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Ariel
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Having briefly dropped by the Hell thread of that name and gone away disappointed, here's Heaven's own version. No ranting, but possibly some raving about the wonders of a really good breakfast.
Personally, nothing beats a Full English, except a Full Irish. Both (at their best) offer you bacon, sausage, black pudding, fried or scrambled eggs, tomatoes, baked beans and mushrooms. The Full English will also additionally offer you hash browns, fried bread and toast, while the Full Irish will additionally offer you white pudding, potato cakes and possibly soda bread as an alternative to toast. After you've consumed a plate of the Full Whichever, you're set up and don't need to eat again for a week.
Continental, on the other hand, means different things to different people. It can be as basic as a mug of coffee and a croissant, or it can be the whole works with fruit salad, cereals, yogurts, a selection of cheeses and ham, and as much toast as you can handle with or without preserves.
So - in an ideal world, what would be your perfect breakfast? Any particularly memorable ones? (And does anyone really like kippers?)
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balaam
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Nothing beats scrambled egg and smoked salmon. With plenty of pepper on the egg.
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Each day is so different. One day it's bacon, eggs, baked beans, onions and anything left over from supper the night before + half a pint of milk and then sweet scalding coffee.
While today was a supermarket's cluster muesli with handfuls of freeze dried red berries, ordinary and then chocolate croissants (oh yum) and Chai tea.
Work days used to be an apple on the way out of the front door, sandwiches on the bus, crunchy bar and banana on the walk from bus to work and a nice cup of tea the instant my feet crossed work's threshold.
And I Love kippers!
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Having briefly dropped by the Hell thread of that name and gone away disappointed...
I should probably warn you about the bacon thread in the Circus...
What constitutes an excellent breakfast can change depending on mood but a toasted bagel with salmon and capers would be high on my list. With a pot of tea (either a breakfast blend or possibly Darjeeling). Oh, and I do like a glass of grapefruit juice, too.
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I spent several years in a job with an early and intensive piece of work at the beginning of the day - c 7 to 8 am. Nothing tasted better after that than serious amounts of coffee and a white roll crammed with bacon and a hash brown. Stodge, grease and caffeine - yum.
The full English/Irish/Scottish (like the other two - plus haggis) not so much. Soft boiled egg with hot buttered toast would probably score higher.
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lilBuddha
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Another changes with the day person here. But if I had to pick one: chorizo con papas. I prefer the spices in the Mexican variety.
But then again, crepes are divine and delicate. Mustn't forget scones with cream and jam. Or....
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I've just remembered: eggs Benedict, with a cup of hot black coffee. Makes a great start to a Sunday morning.
(Though there are times when it just needs to be baked beans on hot buttered toast with a couple of rashers.)
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I struggle to eat breakfast. I'm not hungry first thing but need something to keep me going.
So I have porridge each morning, at the moment I have it topped with agave syrup.
Hotels rarely have porridge I find, so I opt for continental. I can just manage a croissant, but they're too greasy for me.
Failing that, a dippy egg and toast .
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Having briefly dropped by the Hell thread of that name and gone away disappointed...
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Eggs benedict. with "Home fries" (Cubed, fried potatoes, with seasoning.)
Recently I had a Peruvian version of eggs benedict which had pisco-marinated gravlax as a base instead of ham. It was to die for.
And of course you can't claim to be a Peruvian restaurant unless your potatoes are pristine.
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I'm big on Mexican cowboy-style breakfasts. Tortilla chips simmered in salsa verde with cheese, creme fraiche or sour cream, and a fried egg on top is an easy one to fix on a camp stove. Fried egg with re-fried beans smothered in ranchero sauce and served with corn tortillas (huevos rancheros) are another favorite.
Christmas morning breakfast at our house consists of tamales smothered in green chile, cheese, sour cream, and fried eggs, served with beers.
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balaam
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The full *insert part of the UK here* breakfast is measured on the quality of the bacon.
Bacon is not just bacon though, is it? It can be back bacon, streaky bacon, salt cured, water cured cooked soft or crispy. Well cooked bacon should be reserved for bacon sandwiches IMO. Bacon to go with the full ?ish is best when it is a salt cured back bacon cooked quickly so that it just starting to crisp at the edges but the centre is still soft.
