Re: OT: Breakfast - What's on the menu

anything@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:42:26 -0500, "TimW"
<SPAMFROMTHECANtwampler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

O.K.,

So I am looking through some online stock photo's for a picture of breakfast. I keep running accross these "English" pictures showing what looks like Baked Beans and Mushrooms on the plate with something that resembles sausage patties & eggs. Since I am in the food business I got to thinking, what do my English friends eat for breakfast and for that matter anyone who is different areas of US or other country's. So how bout it guys/gals what does a traditional breakfast consist of where you come from?

For us in the south it would be Pork Sausage Patties, Buttermilk Biscuits, Eggs, Sausage Gravy, Grits and Orange Juice.

OR

Country Ham, Red-Eye Gravy, Buttermilk Biscuits, and Eggs - This is my favorite!!!

For those that don't know Red-Eye gravy is made from country ham drippings and coffee...

I await your culinary replies - MMMmmmmmm...

I was in catering for years - what do you do?

When we had the pub my stock all-day breakfast was:

Two rashers good bacon (back, or at worst, middle) grilled.
Two good sized pure pork sausages or three chipolatas (also pure pork)
Two eggs, fried sunny side up (runny or hard according to the order)
or scrambled - if I could get them I'd use duck eggs, which at my
local tobaconnists (go figure) were the same price as free range
chicken eggs - and much tastier - nearly all duck eggs are free range
and sumptuously rich.

The rest depends on the order:

Baked means, fried mushrooms (done in a saucier rather than a frying
pan - they get a little more juicy that way but still nice and
buttery.

Black pudding.

Toast with real butter, jam or marmalade. Beverage (separately billed)
of choice.

Bread fried in the sausage fat or a couple of white sliced triangles,
buttered, on the side of the plate.

VERY different from what you'd be offered in a Holiday Inn or
Marriott...I hate American hotel breakfasts - the bacon splinters
across the room when you put a fork into it, the sausages are usually
small bullet-sized things that taste as though they came from
somewhere in Mexico, the scrambled egg is nearly always made from
powder and if you ask for something off the canteen menu you get a
very curt "Have a great Day." usually said through the corner of the
serving-person's mouth as they turn their back on you when you say
"Thank You."

At least, that's what you get at the Nashville airport Marriott at any
rate....

Pete


I'm soooooo glad you enjoyed your trip to the states.

-Raf

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