There's barely a field around my house that isn't crossed by a footpath.
There are a loads of fantastic long walks to take on. Personally I'd recommend the south west coastal path. In particular the wilder Exmoor section, although there's barely a dull moment over the whole 1000km. There is definitely something incredibly mindful and calming about just spending time walking.
"And of course the many high-school students doing Duke of Edinburgh’s Award hikes, often with looks of total dejection and sadness, and certainly with much stink, but always with an impressive commitment."
Been there, done that, got the blisters. Totally worth it looking back, got me into walkin, but not sure I understood it at the time.
Two lightly toasted slices of NOT white bread, lightly apply very good mayo 1/8 lb of good smoked ham sliced very thin 1 large dill pickle sliced fairly thin
...aaannnnddd a bunch of ruffles potato chips.
Assemble a thin layer of ham, then pile the pickle slices in a second layer, add another ham layer, then pile the chips as the next layer, and add a final thin ham layer to insulate the chips from the top bread slice mayo layer
Eat quickly. Probably need two hands. Likely need to stop walking. There will be crunching noises. I'm not ashamed to admit I've been addicted for 50 years.
The bread protects the mouth. One of the biggest risks to scoffing down a bag of chips is that it scratches and scrapes your mouth.
So butter to complement the dryness and crunch and bread to soften the blow. It makes perfect sense.
1. Toast one side only of two slices of fresh white bread.
2. Construct a sandwich with the untoasted sides facing out.
3. Inside the sandwich place mushed banana and a sprinkle of sugar.
As you bite through you get soft, crunch, soft, crunch, soft. It’s a thing of beauty.
Another weird combo is crispy bacon and marmalade. In regular toasted bread.
Ah, sandwiches. One of the great foods. Source: I’m from the North East.
Urk: I’ve gone from “Chip buttie” to “chip butty”, I’m not a fan, I’ve had to correct my spelling twice, but I’m not trying to sneak my spelling corrections past anyone.
it also helps that they are salted, and salt is a pretty good flavor enhancer.
* their recipe is probably: "1. Dump bag of sugar in bottle of vinegar. Veg? Haha, we don't use expensive vegetables here, every little counts you know!"
But it's unusual, mostly people seem to just refer to it as "the lakes".
That just sounds like gibberish.
I think author slept at some cottage every night. Taking sandwiches on through hike without resuply does not seem very practical..
I did wild camping in Scotland long time ago, but I would not recommend it today. Locals are not so welcoming now.
Plus it's a pretty unusual through hike. It goes through three national parks, but it's nowhere wilderness and you're never more than about 10 route miles from a village. Resupply en route is fairly trivial.
Crisp sandwich: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisp_sandwich
Chip butty: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_butty
Also fwiw, amusingly, your attempt to internationally disambiguate the terms fell down because Walkers is Lays everywhere except the UK!
If you want a pub walk though, no better place in the world!
Even the Aldi, known for having just a single option for everything, has about 15 different breads.
I'm sorry if your options are bad, but don't claim that the entire US sucks.
You can also just go to a bakery. Not sure how accurate this site is, but it looks like the US and UK have about the same number of bakeries per capita. https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/number-of-busi..., https://www.ibisworld.com/united-kingdom/number-of-businesse...
Certainly there are some places where your only option is a dollar store that probably won't have anything good, but I've been a lot of places in the US and I've never found this to be an issue.
1. thickly cut doorstops of wholegrain crusty bread
2. apply very mature crunchy cheddar
3. cut banana, not mushed, is layered on top
4. a blanket of either ready-salted or salt and vinegar crips
5. and the killer blow, on the opposing slice of bread, thickly, oh so thickly spread marmite.
My recipe, marmite and lettuce sandwiches.
Spread hummus on both slices. Hummus is a great butter/cheese/mayo replacement.
Sprinkle a mix of seeds (sun flower kernels, hemp, chia, flax, sesame) on one side.
Add red beet and cabbage sauerkraut, then turkey slices, to the other side.
Slap together and eat!
My personal recipe invention strategy is to constrain my experiments to high-flavor moderate calorie superfood combination bombs with construction times in the 30-60 second range. Prep: 1. Big jar of three months worth of high nutrition seeds. 2. There is no 2. This one is a staple now, but others' tastes may differ.
A hike is a long walk, but while you hike, you are walking.
Hiking is just more official/more serious, like 'running' as opposed to 'jogging'.
Downvoting you for asking was silly.
Let them eat cake.
P.S. But I do like the sourdough and rye bread (uncommon in UK).