American tries Full English breakfast for first time – but Brits startled by one detail

Mirror UK ^ | 12/17/24 | Lucy Marshall

[caver]

They are not really baked beans as we know them. They open up a can of pork and beans and heat them up on the stove.

[dfwgator]

What?! No kippers? Indeed!!!!

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They gotta have ‘em in Texas.

[ByteMercenary]

“Looks pretty mundane stuff.”

Almost a decade ago one of my sons played in an international Soccer Invitational in England. He was there a week. He had a good time with the exception of the food. I will clean up his verbal opinion of British cuisine by saying that greasy and tasteless was the general theme.

When we met him at the airport he asked that we stop at the first What-a-burger we saw ...

[joshua c]

onion rings

[noiseman]

All of that stuff in the Declaration of Independence was just the cover story. The reality is they were sick of English food.

[voicereason]

I will never understand the Brits fascination with baked beans.

My wife gives me grief whenever I grab a can of Heinz Baked Beans and have them over toast, usually for lunch. It's simple, and one of those things I ate growing up. But it's gotta be Heinz Baked Beans, no substitution allowed.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Growing up, baked beans on toast was Dad’s go to anytime meal when Mom was elsewhere.

[Mean Daddy]

We went to England/Ireland with my folks years ago. It was my second time so I brought Maxwell House coffee in tea bags and a container of black pepper. My dad laughed about toting them overseas but about day 2 he was asking for both.

[joethedrummer]

What - no Captain Crunch???

[Jim W N]

Generally, the food in England is really pretty bad.

[Jim W N]

Generally, the food in England is really pretty bad.

[heartwood]

Full English breakfast was a wonderful migraine preventative when I was young and prone to them. Bacon, sausage, and eggs...it’s healthy.

[EvilCapitalist]

Replying to DallasBiff at post 1. The baked beans are to break-up the Spam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

[Jamestown1630]

I recall a very good one in DC many years ago; I think it was run by two German ladies :-)

[EvilCapitalist]

Black Pudding is great. I had it once for Breakfast whilst staying at a B&B in Llangollen.

[Jamestown1630]

Onion rings.

He could at least have changed that to hash browns...

[jimtorr]

Two eggs,2 sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding, two rashers of bacon, baked beans, fried bread, toast and tea.

My experience from 30 years ago at country truck stops and London restaurants alike included only one egg.

Everything except toast and tea cooked on the same griddle at the same time with lard for the oil.

[dfwgator]

Two eggs,2 sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding, two rashers of bacon, baked beans, fried bread, toast and tea.

....and Spam!

[dfwgator]

What’s For Tea?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAEhYGuI6Y

[EvilCapitalist]

I beat you to it. See post 53.