James May makes food from his childhood

Welcome to the first episode of James May's new cooking series! This week sees him making one of the staples from his childhood, the salad sandwich.

[Graylord]

"Food from his childhood".
-Goes straight to wine bottles.

[xylaharrison]

*This man beat Gordon Ramsey at cooking while drunk. Let that sink in.*

[NotAuxell]

Tonight on Bottom Gear, James suffers from nostalgia and makes himself a sandwich

[ronikamerl]

Imagine showing this to someone who doesn't know who James May is and then trying to explain why you utterly, utterly love this boring old man.

[balisticren]

James May makes food from his childhood

*starts with wine*

[NBST]

"Reasonably dense, and floppy", he just gave an extremely accurate description of most human beings.

[TheCrazyDcoolest]

After two and half years of insomnia, months of medication and therapy treatment I can finally say I've finally found a cure for my insomnia. I put this video on at 1 AM last night and was out cold in under a minute. best sleep I've had in years. Thank you James for curing my insomnia.

[lightblue]

1970: So in the 1970s water hadn't been invented yet, what we had was government issued drinkable fluids

[jordanski]

I have just spent 10 minutes watching James May making a sandwich.

I’d do it again too

[PaintYourOffice]

I love how James May is kinda a YouTuber now

[soupcanltd]

“This is red wine, because it isn’t white wine.”
correct

[ncot_tech]

To recreate the true sandwich from that era, you need to now force it into a little sandwich bag, squash it some more and force the whole lot into a small tupperware box (the ones that smell weird) along with a single apple and a chocolate bar.
I have rather vivid memories of standing outside, in the rain at school eating one of those.

[Harryyano]

Gordon Ramsey’s Masterclass ad finishes:


James May: The salad cream really brings out the flavour of the lettuce

[Sledgeh]

"We're going to make a packed lunch."
- pulls out a bottle of wine
This explains SO much

[tasmiyahrawoot]

When the cameraman was hired:
Interviewer: "you will be working on a cooking show with James may"
Cameraman: "Great I love food"
James may: "here's a cucumber lettuce tomato and spring onion sandwich with some salad dressing"
Cameraman: "..."

[captainbongwater]

The most interesting part of this is that this is a major part of his young life. You learn a lot about a time and place by their food. Hope he does more of this, preferably while driving.

[siraman]

This... is red wine, because it isn't white wine.


-Captain Slow, 2019

[dothius]

If you didn't know this was James May you'd think it's some broke British old man trying to start a YouTube series

[olipoole]

Youtubers: "I've run out of ideas for interesting content :("



James May : "Today were gonna make a sandwich"

[mads-henningjensen]

“It’s actually slightly wetter than I remember” whoever does the edits is the real mvp