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Papaumau -> The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 13:50:58 )

One of the things that is truly "British" is the very large breakfast that most hotels and boarding houses offer to clients who visit !

What I want to know is....

1). Do visitors from abroad ever eat like this at home ?

2). Do visitors from abroad take advantage of this "packer" of a meal when they stay here or do they prefer the lighter "continental" fare ?

3). Do visitors from abroad know the subtle difference between the full "English" breakfast and the full "Scottish" breakfast ?

Here are a few recipes and a few piccies to whet your appetite:

http://www.mycookbook.co.uk/article.php?sid=70

http://www.mycookbook.co.uk/article.php?sid=635

http://www.mrbreakfast.com/superdisplay.asp?recipeid=1404

http://www.restaurantspy.com/articles/fullenglish.htm

[img]http://shorock.com/folk/linda/england/full/bkfst.jpg[/img]

[img]http://home.hccnet.nl/e.h.van.munster/images/jpg/feb.jpg[/img]

Then we have the full SCOTTISH breakfast: ( shame that the square sausage is missing ) !

[img]http://www.ourlifejourney.com/images/Scotland/Copy_of_Scottish_Full_Breakfast.jpg[/img]



marie -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 14:17:51 )

I love the full English breakfast, but it can get tiring after a while. One year when we traveled about, staying in a different B&B every night, I reached the point where I just couldn't look at another egg again. I was sure glad when a place offered cereal.

My usual breakfast is either toast or cereal. I have eggs maybe once a week. It is only when I go out for breakfast that I will have an egg with bacon or sausage and toast.

BTW - what is that round dark thing in the last picture? I am thinking blood pudding.



Papaumau -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 14:37:46 )

Well spotted Marie....Yes it is what you call a "blood" pudding but what we more appetisingly call a "black pudding" which IS made from pig or ox-blood and mixed with cereals and seasonings !

Deeeeeeeeeeelicious fried with a slice of square sausage and a slice of Scottish dumpling !

Edit....BTW...there really shouldn't be any chips, ( fries ), with an English/Scottish breakfast !



IanHarryWebb -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 14:53:10 )

Good God man You have made me hungry now.
I'll need to cook something.[:D]



Papaumau -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 14:58:38 )

Glad you enjoyed that Ian ! [:D]



Hudson -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 15:38:42 )

American breakfasts. Depends on your appetite, and if traveling the depth of your resources.
Standard restaurant breakfast menus
Eggs, meat, ham, bacon, sausage , in some cases steak, toast, and or pancakes, in the south grits. Only place I ever saw baked beans for breakfast was in the Navy.

My experience with “full English Breakfasts” has been disappointing. The ones was served to me were not up to the advertising . Will state English bacon is head and shoulders above American bacon. English sausage is a joke



IanHarryWebb -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 15:47:19 )

2 cumberland sausages
2 rashers of smoked bacon
2 eggs
mushrooms
1 tomato
black pudding
lorne sausage
Bread rolls

NO BEANS YEUCK.

Beef sausage; pork sausage are good too.
It depends where they have come from, which butcher.
Don't buy cheap.



Papaumau -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 15:53:48 )

quote:

ORIGINAL: Hudson

. English sausage is a joke


Yeah Hudson......

But what about Scottish sausage, as Ian has highlighted ?



Hudson -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 15:58:52 )

Don't know about Scottish sausage. Suspect Hotel breakfasts are the same regardless. Shoneys can be pretty good or aufuldepndingon the manager

http://www.shoneys.com/menu/breakfast.html



IanHarryWebb -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 16:12:31 )

One could get a great Orange Juice: Scrambeld Eggs & Coffee in Florida but you will have to go to Arizona now.
[:D]



Papaumau -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 16:37:00 )

Are you guys talking in code or summat ?

Hudson...

What the hell is "aufuldepndingon" ?

I know a bit of German but that one has me stumped !

AND....

Ian.....

Why do you now need to go to Arizona now to get good orange-juice, scrambled-eggs and coffee ?

And another thing....

What's so special about the street-vendor hot-dogs in New York City ?

