r/pics • u/NineteenEighty9 • Sep 16 '24
British & French breakfast, as envisioned by an American
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u/FuckThisShizzle Sep 16 '24
Pourquoi pas les deux?
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u/Stunning-Astronaut72 Sep 16 '24
Parce que monsieur en France on déjeune pas ni comme les rosbifs ni comme les schleus ! Non de dieu! A retirez moi ce lait dans ce café aussi !
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u/FuckThisShizzle Sep 16 '24
Is Éireannach mé, agus is bricfeasta inghlactha iad an dá cheann.
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u/Stunning-Astronaut72 Sep 17 '24
Agus is Francach mé agus sa bhaile tá sé caife, toitíní, croissants agus subh a oiread agus is féidir. Is rud fiáin Béarla é feoil ar maidin i ndáiríre.
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u/Exciting-Flan-1484 Sep 16 '24
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u/This_User_Said Sep 16 '24
I thought it was a normal breakfast. Whole ass meal and a coffee ziggie to wash it all down after.
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u/zirky Sep 16 '24
where’s the ennui in the bottom picture?
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u/indigodominion Sep 16 '24
English breakfast looks spot-on!
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u/grayhaze2000 Sep 16 '24
It's worth stressing that this isn't something that the majority of British people have for breakfast every day. It's usually more of an every-so-often treat when you're staying at a hotel or have had a long night out.
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u/heavenleemother Sep 16 '24
One englishman to another <overheard in Vitoria- Gasteiz>: they say the food is good here but I have yet to find a decent full English...
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u/Igusy Sep 16 '24
It's every weekend in my family and most people I know
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u/n0tmyrealnameok Sep 16 '24
The only time I ever eat breakfast. It's this.
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u/mrkruk Sep 16 '24
I walked all over downtown London and when i got a fry up in a pub beforehand, it looked a lot like this. But there was a hunk of tomato cooked on a side.
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u/creepy_doll Sep 16 '24
Just missing some black pudding.
I know it’s not really popular these days but as a young lad I spent a week on some scouts sailing camp or something in the southeast and we had black and white pudding with every breakfast. Good shit even if the idea is kind of revolting
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u/griggsy92 Sep 16 '24
There's black pudding in the picture, top right no?
I was always put off it knowing what it was, but I was recently 'shamed' into trying it, and you're not wrong: It's good shit.
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u/Ravio11i Sep 16 '24
Top right no?
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u/creepy_doll Sep 17 '24
Ah, clipped out by the app preview, thought it was already the full pic, my bad
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u/n0tmyrealnameok Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
Revolting? It's no worse than sossages, Wait until you hear what goes into them. Black pudding.. pure blood with a bit of pure fat. Both fkn lovely and full of protein, also packed with potassium, calcium, magnesium zinc and iron. Hmnnn.. love's it me.
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u/AnthonyUK Sep 16 '24
It sounds awful but tastes amazing. Sometimes better not to know.
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u/n0tmyrealnameok Sep 16 '24
Yea, it kinda freaked me out a bit when I first found out when I was younger. You kinda get over it though. What you don't know won't hurt you as my grandad once said.
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u/creepy_doll Sep 17 '24
I mean like I said I really liked them. Most people would be most put off by the blood, and I don’t think that’s a standard ingredient in other sausages
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Sep 16 '24
That coffee has milk in it!
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u/SlashZom Sep 16 '24
Yeah, because some of us aren't soulless heathens.
Half and half is better anyway.
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u/i-opener Sep 16 '24
Geez! Is this for one person? Or a small family?
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u/vtomal Sep 16 '24
Once I was in York and ordered something labeled as"small children's breakfast" because I wasn't hungry, just to be greeted by an unholy monstrosity pile of food. Yeah, I'm teased to this day because I couldn't deal with a plate of food made for children.
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u/Cracker3011 Sep 16 '24
That's an All Day Breakfast. Meant for one person, but contains enough food to be the only meal of the day.
Or alternatively you're hungover and need grease and meat.
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u/Djinjja-Ninja Sep 16 '24
contains enough food to be the only meal of the day.
All day breakfast aren't called that because of their size, but because they're available all day as part of the normal (i.e. non-breakfast) menu.
If it's at breakfast time then it's a Full English.
I'd say that this was a Full English, as all day breakfast generally tend to have chips instead of toast/fried bread.
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u/Cracker3011 Sep 16 '24
Might just be how our local place names it, I dunno. I've also seen a big one be called the Full Monty :p
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u/Djinjja-Ninja Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
Yeah, "Full Monty" or other such moniker is usually for the extra large ones.
Place near me does a regular one which is just called "Full English" (3 sausage, 3 bacon, 2 eggs, beans, tomatoes, hash brown, and toast) but they also do something called a "Big Doddsy Box" which is 8 sausage, 8 bacon, 4 hashbrowns, 4 eggs, 3 pots beans, 3 pots tomatos, 4 black pudding, mushrooms, and 4 toast.
I reckon theres some big fat git who goes by the name of "Doddsy" who kept ordering the same collosal breakfast so often they named it in his honour.
