 года назад +2286

    He really wears that beard well, makes him look less of an old woman

    • @Games_and_Music
      @Games_and_Music 3 года назад +67

      some grannies rock a firm stubblestache

    • @joebarthram596
      @joebarthram596 3 года назад +3

      Reminds me of the old halo composer marty o'donnell

    • @Jaguar_E-Type
      @Jaguar_E-Type 3 года назад +14

      He looks like Eric Clapton

    • @ghazghkullthraka9714
      @ghazghkullthraka9714 3 года назад +1

      The bearded lady

    • @vuki
      @vuki 3 года назад +8

      Or a geography teacher

  • @dominiccroucher3389
    @dominiccroucher3389 3 года назад +298

    Asking Tom how he wants his bacon sandwich cut and then not giving him any. That's the worst thing that anyone has ever done in the entire world EVER.

  • @adityamore8641
    @adityamore8641 3 года назад +664

    I love how James is carefully wiping the knife each time to avoid “contamination” while Lucy cooks both the posh and regular bacon in the same pan😂

    • @kylemukenga2449
      @kylemukenga2449 3 года назад +22

      Jeremy doesn't call him captain OCD for nothing yk

    • @NonsensicalSpudz
      @NonsensicalSpudz 3 года назад +15

      oh no don't mix pork with pork

    • @co2_os
      @co2_os 3 года назад +3

      @@NonsensicalSpudz butter and butter tho

    • @Psiberzerker
      @Psiberzerker 3 года назад

      Pork fat doesn't care. A y contaminants are pretty well fries after that. Lurpak is cold, as is everything else. Then again, wiping the knife on a cloth dies fuckakl for cross contamination.

    • @ELTUK82
      @ELTUK82 3 года назад +5

      @@Psiberzerker he means for taste

  • @dualwieldroxas358
    @dualwieldroxas358 3 года назад +10

    I still have no idea why i love this show so much besides the fact that it has the chaotic calm of James May

  • @chriss.9398
    @chriss.9398 3 года назад +774

    This is like if James May discovered he had a long lost daughter and they are trying to bond for the first time.

    • @jonathanwalker8730
      @jonathanwalker8730 3 года назад +12

      Yes, it makes you think...

    • @michajankiewicz415
      @michajankiewicz415 3 года назад +49

      I actually thought she was his daughter lol

    • @poprostualbert3222
      @poprostualbert3222 2 года назад +2

      @@michajankiewicz415 wait so she isn't? I'm sort of surprised

    • @turbofan67
      @turbofan67 2 года назад +8

      Yeah, I felt the father- daughter chemistry as well.

    • @englishatheart
      @englishatheart 2 года назад +3

      @@poprostualbert3222 He doesn't have any kids. Well, none that we know of.

  • @lupuscutis
    @lupuscutis 3 года назад +449

    Love it how Lucy simply admits to defeat.

    • @youngtoonfish6891
      @youngtoonfish6891 3 года назад +3

      It’s not like she could have argued with James anyway. He wouldn’t ever admit defeat 😅

    • @obi501
      @obi501 3 года назад +2

      @@youngtoonfish6891 I point you to the Branston video

    • @HaydenLau.
      @HaydenLau. 2 года назад +4

      @@youngtoonfish6891
      James may is pretty reasonable and doesn't really have any ego

    • @JustJay1281
      @JustJay1281 2 года назад +1

      @@HaydenLau. has nothing to do with ego, and everything to do with, you'd need a valid argument in May's eyes.

    • @sublimechimp
      @sublimechimp 2 года назад

      Right away too

  • @armchairracer007
    @armchairracer007 3 года назад +219

    James May: I'm austere with butter
    Also James May: Flood the cowling, plenty of it

  • @charlottewinter3321
    @charlottewinter3321 Год назад +19

    Aww I love the bond and friendship that Lucy and James have in these videos. Sorry that sounds weird but I always want to meet James, Jeremy and Richard. I have always looked up to them watching Top Gear and The Grand Tour. They will always be in my heart and they are amazing too. Love the channel and best wishes

    • @Krookavan
      @Krookavan 5 месяцев назад

      Not much point in asking Lucy to try anything, she only says ... I don't like that.... I don't like that... I don't like that... extremely irritating.

  • @josephcanning9866
    @josephcanning9866 3 года назад +217

    This is going to be one of those videos RUclips recommends to 20 million people in 8 years 😅

    • @ronan7812
      @ronan7812 3 года назад +1

      🤣Yeah when the world has run out of bacon because of some new swine flu!