Perfect.
But what about the mushrooms? Small button mushrooms or large flat ones — which is best?
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In most of Alaska, the standard restaurant breakfast would be the same as an american standard breakfast - two eggs, bacon or sausage, toast, and hash browns. alternately, a giant stack of sourdough flapjacks with birch syrup.
however, in my home town, they have their own signature breakfast, the Full Standard. (or Half Standard, if you don't wish to eat enough to feed a small third-world nation) it's (a ton of) scrambled eggs, 4 pieces of bacon, home-fried potatoes with green chile, pepper, and onion, two pieces of homemade bread over an inch thick, apple butter, coffee, and juice. It's obscene. I used to get one full standard for the whole family to share.
my personal breakfast (embarrassing to admit) is the same every day. A cup of coffee, and a smoothie. the smoothie has: 2 cups of frozen blueberries, a tablespoon of crushed ginger, a teaspoon each of macha and cinnamon, and 3 cups of fresh spinach, packed. blended all together with a little water until it resembles mud. Not very attractive but very easy and I couldn't live without it. plus, it's delicious. if I'm out of blueberries I'll use frozen cherries.
[eta: birch syrup not bitch syrup. hah!]
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Bitch syrup, I like it
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Bob Two-Owls
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I am firmly in the "bacon should not bend" camp. Personally, my birthday breakfast is my ideal - tea, crispy bacon, fried egg, scrambled egg with cheese, black pudding, fried bread, grilled tomato topped with cheese and relish, grilled mushroom done similarly, baked beans or ideally a slice of last night's macaroni cheese. Followed by more tea, toast, butter and marmalade.
I only have one a year (un)fortunately...
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White toast, salted farmhouse butter, good marmalade, hedgerow conserve. Fat juicy sausages. A pot of tea (my favourite standard brew is Waitrose Gold Blend or Yorkshire Gold, Sainsburys Red Label is however very tasty too). Hedgerow conserve (bramble, rosehip, apple, sometimes sloes and haw berries) can be replaced by any country preserve eg hawthorn jelly.
If I've had a roast the night before, dripping on toast is a lovely breakfast.
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
I'm big on Mexican cowboy-style breakfasts. Tortilla chips simmered in salsa verde with cheese, creme fraiche or sour cream, and a fried egg on top is an easy one to fix on a camp stove.
Chilaquiles, verdad? Me gusta! Para mi, sin huevos, por favor.*
* this is called chilaquiles, right? Make mine without eggs, please.
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Most days during the business year five days a week: continental - some sort of sausage, orange juice and black coffee freshly made.
At a big hotel in Penzance or anywhere else in England: the full English is the only acceptable choice! Especially with Marmite on toast: gonna have some of that right now!
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There was a period of time in my life in which my usual breakfast consisted of a cup of milk and a cup of dark grape juice.
Nowadays I tend to eat a couple of cups of puffed cereal, dry.
When I am on vacation and walking around a lot,
I eat substantially more for breakfast.
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Og, King of Bashan
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
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Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
I'm big on Mexican cowboy-style breakfasts. Tortilla chips simmered in salsa verde with cheese, creme fraiche or sour cream, and a fried egg on top is an easy one to fix on a camp stove.
Chilaquiles, verdad? Me gusta! Para mi, sin huevos, por favor.*
* this is called chilaquiles, right? Make mine without eggs, please.
Yes, chilaquiles. If you have chips, salsa or sauce, and something else to fill them out, you have a meal. There is a somewhat related Tex-Mex dish called Migas, which are essentially a giant omelet with tortilla strips and Mexican fixings. That's another great breakfast.
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I have only tried those once, and they were awesome.
I also like to sample local variations on corned beef hash-- poached egg on top, please.
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In God's Country: huevos rancheros, with green chile and sopapillas, lots of black coffee.
When I'm in a "when's the next train back to Oxford?" mood: kippers, black pudding, fried mushrooms and tomato, fried eggs, wheat toast, lapsang souchong.
At upscale "diners:" migas, wheat toast, fresh-squeezed orange juice, more coffee.