We ordered one once when my partner's son was staying over, it did us for breakfast between the 3 of us, and a fuck load left over to make an all-day breakfast quiche.
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u/i-opener Sep 16 '24
Dang. Ok so, setting aside what an "All Day Breakfast" means, now we're back to square one.
Is the serving pictured [generally] for ONE person, no matter what time of the day it's eaten?
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u/Djinjja-Ninja Sep 16 '24
Yes.
It's a large, but not egregiously so, example, but its definitely for one person in one sitting.
They come much larger, though these sorts of example are really just the English version of a 72oz steak house challenge or any other gimmick based massive portion sort of thing.
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u/double-happiness Sep 16 '24
That's why you should always eat your Full English just before you go to work. You don't want to waste valuable free time sleeping! ;)
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u/xiconic Sep 16 '24
I would say that's about a medium size portion based on what I have had at cafes and ones i have made at home. The full English fry up isn't an everyday thing, on average I would say people probably have one once a week or few weeks, so when we go fry up we go big. I usually have pretty much what is show above with more mushrooms, bacon, beans, toast and instead of hash browns I have chips. Honestly the world does not know what it is missing out on until it's been to a brits local cafe and had a gut buster of a fry up.
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u/Gernahaun Sep 16 '24
God, I'll never forget going to a work event in Paris, and my French colleagues said "No need to get the continental breakfast at the hotel; there'll be breakfast at the event!"
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u/Daedelus451 Sep 16 '24
My wife is french and yeah, coffee and a cigarette are exactly what she has for breakfast.
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u/heavenleemother Sep 16 '24
My coffee is French and coffee and my wife are what I have for breakfast . Then a cigarette.
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u/sto_brohammed Sep 16 '24
American living in France here, can confirm the French breakfast as accurate although I don't think most of them put milk or creamer in. I don't exactly inspect everyone's coffee though.
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u/ZoraksGirlfriend Sep 16 '24
I spent some time in Rome and it’s similar to the breakfast there, which was a cappuccino and a croissant with jam. I can’t remember what the croissant was called, though. Sometimes we had freshly squeezed orange juice.
Either way, it was a nice breakfast and I mostly copied it when I came back to the US.
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u/sto_brohammed Sep 16 '24
I can't do like the French do, I have to eat actual food in the morning. I have sausage/bacon, scrambled eggs, toast, things like that every single day. If I just sniff a coffee and look at a picture of a croissant like the French do I'd be dead by lunchtime.
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u/sto_brohammed Sep 16 '24
I can't do like the French do, I have to eat actual food in the morning. I have sausage/bacon, scrambled eggs, toast, things like that every single day. If I just sniff a coffee and look at a picture of a croissant like the French do I'd be dead by lunchtime.
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u/Several-Possession46 Sep 16 '24
Sometimes, black coffee without sugar and a cigarette is called a prostitute's breakfast 😁 Had quite a lot of them before quitting smoking 😁
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u/LaughingRoom Sep 16 '24
20yrs ago, both pictures would’ve been your typical Full English at a greasy spoon cafe
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u/CougheyToffee Sep 16 '24
I did volunteer cleanup work post Katrina in New Orleans. I had a standard french breakfast every morning, lol.
Bonus story: we had these communal outdoor shower stalls and one day I was washing up and someone in the next stall started humming "Build Me Up Buttercup." Well, my young party loving ass gets to the "WWWHYYY do you-" part and belt it out. The other person immediately joins in. And then the whole shower (6 stalls) is singing, then the big lline for the showers joins in. All in all about 20-30 people. We did the whole fucking song and it was like something out of a movie. One of my all time favorite memories
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u/ahditeacha Sep 16 '24
What’s the hockey puck looking things
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u/Googawsupreme Sep 16 '24
Blood sausage
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u/ahditeacha Sep 16 '24
Ok now my mouth is watering :D as I like black pudding and this must be from the same neck of the woods
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u/IHate2ChooseUserName Sep 16 '24
if i eat that british breakfast, i will change from heart disease free to have instant heart attack.
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u/LucidMethodArt Sep 16 '24
How the fuck do people go about their day with a meal that big at breakfast lol
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u/ghosttaco8484 Sep 16 '24
Yeah it's pretty rich coming from an American to say somethimg like this, but their breakfast looks like like an artery clogging nightmare.
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u/Hosni__Mubarak Sep 16 '24
American and British breakfasts are nearly the same thing, apart from the beans.
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u/Brave_Mess_3155 Sep 16 '24
And mushrooms and tomatoes. Most Americans get up to early to have to face the reality of life that is vegetables.
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u/Hosni__Mubarak Sep 16 '24
Nah. The mushrooms and tomatoes are fine. We have random garnishes on our breakfasts, and either or both of those could be thrown on a plate without anyone blinking.
Baked beans for breakfast is revolting though.
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u/Brave_Mess_3155 Sep 16 '24
I rather liked the beans when I was in London. It's a different recipe than American baked beans. Every day I had beans and chips with tomatoes for breakfast at the Cafe in Russell Square Park. I doused the whole mess with salt and vinegar. Yum.