    • @michaelbyrne8238
      @michaelbyrne8238 3 года назад

      Followed by I See Deer.

    • @bwoahviously
      @bwoahviously 3 года назад

      Making my comment now so that future generations might be able to respond

  • @johnlocke617
    @johnlocke617 3 года назад +334

    Can we speak about how much James suits a goatee? In the same vein as Jeremy’s beard? Strange but nice

    • @Butters159
      @Butters159 3 года назад +8

      where as richard never suited a beard lol

    • @happy_camper
      @happy_camper 3 года назад

      suits him well

    • @trollzor85
      @trollzor85 3 года назад

      Colonel sanders

    • @MrMinima86
      @MrMinima86 3 года назад

      @@CrashOrWin Lucy is a bit too old to be in danger if he follows the Rolf ways though.

    • @harrisonthecarguy3734
      @harrisonthecarguy3734 3 года назад +1

      way better than hammond's

  • @JerryWShields
    @JerryWShields 3 года назад +424

    This is literally that episode of Parks & Rec where Chris and Ron compete to see who makes the best burger.

    • @LeClaw
      @LeClaw 3 года назад +58

      Here's mine. It's a Bacon Sandwich made out of meat on bread with butter. Add ketchup if you want I couldn't care less.

    • @drumboarder1
      @drumboarder1 3 года назад +3

      No this is FOODTRIBE's Does James May make the best bacon sandwich in the world?

    • @LeClaw
      @LeClaw 3 года назад +4

      @@drumboarder1 obvious troll is obvious

    • @drumboarder1
      @drumboarder1 3 года назад

      @@LeClaw 2001 called, and, so on

  • @Matt7895
    @Matt7895 2 года назад +27

    Yes, I did my own experiments on this a while back. Posh bread or normal sliced white bread? Toasted or untoasted? With butter or without butter? Ketchup or other condiments/relishes? Anything else, like gherkins, jalapenos, rocket, lettuce? I went through all of these considerations.
    I found the best bacon sandwich is one made from normal untoasted white bread, butter, ketchup, and well done, leave-the-fat on bacon. That's it. There is beauty in the simplicity.

    • @seantynan1
      @seantynan1 11 месяцев назад +1

      I do agree. Supermarket white bread, when fresh, is also the best for fish finger sandwiches, with mayo and perhaps a layer of butterhead lettuce.

  • @gnarly2446
    @gnarly2446 3 года назад +400

    Can't watch this while knowing that i'll never find out when exactly was Lurpak made

    • @zendium91
      @zendium91 3 года назад +16

      1901

    • @simonmorris4226
      @simonmorris4226 3 года назад +13

      @@zendium91 not the spreadable!

    • @user-neo71665
      @user-neo71665 3 года назад +1

      @@simonmorris4226 sit it on the counter for about an hour

    • @callumhardy5098
      @callumhardy5098 3 года назад +8

      Nineteen hundred and something

    • @greatwesternproductions2857
      @greatwesternproductions2857 3 года назад +11

      Lurpack (the company) was formed from a grouping of several different Danish dairies in 1901. Lurpack spreadable came along 90 years later in 1991 :) .

  • @IOwnThisHandle
    @IOwnThisHandle 3 года назад +245

    James truly is the poorest millionaire known to man

    • @MacKaris
      @MacKaris 3 года назад +28

      He wearing a digital Casio watch from the early 90's, must be worth a small fortune. And by small I mean something like 5 quid.

    • @thefreedomguyuk
      @thefreedomguyuk 3 года назад +42

      Not poor, but humble.

    • @chitpaul
      @chitpaul 3 года назад +7

      A watch is a watch. As long as it tells the time it, does the job. I use my phone..

    • @m.arnold9145
      @m.arnold9145 3 года назад +5

      @@chitpaul doesn't James have an extensive, expensive watch collection? Somehow that makes him choosing to wear an old casio even better

    • @kurtsudheim825
      @kurtsudheim825 3 года назад +1

      @@chitpaul true, but watched are also jewellery, so esp now, there a huge fashion statement

  • @Mazurecki56
    @Mazurecki56 3 года назад +182

    "Tom, would you like your sandwich rectangular or triangular?"
    "Rectangular."
    *dosn't get a sandwich at all*
    Poor Tom

    • @gojoSBestie
      @gojoSBestie 3 года назад +6

      Justice for tom

    • @philialle4supra
      @philialle4supra 3 года назад +4

      because it was the wrong answer

    • @upgradehaus
      @upgradehaus 3 года назад +5

      @@philialle4supra it isn't, James absolutely refuses to cut sandwiches into triangles.

