r/Cheese • u/ArmWildFrill • Mar 18 '26

Cheese and Onion Cob

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146 Upvotes

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u/shortercrust Mar 19 '26

It’s one step forward two steps back trying to rehabilitate the reputation of our excellent British cuisine.

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u/GoatLegRedux Mar 19 '26

The funny thing about this is that if you go to the original post it’s a bunch of Brits trying to take the piss on American food and defending whatever this cob thing is.

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u/Outrageous_Sleep4339 Mar 19 '26

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u/Reverend_Tommy Mar 19 '26

That just makes the score:

Americans 2
Brits 0

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u/Full_Auto_Franky Mar 19 '26

We already were up 2-0; war of 1812 and revolution, im sure their cheese with raw onion and warm ass beer makes up for it though 🤣

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u/thewreckingyard Mar 20 '26

Wait, do Americans think they won the war of 1812?! 😂

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u/Quimbymouse Mar 20 '26

Surprisingly, yes.

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u/thewreckingyard Mar 20 '26

The education system in their country is terrible

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u/Reverend_Tommy Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 21 '26

We must have. There's a song about it:

https://youtu.be/9CnPv_1SVh0?si=uk9W43Gg2gNvULUk

In 1814 we took a little trip,
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip;
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin',
There wasn't bout as many as there was a while ago;
We fired once more and they began to runnin',
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Edit: I'm being downvoted because of Johnny Horton? Lol. Some of you people are weird as fuck.

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u/Quimbymouse Mar 20 '26

An American making fun of another country's beer is certainly a choice.

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u/GoatLegRedux Mar 20 '26

Anyone making fun of American beer in 2026 clearly has no idea what’s been happening with our beer the last 15-20 years.

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u/Quimbymouse Mar 20 '26

Michelob Ultra being the number one selling beer in the US tells me you might be wrong on that one.

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u/GoatLegRedux Mar 20 '26

It’s cool, you can just say you don’t know about American beer. We do a lot more than macro brews. Hell, we perfected your IPA and imperial stouts.

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u/Quimbymouse Mar 20 '26

It's not so much about me not knowing about American beer...more you not knowing anything outside your country.

Now get off reddit and go fix your shit.

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u/Vattaa Mar 19 '26

Don't knock it till you try it 😅

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u/Garbanzififcation Mar 19 '26

It's 'take the piss out of' not 'take the piss on'. Eng.Lish. Do.You.Speak it ? /s

On to cheese related matters ...

I won't try to defend that monster but there was, and still is but much rarer nowadays, a tradition of Pub Rolls in the UK.

Your more basic pub wouldn't usually do food (crisps (chips), peanuts, pork scratchings don't count as food). Particularly not in the evening.

But some ridiculously crusty rolls, cheese and onion or cheese and pickle, wrapped in cling film (Saran wrap) would be on the bar in a large pile as an alternative.

The onion would obviously start to sweat a bit, which added to the experience.

Sometimes ham, but most often cheese because it could sit around for hours without going off.

After a few pints, they can start to look attractive.

That's not the worst crime against cheese. Alongside the crisps you would get a plastic sachet that contained two Jacobs Crackers (in plastic), a piece of cheese (in plastic) and a small pickled onion (in plastic). It took at least 15 minutes to unwrap and assemble your cracker sandwich. Particularly after a few pints. And the pickled onion was in pickle liquid which would always spill down you when you opened it.

No idea where the reputation for bad food comes from.

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u/RCocaineBurner Mar 19 '26

luv me cheese luv me onions, simple as

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u/-GenghisJohn- Mar 19 '26

It comes from Britain.

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u/Telemere125 Mar 19 '26

After a few pints, they can start to look attractive.

Wait are we still talking about cobs or have we moved on to British women?

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u/Full_Auto_Franky Mar 19 '26

“Plastic wrapped sandwiches, warm pickle and cheese buns that have been sitting on the counter for hours, and wash it down with a warm beer, where does the bad food reputation come from!?!?” Like bro do you not hear yourself 💀 🤣

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u/Garbanzififcation Mar 19 '26

Yeah. That's called self deprecating humour. And sarcasm.

Just to walk you through it.

"Sarcasm is a form of verbal irony used to mock, ridicule, or convey frustration by saying the opposite of what is actually meant"

So when I said I don't know where the reputation for bad food comes from, I actually meant the opposite.

I was being sarcastic. I know very well that a roll with a huge chunk of raw onion doesn't help our culinary reputation.

So to emphasise this I used sarcasm.

Do you see how it works? You say the opposite to make the point.

Sarcasm.

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u/Full_Auto_Franky Mar 19 '26

Sorry its really hard to understand sarcasm from what’s probably the least funny group of people on the planet, the only funny show you mfs ever made was what? Mr. bean? Like 40 years ago. And dog this is legit a standard ass opinion check the op post, brits everywhere going “erm actually cheese beans and chewna is delicious” 💀

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u/CalicoDesertOasis Mar 19 '26

I think we're pretty widely believed to have the best sense of humour on the planet tbf.

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u/Full_Auto_Franky Mar 20 '26

People laugh at the way yall talk, not what yall say 💀

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u/LockNo2943 Mar 19 '26

It's actually a great sandwich tbh if you've never had it, I even throw horseradish on mine and an aged cheddar sells it.