At real diners: either the garbage plate ("we're cleaning the cooler, you get what you get") or chicken fried steak, eggs, and homefries, both with a pot of coffee.
On the rare days I'm feeling fancy at home (and actually wake up early enough for it): granola with Greek yogurt, dried dates, and maple syrup. Two pots of tea or a French press of Sidamo or Chiapas, depending on what I grab first in my half-concious pre-caffeinated haze.
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The presence of black pudding would remove my desire to have any meal. At breakfast, sorry, I would definitely leave the room.
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I'm with HB; even the sight of the words "black pudding" trigger my gag reflex. My breakfasts vary from season to season; my current favourite is overnight oatmeal with homemade apple butter. For a bit of self-indulgence on winter weekends, I'm fond of the loco moco adaptation from Breakfast for Dinner. Or homemade cinnamon buns. Mmmmm - cream cheese icing . . .
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Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:
I am firmly in the "bacon should not bend" camp.
Amen! And that goes perfectly with a plateful of grits topped with two over easy eggs and the crispy bacon crumbled (leaving one piece to enjoy whole.) Mix all that together, and enjoy with a pot of tea and a glass of grape juice spritzer!
But, my most common breakfast is steel-cut oats cooked with golden raisins, dried blueberries, nutmeg, cinnamon and walnuts. So good!
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My most common breakfast is instant oatmeal with dried cherries or frozen blueberries and a sprinkling of cinnamon or a cup of yoghurt.
Other breakfasts I'll get when I'm near the right place to get it.
Doughnuts.
Poppy bagels with cream cheese and lox and decaff coffee, pancakes with maple syrup, fresh berries or peaches, fried eggs, bacon or sausage and real home fries.
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Porridge made with water, with fresh fruit, no milk, no sugar, with a cup of tea, every day for the last 10+ years. Very very occasionally, toast with peanut butter (about twice a year, usually because I've run out of porridge).
I even take packets of porridge and a bowl with me if I'm going to be staying with friends or at a motel.
I find the cooked breakfast, as described above, makes me feel sick all day, and somewhat sleepy.
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I suppose it goes without saying that my standard cold weather breakfast is, well, porridge (though this side of the pond we call it oatmeal). I have it with blueberries, some chopped nuts or sunflower seed and maple syrup. And tea, though the tea comes first.
On cold mornings with sufficient leisure, I might have a couple of sausages or a fishcake (flaked cod mixed with mashed potatoes, coated with corn meal and fried); maybe substitute baked beans for the porridge.
Usually I also have 1-2 pieces of whole-wheat toast with cream cheese or peanut butter.
In hot weather, I like yoghurt with wheat germ or oat bran and some cut-up fruit, maybe with brown sugar if the fruit's tart. And cold tea (or sometimes iced coffee, with lots of milk).
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Ariston
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1. Bacon should never bend. This rules out most American diner bacon, which, since it's cooked quickly, rather than properly burned, bends. The only exception to this rule is in England or other places that think of "bacon" as back bacon, which, since it's basically pig steak, can bend all it wants.
2. Black pudding is delicious. All you fools who be hatin' can step off. Don't ask me why—I hate Marmite with a passion, I'll never eat another sausage roll, and I never miss a chance to slander pork pies—but I can't get enough black pudding. As far as English foods of questionable origin go, it's my favorite.
3. A point I've always wondered: is American "oatmeal" exactly the same as British "porridge?" In my mind, I've always thought of porridge as wheat-based, like American Cream of Wheat, but I'm thinking I might just be wrong.
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I like bendy bacon.
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Ariel
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Bacon should always bend. If it shatters, it's overdone. If you can't get a fork into it, chances are you won't get your teeth into it either.
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Originally posted by balaam:
But what about the mushrooms? Small button mushrooms or large flat ones — which is best?
Small button mushrooms, which should be fried in butter.
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Ariston
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Bacon should always bend. If it shatters, it's overdone. If you can't get a fork into it, chances are you won't get your teeth into it either.