    • @philialle4supra
      @philialle4supra 3 года назад

      @@upgradehaus 😲 really???

    • @kurtsudheim825
      @kurtsudheim825 3 года назад

      I know, I even thought that might be why lucy asked which slice she could have!

  • @FoolOfATuque
    @FoolOfATuque 2 года назад +21

    As a Canadian fellow we always did toasted bread for our bacon sandwiches.

    • @LaurentLaSalle
      @LaurentLaSalle Год назад +2

      Canadian as well, and I find strange that it's the second sandwich themed video I watch here that doesn't toast their sliced bread.

    • @hellomyfriend7932
      @hellomyfriend7932 9 месяцев назад +2

      I was thinking the same thing ... all bread issues would have been solved if they were toasted!

    • @fuzzywuzzy5749
      @fuzzywuzzy5749 7 месяцев назад

      And add peanut butter!

    • @Ionabrodie69
      @Ionabrodie69 26 дней назад

      @@LaurentLaSalleWe don’t follow what you and the yanks do 🤨

  • @basithph8958
    @basithph8958 3 года назад +130

    Even James himself is a meme
    And I love how he embraces it

  • @monkeysheep
    @monkeysheep 3 года назад +168

    Billy connelly does a great impression of James May, the voice is uncanny

    • @66meikou
      @66meikou 3 года назад

      Oh? Got an example mate?

    • @f123raptor
      @f123raptor 3 года назад +4

      @@66meikou r/ whooosh, Lol :)

    • @jamesm2786
      @jamesm2786 3 года назад

      I thought it was Rolf Harris

    • @yerdasellsavon2073
      @yerdasellsavon2073 3 года назад

      You mean James may does a great impression of billy Connolly

    • @Snookbone
      @Snookbone 3 года назад

      Connolly

  • @hokusai4687
    @hokusai4687 2 года назад +3

    Somehow, only a year ago this video has captured EARLY RUclips vibes… i love it

  • @paulanhalt3609
    @paulanhalt3609 3 года назад +19

    The editing in this video is wild. It's like, already its own YTP I love it

  • @Ashfielder
    @Ashfielder 3 года назад +55

    Nothing beats the 8am council issue bacon sarnie. Reminds me of early shifts, long drives to the airport, and nasty hangovers.

    • @66meikou
      @66meikou 3 года назад

      First job I got at 17 was in a warehouse. Had to put your order in in the morning for the 10am break. Fab bacon sarnie and a cuppa.

  • @TastierBackInThe80s
    @TastierBackInThe80s 3 года назад +97

    Lucy: "I like mayonnaise on my bacon sandwich"
    James: "Flood the cowling. Plenty of it!"

    • @raypurchase801
      @raypurchase801 3 года назад +1

      "You can teach MONKEYS to spread mayonnaise better than that!"

  • @colinmccauley3301
    @colinmccauley3301 2 года назад +3

    Lucy's sandwich is a B-L-T (Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato sandwich), a mainstay sandwich popular in the U.S.

  • @FoCoPuffs
    @FoCoPuffs 3 года назад +35

    "That tastes like you're about to do something useful." Brilliant.

  • @matthehensemboi7187
    @matthehensemboi7187 3 года назад +17

    It's really nice to see Lucy open up and become more comfortable in the videos.. James as usual.. really entertaining guys.. thanks for the content..

  • @coogan5729
    @coogan5729 3 года назад +59

    James is always making food that makes me both nostalgic and depressed about my simplistic food preparation. Lucy and May, such a team!

  • @adamdavies2670
    @adamdavies2670 7 месяцев назад +1

    "Light and blowaway"---James, you missed an opportunity there for a simile involving the bodywork of a 1973 Alpine A110. And even though Lucy's came from a machine, it still does look mighty fine.

  • @b1lf435
    @b1lf435 3 года назад +241

    LUCY LIKED SOMETHING!!!! THE PANDEMIC IS GOING TO END!!!!!!! 🎉🎉

    • @johantillgren1510
      @johantillgren1510 3 года назад +2

      she has no taste spuds. ;)

    • @bruceducker2029
      @bruceducker2029 3 года назад +2

      I would have had a heart attack if she put cheese on it.....

    • @David-ud9ju
      @David-ud9ju 3 года назад +2

      Except she's put mayo in a bacon sandwich. We all know that HP is the best.