It's just a Frankfurter in a bun is it not ?



marie -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 17:08:39 )

aufuldepndingon = awful depending on must be fingers moving too fast [:D]

In New England you can find baked beans for breakfast. And hash browns - either cubeb potatoes grilled - best in bacon fat , or grilled shredded potatoes. I pick my breakfast place by their hash browns. If they are good, I go back.



Lisa -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 17:08:44 )

There it is! What I lovingly refer to as a "heart attack on a plate!" [:'(] Don't know what most Americans eat for breakfast (except for the neverending lines at the donut shops),
but I certainly don't eat like that here or abroad. I do like the eggs and tomatoes and maybe a link or two of sausage (if it's good) but the beans and bacon and that other unidentifiable stuff, you can keep! Michael loves those breakfasts but I can only eat eggs about 2 days out of a week and then I like my usual of whole grain toast with that lovely marmalade and some grainy cereal concoction. You need some sturdy powers of digestion in order to survive that breakfast. [:D]



Shannon -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 17:58:40 )

I love the eggs in hotels in the UK. They're poached. You don't see that here. I could never get into the bean thing. My dear old Dad used to love that. I love the tomatoes and the mushrooms. Not a big fan of sausage. I love the bacon. It's different from American bacon which I love too. When we're in the UK, I admit I love to eat the brekkies but by the 3rd or 4th day or so, I usually meander to Weetabix and toast.



Hudson -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 18:02:27 )

quote:

What the hell is "aufuldepndingon

Just an old man what never learned to type or spel forgetting to use the spacebar. "auful depending on"
One would think that with your vast experence sompin like that would be a piece of cake.



Tudor Rose -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 18:12:53 )

Why do you now need to go to Arizona now to get good orange-juice, scrambled-eggs and coffee ?


Because that's where the orange juice, bacon or sausage, english muffins, scrambled eggs, and coffee will be served from June 1 on [:D]

For myself while traveling the UK, it's a croissant loaded with butter and two sausages. Forget the tomatos, beans, blood/black pudding, bacon, and ESPECIALLY the eggs. Just those two items, with tons o' mugs of coffee, will set me up nicely, thank you, until it's time for a late dinner.



Papaumau -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 18:14:07 )

Hearty har har Hudson ! [:D][sm=propeller.gif][:D]

I was just kidding mate !

I just thought that that word looked curiously Germanic [:D]

I have no room to throw aspertions aboot as my keyboard has a life of it's own too !

I have tried hard but I cannae get the flippin thing to stop typing multiple lettttttters.

Must be hitting the keys too hard I guess.[:)]



merry traveler -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 20:50:55 )

I look at those pictures, Papa and just feel nauseous, blecchhh

On my one and only trip to England I started out eating a full English breakfast, but by about day 3, just couldn't stomach it at all. Much too heavy for me and I'm not a big morning eater, especially eggs.

My husband and I usually have a cooked breakfast, either out in a restaurant or at home on Sundays. Today it was Canadian Bacon, poached eggs and cheddar cheese on an English muffin with orange juice.

During the week I'm lucky to have time to grab a piece of toast in the morning before I'm off to work. Sometimes it's a container of yogurt or an apple to tide me over til lunch.

I too will judge a restaurant by the quality of their hash browns. A day without potatoes is.... welll.... just too awful to think about[:(]



PeteMarks -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 21:24:11 )

"aufuldepndingon"

I love it, I thought it was german too! Sounds like a good way for a german tourist to 'compliment" the English B and B owner; preferably on the day he leaves the establishment"

" Mein Herr, Ve are much liking your English aufuldepndingon. No vonder you von the bloody war if your British tommies trained on this fartenstoff!"


Pete



Hudson -> RE: The great English/Scottish breakfast ! (13 Feb. 2005 21:30:54 )

50's here, raining all day
Nice pot roast in the oven, smells delicious. tonight with good brown gravy, mashed potatoes and baby carrots. some bread and butter. Only the two of us, so in a couple of days she will but the leftover meat through the processor. and make a scrumptious hash. love it with harvard beets



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