I think it’s just that toast is so ingrained here as what one does with a slice (or two) of bread for breakfast - fried bread isn’t even a thing here at all.
Full English Breakfast
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JAS_OH1
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My DH likes it when I make him a breakfast with Mexican-seasoned pinto beans in it. One day I just wanted to use up some leftovers, so I heated up the beans from our Chipotle chicken dinner the night before with a slice of melted cheese on top and 2 over-medium fried eggs on top of that. I did it again the next time I had leftover beans and it seemed to suit him.Aah, how lovely to have a new thread for this topic, thank you!
Can hardly wait to cook the beans for it!
When I shared a picture of a Full EB with my boyfriend, he said, well, the veggies can go!
I very willingly would accept his veggies of his plate, should it occur
I politely disagree with him on that, as the veggies go wonderfully with the meat,imo, refresh...
As you can tell, I am on a new obsession path
Anyways, one of the full EB was served ( yt video) with one egg, and someone commented " what? 1 egg? 1 egg is an offense for the chicken!"
I burst laughing.
JAS_OH1
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True, but enough butter/margarine gets soaked into the bread it's not much different?
No, it’s much, much different. Toast to fried bread is like a donkey and cart compared to the Concorde.
Oh - and black pudding. I adore it.
Here is one of mine with (bought frozen) hash browns and black pudding in centre stage:
Here is one of mine with (bought frozen) hash browns and black pudding in centre stage:
No doubt at all. It is, but then there's a possibility that baked beans are as well...
There was (maybe still is) a fantastic place in Oxford Market called George's. Students would go there for breakfast before big exams - mods or finals. Fried bread all the way, big thick slices of it. and Lion's Blood (strong tea) in huge chipped mugs.
At home we'd have left over roast potatoes from Sunday lunch, fried up in bacon fat.
Timenspace
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Indeed, I reckon it was featured in one of the videos on yt...what would you say? What speaks traditional Full EB?
Bubble and squeak, isn't it?
Timenspace
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Oh yes! Am on the quest to find good local black pudding. I want to find a good one.
There is tradition to prepare blood sausages locally, so will keep you posted!
Timenspace
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Lovely memories, aren't they?
The video expressed best satisfaction with an Italian place called E Pellici, I believe...don't remember the exact location, as I don't know London.
That's in Bethnal Green Rd, in the east end of London.
There's a really good one in Westminster/Pimlico called the Regency Café. No nonsense café, apparently - set breakfast, very cheap and no changes:
- Set Breakfast deal – £6.95
(1 Egg + 2 Bacon + Sausage + (Beans OR Tomatoes) + (Bread OR Toast) + (Tea OR Coffee)). No changes! - Breakfast Extras:
- Black Pudding – £1.20
- Bubble & Squeak –£1.20
- Hash Browns –£1.20
- Omelettes – £4.50
(Plain Omelette with Chips). Any extra Filling +80p - Egg & 2 bacon – £3.30
- Egg sausage & baked beans – £3.00
- Egg Bacon & sausage – £4.30
- Egg Bacon & tinned tomatoes – £4.30
- 2 Eggs & Chips – £4.00
- 2 sausages & chips – £4.00
- Burger egg & chips – £5.85
- Cornbeef egg & chips – £5.10
Sauté potatoes all the way.
Hash browns are the poor relative
Hash browns are the poor relative
CookieMonster
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having done more travel than I'da volunteered for . . .
"hash browns" is totally an undefined food item.
it is whatever the eatery chooses to put on the plate.
fried rounds, fried diced, with/without (long long list....)
right down to essentially minced potato with (?)
further down to long potato shreds glued together with mystery something . . .
DW likes it done:
"hash browns" is totally an undefined food item.
it is whatever the eatery chooses to put on the plate.
fried rounds, fried diced, with/without (long long list....)
right down to essentially minced potato with (?)
further down to long potato shreds glued together with mystery something . . .
DW likes it done:
Is that in the USA - your experience travelling and ordering hash browns, I mean? The ones in your photo would definitely be called fried or sautèed potatoes in the UK.
25 years ago, I had to travel to NY almost every 3-4 weeks. The hotel I always stayed at did something called "breakfast potatoes"; cooked potatoes fried up with some onion and peppers.
Never missed breakfast!