    • @mrashford7927
      @mrashford7927 3 года назад +5

      Plandemic*

    • @sean6992
      @sean6992 3 года назад +1

      Your pfp is legendary 😍😍

  • @zeddysven
    @zeddysven 3 года назад +174

    "council issue white bread" hahahaha best thing I've ever heard

    • @jamesiyer4937
      @jamesiyer4937 3 года назад +11

      "Brexit Bread"

    • @ChrisH78
      @ChrisH78 3 года назад +11

      We call tap water "council pop".

    • @Travis_22
      @Travis_22 3 года назад

      @@ChrisH78 lol

    • @kurtsudheim825
      @kurtsudheim825 3 года назад +1

      We call it govt bread (the sliced beard in a packet), because the brown version is vat exempt

    • @clundgeweep
      @clundgeweep 3 года назад

      Not really that funny though is it?

  • @DannyMdlG
    @DannyMdlG 3 года назад +175

    Love how Lucy gives off a vibe of misery in every episode hah I appreciate how genuine she is

    • @ectwins8128
      @ectwins8128 3 года назад +31

      its because shes a miserable entitled talentless rich kid whose parents got her a job she is completely ill equipped for. PLEASE KEEP LUCY BEHIND THE CAMERA.

    • @Soapy555
      @Soapy555 3 года назад +5

      @@ectwins8128 hear hear

    • @endreszatmari2302
      @endreszatmari2302 3 года назад +59

      She seems to know what she's doing with the tech stuff, and I like the chemistry between her and James. Don't be so rude mate.

    • @frydsaman6857
      @frydsaman6857 3 года назад +3

      @@ectwins8128 hear hear x2 i watch youtube for entertainment

    • @Lonewolf_121
      @Lonewolf_121 3 года назад +28

      Loving the people crying untitled, and demanding they do things how they want. Almost seems a bit...entitled

  • @user-ne3kq9cq4m
    @user-ne3kq9cq4m 2 года назад +2

    Crispy streaky bacon on a lightly toasted teacake with a drizzle of brown sauce (not HP). The savoury of the bacon contrasts with the sweetness of the raisins in the teacake. Beautiful. P.S. rocket is rank

  • @viewpot
    @viewpot 3 года назад +82

    I love the way Lucy’s deadpan style acts as a foil for James’s practised confidence. They make a superb double act!

  • @MaverickZ007
    @MaverickZ007 3 года назад +165

    Spreading the ketchup on my bread would be considered artisan If I'm honest.

    • @cozza819
      @cozza819 3 года назад +2

      Even distribution is key

    • @ssnjr1299
      @ssnjr1299 3 года назад +1

      Finally somebody with the same profile pic as mine

    • @MaverickZ007
      @MaverickZ007 3 года назад +2

      @@ssnjr1299 Clearly you sir are a man of Culture!

    • @misinformedmarti
      @misinformedmarti 3 года назад +4

      Frankly, I'm lucky if I remember to shake it so the first squeeze isn't just clear juice from where it seperated.

  • @MrMarioevangelou
    @MrMarioevangelou 3 года назад +71

    "My ingredients are the cheapest possible supermarket bacon and council issued bread" 🤣🤣🤣

    • @pault1964
      @pault1964 3 года назад

      Have council tv no sky or Amazon

    • @aredub1847
      @aredub1847 3 года назад

      brexit preper.

  • @danielcharles4085
    @danielcharles4085 2 года назад +1

    I. The US. I just order 10 lbs of Lurpak butter because of these videos and it was the smallest I could get. Love James May.

  • @GregglePoof
    @GregglePoof 3 года назад +65

    James now looks like an amalgamation of himself, Hammond and Clarkson 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @rogergusty1802
    @rogergusty1802 3 года назад +86

    James WINS ..... he has made a PROPER bacon sandwich..... nothing added !!!!
    Well done James !!!!!

    • @ringkong
      @ringkong 3 года назад +10

      Except for the ketchup.......the monster.

    • @Sevicify
      @Sevicify 3 года назад +2

      Not for me, needs BBQ instead of ketchup. And I'd go a step further with a fried egg.

    • @danielpacker9603
      @danielpacker9603 3 года назад +1

      Needs more bacon. Also I think she over cooked the bacon 🥓 I don't want it to crunch.
      James sandwich sounds better for breakfast. I agree hers would make a nice lunch.

    • @BeautifulAngelBlossom
      @BeautifulAngelBlossom 3 года назад +4

      He is a Sinner He put Ketchup on bacon that is food sin

    • @iiMEiii
      @iiMEiii 3 года назад

      Rather have bacon, egg and mustard.
      Making a salad sandwich with bacon with the fat cut off is kinda sad if your claiming it's a bacon sandwich.