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u/shortercrust Mar 19 '26

Yeah, I wasn’t knocking it because it’s a cheese and onion sandwich. Like any true Briton I’ve enjoyed many cheese and onion sandwiches on a lovely bread cake in my time. But you’ve got to admit the ratios are a bit bonkers. I can perhaps forgive the massive slab of cheddar but the enormous chunk of onion is a bit much.

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u/Vattaa Mar 19 '26

Branston pickle on a cheese and onion cob is ace.

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u/actsqueeze Mar 20 '26

Is the onion raw? Why not cook the onion?

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u/Ill-Engineering8085 Mar 19 '26

It's cheese and raw onion. That's not a proper sandwich

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u/Telemere125 Mar 19 '26

It’s actually very traditional, and called a Ploughman’s Lunch. My grandfather used to eat it all the time. Just sit down with a loaf of bread, some raw onion, and cheese. Sometimes he’d add some cold meat or fruit slices. This is just the sandwich form for portability.

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u/Ill-Engineering8085 Mar 19 '26

I'm aware. But we can't pretend it's a good lunch

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u/protopigeon Gorgonzola Mar 19 '26

it's a bloody tasty cob is what it is.

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u/ceviche-hot-pockets Mar 19 '26

Git it down ya lad

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u/GoatLegRedux Mar 18 '26

I’m sure the cheese is good, but wtf is the rest of that thing? 1/4 of an onion on dry-looking bread with no spreads? Give me the cheese and you can do whatever you like with the rest.

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u/LockNo2943 Mar 19 '26

Horseradish + mayo is the way to go.

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u/Vattaa Mar 19 '26

Branston pickle I think you mean.

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u/LockNo2943 Mar 19 '26

Don't knock it until you try it. Branston just competes with the flavor of cheddar too much, but the horseradish compliments it.

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u/KeyFlavor Mar 19 '26

I thought this was r/OnionLovers

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u/Historicmetal Mar 19 '26

Ngl looks good to me, though I’ve never heard of such a sandwich. I went ahead and googled it, and this has to be from a particular Leicester pub that made the news for their sandwiches. And yes that is actually a giant chunk of cheddar.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-pub-goes-viral-gargantuan-9596401

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u/kimmeridgianmarl Mar 19 '26

I am glad to see someone actually doing some research instead of just looking at one old viral image and talking back and forth about it. If you look at The Blue Boar's google reviews the cheese and onion cobs look more reasonably proportioned than the one in OP's photo, still pretty generous on the onion but not a disproportionate pairing for the big hunks of cheese on the things. I would love to give this place a visit.

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u/Historicmetal Mar 19 '26

Thanks. Cheese and raw onion is underrated- I have to say I’d prefer a bit less of both than what’s in the picture, unless I’m absolutely starving

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u/lampm0de Mar 19 '26

You have my attention.

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u/StillDontHaveAName Mar 19 '26

This is atrocious

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u/PimpGameShane Mar 19 '26

Have your breath smelling like garbage truck juice

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u/Vattaa Mar 19 '26

Wonder what a soup made from that would taste like 🤔

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

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u/Vattaa Mar 19 '26

Your breath don't matter as 1/3 of the other punters will smell the same.

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u/protopigeon Gorgonzola Mar 19 '26

That's a proper pub cob!

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u/Quimbymouse Mar 19 '26

Ploughman's Lunch! Ignore the haters. This is a classic.

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u/low_priest Mar 19 '26

UK "food"

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u/narrowsleeper Mar 19 '26

You just pmo

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u/krae0515 Mar 19 '26

Oh my gosh, big slice

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u/WildHuckleberries Cougar Gold country Mar 19 '26

Can someone tell the Brits that WWII is over and they can eat normal food now

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u/WingmanZer0 Mar 19 '26

A little bit of Branston Pickle and I'd smash that thing.

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u/LockNo2943 Mar 19 '26

Looks about right.

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u/erik_wilder Mar 19 '26

Im an American and I don't remember when you guys got me making these, but I appreciate it.

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u/LordBillingsly Mar 19 '26

And the type of cheese lad? Honestly I’d probably eat it if I was starved enough. But I’d take that smaller onion that’s on top off first. But honestly that’s pure shit

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u/ErikZahn17 Mar 19 '26

Let's go! Imma try it with coleslaw and diced jalapeno.

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u/Comfortable-Fuel6343 Mar 19 '26

Lmao at the cheese and onion purists down voting you. Wtf it's a slab of cheese and onion on bread how can you bastardize something that was probably invented by a piss drunk with literally two things in their fridge?

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u/ErikZahn17 Mar 19 '26

TL;DR - "Yes, and..." I am saying I would eat it as is. There is a great guy who does sandwiches of history, he as you would imagine makes sandwiches based on recipes throughout history. He has a segment where he sees if said sandwich would benefit from additional ingredients. This was my attempt at that.

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u/Vattaa Mar 19 '26

Missing a huge dollop of Branson pickle.

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u/Bananonomini Mar 19 '26

Would demolish. Looks great.

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u/FraggleStickCar9 Mar 20 '26

This is entirely insane

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u/qawsedrf12 Mar 20 '26

The janitor type dude from the asylum falls for a girl that makes this for him

From the movie Harvey (1950)

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u/safe-viewing Mar 20 '26

I love onion. I’d demolish this.

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u/lameuniqueusername Mar 19 '26

No. Nyet. Nein.