Campaign for more fried breakfasts

[EastEnder]

I think there should be one.

You're not getting any younger, it's time to start thinking about your arteries.

Learn to love muesli.

 

[Stig]

I had a fry-up with lavabread in the mumbles. It's poison, and I'm pretty sure it's not fried.

It's not poison, it's seaweed, and it is an essential ingredient in a proper Swansea breakfast. Or tea.
Nice bit of slimey green lavabread fried with bacon with a doorstep of well buttered toast. You don't need anything else.

Normal fried breakfasts are a bit greasy and wrong IMO, I've gone off them a bit recently...

 

[dash_two]

I like caffs a lot but many don't do a very good fried breakfast these days imo. All too often they just stick everything in the deep fat fryer and use really low-grade catering sausages. Some won't even do scrambled egg for you or else 'cook' it in the microwave, which is Not The Way To Do It.

 

[PacificOcean]

Pancakes with Sausage and Mayple Syrup from McDonalds is the food of the Gods.

If McDonalds version tastes that nice, I wonder what proper pancakes must be like.

 

[Badgers]

Pancakes with Sausage and Mayple Syrup from McDonalds is the food of the Gods.

If McDonalds version tastes that nice, I wonder what proper pancakes must be like.

The Sausage and egg Mcmuffin is pretty much the only thing worth eating at Maccas

 

[twistedAM]

Pancakes with Sausage and Mayple Syrup from McDonalds is the food of the Gods.

If McDonalds version tastes that nice, I wonder what proper pancakes must be like.

Dans on Guadalupe around 66th in Austin, TX is where you want to go but id' personally go for links, biscuits and gravy.

Oh my god, the southern states know how to do breakfast.

My other fave in Austin was Ananda's #3 which did breakfast burritos from heaven (scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, chorizo and salsa in a fresh flour tortilla).

London greasy spoons??? Nah.

 

[Onket]

Based on what you've just typed give me a London greasy spoon every time.

I'd give your Yank stuff a go though.

 

[mrsfran]

I could get a fried breakfast for less than £3 every day if i chose to, my work canteen does the full whack - hash browns, beans, tomatoes, eggy bread, sausages, bacon, toast, mushrooms, etc.

I don't though. That way madness (and fatness) lies.

 

[tarannau]

The best thing that can be said about American breakfasts is that the fruit on the buffet tends to be good. The (crispy) bacon's invariably shite, the sausages in the form of salted yet strangely anodyne patties, the pastries made with all the finesse of a forklift, the eggs given multiple cooking technique names, but generally fried badly. And maple syrup for breakfast is frankly rank - I'd rather eat my own bodyweight in sugar coated ricicles.

Stand up proud, the British breakfast is one of our finest common culinary achievements. We can't do many things well, but even my local greasy spoon and 2-bit cafe serve a better continental or fry up than several leading US hotel chains I can mention, the poncefests that are the W hotels included.

 

[Termite Man]

Who can be arsed with a fry up at home? Unless there are loads of you you need small amounts of loads of bits, and you end up using every single pan and plate you own, so instead of sitting back in your chair with a ciggy/cuppa and paper, you end up staring at a mountain of washing up!

I have a huge frying pan that can fit in all the ingredients so I only use 1 pan ( and one for the beans of course )

 

[rutabowa]

I have a huge frying pan that can fit in all the ingredients so I only use 1 pan ( and one for the beans of course )

you can put the beans in there too you know, taht's my "special"... then stick the whole lot in a sandwich.

 

[subversplat]

I wish more caffs did a vegan fried breakfast. Fried mushrooms, tomatoes and beans on unbuttered toast gets a bit samey

 

[tarannau]

I'm glad they don't. What the hell's the point of a vegan fried breakfast?

The veggie fried breakfast alternatives are gakking generally - I'd rather have a good quality sandwich any time than impersonations of bacon bits, strange tasting sausages and other things which don't adequately cover up the lack of the meat centerpieces. Cauldron sausages are just about ok, but they're not often served and don't taste like a decent breakfast banger for some reason.

Take away the bacon/sausages and then the eggs and what's really left of a fry up? The toast and the boring extras...

 

[scifisam]

I absolutely love veggie fried breakfasts. Veggie sausage, veggie burger too sometimes (with melted cheese), mushrooms, beans, tomato, bubble and squeak, scrambled or fried egg, chips or hash browns - if I could fit all of that on one plate and in one stomach, I'd have it every day.

No toast or fried bread or even ordinary bread because I can't eat wheat, which is a damn shame because there is nothing better than getting to the end of a lovely fried breakfast and using a slice of white bread to mop up the last of the egg and tomatoes.

 

[Calva dosser]

The trick is not to over do it with the ingredients.

2 Rashers dry cure
1 Lincoln sausage
3 cored and black peppered kidneys.
half an ailsa craig tomato, slightly green
half a field mushroom.
2 triangles of pre-buttered shitty white bread.
a large free range egg from the bottom of a fine Devon hen.

All fried in clarified unsalted Cornish butter.

To be consumed with Perrys cider, Cripple Cock, or at a pinch Old Rosie.

Don't bother with the sexual fantasies anymore

 

[angryfaceman]

Pancakes with Sausage and Mayple Syrup from McDonalds is the food of the Gods.

If McDonalds version tastes that nice, I wonder what proper pancakes must be like.

Proper pancakes with really nice crispy bacon and some sausage meat patties, all covered in butter and maple syrup is ace. Jamie Oliver has a recipe for the american pancakes, bit of a faff but worth it every now and then! yum.

