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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #30 on: May 21, 2002, 06:55:51 PM »
apparently, you can't get scrambled eggs in most little chefs because they make them ahead and freeze them and then just warm them up :(   When we moved here  little chefs and mcdonalds were the only resturants in the country to have high chairs and children's menus.  things have come along way.


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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #31 on: May 21, 2002, 07:00:43 PM »
Thats a weird way to cook your eggs! How much money can you possibly save that way? Oh well. Maybe it's space? Don't know.

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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #32 on: May 21, 2002, 07:00:47 PM »
However, kudos must be given to a country that makes it SO EASY to eat almost everywhere if one is a vegetarian.  I was one for 11 months, and it was very difficult to eat anything but pasta here in the States.  But everywhere we've gone/eaten in the UK (from Devon to Canterbury) there are obviously marked vegetarian options on the menus - as well as vegetarian alternatives to the English Breakfast even in little B&B's.  I am very impressed with this, even though I now indulge heartily in the eating of flesh and muscle!!!

Okay, not so hungry anymore!!!!  Sorry. :-/
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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #33 on: May 21, 2002, 07:04:29 PM »
I'm not a vegitarian, and never have been, but I love the options here.  Why do we not have a version of Quorn in the US?  It is fantastic!

I was with some friends in Sky at a dinky pub and my friend was able to order vegitarian haggis!   :o  Apparently that was the only thing she misses since she has become a non-meat eater.  :-X
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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #34 on: May 21, 2002, 07:09:11 PM »
Quorn is supposedly making its way to the American market as well.  But you know the FDA - just because it's been used fine for 1,000 years in Europe doesn't mean it's safe for Americans... ::)

My BF says it's good - haven't had it myself yet, though.  They tested it on the radio on NPR a few months back, and the vegetarian said it was really good, and the non-veggie said it was comparable to McD's nuggets (that's the form they tested it in).  I'm rather anxious to try it, really.  Never quite got into tofu.... :P
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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #35 on: May 21, 2002, 07:20:57 PM »
it is an excellent substatute for chicken, though they have a beef version, it still tastes like chicken to me?!  They also have a quorn roast which I really like, but it tastes like chicken
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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #36 on: May 22, 2002, 10:22:49 AM »
so far i've not found a veggie-burger option here that i *don't* like.  they've all been pretty good.. in fact i'm currently addicted to these nut-cutlet thingies from tesco.. forget tasting like meat.. they taste like nut-cutlets & they're the best thing in the universe!

in the states i didn't have very many veggie burgers cuz they all tasted like poo.  like peedal said, being a veg-head is *much* harder in the states.  
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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #37 on: May 27, 2002, 07:02:43 PM »
ok...here goes


if you fry waffer thin ham in your chip pan...its like american bacon...the closest i can get to it that is....
just becareful....it likes to be naughty and splatter alot...use a lid.......and i do mean be careful!!!!

WHERE DID YOU FIND ITALLIAN SAUSAGE??????

Anyone know of a good homemade pancake mix??...the mixes here suck...unless i wanna spend £10 in bus fare just to get a £2 mix


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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #38 on: May 28, 2002, 12:23:35 AM »
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WHERE DID YOU FIND ITALLIAN SAUSAGE??????


The only place I found Italian Sausage was at the Greenwich Market.  I'm sure there are other places but I haven't found them yet.  ASDA, Sainsbury, and Tesco do not sell Italian Sausage (or perhaps each of them were out of stock each time I went shopping  ::)).  It could happen, I guess..
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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #39 on: May 28, 2002, 05:09:05 PM »
On the subject of eggs - why don't Brits refridgerate their eggs when they are stored in the supermarket???

I can eat the bacon if it's smoked, the fat is cut off and it's grilled until it's crisp. Big, floppy, greasy bacon makes me heave.

Can't say I eat English breakfasts because they are pretty gross - all that meat and black pudding and fried stuff - ugh.



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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #40 on: May 28, 2002, 05:13:32 PM »
Yes, Brits are very lax about refridgerating their eggs, but ask them to eat an egg one day past the experation and you'd have thought you'd asked them to down ajax. :-X
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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #41 on: May 28, 2002, 06:24:48 PM »
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but ask them to eat an egg one day past the experation and you'd have thought you'd asked them to down ajax.

So true!  :D


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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #42 on: May 30, 2002, 05:22:09 PM »
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Why do we not have a version of Quorn in the US?  It is fantastic!


Is this compared to haggis?  I have tried Quorn and find it absolutely disgusting [smiley=!blank.gif] [smiley=behead.gif].  Never could figure out why vegitarians want to eat something that tastes like meat but isn't meat. ???  Why not cut through the chase and go for the real thing?
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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #43 on: May 30, 2002, 06:21:30 PM »
Actually my husband doesn't care for it either, so I don't get it very often.  I tend to think of it as being healther, though I have no idea what it  is made of, so it could be worse for me than the real thing.
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Re: English breakfast
« Reply #44 on: May 30, 2002, 07:04:26 PM »
Quorn is made out of a fungus.  Really.  Nope, not mushrooms.  But a true, honest-to-goodness fungus.

Yum.

Of course, you just have to think about the first person who decided to squeeze on a cow and drink the white stuff that came out...
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