English Breakfast

[dr_mabeuse]

Dumb question: What's an English breakfast and where would I get one?

Gauche wrote a story involving an EB that including (as I recall): eggs, beans, tomatoes, toast, and either black pudding or sausage. Is that about right? Is that usual?

If I were staying in a hotel in London, might I find that on the breakfast menu?


---dr.M.

 

[Wills]

Doc

Most English hotels serve a traditonal breakfast.

Staple contents are: eggs, bacon, tomato, mushrooms, sausage. Then regional variations have found there way in like black pudding, baked beans, some kind of fried potato.

The original potato accompanyment was a thing called 'bubble and squeak' a kind of fried patty of mashed potato with chopped cabbage, usually left over from the evening meal to give it time to ripen. Not likely to find that any more, unless you visit a highway cafe for truck drivers.

Used to be some great 'transport cafes', I remember one in Hammersmith, west London where they cooked on a wood fired cast iron range. Your traditional breakfast could be supplemented by a side order of steak grilled over the wood embers. Those were the days.

PS Don't forget the fried bread, not toast and a big mug of sweet milky tea.

 

[Guest]

I'm feeling VERY hungry now. A Full English Breakfast is one of the best things in the world, in my opinion.

It is served as par for the course in every B&B, hotel, transport cafe and in a lot of homes (especially on a Sunday morning) up and down the country, and taken forgranted by us all.

My usual selection for a good English Breakfast is: Toast (fried bread is too fatty), two rashers of bacon, a sausage, a serving of mushrooms, one fried tomato (sliced in half), baked beans and black pudding. I skip on the egg, because I don't like it.

My mouth really is watering now. And, I'm supposed to be dieting.

Lou

Edited to add a pic. A bit extreme, but

http://www.psyche-erotica.co.uk/images/250103-3.jpg

 

[Liar]

I don't get it. All that stuff for breakfast? It sounds like a regular dinner for me. Maybe I'm built wrong. I could never manage a full English breakfast, my digestion system would just implode on itself and die if i had things like bacon and sausages in the bloody morning.

Later in the day, I could eat a horse. Deep fried, dipped in jelly or alive doesn't matter. But in the morning, I have to settle for some orange juice, a cup of tea and maybe a small sammich.

You guys... I say.

#L

 

[mtnman2003]

Tate, Doc, and Wills

Hey guys, stop by and I will prepare a good ol' country breakfast for ya.....

Real bacon, thick sliced, crisp, even better sausage, hash browns, bisquits and gravy, plus some eggs. Toast or dollar pancakes.
Good cup of coffee....... all made to your taste here on the ranch.

After breakfast, we can ride the range, chase a few cows if you like.........

Will never get used to those english breakfasts....... canadian bacon?? beans and pudding........

Funny how cultures have differences in same names......
When in Aukland, the served sausage, I had trouble keeping it down.......... Australia about the same......

Hey Doc, are you going to have a little "tasty tart" with your english breakfast? If so, I'll have what he's having.......

Mtn

 

[Guest]

 

[NoJo]

Edited to add a pic. A bit extreme, but

http://www.psyche-erotica.co.uk/images/250103-3.jpg

Love the pic -- but something's missing.. oh yeah, a roll-up and the Daily Sport.

 

[Guest]

Lou,

And quitting smoking - you are ambitious. What's next, world peace?

Lime

PS It's almost lunch time here and you made me salivate all over my keyboard with that pic.

Yeah, something like that.

I'm also sticking to a rigorous exercise regime. A four mile run in the morning (with my dog), followed by a shower. Then, in the afternoon, at least 30 reps on the abs bar, along with 20 reps each, working on different five sets, on the 10kg dumbbells. And, the same again in the evening. Seriously. I haven't felt this good in years.

I'm eating lots of Special K, rice, pasta and fish. Seems to be going ok.

What can I say? I have an addictive personallity.

Anyway, back to those breccies (or heart attacks on a plate, as we affectionately call them)... MtnMan, that sounds delicious. A horse ride, too, you say? Give me a few hours, I'll be there.

Lou

 

[gauchecritic]

Mab,

The picture Loulou generously provided (apart from the potatoes which I think of as Americanisation) is exactly the breakfast I was describing. And the places where I eat have; "Full English Served All Day".

Something similar can be had in most b&b's (hotels too I should imagine) throughout England.

Don't forget the fried bread and large pot of sweet tea.

Like they say over here Liar 'breakfast is the most important meal of the day' (The fact that I rarely break my fast before 11.00am is neither here nor there)

Gauche: enjoy

Edited to add: A scene from Peter Kay's "Phoenix Nights" famously points out both the historical and international 'flavour' of the said FE

Interviewer: Tell me Spencer, Have you any previous experience of bar work?

Spencer: Oh yes, you name it. Not only have I seen the film 'Cocktail' six times, but I also once was an Inn Keeper.

Interviewer: Really? Where was that?

Spencer: In Bethlehem... in St Peter & Paul's ground breaking production of The Nativity. Not only did I give Mary and Joseph room at the Inn but I also offered them en-suite with full English.... and a lovely view of Gallilee.

 

[snooper]

Edited to add a pic. A bit extreme, but

http://www.psyche-erotica.co.uk/images/250103-3.jpg

Two problems with this picture. The plate isn't big enough and where's the reast of the eggs, sausages and fried bread?

