Language/Accents

[Ms Diddles]

Heathens.

Agreed!

[Dickere]

Ok Londoners….when I was about 20 the seafood guy came into our local. Cockles and mussels etc. I decided to try jellied ears. They were freezing cold and completely tasteless. Surely they aren’t always like that?

You can have hot eels, but jellied eels have to be cold for it to be jelly of course. I much prefer pie and mash with liquor 'green gravy'

[Fleetwood Mac]

In London you often get chips too.

Heathens.

[Fleetwood Mac]

I remember going to Ireland, England, France, Holland and Luxembourg as a young adult with my parents. Probably 1980 or so. The types of breakfasts we encountered (and food in general) at our bed and breakfasts or hotels were so varied.
I was astonished by blood sausage, which my parents happily purchased to make sandwiches with on our roadside picnics.
Tomatoes with breakfast is about as weird as beans, if you ask me!
The Irish thought all Americans ate corn flakes, so always had a box of Kellogg's at the breakfast table.
The Dutch ate cheese and bread for breakfast, which struck me as novel.
At least we got good tea in most countries!

I've been to loads of places all over Europe, mate, and I always enjoy the breakfasts over there. Very different to English breakfasts, or at least English breakfasts where traditions have stood, but I always liked the continental breakfasts. When you say 'the Dutch ate cheese and bread for breakfast', that's common all over continental Europe, and they have various types of ham with it as well.

Tomatoes are exceptional with a breakfast when they're fried. You wouldn't put them in your fruit and fibre bowl, but with the right accompaniments they're very good.

Wherever you go in Europe, in a hotel or a B&B, you will see cornflakes at the breakfast table. That's not for Americans. I don't like them at all. I eat cereal for breakfast 6 days of the week and always have fruit and fibre, a lot healthier than cornflakes and tastes a lot better.

Go to Japan, and there are lots of fish and rice for breakfast. I loved that as well. Fish is my favourite meat and is the most versatile of them all.

By the way, whenever I've been to the United States it's noticeable to me that you tend to eat more sugary foods than we do but we eat more red meat and maybe more fatty foods. I used to pop into local cafes and the like in the morning, and everyone seemed to like syrup and similar things on their breakfast.

[Ms Diddles]

I’ve only ever eaten it once. I was at London Euston killing time so I went for a sandwich in the area just outside. It was prawn salad I think but I didn’t know it had avocado on. It was just slimy and tasteless. So maybe I have just had a bad experience. If so many people like it, and they do, it can’t be all bad.

Yeah, it sounds like you maybe got a bad one.

It's pretty nasty if it's either under or over ripe.

If you ever eat Mexican, give the guacamole a shot!

If homemade, that's pretty certain to be good!

[Herlock Sholmes]

That's me incarcerated then!

I love avocado mashed up with lime and seasoning on sourdough toast.

Sometimes I even throw on a bit of veggie bacon or smoked tofu!

Yep, I'm an unashamed member of the Guardian-reading-tofu-eating-wokerati!



That said, I love the local delicacy of tattie scone with brown sauce in a morning roll, and I'd happily eat fried bread every day if I didn't think it'd kill me!

Chips for breakfast is an abomination though!

I’ve only ever eaten it once. I was at London Euston killing time so I went for a sandwich in the area just outside. It was prawn salad I think but I didn’t know it had avocado on. It was just slimy and tasteless. So maybe I have just had a bad experience. If so many people like it, and they do, it can’t be all bad.

[Ms Diddles]

The next level - eggy bread! Yes!

Yeah, I'm a bit icky about eggs, but disguise them with a bit with chilli and I'm in!

[Aethelwulf]

Ha!

It is exactly as it sounds, Abby.

It's gotta be cheap white sliced bread (no fancy sourdough here!) and it's fried in veg oil (although perhaps meat eaters would do it in lard, I'm not sure)!

It's simple, but weirdly delicious with tomatoes, mushrooms or (you guessed it), beans!

The next level - eggy bread! Yes!

[Ms Diddles]

I remember going to Ireland, England, France, Holland and Luxembourg as a young adult with my parents. Probably 1980 or so. The types of breakfasts we encountered (and food in general) at our bed and breakfasts or hotels were so varied.
I was astonished by blood sausage, which my parents happily purchased to make sandwiches with on our roadside picnics.
Tomatoes with breakfast is about as weird as beans, if you ask me!
The Irish thought all Americans ate corn flakes, so always had a box of Kellogg's at the breakfast table.
The Dutch ate cheese and bread for breakfast, which struck me as novel.
At least we got good tea in most countries!

Yeah, I've had the Dutch cheese and bread thing and heartily approve.

I had a kind of dahl breakfast curry in South India which sounds weird but reminded me of my student days, waking up at mid day and tucking into the previous nights veg madras (served cold and from the foil tray!!!!).

Loved the pancakes in the US and Canada.

Great big, fat, pillowy things with berries and maple syrup.

Heaven with a pot of good strong coffee!

[Ms Diddles]

what the hell is fried bread???

Ha!

It is exactly as it sounds, Abby.

It's gotta be cheap white sliced bread (no fancy sourdough here!) and it's fried in veg oil (although perhaps meat eaters would do it in lard, I'm not sure)!

It's simple, but weirdly delicious with tomatoes, mushrooms or (you guessed it), beans!

[Abby Normal]

That's me incarcerated then!

I love avocado mashed up with lime and seasoning on sourdough toast.

Sometimes I even throw on a bit of veggie bacon or smoked tofu!

Yep, I'm an unashamed member of the Guardian-reading-tofu-eating-wokerati!



That said, I love the local delicacy of tattie scone with brown sauce in a morning roll, and I'd happily eat fried bread every day if I didn't think it'd kill me!

Chips for breakfast is an abomination though!

yeah i was never a big avocado guy, especially for breakfast. until my son made me what he called avocado toast-avocado spread on toast with a fried egg(sunny side up) and a piece of bacon. yummy and i like avocado now!

[Abby Normal]

what the hell is fried bread???

[Pcdunn]

You'd fit in among certain Native American nations, where "frybread" is a staple of life and savored by visitors as well.

[Aethelwulf]

It wasn't a myth for us, all of the fellas in our family ate a traditional English breakfast.

But, we never had baked beans and mushrooms on it, it was always fried tomatoes for us.

Sausage, fried eggs, bacon, black pudding, fried tomatoes, fried bread, with HP sauce. Washed down with a cup of tea.

If your mouth's not watering reading that, then you're not human!

These days, I don't eat a great deal of fatty food but on a Saturday morning it remains my breakfast.

Fried bread - now you're talking. Did eat a lot of that, often just on its own. more of a porridge house, made with water and salted, little bit of milk to stirred in at the end in to cool it down.

[Ms Diddles]

Sounds good, I’d have mushrooms too though. And I’m perhaps strange in that I much prefer tinned tomatoes. They can leave off the hash browns though. And I think that prison sentences should be introduced for people that put avocado on a breakfast!

In London you often get chips too.

That's me incarcerated then!

I love avocado mashed up with lime and seasoning on sourdough toast.

Sometimes I even throw on a bit of veggie bacon or smoked tofu!

Yep, I'm an unashamed member of the Guardian-reading-tofu-eating-wokerati!



That said, I love the local delicacy of tattie scone with brown sauce in a morning roll, and I'd happily eat fried bread every day if I didn't think it'd kill me!

Chips for breakfast is an abomination though!