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

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

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

The best ones are seaside..

[Celtic Conservative]

England, the country that conquered half the world so they could trade spices and then never used them in their cooking.

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[dfwgator]

Go away for a few minutes and that’s what happens.

[Organic Panic]

“Baked beans or mushy peas?”

[P.O.E.]

Well, there’s spam egg sausage and spam, that’s not got much spam in it.

[Olog-hai]

Onion rings.

[EvilCapitalist]

At least we both thought of the same thing. ;-)

[EvilCapitalist]

Howdy neighbor. Good to see you’re about.

[dfwgator]

Still surprised it took 53 posts.

[EvilCapitalist]

The standards at Free Republic are slipping.

[mac_truck]

And no vindaloo??

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[Night Hides Not]

Summer of 79: after helping the owner of Hotel Ostseeblick close down the bar at about 4AM, I’d head over to my girlfriend’s house for breakfast. She was a waitress who worked in town (Lutjenburg). She fixed me Zweibelrost, basically raw hamburger with onion seasoning., on toast . Simple fare, but delicious with coffee.

Usually, a couple of my soldiers had assignations with her roommates and needed a ride to the base. I was happy to do so. The surprise on their faces at seeing me was comical. The town came to life during the summer, and had the greatest concentration of newly divorced women I had ever seen, and they fell in love with my soldiers. We were the only Americans for 200 miles.

[roving]

That egg don’t even look real. What the hell did they do to it?

[Jamestown1630]

I don’t think I could put down raw hamburger...

[Repeat Offender]

If you ever tasted British food, or seen British women….you’ll know why they built a navy and sailed away, and then made it the world’s strongest to defend their ability to not go home.

[FateAmenableToChange]

The banger is tasteless. IMO.

In Poland, the banger gets replaced typically by a hot dog. Was not a fan. I think the culture of spices and salt on meat forgot to travel north from Southern Europe but was picked back up in the US.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

The egg looks like it was poached. I remember seeing the fry cooks at a Jolyon’s chain restaurant in London cooking eggs in about an inch of simmering oil. Looked strange but the eggs tasted OK.

[Night Hides Not]

No issues, small town butcher who took pride in his craft. In 4+ years in Germany, I never had a bad meal.

[laplata]

Why the Brits drink leaves suffused by hot water is a bit if a mystery...

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This American does, as do people all over the world.

I like mine both hot and over ice.

Try it sometime.

[ANKE69]

Vegans obviously don’t eat meat, fish... and also don’t eat any dairy or eggs, so who knows what the heck is on that plate. Yuck !!