Fried bread AND toast my good fellow 
Yes Sal, a rasher is a slice
We had a few “fried bread??” comments in the other recent thread. I can’t believe nobody in America has ever looked at piece of bread and thought “hmm, I wonder if you could fry that” 
Mind you, I can’t stand fried bread myself. All you can taste is fat.
So enlighten us on the frying of bread. Is it … breaded :eek: then deep-fried? Fried in a skillet? Like chicken?
I can’t imagine why you’d eat toast AND fried bread; but then again, you lost me totally at the blood sausage. <barf>
It’s just a plain slice of bread fried in bacon fat, usually the fat rendered into the pan right after cooking bacon.
Fried bread is a slice of ordinary white bread shallow fired in either bacon fat or lard until it’s nice and crisp. And we don’t call it blood sausage, it’s black pudding
Edit, acsenray beat me to it.!
Well, there’s this in Feet of Clay:
Of course, while Dragon King of Arms may have been on the vagon, I don’t know if he was formally a black ribboner – perhaps they have stricter rules.
Ah-ha.
This thread reminds me why I put on five pounds in a week spent in England and Wales.
[DEL]Blood sausage[/DEL] Black pudding isn’t bad. It’s not like a bag of clotted blood or anything (please, someone, rename “clotted cream”. The stuff is fantastic, but it took longer for me to try it than blood pudding, just because of the “clotted” part). Anyway, although I don’t know how they make it, it seems to be mostly normal sausage stuff and tastes not at all like blood. Hot dogs gross me out more than black pudding does. Try it some time. The German version, “blutwurst” or something, also isn’t bad, if you like German sausage.
Dear Jebus! …I’d have to spend two weeks on the cross trainer after all that.
Perhaps Churchill would still be alive were it not for the English breakfast.
I doubt it very much, he’d be 134 years old
WHOOSH on you! 
So, why to you guys let the toast go cold? Well, I know, so the butter won’t melt, but that’s the whole point of toast, innit?
Gee, my very first whooshing
I feel so proud.
::Charlie:: Cold toast is really quite nice, 'specially with chunky marmalade on it
We don’t? I eat warm toast with the butter melted in straight from under the grill/the toaster.
So do I.
But I know what Charlie Tan is talking about - in some hotels, and at some elderly* people’s houses, the put the toast in a toast rack, where it gets cold. I think it’s to stop it getting soggy, but I’ve never seen the point of it myself.
*ETA: apologies to chowder.
I actually prefer cold toast with marmalade. If you use hot toast it gets too soggy and a bit yucky.
As a matter of fact you young whippersnapper that’s exactly why it’s placed on a toast rack, to stop it getting all soggy and sticking to us old 'uns gums.
Wait until you’re old and decrepit, in the meantime gerroff my bloody lawn
fuckin’ kids, no respect these days
I hadn’t had a proper fry-up for weeks, but I was visiting a friend last night and we went out for several pints followed by a curry in a worryingly empty Indian restaurant, so what better way to sort out the head and stomach this morning than the following:
Sausage (long, cheap quality)
Bacon (four thick rashers, extra salty)
Egg (one, fried)
Fried bread (one slice, forming a base for egg)
Mushrooms (large handful, fried)
Tomatoes (two, fried)
Beans (baked, Heinz in tomato sauce)
Tea (builder’s strength, in mug (white, slightly chipped) large enough to bath a baby in)
Toast (two slices, white, buttered)
The above was one of the smaller set breakfasts, a bargain at £4.80 I think you’ll agree.
Had I had a really hearty appetite I could have gone for the “Big Breakfast” which from memory consisted of:
2 x sausage
2 x fried egg
1 x fried bread
4 x bacon
1 x hash brown
2 x tomatoes
mushrooms
beans
black pudding
2 x toast
tea
and still only £6.
Guaranteed to cure any hangover.
This makes me sad. That’s like $12 in our currency – you’d get twice as much food at an IHOP for that. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to afford Britain again. 