If it's a full Irish breakfast is has white pudding as well as black pudding.

If it is a full breakfast from God's own country (Wales) it will also have lavabread.

 

[Wills]

Snooper
The fried bread is those two triangular things next to the baked beans.

Forgot to add earlier, if you don't fancy the FE why not have a Kipper (smoked herring) cooked in an emulsion of butter and water. Or you could try the Scottish FE Kedgeree which I believe is rice and smoked haddock with a light curry dusting.

In high class hotels you should find all on the menu including the old country house standby of grilled lambs kidneys.

Is this for research or an appetite?

 

[Guest]

Gauche wrote a story involving an EB including (as I recall): eggs, beans, tomatoes, toast, and either black pudding or sausage.

At the risk of embarrassing Gauche (how gauche of me, eh?, but note that Mab. referenced it first), his story (for the Valentine contest) made an FE more appealing than usual (Gauche called it 'the sex scene'). I love going for breakfast, but I would pay someone to feed me as the bloke in Gauche's story does one of the female characters.

The story is called Abigail Slaughter and the breakfast occurs about three quarters down the first page. Enjoy.

Perdita

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Regarding the picture: I think I've identified all the players--though I must say those tomatoes look like what comes in a can over here--but what's that wreath of writhing pinkness at 12 o'clock on the plate? Is that ham?

---dr.M.

 

[gauchecritic]

Regarding the picture: I think I've identified all the players--though I must say those tomatoes look like what comes in a can over here--but what's that wreath of writhing pinkness at 12 o'clock on the plate? Is that ham?

---dr.M.

Undercooked bacon with the rind still on. Just nice.

Gauche

 

[CharleyH]

I thought English Breakfast was a tea

Well, blood pudding doesn't sound tooo appetizing, nor does that plate. LOL - BLOATING.

Charley's traditional brekkie - coffee - coffee - copious pots.

Otherwise Eggs Benedict with REAL Canadian back bacon, not the crap they serve in the states

PS - I always thought you Brits ate Kippers? A weird and suddenly misinterpreted song by Supertramp. I understand the album now, after a couple of decades. "Breakfast in AMERICA"

 

[minsue]

Ick. I'll stick with my coffee & cigarettes.

- Mindy, joining Liar in the 'no breakfast, thanks' club edited to add Charley to the roster

 

[Guest]

Ick. I'll stick with my coffee & cigarettes.

- Mindy, joining Liar in the 'no breakfast, thanks' club edited to add Charley to the roster

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Oh, memories of breakfasts past.

Lou-Lew (apparently )

 

[pop_54]

Well Doc if you make it to Oxford, Mick's Cafe' to the left of Oxford rail station on the Botley Rd. Can't miss it, it's the only wooden shack left in the City.

Open from 6am until 2pm, Breakfast served all through, and a choice of how you want it. Ranging from, One egg and two bits of bacon, through all the trimmings as in the picture above, and beyond, and the plate's bigger. Only thing he doesn't serve is burgers, no way will Mick ever sell burgers.

 

[sanchopanza]

Well I must say I can't be as quintessentially English as I thought as of all the FE breakfasts I've eaten I've never come across any form of potato. Though I have never eaten a full english in a hotel - only at service stations, people's houses, bed and breakfasts, cafeterias, cafes, a ferry port, and what might be called a burger van that didn't sell burgers. Damn hotels.

 

[CharleyH]

Ick. I'll stick with my coffee & cigarettes.

- Mindy, joining Liar in the 'no breakfast, thanks' club edited to add Charley to the roster

Hm, a duck who smokes and drinks coffee - I have been curious about what little ducks think . . . bad ASSES that they are.

Sunday is the only brekkie moment for me - AND a restaurant usually cooks it - but a duck . . .

Does one feather a duck for breakfast? Or pluck it?

 

[minsue]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Oh, memories of breakfasts past.

Lou-Lew (apparently )

Crap. Sorry Lou! I wasn't thinking. Here:

http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/schild/smoking8.gif

Does that help?

- Mindy

 

[minsue]

Hm, a duck who smokes and drinks coffee - I have been curious about what little ducks think . . . bad ASSES that they are.

Sunday is the only brekkie moment for me - AND a restaurant usually cooks it - but a duck . . .

Does one feather a duck for breakfast? Or pluck it?

Goose

 

[Guest]

Geezlaweeze, Charlie, I read your post twice before it hit me that you think Min is a duck. Where were you born? Her AV is a GOOSE! She's into geese couture.

Perdita (+ always a )

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Well Doc if you make it to Oxford, Mick's Cafe' to the left of Oxford rail station on the Botley Rd. Can't miss it, it's the only wooden shack left in the City.

I remember the old Time-Life Food of the World cookbook said the way to eat well in England was to have breakfast three times a day.

They also said that, up until WWII, it was common for breakfast to be no more than a piece of underdone beef and a pint of ale. That sounded pretty good to me back when I had decided to try being an alcoholic for a while, and one morning I actually had some leftover cold roast beef and beer for breakfast. It wasn't bad, but by 9:30 I was back in bed, sound asleep. Alcohol as a lifestyle never did work out for me.

---dr.M.

 

[Guest]

Crap. Sorry Lou! I wasn't thinking. Here:

http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/schild/smoking8.gif

Does that help?

- Mindy

Yes, thank you! That was VERY good.

Why do I feel an urge to play duck-duck-goose now?

Lou