Ah, but let me explain something to you, and all other British folk who may be reading this. When you think of "bacon," you mean back bacon, which, if cooked until crispy, would be inedible. Indeed, if what I called "bacon" was back bacon or gammon, I would agree with you. However, in the States, "bacon" is always stripy bacon—sliced pork belly, usually thinly sliced. Even "thick cut" deli bacon is never quite as thick as your typical rasher. If our bacon shatters, that means two things: one, it's been cooked in its own grease for a long time, and, secondly, that it'll disintegrate once you chew it at all. Crispy stripy bacon is one step away from a million tiny bits of crunchy bacon powder. While well-done back bacon would be chewy and dry, like a well-done sirloin steak, well-done (indeed, burned) stripy bacon is less chewy than floppy bacon.
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This Brit thinks bacon should be crispy.
And have the rind on it. Rindlessness in bacon is one of the few steps backwards that mass-produced food has made in the last couple of decades (the biggest being the decline in standard of supermarket bread since it got briefly good in the 1980s after having mostly been Chorleywood fluff for the previous thirty years. And don't talk about the excuse for wholemeal)
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There used to be a restaurant in Irvine, CA that served my all-time favorite breakfast. In a dish resembling a gravy boat, they placed a biscuit, split down the middle, then a spicy Louisiana sausage, split lengthwise, and then two eggs, fried or poached, depending on the customer's taste. This was all drowned in red-eye gravy.
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I love bendy bacon, sorry - though I'm not sure I've ever had streaky bacon at breakfast. Middle bacon is clearly the king of bacons, however. Lidl does a fine maple cure one.
Black pudding is delicious.
UK porridge is the same as US oatmeal - though since I can't eat oats (but can eat white wheat-based products for some reason) I can't have it at all. I am not big on sweet breakfasts though, aside from marmalade (should be barely sweet anyway!) and sugar in coffee.
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Originally posted by HCH:
There was a period of time in my life in which my usual breakfast consisted of a cup of milk and a cup of dark grape juice.
Nowadays I tend to eat a couple of cups of puffed cereal, dry...
Hardly a proper breakfast! My kids that I teach eat light-years healthier than that. Avoid cereal - too many bloody carbs! Why not try a steak with or without eggs or at least ham or sausages? You'll be getting your protein then! Barring that, at least have marmite and butter on toast...
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Sir Kevin, please remember that you're posting on the Heaven board. Keep the tone light, on topic, and avoid getting personal.
Thank you.
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Most days it's a pot of porridge at work (the kind you make up with water). But on holiday in the UK, the full English is great.
When visiting NYC back in 2005 we discovered the whole pancake/bacon/syrup thing and loved it. (Hello, Olympic Diner on 8th and ooh, about 48th? We miss you...)
In Germany I go for the whole 'umpteen types of cold meats, cheeses and breads' scenario. I could make a meal of that any time. And in Switzerland birchermuesli is wonderful.In France I can eat as many croissants as you can provide - hey, we'll walk off the calories later.
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Firenze
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I like black pudding, but its proper home is nestling under a seared scallop IMO.
Has anyone come across instant croissant? This appeared a few years ago in the UK - a small cardboard tube which, when you opened it, billowed out white dough. This you shaped and baked and in 10 minutes had something approximately croissantish.
Described this once to a French acquaintance, on to whose face came a look of horror 'That is terrific!*'
*not the word he was looking for but I know what he meant.
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Originally posted by Firenze:
I like black pudding, but its proper home is nestling under a seared scallop IMO.
Has anyone come across instant croissant? This appeared a few years ago in the UK - a small cardboard tube which, when you opened it, billowed out white dough. This you shaped and baked and in 10 minutes had something approximately croissantish.
Described this once to a French acquaintance, on to whose face came a look of horror 'That is terrific!*'
*not the word he was looking for but I know what he meant.
You can still get them I believe - used to love them as a child, we had the pain au chocolat type. They are popular in the US as 'crescent rolls'.
Gill, I too love a German/Dutch style breakfast of bread, cheese and cold meat. When I want a quick, cold breakfast I'd rather have that than cereal.
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You can still get them I believe - used to love them as a child, we had the pain au chocolat type.
Indeed. I came across something similar in Tesco just yesterday, which is what called it to mind. These seem rather more ambitious, with a choice of pain au chocolat, cinnamon bun or apple Danish. I thought I would try the last as a weekend treat and a change from virtuous porridge.