Think i need something fried now. Best fried brekkie round here is too far though (20miles) so will have to save it for a special treat. I'm also kind of lamenting the loss of lots of little chefs. they were generally a bit poor but the Olympic breakfast was always good

 

[subversplat]

I absolutely love veggie fried breakfasts. Veggie sausage, veggie burger too sometimes (with melted cheese), mushrooms, beans, tomato, bubble and squeak, scrambled or fried egg, chips or hash browns - if I could fit all of that on one plate and in one stomach, I'd have it every day.

No toast or fried bread or even ordinary bread because I can't eat wheat, which is a damn shame because there is nothing better than getting to the end of a lovely fried breakfast and using a slice of white bread to mop up the last of the egg and tomatoes.

Fry some soda bread!

Anyway, tarranu, you don't have to eat it - I'd just like more places I can conveniently pop into with my hungover mates and get a plate of grease. TBH, just having vegan marg for the toast and soy for the tea would be a start.

 

[Edie]

Vegans You live to eat museli, no?

Back on topic. I *heart* fried breakfasts. Say what you like about Leeds, but you can get a proper fry up here. David Street cafe (RIP) did the fucking best.

Gotta have the beans proper boiled down, not just heated through. Gotta have the fried tomato (not adverse to the tinned plum though). One sausage is enough, if the bacon is good. And mushrooms. Can take or leave the fried bread TBH. Happy enough with a slice.

Goddamit. Gonna have to get one right now....

btw I was in America once. I had pancakes, burnt bacon and maple syrup. Thought I'd misread the menu at first but nope, that's what it was. Wasn't bad though, just a bit strange.

 

[rutabowa]

i actually really like US breakfasts... very tasty in a very processed way. Scrapple is an interesting breakfast food thta should probably never leave US shores.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

I could murder one now.

Thats what 'Early-bird' swimming does to you though innit - makes you want your lunch at 11am.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Best meal in the world, i have mine with veggie sausages and white pudding.....hash browns are just wrong on a brekkie!!

 

[Edie]

i actually really like US breakfasts... very tasty in a very processed way. Scrapple is an interesting breakfast food thta should probably never leave US shores.

What is scrapple? Insanely curious!

 

[tarannau]

What are beans 'proper boiled down'. Don't you find they get all mushy and lose some of their flavour if they get boiled through too much? Watery beans are horrible mind - some of the 'value' beans are a bit like that.

I'm going have a proper fry up for lunch mind, perhaps with chips and/or bubble for a real artery hardener. And maybe even a burger as well as the sausages, eggs and bacon to give it that extra feel of lunchtime gluttony.

Not a great fan of fried bread if I'm honest. Nor fried mushrooms too often - they often taste like the most greasy thing on the plate. Love cooking big portobello or field mushrooms (even baking them) for fry ups at home though. Same applies to tomatoes, they must be grilled and tasty, not those watery things you sometimes get slopped on. And hash browns, those crap McCain's impersonations of a decent US staple, can fuck off too. They're just poorly rebranded potato croquettes, made up of congealed spittle and industrial sawdust mill remains.

 

[rutabowa]

What is scrapple? Insanely curious!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple
boiled pork scraps (ie the bits you don't normally eat) made into a kind of loaf and fried.

 

[dilute micro]

Just fyi there is a true maple syrup and a cheap maple flavored syrup. If the maple syrup you guys got was in an American restaurant it was most likely the cheap stuff. The real stuff is more liquidy and not thick and tastes different.

 

[twisted_angel]

I dont know how anyone can eat a fried breakfast, just the thought makes my stomach turn.

 

[tarannau]

I've got plenty of the genuine article Maple Syrup, bought back by our canadian relatives.

It's still far two sweet for breakfast mind, unless you're a hyperactive child, immature adult or downright pervert. Not on my blinking bangers - NO NO!

 

[twistedAM]

The best thing that can be said about American breakfasts is that the fruit on the buffet tends to be good. The (crispy) bacon's invariably shite, the sausages in the form of salted yet strangely anodyne patties, the pastries made with all the finesse of a forklift, the eggs given multiple cooking technique names, but generally fried badly. And maple syrup for breakfast is frankly rank - I'd rather eat my own bodyweight in sugar coated ricicles.

Stand up proud, the British breakfast is one of our finest common culinary achievements. We can't do many things well, but even my local greasy spoon and 2-bit cafe serve a better continental or fry up than several leading US hotel chains I can mention, the poncefests that are the W hotels included.

Get out of the damn hotels!!! America has great little diners that do a better breakfast than the greasy spoons.
I've had hash browns made from scratch before my eyes and gorgeous spicy potato wedges. The Americans know how to incorporate the spud into breakfast a lot better than bubble and bloody squeak.
I love freshly-made biscuits and - yes - gravy is an acquired taste but I love its peppery cholesterol-charged goodness.
And then there's the Mexican options...HUEVOS RANCHEROS, breakfast burritos, spicy omelettes.
The USA - if you know where to look - wins hands down.

 

[twistedAM]

i actually really like US breakfasts... very tasty in a very processed way. Scrapple is an interesting breakfast food thta should probably never leave US shores.

Thankfully it doesn't travel far from eastern Pennsylvania. I knew what it was made off but still tried it cos I was curious after hearing Robbie Fulks' "The Scrapple Song" and couldn't believe it was as bad as he inferred in that song.

It's like menudo burgers.

 

[dilute micro]

I've got plenty of the genuine article Maple Syrup, bought back by our canadian relatives.

It's still far two sweet for breakfast mind, unless you're a hyperactive child, immature adult or downright pervert. Not on my blinking bangers - NO NO!

Yeah to be legally called maple syrup it has to be reduced to 60 something % sugar.