What constitutes the perfect cooked breakfast?

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

 

 

[Chip Butty]

On 15/12/2019 at 01:48, arthur friedenreich said:

Any Melbourne / Victoria ba d breakfast heads see this stuff out and about, buy it, it’s fucking lovely, grabbed 2 slices at a farmers market yesterday, it’s a bit expenno, but it is the best I’ve had over here, the spice and fat ratio is spot on, tastes awesome.

Single origin? All others are picked out of human shit and used again? 

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, Chip Butty said:

Single origin? All others are picked out of human shit and used again? 

Thats their USP

[Remmie]

On 05/01/2020 at 20:49, General Dryness said:

Those fucking hash browns again. Horrible cunts. 

Preach on Brother!

[aRdja]

could someone visit this joint and report back please?

[aRdja]

On 08/01/2020 at 04:12, Chip Butty said:

Single origin? All others are picked out of human shit and used again? 

Made from the blood of one cow.

[Guest]

On 07/01/2020 at 19:43, lifetime fan said:

Was too fucked to do a full breakfast this morning but the bird wanted eggs. 
 

After all the shit I’ve taken for not having the shite on my breakfast thought I’d post an example...

 

 

That's either the biggest egg in the world or the smallest frying pan in the world.

[Elite]

29 minutes ago, viRdjil said:

could someone visit this joint and report back please?

Looks nice there, not sure about the side of soup though.

[Barrington Womble]

On 07/01/2020 at 21:12, Chip Butty said:

Single origin? All others are picked out of human shit and used again? 

Hahaha. I think (but I might be wrong) but oats are harvested with something else (wheat I think) and it's all batched up and shipped off to be split out at a big splitting out place. This is why lots of oats in food are regarded as containing gluten, but it's actually come off the wheat it was harvested with. If oats are not harvested with wheat, they are then gluten free. So I'm guessing single origin oats is a nice marketing way of saying it's gluten free and provides a chance to over charge a little more. 

[Pidge]

2 hours ago, viRdjil said:

could someone visit this joint and report back please?

Soup on a full english?

[Remmie]

1 hour ago, Pidge said:

Soup on a full english?

It beats beans

[General Dryness]

On 08/01/2020 at 11:08, Remmie said:

Preach on Brother!

I will never let their inclusion on a breakfast plate go without comment Rem.

 

They are a fucking abomination. 

[Pidge]

12 minutes ago, Remmie said:

It beats beans

I think it's bean soup.

[Remmie]

18 minutes ago, General Dryness said:

I will never let their inclusion on a breakfast plate go without comment Rem.

 

They are a fucking abomination. 

They are an incredibly bland, greasy, poor use of potatoes and an unwelcome American interloper.  

 

They can fuck right off to Wigan.

[Barrington Womble]

1 hour ago, Pidge said:

I think it's bean soup.

Fucking microwaved beans. Cook them in a pan you lazy cunts. 

[Tony Moanero]

4 minutes ago, Barry Wom said:

Fucking beans. Leave them on the supermarket shelf, you cunts. 

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[Bjornebye]

6 hours ago, viRdjil said:

could someone visit this joint and report back please?

That roast on the right needs gravy. 

[aRdja]

Sad times.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/18/fry-up-toast-full-breakfast-death-demise?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

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The fry-up may be toast – but, much to my own surprise, I don’t really care

Tony Naylor

The full breakfast has been declared dead many times. But this time reports of its demise are, perhaps, not exaggerated

 

Published: 19:00 Saturday, 18 January 2020

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In the 1980s, there was only one meal that mattered to me: Sunday breakfast. A break from monotonous cereal or toast, my dad’s full breakfast was the highlight of the food week.

True, his signature dish (naturally, this was the only time he cooked), would not have flown at the Wolseley – or any self-respecting high street cafe, for that matter. He had taken this originally conspicuous symbol of Victorian prosperity and pared it back to an ultra-convenient, cut-price pleasure. Who needs bacon when you can fry luncheon meat with your eggs and serve that with hotdog sausages and tinned tomatoes enriched with semi-skimmed and Kwik Save No Frills cheddar? “That is not a full breakfast,” you may cry, “that is child neglect.” But to a man who grew up in postwar Salford (and me), it seemed like heaven. With extra fried bread.

For years afterwards, the full breakfast continued to feel gloriously self-indulgent. In the era before wall-to-wall Wetherspoons and Egg McMuffins, when eating breakfast out was still a glamorous novelty, an uncle of mine who lived on a different timetable to most Salfordians used to take me to a Swinton pub that served breakfast on Sunday morning. Ordering the full breakfast was almost compulsory in this high-rolling world. Later, at hotels, the morning after a wedding, say, it was often a hangover-busting lifesaver. Or so it seemed.

