@AdamJames you have made me remember normal fried bread. A couple of years ago I succumbed to half a slice of fried white bread with a normal low carb fry up. It was delicious, and surprisingly it made NO difference to my post meal levels. I have had it a few times since, and still no difference, with or without the bread the levels are the same. I haven't had any since the Lidl rolls were first discovered a year or so ago. I do like some toast with my fry ups, so I am now going to try the fried again. Half a slice is enough, and I'm sure the fat in the frying keeps any spikes down. The bread soaks a lot of this up.
I went and did it. I had to walk from work to a garage tonight to pick up my car, which took me right past a B&M store. I figured if there was anywhere I would be able to find the most rotten, good for nothing, nutritionally bankrupt white bread, made out of flour and chalk and pavement dust or whatever goes into white bread these days, it would be there.
Sadly they only had Warburtons who are probably respectable enough to leave out the pavement dust, but they had ...
Warburtons Thickest.
Not thin. Not medium. Not thick. THICKEST. I trembled as I bought it.
I made 3 slices of bacon, some mushrooms and an egg, then once that had been cooked and taken out of the pan, I fried one side of the bread in all the fat, then added 10g of butter and fried the other side in that.
It could have absorbed a lot more fat / butter by the looks of it - the very centre was still dry and fluffy after I'd fried it.
But I have to say ... it was
heaven. The texture was light and crispy and just greasy enough without being disgusting. The taste was
amazing. Enough to be enjoyable by itself, but mild enough to be a nice addition to bacon and eggs. 27g of carbs well spent.
I was never a regular eater of fried bread, and some of the stuff I remember getting in cafes, where it dripped fat or oil or margarine or something when you lifted it up, was pretty nasty. But I must have got lucky with my attempt tonight, because it really was wonderful!