# I don't want the beans **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 6, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375 "2003-12-06T14:33:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![\_possum\_stalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b77776/32.png) [@\_possum\_stalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_possum_stalker)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/21 "2003-12-06T23:59:55Z")
I’m fine with the beans, it’s the dread black pudding ([“essentially congealed pig’s blood in a length of intestine”](http://www.g4cio.demon.co.uk/bpudding/pudding.htm)) I can’t fathom. I’ll stick with my 'ol fav: soymilk and an apple. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/22 "2003-12-07T00:03:46Z")
A glass of OJ? What insanely heathy part of the Continent have YOU visited? Continental Breakfast is two rolls, a huge cup of hot milk with a little coffee in it, and eight cigarettes. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/23 "2003-12-07T00:20:47Z")
I’ve apparently been eating far too many Americanized “healthy” continental breakfasts… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Daizy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@Daizy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daizy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/24 "2003-12-07T00:38:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Me and a few of my co-workers decide to eat breakfast at the local supermarket. Now **that’s** messed up! Where’s lunch? The shoe store? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/25 "2003-12-07T00:39:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Daizy \* > \*\*Now that’s messed up! > Where’s lunch? The shoe store? 😛 \*\* I hear they’re having breakfast at Tif… No…too easy… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/26 "2003-12-07T00:40:41Z")
Um…ok. I need to finish my posts before I hit submit. I was going to say that some supermarkets even here in the States have cafes in them. I can see eating breakfast in a supermarket. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/27 "2003-12-07T00:42:52Z")
There’s been a trend in the UK over the last few years for very large out-of-town supermarkets. Large car parks, free bus services, creche facilities, cafes, post office services, pharmacy services, you name it. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/28 "2003-12-07T01:38:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eonwe \* > \*\*How 'bout beans, beans, sausage, beans, beans, eggs, bacon, and beans? It hasn’t got much beans in it. \*\* My thoughts exactly, **Eonwe**. That OP had Monty Python written all over it. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/29 "2003-12-07T01:52:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spogga \* > \*\*A typical full English breakfast is:- > > Eggs,bacon,sausage,beans,_tomatoes_,fried bread,hash browns,toast,black pudding,mushrooms. > > \*\* I hope your supermarket tomatoes are better than ours, which basically resemble spheres of pink granite in consistency and taste. Does the table service include a mallet and trepanning chisel? ---
**Author:** ![Akatsukami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@Akatsukami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akatsukami)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/30 "2003-12-07T02:43:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crusoe \* > \*\*Bread, fried. Revolting stuff; it’s bread cooked in a frying pan full of oil. Lest anyone panic at the state of British arteries, full English breakfasts are not _de rigeur_ for us on a daily basis. \*\* The heck with the British _arteries_, how about the British _palate_? 😛 (Although I have to note in defense of Merrie Old Cuisine that the only real difference between fried bread and French toast is that the latter is soaked in beaten eggs before being fried.) ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/31 "2003-12-07T04:24:29Z")
I adore fried bread. Preferably with olive oil and minced garlic. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/32 "2003-12-07T04:46:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cerri \* > \*\*I adore fried bread. Preferably with olive oil and minced garlic. \*\* Ah. A 1990s-style death crouton. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/33 "2003-12-07T04:56:53Z")
> [@](#): > > WOMAN “You served me last Saturday, you must remember” Aw, c’mon. You really expect us to believe that the waitress couldn’t remember this woman who is, out of all the hundreds of people the waitress serves every day, surely the most important and most memorable one?! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/34 "2003-12-07T04:58:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kaylasdad99 \* > \*\*My thoughts exactly, **Eonwe**. That OP had Monty Python written all over it. \*\* “I’m having beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, baked beans, beans, beans, beans, and beans!” “Baked beans are off!” “Well, could I have her beans instead of the baked beans then?” ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/35 "2003-12-07T06:42:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 'possum stalker \* > \*\* > > I’ll stick with my 'ol fav: soymilk and an apple. \*\* Oh, pleeeese tell me you’re kidding? Nobody really eats that crap do they? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/36 "2003-12-07T07:02:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Akatsukami \* > **The heck with the British _arteries_, how about the British _palate_? 😛** Ah, the secret history of the modern world. The French conquer a place, the British immediately attack in the hopes of getting a decent meal. Note for the Humour Impaired: as I am currently involved in the pit for one serious comment and one frivolous comment, I will be unable to deal with national outrage or serious historical debate until about Tuesday. In the meantime, please feel free to consider the above a throwaway line not worthy of your time and attention. I abjectly appologize to the British, the French, the colonized peoples, and to the Germans for not mentioning them. ---
**Author:** ![GaterMouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f1d935/32.png) [@GaterMouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaterMouth)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/37 "2003-12-07T07:25:43Z")
😃 Faber beans with liver…YUMMMMM 😃 ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/38 "2003-12-07T07:53:33Z")
\*\* astroboy \*\* for your info [and anyone elses] fried bread is not made in a pan FULL of hot oil \*\* crusoe \*\* here is the method A LITTLE oil is poured into frying pan and heated until smoking and then the bread is put into the pan, allowed to fry on one side for about 90 secs and the turned over for a repeat performance. Comes out lovely and crisp, try it. CRUSOE being a soft suvvener hasn’t a clue what he’s talking about. We Northerners on the other hand are real hard men 🙂 \*\* possum stalker \*\* black pudding is pigs blood WITH chunks of fat in it. You can deep fry it, boil it,grill it but it must be eaten with ENGLISH mustard. Stuff that built the Empire boys. distant trumpet sounds “taps” ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/39 "2003-12-07T07:53:33Z")
\*\* astroboy \*\* for your info [and anyone elses] fried bread is not made in a pan FULL of hot oil \*\* crusoe \*\* here is the method A LITTLE oil is poured into frying pan and heated until smoking and then the bread is put into the pan, allowed to fry on one side for about 90 secs and the turned over for a repeat performance. Comes out lovely and crisp, try it. CRUSOE being a soft suvvener hasn’t a clue what he’s talking about. We Northerners on the other hand are real hard men 🙂 \*\* possum stalker \*\* black pudding is pigs blood WITH chunks of fat in it. You can deep fry it, boil it,grill it but it must be eaten with ENGLISH mustard. Stuff that built the Empire boys. distant trumpet sounds “taps” ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-the-beans/217375/40 "2003-12-07T07:56:58Z")
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