  • @marius1004
    @marius1004 3 года назад +45

    James representing the plebeians and the proletariat with his RP accent.

  • @Aradi25
    @Aradi25 9 дней назад

    I love your contents, they are lovely and fun❤

  • @lordofallspoons4190
    @lordofallspoons4190 3 года назад +141

    James is trying to understand the younger generations
    And he understands us perfectly

  • @iamlono1001
    @iamlono1001 3 года назад +72

    RUclips: Does James May make the best bacon sandwich in the world?
    May: Makes a bacon sarnie
    Lucy: Makes a BLT

  • @BrendanEvan
    @BrendanEvan 3 года назад +108

    Am I missing something or should there be a mashup between food tribe and drivetribe where the boys compete in challenges with food trucks of their own construction?

    • @DizzNutt93
      @DizzNutt93 3 года назад +12

      Excellent idea! Hammond's truck would probably be filled with canned beans though haha

    • @alexandermandache1628
      @alexandermandache1628 3 года назад +2

      Yes! Bring it onnnn

    • @anassuyyagh7399
      @anassuyyagh7399 3 года назад +5

      Hang on. We need to call Amazon.

    • @Riley_Mundt
      @Riley_Mundt 3 года назад +5

      That should be the next GT special.
      The Grand Tour Presents... The Roach Coach.

    • @decodolly1535
      @decodolly1535 3 года назад +2

      Grand idea. Clarkson's will, of course, have to be stocked from Diddly Squat.

  • @carlaarce3587
    @carlaarce3587 2 года назад

    this is the video that made me subscribe. i love these guys!

  • @dogstar75
    @dogstar75 3 года назад +41

    I've eaten both (more or less) and they're both fantastic.
    I reckon Lucy is correct, one is a great breakfast while the other is a great lunch.

  • @davidgay9210
    @davidgay9210 3 года назад +260

    When Lucy fried her English bacon with James' streaky rashers, her bacons' flavor benefitted from the extra fat. A fair contest would have the bacon cooked separately.

  • @andyfoster9038
    @andyfoster9038 3 года назад +79

    James made a bacon sandwich. Lucy made a BLT (except with rocket instead of lettuce). A BLT is a sandwich with bacon in it, but it is not a bacon sandwich. Each sandwich has its own merits and its own place - which in the case of a BLT is not in a bacon sandwich contest.

    • @johntrombley2647
      @johntrombley2647 3 года назад +5

      Agreed a BTL is a tomato sandwich with bacon not a bacon sandwich with tomato, and her tomato looked rather sorry.

    • @rj_ii_91
      @rj_ii_91 3 года назад +3

      I was going to comment but this encapsulates perfectly what I was going to say.
      Tip of the hat, sir.

    • @Jan_Iedema
      @Jan_Iedema 3 года назад

      @@johntrombley2647 sounds like semantics to me?

    • @spiraph5711
      @spiraph5711 3 года назад

      @@Jan_Iedema the meaning is that the tomato has a more prominent role in the sandwich.
      For example, we could say James May made a bacon with tomato sandwich (because of the ketchup), while Lucy made a tomato sandwich with bacon. The favour of the bacon would be more prominent in James May's sandwich while the tomatoes would be more prominent in Lucy's sandwich.

    • @chaytonmarshall9618
      @chaytonmarshall9618 3 года назад +1

      Yes, but me personally, her bread was fantastic looking so maybe her bread would make James's sandwich better.

  • @MattitudePlays
    @MattitudePlays Год назад +3

    Lettuce on a bacon sarnie is unheard of in the West Midlands. We garnish with pan grease 😂

  • @unusedaccount6200
    @unusedaccount6200 3 года назад +16

    FoodTribe finally figured out what we all want to watch. May and Lucy, ideally cooking sub-optimal 70's era sandwiches. That and Lucy's BTS work. Awesome video

  • @happy_camper
    @happy_camper 3 года назад +89

    Alternate title: "King Theoden makes a bacon sandwich"

  • @Ding_Bat
    @Ding_Bat 3 года назад +40

    The first rule of Bacon Club: You don’t talk about Bacon Club.
    The second rule of Bacon Club: You never cut fat off Bacon.

  • @tybonbon1043
    @tybonbon1043 2 года назад +1

    Scrambled egg with 1 sausage and then the bacon beans, in the toast make the sandwich.artistic arrangement, and brown sauce

  • @iainwn5934
    @iainwn5934 3 года назад +13

    Made James's version of the sandwich for dinner tonight. Absolutely divine.

