Breakfast on the M4
Jul 5th, 2013, 03:05 PM
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In Canada, crisp is common. In the UK, burned is common. ;-)
No slur intended, it's a joke. Again based on personal experience. Hard eggs and burned bacon along with burned toast.
Just remembered the other difference. In N. America we like to butter our toast while the toast is still hot. In the UK your toast generally arrives cold. Often it even gets served in a little toast holder which holds the individual slices apart, thus insuring they cool off even faster. I got used to that one though eventually.
Now for a really healthy breakfast, nothing beats a slice of fried bread. A slice of white bread put into the fry pan to soak up all the grease from cooking the bacon. That's a real treat in the UK. Clogged arteries here I come. To be fair I think it is losing popularity though.
The worst breakfast food in N. America has to be grits in the US southeast I'd say.
Annhig, if you are referring to my 'hard eggs' comment re being the usual in the UK, what I meant was that the eggs come sunny side up with the yolk hard. They do not generally ask how you want your egg. ie. sunny side up, over easy or anything else. The cook (misnomer) 'cooks' it till it acquires a consistency close to rubber and that is how it comes.
No slur intended, it's a joke. Again based on personal experience. Hard eggs and burned bacon along with burned toast.
Just remembered the other difference. In N. America we like to butter our toast while the toast is still hot. In the UK your toast generally arrives cold. Often it even gets served in a little toast holder which holds the individual slices apart, thus insuring they cool off even faster. I got used to that one though eventually.
Now for a really healthy breakfast, nothing beats a slice of fried bread. A slice of white bread put into the fry pan to soak up all the grease from cooking the bacon. That's a real treat in the UK. Clogged arteries here I come. To be fair I think it is losing popularity though.
The worst breakfast food in N. America has to be grits in the US southeast I'd say.
Annhig, if you are referring to my 'hard eggs' comment re being the usual in the UK, what I meant was that the eggs come sunny side up with the yolk hard. They do not generally ask how you want your egg. ie. sunny side up, over easy or anything else. The cook (misnomer) 'cooks' it till it acquires a consistency close to rubber and that is how it comes.
Jul 5th, 2013, 06:20 PM
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No - when I have ordered eggs n the UK they always seem to come half cooked. When I explained that scrambled eggs are supposed to be firm - not runny - they told me I was asking for "hard" eggs. No - I just wanted cooked ones - not half scrambled and half watery.
I gave up on English breakfasts after never being able to get one that was edible (and I really didn't want them anyway). Finally focused on cereals - but then hard to get anything but corn flakes, kids things or that ground up floor thing (Why no normal adult cereal - raisin bran, multi-grain cheerios, etc with fruit on top?)
I gave up on English breakfasts after never being able to get one that was edible (and I really didn't want them anyway). Finally focused on cereals - but then hard to get anything but corn flakes, kids things or that ground up floor thing (Why no normal adult cereal - raisin bran, multi-grain cheerios, etc with fruit on top?)
Jul 5th, 2013, 11:18 PM
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<i>In Canada, crisp is common. In the UK, burned is common. ;-)
No slur intended, it's a joke. Again based on personal experience. Hard eggs and burned bacon along with burned toast.</i>
Well that's certainly not the norm, I'd say it was the other way round - I've yet to have bacon anywhere in North America that wasn't streaky and burnt to a crisp. We travel all over the world and it's become a tradition in our house that as soon as we get home we nip round the local shop for some bacon to make a classic British bacon butty (we always go for the thickest cuts of unsmoked back bacon). Not burnt at all - it should look like this:- http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/pictures/...5491_bacon.jpg .I'm just about to go into my kitchen right now to get the coffee and the bacon on for brekkie.
No slur intended, it's a joke. Again based on personal experience. Hard eggs and burned bacon along with burned toast.</i>
Well that's certainly not the norm, I'd say it was the other way round - I've yet to have bacon anywhere in North America that wasn't streaky and burnt to a crisp. We travel all over the world and it's become a tradition in our house that as soon as we get home we nip round the local shop for some bacon to make a classic British bacon butty (we always go for the thickest cuts of unsmoked back bacon). Not burnt at all - it should look like this:- http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/pictures/...5491_bacon.jpg .I'm just about to go into my kitchen right now to get the coffee and the bacon on for brekkie.
