English breakfast

Certainly not. Of course I meant it was for the pigeons!

I just got here and have experienced the English breakfast..i can't find a sausage i like yet.  AT home i had sausage with maple syrup and they weren't as fat either.  And it was funny trying to find maple syrup at the store.  |I had to buy a canadian brand and they only had that plus one other brand that would have cost 4 times as much..how funny...
baked beans with cottage cheese is nice.....as well

You can get the syrups you know from back home at the various american food sites here in the uk.

http://www.expatshopping.com
http://www.madeinamerica.co.uk

I totally agree with you on the sausages!  They are mushy and taste strange.  I did find some brat wurst at Lidl that was pretty tasty.

Have you two tried linchonshire sausages, they taste a little different to your average porkie sausage.  I don't like the taste of the average sausage but really love the linchonshire sausages.

Will have to see if I can hunt some down today when we go shopping.  Will let you know what the verdict is.

baked beans with cottage cheese?  hmmm.

back in MN i was a huge fan of cottage cheese (Old Home) and pineapple, but here i can find no good cottage cheese.  

my english breakfast is the vegetarian variety... no sausage or bacon.. just beans on toast w/eggs (yummy unfertilized chicken ovulations!.. b12 b12 b12).

hey, earlapricot...i've seen that cottage cheese with pineapple (also one of my faves) at tesco, tho i haven't tried it yet.

as for sausages, black pudding is YUCK and i find the best sausages here are the ones with fruit that i found at the local butchers.  i also ordered some beef and guiness ones from a place near brighton which were pretty good.

i have finally got used to the english breakfasts (mushrooms are a regular item on my homemade ones), although sometimes i just want good old pancakes or waffles with maple syrup and bacon.  btw, has anyone tried pancetta? saw it on a cooking ahow and look like the bacon we get in the US (streaky bacon).

i also like kippers in the morning, tho to be honest i've only had it once (at a hotel).  it's yum, but being from hawaii it needed some rice with it.

when we have people over on the weekend and i make a big breakfast, my husband still has a laugh when i go around asking how people want their eggs...you know, sunny side up, over easy/medium/hard, poached, etc when he says just 'fried' or 'scrambled.'  is that really just 'an american thing'?

For everyone looking for crispy bacon like you get back home - well I can't tell you where to find it.  What I can recommend is the BLT sandwiches at Pret A Manger.   I don't know where they get it, but it is  definately state side bacon, and not the slabs of pork they like to pass off  as bacon in this country.    Very, very good!

My wife is more devoted to Pret thanshe is to me. She LOVES their sandwiches

My 2 p on the matter:

Baked beans for breakfast = weird.

English sausage = gross.

English bacon = not as good as the "streaky" kind

I went to a Little Chef one time and ordered the English breakfast and asked for my eggs scrambled, but the lady looked at me and said they didn't know how to do that. Sorry? How do you not know how to scramble an egg? Oh well. David ate them anyway.

Yeah, "how do you want your eggs cooked?" may as well be "what's the meaning of life?" for the looks you get when the question is asked!

I was told (more than once) that the European Union designated English sausage as not really sausage ... something to do with the ingredients (ratio of meat to fillers, or something like that).  They (Europe) has also said that English chocolate is not real chocolate because it lacks cocoa butter.  Has anybody else heard anything about this?

Don't get my wife started on chocolate. She insists that Dutch chocolate si the best though I always come back with Belgium chocolate  

As for how eggs are prepared - the English haven't a clue. They're not the only ones though. I remember when I was working in a rest. years ago to put myself through school that we had at least 10 people a day order the "eggs any style". It was like they thought we were going to crack some eggs and put them on a roulet wheel or somehting.

You can get eggs scrambled at Little Chef Express in Gatwick Village at Gatwick (duh...).

My son who never ate beans with hot dogs or hamburgers here in the States now eats them up at breakfast time.  Go figure!

And I have the opposite problem - finding sausages here to mock the English breakfast until I get over there.  All I can find are "our" breakfast sausages (sausages flavoured like Maple, Country-style, and -   - Bacon-flavoured!) or Polish and Italian sausages which are spiced.  Looking for a nice, mushy, bland sausage!!

Of course, I absolutely love English food.  I'm the Starch Queen!!  Taters on bread - I am SO there!!!!  LOVE Yorkshire pudding.  Yum!!  Pie and Mash - nothing like it here in the States!!

Whenever I go over, first stop is at Little Chef Express for the closest thing I can get in an airport to the English Full Cooked Breakfast.  And it's the best thing about staying in B&B's!!

I'm hungry now...

Garfunkels Bar (in most airports it seems) has a great English Breakfast, I had the best English Brekfast I've ever had at the Heathros Garfunkels in the departure lounge. The only one so far whos sausages didn't make me gag, and beans didn't taste icky.