English breakfast

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.

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.

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. :-/

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!    Apparently that was the only thing she misses since she has become a non-meat eater.  

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....

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

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.  

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

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..

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.

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.

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!  

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] .  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?

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.

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...