Jul 6th, 2013, 12:33 AM
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I remember having breakfast in Nevada. I had waffles and Canon Chasuble had french toast and bacon. Two little jugs of syrup arrived. I told the Canon that one was to put on his bacon but he wouldn't believe me.
The toast, warm and soggy or cooling and crisp is like the argument between the big and small endians in Lilliput.
Personally, I catch it as it pings out of the toaster and butter it at once.
An American friend loves a soft boiled egg with "soldiers" in England but always has to ask for the egg to be soft. She asked why landladies assume that Americans want hard eggs and she was told that they have a terror of salmonella poisoning.
The toast, warm and soggy or cooling and crisp is like the argument between the big and small endians in Lilliput.
Personally, I catch it as it pings out of the toaster and butter it at once.
An American friend loves a soft boiled egg with "soldiers" in England but always has to ask for the egg to be soft. She asked why landladies assume that Americans want hard eggs and she was told that they have a terror of salmonella poisoning.
Jul 6th, 2013, 12:37 AM
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US : Burnt streaky bacon
UK : Too soft back bacon
I had my first bacon butty this summer, from the rugby club no less. Is it still called that if they put a fried egg on it? Well, I don't like back bacon and I don't like my eggs fried but combining the two and a cool, crisp, bright Sunday morning watching rugby was absolute heaven!
I also prefer all the options in the US. At our diner we have a dish called The BIg Mike (of course). It's completely customizable and no two are ever the same. There can be so much variety, why ever assume we all want it the same way?
nytraveler -- I worry about your troubles finding a decent breakfast on your travels.
Now, since I've already had a big breakfast this week and there will be a Wimbledon garden party later, I'm off for a light breakfast of tea and brioche. The sun is shining and it looks like its going to be a beautiful day!
UK : Too soft back bacon
I had my first bacon butty this summer, from the rugby club no less. Is it still called that if they put a fried egg on it? Well, I don't like back bacon and I don't like my eggs fried but combining the two and a cool, crisp, bright Sunday morning watching rugby was absolute heaven!
I also prefer all the options in the US. At our diner we have a dish called The BIg Mike (of course). It's completely customizable and no two are ever the same. There can be so much variety, why ever assume we all want it the same way?
nytraveler -- I worry about your troubles finding a decent breakfast on your travels.
Now, since I've already had a big breakfast this week and there will be a Wimbledon garden party later, I'm off for a light breakfast of tea and brioche. The sun is shining and it looks like its going to be a beautiful day!
Jul 6th, 2013, 07:34 AM
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I had my first bacon butty this summer, from the rugby club no less. Is it still called that if they put a fried egg on it?>>
then it's called a bacon and egg butty BKP. nothing too imaginative for us brits.
<<Annhig, if you are referring to my 'hard eggs' comment re being the usual in the UK, what I meant was that the eggs come sunny side up with the yolk hard. They do not generally ask how you want your egg. ie. sunny side up, over easy or anything else. The cook (misnomer) 'cooks' it till it acquires a consistency close to rubber and that is how it comes.>>
nyt- they definitely come sunny side up [we don't have tradition of flipping them over as in the US] but normally the white is cooked but the yolk is runny. It may be that like improvisor, you're suffering from the landlady's assumption that being from the US, you like them well-cooked. i agree with you about the cold toast - why do they bring it half-way through the cereal?
as for fried bread, it may be a wonderful invention but i prefer to leave my arteries unclogged.
then it's called a bacon and egg butty BKP. nothing too imaginative for us brits.
<<Annhig, if you are referring to my 'hard eggs' comment re being the usual in the UK, what I meant was that the eggs come sunny side up with the yolk hard. They do not generally ask how you want your egg. ie. sunny side up, over easy or anything else. The cook (misnomer) 'cooks' it till it acquires a consistency close to rubber and that is how it comes.>>
nyt- they definitely come sunny side up [we don't have tradition of flipping them over as in the US] but normally the white is cooked but the yolk is runny. It may be that like improvisor, you're suffering from the landlady's assumption that being from the US, you like them well-cooked. i agree with you about the cold toast - why do they bring it half-way through the cereal?
as for fried bread, it may be a wonderful invention but i prefer to leave my arteries unclogged.
