Americans try an English breakfast

I sometimes also make American-style breakfast sausage from scratch with pork, red pepper flakes, sage, and ground cloves. Tastes real good too, just like Jimmy Dean’s! :o

When I visited Ireland, we stayed in B&Bs and had a full Irish breakfast every morning. It’s similar to the English, except with the addition of brown soda bread (which was wonderful, and could make up a meal all by itself). I don’t know if that’s what Irish folk eat on a regular basis, but it was great for us as travelers, who didn’t know where the good places were to stop for lunch, and didn’t want to take the time out of sightseeing for it anyway.

For what it’s worth, the actual typical American breakfast (for those who eat any at all) is probably either a bowl of cereal and milk, or a donut or two and a cup of coffee. But of course, few people are going to eat like that if we’re “eating out”. An eating-out breakfast is probably going to be based on either eggs or pancakes/waffles/French toast, with a side of ham, some sort of sausage, or bacon. If eggs, you’ll probably also have toast, and if pancakes/waffles/French toast, you’ll have butter and maple syrup. Sometimes (especially in the South), it might be biscuits and gravy instead (which might come with an egg or two as a side).

Which is why it (plus ibuprofen) was my everyday breakfast when I visited London :wink:

But they make up for it later.

Fatty fat fat American here oppressing the world with a breakfast of a couple slices of toast with peanut butter and a cup of coffee. Only cuz it’s the weekend and have a few to actually put a semi breakfast together. During the week I’m too busy nation building to have time for breakfast.

I used to fry kipper snacks in butter, and eat them with scrambled eggs and toast. The SO isn’t keen on that sort of thing though, so I haven’t had it in years. (I’ve also had frozen Scottish kippers. Good, but kipper snacks have no bones.)

Had plenty of kippers, but instead of, rather than with, a full breakfast.

Overcome the saltiness with grilled tomatoes and plenty of hot buttered toast – and tea, of course. You’ll still be tasting kipper all day though.

I’ve said the same sort of thing in another thread awhile ago. I wouldn’t have a breakfast like that at home or when I was a student in the UK, but when I’m traveling there now, I usually have a full breakfast at the hotel. I’ll be out hiking or on a train, or otherwise occupied with activities through most of the day and might not get another chance to eat until late in the afternoon. So I don’t have to think about food again until tea-time.

I’ve tried kippers a few times, but don’t care much for them. The bones are too hard and sharp to just eat, like in sardines, so you spend a lot of time picking them out.

We do a full English breakfast around Casa Silenus fairly regularly, only sans black pudding. Imported beans as well. The spices are different, and it makes a subtle difference. Unlike the OP, I love grilled tomatoes. We also have both HP and Daddies sauces available in house.

They soften up a bit when you saute them in sweet butter.

My wife and I drove all around Ireland and stayed at a different B&B each night. Every breakfast was slightly different in the details, but it was always good. I think I only got soda bread once, though. I was craving blood sausage for weeks, and whatever it was they called “bacon.”

As with chilled monkey brains, you should relish the experience:

Three Little Pigs - :smiley:

For some reason **this **came to mind:

- YouTube :smiley:

So that would be daily, right?

Is that before or after you go to the shooting range with your concealed-carry Tommy gun? Or both? As an American, you know that it is impossible to eat too much. :smiley:

I love kippers. When I went to France on the QE2 in 1980 we had real English breakfasts every morning, and I think I had kippers half the time.
Plus I’ve had one at the Savoy Hotel in London, with toast racks and the whole deal.
Amazing.

Johnny Cash explains the problem of Beans for Breakfast.

Same here. I’ve been to Ye Olde King’s Head in Santa Monica, and up until now, was unaware that they even served breakfast. I must have arrived later than you, Johnny. :slight_smile:

I worked in Scotland for a couple of months at a luxury country house hotel, and for something like two weeks straight I ate a full Scottish breakfast that included kippers. IIRC, their “full Scottish” was grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, banger, egg, kipper, black pudding, baked beans, and a bacon rasher. And some toast. Lovely, but after fifteen days or so of eating this for breakfast, I thought that maybe wasn’t such a good idea and turned to something lighter.

Marmite on toast?* :dubious:

*That’s what I just had, with cheese. :o