  • @tinktinkputra2316
    @tinktinkputra2316 3 года назад +53

    Lucy finished her food? the end is near!

  • @rolandexclusive6306
    @rolandexclusive6306 3 года назад +524

    Having a "posh" bacon sandwich defeats the point of having a bacon sandwich.

    • @blockbusteryo
      @blockbusteryo 3 года назад +48

      It’s essentially just a BLT with rocket nothing posh about a BLT

    • @eesafredericks2122
      @eesafredericks2122 3 года назад +6

      Bacon was originally smoked though, supermarket bacon used liquid smoke

    • @MsMesem
      @MsMesem 3 года назад +21

      And the bacon fat should be poured over the bacon and bread (who needs butter?) or even better fry the bread in it

    • @DonnyTrent5533
      @DonnyTrent5533 3 года назад +5

      @@MsMesem Truth! The man speaks the truth! fry the bread in the bacon fat

    • @itsokay7989
      @itsokay7989 3 года назад +2

      Is the bacon sandwich comfort food in Britain? Around here you always make a "posh" sandwich with it: smoked bacon, tomatoes, arugula, balsamic vinegar, etc

  • @petrolhead0387
    @petrolhead0387 3 года назад +22

    I've been watching all of these, and Lucy has really grown as a presenter. Her and James definitely have a father/daughter chemistry on camera.

  • @web550
    @web550 3 года назад +8

    Great to see father and daughter doing things together.

  • @AlexRichardsNumber1
    @AlexRichardsNumber1 3 года назад +67

    The moment Lucy cut the fat off (the best bit) was when James's sandwich cemented itself as the best.

  • @xTheNameisEthan
    @xTheNameisEthan 3 года назад +163

    How long will Lucy pretend like May isn’t the coolest person on the planet

    • @VlerkeDamne
      @VlerkeDamne 3 года назад

      Who is Lucy?

    • @civlyzed
      @civlyzed 3 года назад

      @@VlerkeDamne The lady making the fancy bacon sandwich!

    • @VlerkeDamne
      @VlerkeDamne 3 года назад +4

      @@civlyzed Yes I know hahaha you made me laugh 😂. I meant as in who is that lady Lucy making the sandwich and why is she with James?

    • @Ealsante
      @Ealsante 3 года назад +5

      No daughter thinks their dad is cool. That's the dynamic here.

    • @VlerkeDamne
      @VlerkeDamne 3 года назад

      @@Ealsante Not his daughter tho ;)

  • @Bababooeybobby
    @Bababooeybobby 2 года назад +1

    Rewatched some of his older videos and now I’m just making and trying ALL his sandwiches

  • @dantevortex
    @dantevortex 3 года назад +81

    The rule with a breakfast is always: Don't overcomplicate things.
    You want your breakfast to be simple, quick, and optionally ... cheap.

    • @TheWoodlandYeti
      @TheWoodlandYeti 3 года назад +5

      ah, the mantra i live by.

    • @rivox1009
      @rivox1009 3 года назад +5

      Tell that to eggs benedict

    • @user-neo71665
      @user-neo71665 3 года назад +1

      Want mine to be filling.

    • @bruceducker2029
      @bruceducker2029 3 года назад +1

      @@rivox1009 I agree. Wife loves it, a pain to make

    • @ringowunderlich2241
      @ringowunderlich2241 3 года назад +1

      People and today many men as well (pun intended) are wasting a lot of the morning in front of a mirror. I'd rather use it productively on a proper breakslow.

  • @northernredneck.9187
    @northernredneck.9187 3 года назад +41

    Love seeing Lucy brown in so many videos, it’s like James has a daughter

  • @jeffkinney3342
    @jeffkinney3342 3 года назад +12

    Here in the States, Jame’s bacon sandwich would be my pick for a quick morning meal before work. Lucy’s would be called a BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato) sandwich and would be my pick for lunch with maybe tomato soup.

    • @justsomeguy2743
      @justsomeguy2743 3 года назад

      A blt is a thing over here as well guess it just depends on where you live really

  • @IgoTpaynus69
    @IgoTpaynus69 5 месяцев назад +2

    James may makes everything better. ❤

  • @Tonkotsu2k10
    @Tonkotsu2k10 3 года назад +63

    This is the most British Cooking show Ever.

