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Yes. The hash brown. Proper little UK adopting of a US foodstuff ain't it? I blame MacDonald's. Never seen em on a British breakfast until relatively recently. Potatoes on a Full English Breakfast, what? It's like having chips on there. Perfectly reasonable on a British workman's tea. Anything fried can go on then. Cafes over here call it an All Day Breakfast. But I do recall some of the items on the buffet at Disney World when I was there the other year. Breakfast Lasagna! Breakfast Pizza! All manner of things that were quite different to me. But you know what they say... when in Rome and all that. I had to have a go at a number of these things. Brits abroad eh? Like when I discovered, when I was quite a bit younger, that anywhere but the UK (then) you could get a beer at any time of day. So, of course just for the hell of it I had to try beer for breakfast! One thing that was decidedly alien to me when I went for breakfast in Niagara, was the habit of having sweet stuff like pancakes and whatever syrup on the SAME PLATE AS THE BACON AND EGGS! Lol. Years after that we stopped at a MacDonald's for breakfast on another Canadian visit, forgetting the last time, was getting what looked like a bacon and egg sandwich and finding it was some sort of pancake thing with maple syrup flavour running through it! It was quite a shock and I'm afraid I just couldn't go through with it. We have fruit teacakes over here, a bread roll with dried fruit in - currants in fact. I wouldn't dream of making a hamburger with it! Please feel free to point out similar anomalies in the UK. It's what we're here for...
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Jan 29, 2020 - 7:47 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Yes. The hash brown. Proper little UK adopting of a US foodstuff ain't it? I blame MacDonald's. Never seen em on a British breakfast until relatively recently. Potatoes on a Full English Breakfast, what? It's like having chips on there. Perfectly reasonable on a British workman's tea. Anything fried can go on then. Cafes over here call it an All Day Breakfast. As mentioned previously, I dislike hash browns in that weird, pressed form. But I do recall some of the items on the buffet at Disney World when I was there the other year. Breakfast Lasagna! Breakfast Pizza! All manner of things that were quite different to me. But you know what they say... when in Rome and all that. I had to have a go at a number of these things. Brits abroad eh? Like when I discovered, when I was quite a bit younger, that anywhere but the UK (then) you could get a beer at any time of day. So, of course just for the hell of it I had to try beer for breakfast! I haven't even set foot in a fast food restaurant in fifteen years, let alone eaten at one. My wife tells me that McDonald's is all electronic ordering. I have the odd takeaway burger every so often. However, I am significantly cutting back on my beef and pork consumption, not that it was ever significant to begin with anyway. The junk you mention is more corporate plot than anything "traditional" we regular folk make at home--I hope. I really have no idea how other Americans eat, but I would say that American FSMers tend not to discuss food, they tend to pound it down their gobs. One thing that was decidedly alien to me when I went for breakfast in Niagara, was the habit of having sweet stuff like pancakes and whatever syrup on the SAME PLATE AS THE BACON AND EGGS! Lol. Years after that we stopped at a MacDonald's for breakfast on another Canadian visit, forgetting the last time, was getting what looked like a bacon and egg sandwich and finding it was some sort of pancake thing with maple syrup flavour running through it! It was quite a shock and I'm afraid I just couldn't go through with it. We have fruit teacakes over here, a bread roll with dried fruit in - currants in fact. I wouldn't dream of making a hamburger with it! When I was a kid, I was even repulsed by birthday cake and ice cream touching one another! I wanted ice cream and only ice cream and cake and only cake--not both chained together on my plate like Poitier and Curtis. Bacon and syrup "touching" is okay, but keep the damned eggs clear of the syrup, please. Please feel free to point out similar anomalies in the UK. It's what we're here for... Not that I can think of offhand, though it's more what the Brits *don't* eat that perplexes, like the mustard omission. Do the Brits eat "submarine" sandwiches? I know they don't drink iced tea. If I think of any "weird" UK food habits, I'll ask about them nicely.
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Jan 29, 2020 - 9:01 AM
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Xebec
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The Ulster Fry includes the soda bread and the potato bread, correct? I can never get the ingredients quite right and based on some of the debates I've read, everyone has an idea of what the proper ingredients are. The BEST THING EVER was when my Belfast relatives would visit us as a kid and bring potato bread and soda bread over. This was in the 80s/early 90s. They'd also bring sausages and vegetable roll (it was like a frikadelle) from Billy Rooney's Butcher's in Belfast (sadly closed and their perfect recipes gone, best sausages ever). We'd have: potato bread, soda bread, fried bread, black pudding, scotch pancake, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans, bacon, egg, sausage, veg roll, toast and tea, orange juice. I'd always try and get a bit of everything on my fork but the tines weren't long enough and the few times i did manage it i couldn't breath. It was amazing. There were no hashbrowns but hashbrowns are ace, so i'd add those these days.
