Two Fat Ladies

Our "Tennis Pro" canceled on us again this Saturday. We are supposed to get four free lessons with our "Racquets Membership" at the gym, but this has proven to be easier said than done. Actually he didn't even call us to cancel; his girlfriend did! An hour before said lesson!

Thus, we ended up watching Two Fat Ladies on TV. This was a very popular British cooking program in the '90s that featured -- you guessed it! -- two fat ladies! Their shtick is that one of them drives around on an old motorcycle and the other is chauffeured in the attached side car. They putter around the English countryside making extremely unhealthy food. One of the women passed away in 1998, but reruns still air regularly. The Hairy Bikers are the Two Fat Ladies of the '00s.

In this episode, the Ladies made a "Shooter's Sandwich." Now that I know what this is, I can safely say that nothing else more perfectly sums up British food. The fat lady cut off the end of a loaf of white bread (not French bread mind you, imagine a loaf of unsliced IronKids bread) and hollowed out the inside. She grilled a MASSIVE steak and stuffed it in the white bread shell along with a few mushrooms. Then she wrapped up the whole thing, squashed it under something heavy like a cinder block, and let it sit for 5 (8? 12?) hours. After the "marinating," she sliced it up like a meatloaf and served it to a troop of Boy Scouts.

I was just cracking up the entire time, while Eliot sat silently in disbelief.

I found a picture and a recipe, but these actually make it look relatively good/edible.