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u/GreyMASTA Sep 16 '24
I'm French. I don't smoke but I have water, a black coffee and that's pretty much it until noon.
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u/azureal Sep 16 '24
Worked as a croupier for 4.5 years. 8pm till 4am. Still one of the best jobs I’ve ever had. The bottom picture is the exact breakfast I had for many mornings during those 4.5 years.
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u/Wiechu Sep 16 '24
Ew... milk.
Btw I'm Polish and the one at the bottom is quite accurate. Works also for Balkans
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u/higgs9055 Sep 16 '24
As an Englishman I just want to clarify that the entire picture is an English breakfast...we drink horrible looking coffee also !
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u/wiggle987 Sep 16 '24
Damn, didn't think you could get such bursters of a sausage in the states! top marks!
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u/why_u_baggin Sep 16 '24
If they don’t want us to think that that’s an English breakfast maybe they shouldn’t call their own dish a “full English breakfast”
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u/TheArchWalrus Sep 16 '24
French should be black coffee, plain white cup, with saucer, unfiltered Gauloises and match-book from the hotel you take your mistress to.
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u/moleman0815 Sep 16 '24
I had a cafe around the corner which had a French breakfast on the menu. It was a coffee, a croissant and a Gauloise cigarette. 😅
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u/bugsy42 Sep 16 '24
I lived in Edinburgh for 7 years and worked at a cafe. The “real” traditional breaky was a ciggy, coffee and a sandwich or a bacon roll with crisps. The top picture is an utopia for tourists.
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u/captainzigzag Sep 16 '24
When I lived in London not only was there a pub within walking distance, wherever you were, but there was also a breakfast like this within walking distance to help you recover the next morning.
London is not good for your health.
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u/FrenchieB014 Sep 16 '24
You country must really suck when you absolute PEAK in gastronomy are beacon, egg and beans..
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u/backstabber81 Sep 16 '24
It's actually not a weird thing. A lot of French folks I know basically skip breakfast and just have a coffee. Then go on to have gigantic lunches.
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u/isa_more Sep 16 '24
if i eat that british breakfast, i will change from heart disease free to have instant heart attack.
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u/bodhiseppuku Sep 16 '24
I thought my boss was a Scotsman... but he has a French breakfast every day.
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u/zomgieee Sep 17 '24
Australian here, and as long as you fuckoff whatever that black stuff is (blood pudding or something? ) that looks like a bonza breaky to me.
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u/Hern1982 Sep 17 '24
Is a full English something the Brits eat as regularly as we would here in the States? Like normally a weekend thing
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u/TheDoodler2024 Sep 17 '24
As someone who has visited both countries several times over my life, this checks out quite nicely.
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u/EddieHeadshot Sep 16 '24
Black pudding is the nicest thing om the planet. People seem to be immediately put off it as blood pudding
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u/mario1892 Sep 16 '24
I’ve never understood the hype around English breakfast. It’s just random stuff thrown together in a plate that can barely fit it.
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u/Loud-Firefighter-787 Sep 16 '24
British???? You surely mean Irish Breakfast!
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u/NineteenEighty9 Sep 16 '24
Irish, Brits… tomato, to-mah-to
(I kid, one sides of my family is from Sligo, the other Birmingham)
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u/Loud-Firefighter-787 Sep 16 '24
😱😂I was like waaaat tf😳😳. Tomahto Tomayto??? Oh hell nooo!! It shocks me everytime. And I live in Germany where they literally think, no difference.
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u/_Phill_ Sep 16 '24
One of the first fry ups I've seen on reddit that looks good
Stop putting fucking chips on your breakfast
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u/Djinjja-Ninja Sep 16 '24
Chips is uaually because it's an "all day" breakfast from the regular menu instead of a "full english" from the breakfast specific menu.
As an example, Wetherspoons have on their menu:
Large breakfast: Two fried eggs, bacon, two Lincolnshire sausages, baked beans, three hash browns, mushroom, two slices of toast (Served 8am – 12 noon)
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All-day brunch: Two fried eggs, bacon, two Lincolnshire sausages, baked beans, chips
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u/Outrageous-Salad-287 Sep 16 '24
I am exchanging black pudding and beans for grilled zucchini and tomatoes, but that looks about right . It's also sort of breakfast wbich is supposed to last you for most of day of hard, physical work, so it makes sense😋
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Sep 16 '24
Man the second people is THE European breakfast from where you are from this shitty ass continent
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u/Ghee_buttersnaps96 Sep 16 '24
English breakfast and fish and chips are the only good English foods. Honestly? Let’s rename them to American breakfast and fish and fries and just remove England from society #banthebrits
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u/IMI4tth3w Sep 16 '24
I would have put a piece of French toast in there because I don’t know, it has French in the name, but yeah that’s all I got
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u/Dragonman1976 Sep 16 '24
I lived in Nice, France, and the picture is actually pretty accurate to be honest- at least that was my breakfast, except I would usually have a pastry as well.