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The stick u get when u have an english brekkie - eggs, bacon, beans, sausage ...and order chips. So hashbrowns it is. I love em.
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Jan 29, 2020 - 12:45 PM
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Jim Phelps
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The BEST THING EVER was when my Belfast relatives would visit us as a kid and bring potato bread and soda bread over. This was in the 80s/early 90s. They'd also bring sausages and vegetable roll (it was like a frikadelle) from Billy Rooney's Butcher's in Belfast (sadly closed and their perfect recipes gone, best sausages ever). We'd have: potato bread, soda bread, fried bread, black pudding, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans, bacon, egg, sausage, veg roll, toast and tea, orange juice. I'd always try and get a bit of everything on my fork but the tines weren't long enough and the few times i did manage it i couldn't breath. It was amazing. Xebec, would you please pass the...everything?!? Veg roll I've never tried but if it's anything like the photos I just looked up, then it must be delicious.
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For the first time in any of these food threads I've actually been encouraged to go and do myself a meal based on the discussion! I have baked beans, eggs and sausages, so will go and have brunch since it's 11.14 in the morning here. There are some frozen hash browns (yep, the MacDonalds type I'm afraid - my daughter and her partner's fault). Not too sure about them although it is almost lunchtime... But definitely no black pudding. No congealed blood on my plate!
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; But definitely no black pudding. No congealed blood on my plate! Substute the black for the white variety, if you can.No blood but herbs and spices.
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Yes. The hash brown. Proper little UK adopting of a US foodstuff ain't it? I blame MacDonald's. Never seen em on a British breakfast until relatively recently. They'll never appear on my British breakfast. Disgusting things. And mushrooms should be left alone to live out their natural life peacefully in fields. Relax! Common sense prevailed. No hash browns were used. I had a little bit of fried bread instead. The healthy version as I did it in the olive oil I used for the egg... I would have gone to mushrooms as I love 'em, but we hadn't any in so they were missing too. But yes, I did have white pudding in Ireland on my breakfast and very nice it was too. Would certainly have that again.
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Substute the black for the white variety, if you can.No blood but herbs and spices. But what's the white stuff? Or shouldn't I ask? Can't.remeber but.at leasst it's not blood. Just checked- . 'Modern recipes consist of suet or fat, oatmeal or barley, breadcrumbs and in some cases pork and pork liver, filled into a natural or cellulose sausage casing'
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Substute the black for the white variety, if you can.No blood but herbs and spices. But what's the white stuff? Or shouldn't I ask? Can't.remeber but.at leasst it's not blood. Just checked- . 'Modern recipes consist of suet or fat, oatmeal or barley, breadcrumbs and in some cases pork and pork liver, filled into a natural or cellulose sausage casing' For a usually non-offal eater that's fine. I enjoyed the bit I had.
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The wife and I are planning to eat breakfast at our local Irish pub before the Stupor Bowl crowd waddles into the place. As for breakfast sides, I would opine that white toast is the most undesirable of them all. I would gladly eat hash browns in all their greasy glory in lieu of white toast. Ugh. Despite its "reputation", I absolutely love black pudding and the one occasion I ate white pudding, I enjoyed that, too. Mushrooms, tomatoes, Heinz beans, etc., are delicious. I adore cracked black pepper atop the tomatoes. You know as well as I do Jim, that the only way to go at any given time with regard to food, is, get the hell you want. When you're hungry that's the time when anyone in their right mind can say: I'll have that... and that.. etc. You know what I'm saying. Enjoy. And then come back on here and have fun as per usual... You had that with THAT!
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Feb 8, 2020 - 5:49 AM
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Mark
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A rewatch, but I found it odd that there's a line about the Colin Firth character's posh aunt famous for her "blood pudding", as if the stuff was what Americans think of as pudding or as a standalone dish! I thought blood pudding was just a part of the Full English. Is blood pudding ever eaten by itself? Answer..... Blood pudding is not called blood pudding, it is now called Black Pudding. It is mostly eaten, fried, as part of a breakfast, but does appear as a starter (black pudding and scallops is 'classic' starter) and sometimes as part of a main course. However, I am a Southern softie, living in Kent, and oop North they probably eat it on toast with dripping Nb. There is also white pudding which is very similar, but without the blood.
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