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In a tradition that dates back to Mrs E's debilitating morning sickness (ie quite a while ago), breakfast in bed when at home: orange juice, porridge (in winter) or fruit&fibre (summer) and tea. Secret to porridge is preparing the mix the night before and nuking it twice in the microwave whilst waiting for the kettle to boil. With skill and practice this can be done without opening my eyes too much.
When in a hotel, grapefruit juice, muesli + fruit + yoghurt plus the cooked breakfast if it looks edible and not made with dehydrated eggs, toast, coffee.
Ferry: full English, either the first taste of ancestral homeland on arrival or the last on leaving.
[ETA instant croissant? Perish the thought (and the croissant)]
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I have bought Jus Rol Croissants in my local Tesco recently. I enjoyed them but I'm no connoisseur.
I put jam or chocolate spread in mine before cooking for breakfast. Or ham and cheese for lunch.
My ideal breakfast is porridge (English style) followed by eggs Benedict and a latte. But a bacon and fried egg roll is also good.
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At home it's a cup of orange juice, bowl of cereal, cup of coffee and maybe a slice of toast and marmalade.
Travelling I would almost always opt for the local cuisine. So recently that was rice, varieties of fish, meso soup, vegies.
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Originally posted by rufiki:
I have bought Jus Rol Croissants in my local Tesco recently. I enjoyed them but I'm no connoisseur.
I put jam or chocolate spread in mine before cooking for breakfast. Or ham and cheese for lunch.
My ideal breakfast is porridge (English style) followed by eggs Benedict and a latte. But a bacon and fried egg roll is also good.
Hmmm now I'm pretty tempted to have a hot ham and cheese croissant for lunch!
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We tested those croissants in a tube when I was at school, against home-made and bought - all got to make one of the three and taste test. (That means they've been around for a long time). I think those tubes were the trigger for my sister to learn how to home-make croissants (now that would be a GBBO challenge).
The only time I eat full English is away with my daughter, and we're usually walking. We got given potato cakes in Glasgow, and they were delicious - shame she couldn't eat them - she got my fried eggs instead. Normally it's hash browns, bacon, fried/poached egg, baked beans, mushrooms (not cooked in butter) and tomatoes for her, and I'll eat most of that lot.
I like kippers, but not with bacon and eggs, they are an alternative breakfast, last time was over Christmas, nice Scottish kippers.
Nobody has added devilled kidneys to their breakfast options, or fried Christmas pudding (with bacon and full English) or kedgeree. A bastardisation of kedgeree is a frequent weekend breakfast, particularly when my daughter is around, bastardised because I tend to use smoked mackerel and take out the cream and butter.
What I really eat most days is porridge or muesli - and not the nasty sweetened stuff you find in hotels and hostels.
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I've just bought English muffins and gammon at the supermarket ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) ready for brunch tomorrow
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
We tested those croissants in a tube when I was at school, against home-made and bought - all got to make one of the three and taste test. (That means they've been around for a long time). I think those tubes were the trigger for my sister to learn how to home-make croissants (now that would be a GBBO challenge).
The only time I eat full English is away with my daughter, and we're usually walking. We got given potato cakes in Glasgow, and they were delicious - shame she couldn't eat them - she got my fried eggs instead. Normally it's hash browns, bacon, fried/poached egg, baked beans, mushrooms (not cooked in butter) and tomatoes for her, and I'll eat most of that lot.
I like kippers, but not with bacon and eggs, they are an alternative breakfast, last time was over Christmas, nice Scottish kippers.
Nobody has added devilled kidneys to their breakfast options, or fried Christmas pudding (with bacon and full English) or kedgeree. A bastardisation of kedgeree is a frequent weekend breakfast, particularly when my daughter is around, bastardised because I tend to use smoked mackerel and take out the cream and butter.
What I really eat most days is porridge or muesli - and not the nasty sweetened stuff you find in hotels and hostels.
I like kidneys so should probably try adding the devilled variety to my breakfasts.
If you have one nearby, Aldi and Lidl do particularly good luxury muesli. I can't eat it due to the oats, but it's absolutely crammed full of fruit and nuts.
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