    • @WaffleShortage
      @WaffleShortage 3 года назад

      they massacred that poor bacon :C
      undercooked on too high of heat... burnt and floppy at the same time. and then sliced with a knife IN THE PAN. tragedy

  • @od1401
    @od1401 3 года назад +14

    Both of them look beautiful, but James wins especially as it's so easy to make. It's got that perfeect balance of salt, tang and sweet from the ketchup, chewiness and crispness of the bacon, melted butter, and limited soft bready resistance from the standard bread. Amazing

  • @everythinggamingnow
    @everythinggamingnow 3 года назад +7

    streaky bacon cooking slower might be to do with water content in cheaper bacon, used to bulk up the weight a bit more

  • @Shadeem
    @Shadeem Год назад +1

    I do love the new content with lucy but i do miss these cooking sections with james a lot !

  • @mkoldewijn
    @mkoldewijn 3 года назад +4

    Lucy's reaction is so genuine when she bites into James's sandwich. Pure gold, these videos

  • @tom_hoots
    @tom_hoots 3 года назад +7

    James and Lucy are just so wonderful together -- this is just simply, very enjoyable to watch. Even the little zooms and sound effects are fun. Very well done.

  • @danielgreener4574
    @danielgreener4574 3 года назад +17

    When James introduced the ingredients for his version and then reached to the side, I thought he was going to reach for the brown sauce, for the win. A little piece of me died inside when it wasn't.

  • @pixel2plastic832
    @pixel2plastic832 3 года назад +6

    Until this series appeared, I never realized that buttering one side of the bread was an essential part of the qualification to what is considered sandwich in England 🤔🤔

    • @johncowburn4444
      @johncowburn4444 2 года назад +2

      It isn't, it makes an inferior sandwich to buttered both sides, the cost saving is tiny!

    • @elonmust7470
      @elonmust7470 2 года назад +2

      buttering bread on sandwiches is foul.

    • @francesmarie2131
      @francesmarie2131 Год назад +2

      It's not. Even poor people butter both sides. Only buttering one side is just undiluted masochism.

  • @stav3239
    @stav3239 3 года назад +48

    I'm commenting once again, James on taskmaster. Make it happen

    • @DizzNutt93
      @DizzNutt93 3 года назад +5

      I didn't realize how badly I want to see that until I actually read this. Excellent suggestion!

    • @DevilboyScooby
      @DevilboyScooby 3 года назад +3

      Probably too expensive for C4, sadly 😔 we can dream, though.

    • @charlottemurphy2023
      @charlottemurphy2023 3 года назад +3

      That's probably the best suggestion I have ever heard

  • @squeezemylizard6571
    @squeezemylizard6571 3 года назад +80

    Hey James, don't forget to get to the clock tower on time. Marty is waiting there

    • @heedlessed7952
      @heedlessed7952 3 года назад +1

      Oooo shots fired!

    • @RMBII91
      @RMBII91 3 года назад +1

      Great scott!!!

    • @YeetTheSlavs
      @YeetTheSlavs 3 года назад +4

      Marty played by Hammond

    • @vrtex17
      @vrtex17 3 года назад +1

      @@YeetTheSlavs so i guess Clarkson will play the role of Biff

  • @chaparama
    @chaparama 3 года назад +52

    A bacon sarnie and a BLT are 2 separate things. May wins by default

    • @simonmorris4226
      @simonmorris4226 3 года назад +6

      And it needs to be BACON, lettuce and tomato, not bacon ,LETTUCE AND TOMATO!🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥬🍅

    • @linuxpothead24
      @linuxpothead24 3 года назад +2

      Exactly what I came here to say, additionally a BLT needs lettuce not rocket and grilled bacon is superior to fried bacon.

    • @m.w.5536
      @m.w.5536 3 года назад

      A BLT means summer with a fresh garden tomato with lots of bacon on toasted bread. I’m so looking forward to that. But a bacon sandwich is excellent any time of year. James is correct on this one.

    • @sydneyda
      @sydneyda 3 года назад

      Exactly.

    • @snoopzakadave
      @snoopzakadave 3 года назад +2

      One of the key ingredients of BLT is lettuce funnily enough... something of which isn't even an ingredient here

  • @chuck-jy7mz
    @chuck-jy7mz 2 года назад +1

    do you ever toast your bread for a bacon sandwich? I've always done that here in the states . . .

  • @jackoates6418
    @jackoates6418 3 года назад +38

    The person who edited this video quite clearly has just discovered MLG about five years too late. Still, as an MLG connoisseur, I admire the effort.

