Foodie says bacon butties are best with marmalade not ketchup – and Brits are furious

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foodies’ claims bacon butties should be slathered with marmalade instead of sauce.Cookery writer Felicity Cloake and ex-Blur guitarist turned cheese maker Alex James both claim they’re a perfect match.Cloake said in an interview to promote her new book Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey: “I feel like a bad British person for saying this – I much prefer English mustard in a bacon sandwich.

And marmalade.“Think about it – ham is often glazed with mustard and honey.“A friend introduced me to it, and it feels like a Damascene moment every time I eat one.”Cloake spoke to people across the UK about their bacon buttie topping preference.She came to the conclusion ketchup is a “southern” and “more middle class” option than the likes of HP sauce.“Almost everyone I spoke to in the UK had an opinion," the food said.“It felt as though brown sauce was more northern and ketchup was a bit of a newcomer, more southern and possibly more middle class.“If I had to join a camp then I’d say brown sauce, with its spices, is the connoisseur’s choice.“Ketchup just makes everything taste of ketchup.”Former Blur wildman Alex, 53 – who runs a farm near Jeremy Clarkson’s – gushed: “Bacon takes other flavours really well, so mustard, red, brown – roll them all out… marmalade is surprisingly good, too.“It sounds spooky but it’s no weirder than honey-roast ham.”Top chefs have condemned the ingredient.Founder of London’s famous St John restaurant, Fergus Henderson, 58, has branded it an “oddity” that went “too far”.Social media is packed with opinions on the matter.Some took to Twitter to say “leave me out” about the marmalade option.Others declared ketchup and brown sauce are the “only options”.One critic echoed Peter Kay’s trademark.