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Yet today, I cannot remember the last time I ate one. And I am not alone. A new poll for Ginger Research found that almost 20% of 18- to 30-year-olds surveyed have never eaten a full breakfast. Their reasons may make you despair: 27% said they hate black pudding. Far worse, 42% of naysayers (and 100% of terrible snobs) said it “reminded them of men in vests hanging around in transport cafes”. But this does chime with wider (sales) reports of a gradual generational shift away from the big brekkie. At least until “greasy spoon” becomes a hot, ironic aesthetic on Instagram.

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Of course there have been many exaggerated reports of the death of the full breakfast down through the years and I wouldn’t want overegg talk of its decline now. In fact, according to abstract polls, the full breakfast continues to exert a firm grip on our collective imagination. In a 2017 YouGov survey 83% of English people described themselves as fans. A recent study for the Grocer found the full breakfast was Britain’s favourite cooked option and, anecdotally, cafe owners report that it is still a bestseller. And it remains popular even in hip venues that offer all those smashed avo and chia porridge options that so trigger certain internet-dwelling middle-aged men.

Yet, in an increasingly multiracial and ecologically aware UK, where greater numbers are avoiding pork products for religious or green reasons, and at a time when “wellness” is a cultural juggernaut, the full breakfast is undoubtedly, at some level, on the back foot.

‘ In the last decade, Britain’s breakfast-brunch scene has evolved into one of UK food’s most exciting strands.’ Customers queue outside the Breakfast Club cafe in Soho, London. Photograph: Alamy

My diminishing interest has followed a similar pattern. Justifiably or not, I treat the processed meat-cancer link with blithe “we’re all dying, every day” fatalism. We cannot eat our way to immortality. But, circa 1998, when I was topping 18 stone, I did decide the full-breakfast blowout was calories I could live without. I had begun to doubt its efficacy as a hangover cure, too. For all that restorative cysteine in the eggs, eating a mound of grease and carbs seemed increasingly (blood rushing to your stomach as you flop, lightheaded on the sofa) to be doing more harm than good. In 2020, as I try to minimise my meat consumption and shopping budget, it is hardly a meal I will go back to.

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Not least because it now seems a boring option. In the last decade, Britain’s breakfast-brunch scene has evolved into one of UK food’s most exciting strands; with breakfast as an event and time slot growing as lunch and dinner decline. Inspired by the laidback atmosphere, globetrotting menus and superlative coffee on offer in Antipodean cafes (key dates on the timeline: Flat White and Lantana opening in London in 2005 and 2008), the UK is now awashwith venues offering something similar. From Belfast’s General Merchants to Laynes in Leeds, Idle Hands in Manchester to Glasgow’s William Cafe, you are never far someone doing zingy, flavour-packed things with shakshuka, French toast, huevos rotos and sweetcorn fritters. All of which put the rather one-note, savoury slog of the full breakfast in the shade. Note: you can get smashed avocado in Wetherspoons now.

So Britain’s breakfast horizons, particularly for the under-40s most likely to eat out, have widened enormously. Each new morning is full of possibility; even if at home we stick to cereal or eggs. Now one option among many, the full breakfast’s appeal has been diluted.

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Do I care? Not a lot, as I order harissa fried eggs on sourdough with avocado, dukkah and labneh at Sheffield’s Forge Bakehouse. Just don’t tell my dad.

• Tony Naylor is a Manchester-based journalist

 

[Mudface]

10 minutes ago, viRdjil said:

Sad times.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/18/fry-up-toast-full-breakfast-death-demise?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

 

Was just reading that, while softly weeping. '27% say they hate black pudding'. No wonder Brexit happened.

[Bob]

On 11/01/2020 at 07:18, viRdjil said:

could someone visit this joint and report back please?

Strange choice to have a bowl of gazpacho on the side, but otherwise looks good that.

[aRdja]

@Dougie Do'ins or @Barry Wom post some reviews please!

[Barrington Womble]

5 minutes ago, viRdjil said:

@Dougie Do'ins or @Barry Wom post some reviews please!

I've not had a fry up aside from on at Ma Wom's for a while. I am breakfast free till next month. 

[aRdja]

Fairshares needs to try eggs ‘over hard’.

[Numero Veinticinco]

He doesn't, he needs to cook his eggs properly. There's no need for slimy stuff. You can have a runny yolk and cooked white. 

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

Strange choice to have a bowl of gazpacho on the side, but otherwise looks good that.

I make my own gazpacho. Been loving it since I went to Madrid.