  • @DamianBrown
    @DamianBrown 3 года назад +25

    I think fathers should do this kind of thing more often with their children. Well done May

    • @TRPGpilot
      @TRPGpilot 3 года назад

      How small must the internet be to meet you here? LOL

    • @kypdurron62
      @kypdurron62 3 года назад +1

      That's not his kid.

  • @emmawilliams2994
    @emmawilliams2994 3 года назад +36

    Lucy liked something James cooked?! And there was me thinking the world couldn't get any weirder...

    • @DougLytle1974
      @DougLytle1974 3 года назад +2

      My thoughts exactly! I was shocked and pleasantly surprised by the outcome as well :)

    • @RunDub
      @RunDub 3 года назад

      Technically she cooked it, he merely assembled it.

    • @julioaguirre44
      @julioaguirre44 3 года назад

      @@RunDub but she was all picky about her bacon cutting off the fat. And the cheap store bought one has loads of fat

  • @blake.henderson
    @blake.henderson 2 года назад +1

    "the industrial workforce is becoming impatient" LOL

  • @PropanePete
    @PropanePete 3 года назад +28

    I could happily sit down and watch a 60 minute video of James May describing the everyday life of an amoeba.

    • @markusmaier638
      @markusmaier638 2 года назад +1

      Im still looking forward for the show when James throws things at a wall and describe what sounds best.

  • @OryStreams
    @OryStreams 3 года назад +23

    This was over when James pulled out the ketchup and Lucy pulled out the mayo....James's sandwich is by far the superior bacon sandwich. Lucy made a BLT and that is a completely different sandwich!
    But on a more serious note, more James vs Lucy vids in the future please! There is something really fun about the dynamic between them.

    • @JordanReidy
      @JordanReidy 3 года назад

      tom ketchup is a winner because it is a natural meat taste enhancer through tomatoes having a high umami flavour, but you can also swap out the tom ketchup for a mushroom ketchup for other meats (not in a bacon sw), works really well with homemade cornbeef

  • @benjaminmadrigal2328
    @benjaminmadrigal2328 3 года назад +6

    Lucy and James are a cooking duo I'd love to see more of.

  • @cedenullis5906
    @cedenullis5906 2 года назад

    James, you nailed it. It’s a quick sustenance input at the start of the day, bush bosh bang!!

  • @Bulldogjosh187
    @Bulldogjosh187 3 года назад +35

    James made a Bacon Sandwich. The Bacon is CLEARLY the star. Lucy made a BLT where the Bacon is overshadowed by the combined ingredients. Both looked great and in truth were probably equally delicious but when you want a bacon sandwich, the James May method is clearly the way to go.
    Now I'm hungry.

    • @FALslayer
      @FALslayer 3 года назад +1

      I'm in the states and miss real Bacon. Now I miss 1000x more

    • @develynseether4426
      @develynseether4426 3 года назад

      Bacon sarnie breakfast, BLT lunch, totally different meals.

    • @develynseether4426
      @develynseether4426 3 года назад +3

      @@FALslayer you mean 'raw' bacon as our uneducated cousins call it. Not sure why bacon has to be so hard you smack in on a countertop and it shatters into a million pieces.

    • @JohnDoe-tx8eu
      @JohnDoe-tx8eu 3 года назад +1

      @@develynseether4426 people who eat bacon that way aren't real people. You can't judge the whole country based on them.

    • @kurtsudheim825
      @kurtsudheim825 3 года назад +1

      Technically, it's rocket, but ya

  • @Christian-rn1ur
    @Christian-rn1ur 3 года назад +43

    Before finishing the video, I'm going to guess Lucy doesn't like bacon, doesn't like bread, doesn't like brown or tomato sauce, but probably gives it a try anyway.

    • @fmfinlay9602
      @fmfinlay9602 3 года назад +9

      This is just a cooking show with 2 women who don't eat anything and an old man who eats everything

    • @Badonicus
      @Badonicus 3 года назад

      @@fmfinlay9602 which two women if you're referring to Rachel I think you're wrong on that assumption that she doesn't eat

    • @fmfinlay9602
      @fmfinlay9602 3 года назад +1

      @@Badonicus I mean like she doesn't eat bananas custard and all, and Lucy doesn't eat cheese wine and all

    • @pedersenist
      @pedersenist 3 года назад

      Well I think you're going to eat your word

  • @jackrex7817
    @jackrex7817 3 года назад +49

    James May's insults are a confluence of innocuous words, when delivered, transform into a circular saw of razor blades.

  • @Revener666
    @Revener666 2 года назад

    You can make the hard butter softer by mushing it before you try to spread it.