American Breakfast

[touchingcloth]

When you think about it - when you really think about it - mental sugar highs aside, the US must have about the best food culture on the planet, right? California food trucks to Texas barbecues to Cajun/Creole to New England clam bakes to name but a very small handful of the sorts of cuisines which originated in the country which I have wet dreams about getting to shove into my gob some day.

That's before you even mention the fusion foods like Tex Mex or the fact that just about every world cuisine is represented there to a high standard in one city or another. My mouth and I would love to eat the fuck out of the place.

[Ferris]

From what I gather, most Americans eat cereal for breakfast. They're just like us! I'd personally take a full English over a full American breakfast, but I almost always skip it anyway so I have no real stake in it.

Incidentally, Spain has some of the best food in the world, but their breakfast game is rubbish. I don't think they even have one, really. Same with Mexican food, as far as I can tell, they basically just have a morning lunch. But the rest of it's so good. Can't judge a nation's cuisine on breakfast alone.

All the Europeans make a shit effort if memory serves.

Here you are mate, pile of yesterday's croissants and some fruit. That'll be 15 euros señor.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

croissant et baked beans
apfelkuchen und baked beans
latte e bako beano

[Chedney Honks]

Continental Breakfast is my deconstructed lunch. I love it's!

Cheese, hem, bread, coffee, salami, another cheese. Wash it all down with a nice coffee.

[touchingcloth]

All the Europeans make a shit effort if memory serves.

Here you are mate, pile of yesterday's croissants and some fruit. That'll be 15 euros señor.

I reckon all breakfast is shit. Unless you're a 13th century compost of a vassal needing to trudge a plough round a field from sunup to sundown I think you can probably make it through to lunch without any frosted rice in milk being strictly necessary.

[Chedney Honks]

Hot dryer noodles

[Noodle Lizard]

When you think about it - when you really think about it - mental sugar highs aside, the US must have about the best food culture on the planet, right? California food trucks to Texas barbecues to Cajun/Creole to New England clam bakes to name but a very small handful of the sorts of cuisines which originated in the country which I have wet dreams about getting to shove into my gob some day.

That's before you even mention the fusion foods like Tex Mex or the fact that just about every world cuisine is represented there to a high standard in one city or another. My mouth and I would love to eat the fuck out of the place.

It's basically like Europe: very big, with lots of different cultures and cuisines popping up all over the place. There's amazing food all over, and a lot of it's not even near the big cities; one of the best meals I ever had was at a remote tavern in Colorado. All kinds of cities now seem to be competing for having the best food scene, so even in "boring" ones like Phoenix, AZ or Boisie, ID, you have these incredibly talented chefs moving there trying to stake their claim in previously untapped territory.

That said, I've still not had a really good Indian meal here, and their Chinese food is disappointing (I hear New York's better, but Peking duck isn't really done here it seems, despite being objectively the best thing China has ever produced).

[Cuntbeaks]

The Full Scottish is the rightful UK breakfast champion. The addition of the potato scone, square slice and optional "crispy roll", elevates it above amd beyond the standard English variety.

Beans on the side, in case you need a bit of wet.

A fond brekkie memory i have is of the bottomless version at Toby Carvery, there was one just a mile from my house, but i only managed to try it once. The option to have MASSIVE Yorkshire puddings made with bacon bits already in them AND gravy was nothing short of a fever dream.

[touchingcloth]

Peking duck isn't really done here it seems, despite being objectively the best thing China has ever produced).

Better than a iphone is it pal yeah I don't think it's better than a iphone really now is it come off of it mate.

[Neomod]

First experienced Eggs Benedict at a Lake Tahoe Casino breakfast buffet as a kid.

Got one, then another, then another, then another.

Bluddy Lovely.

Man, the buffets I saw on that holiday. But that's another thread entirely.

[TrenterPercenter]

The Full Scottish is the rightful UK breakfast champion. The addition of the potato scone, square slice and optional "crispy roll", elevates it above and beyond the standard English variety.

This is a fair point. Irish also good with boxty, soda bread, black & white pudding.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

I don't think I pick between a scottish and irish. Irish white pudding, decent mushrooms and soda bread is persuasive with all the subtle spiciness but tattie scone and sometimes a god damn herring is hard to beat, but occassionally the scottish indulge in beanery probably due to the landbridge existing between them and Hell.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Tho I haven't been to ireland for a long time its probably beans akimbo there too by now.

[Ferris]

Yeah Scotland has England beat on the fry up front.

Used to work at a place in downtown Edinburgh that had a subsidized canteen. Full English Scottish for 2 quid. Square sausage, potato cakes, the works. Absolutely mega.

[TrenterPercenter]

Tho I haven't been to ireland for a long time its probably beans akimbo there too by now.

Of course there are beans on an Irish breakfast and has been for decades.  You are very much the outsider here in your breakfast baked bean denial.  Most people understand the importance of beans on a breakfast.

I'm not going to lie to you VGF2K I'm somewhat disappointed.

[Sebastian Cobb]

need bean juice if you're having black pudding

simple as

[Video Game Fan 2000]

I felt like an outsider all my life hating beans, I only found solace on the internet where Americans regarded beans for breakfast as forerunner of griefing or shitposting.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Yet they put syrup on bacon. Nonce behaviour.

[TrenterPercenter]

I felt like an outsider all my life hating beans, I only found solace on the internet where Americans regarded beans for breakfast as forerunner of griefing or shitposting.

the white of a fried egg plus the tomato sauce of baked beans is a taste sensation and a match made in heaven.


Are you sure you know how to eat properly?

[Shit Good Nose]

All this talk of Scottish cooked breakfast and not a single mention of haggis.  Poor show.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

I think I'd need a therapy course to discover if my bean revulsion is truly about beans or can be traced to formative negative memories regarding the abuse of "red sauce" at my friends houses growing up.

[Sebastian Cobb]

The pro method of doing beans is to chuck them into the skillet after you've done everything else to deglaze the pan and boil some of the juice off so it's almost a thick paste.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

That's just getting to American style beans the hard way. Just approximating the maple syrup repression won't let you have.

[Ferris]

Yet they put syrup on bacon. Nonce behaviour.

Watch it.

The pro method of doing beans is to chuck them into the skillet after you've done everything else to deglaze the pan and boil some of the juice off so it's almost a thick paste.

Alright back in the good books.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

The little boy says "look at all that delicious tomato sauce" but his sister says "you idiot! can't you see we've got syrup?"

[TrenterPercenter]

I think I'd need a therapy course to discover if my bean revulsion is truly about beans or can be traced to formative negative memories regarding the abuse of "red sauce" at my friends houses growing up.

Ketchup is a completely different ball game altogether; has it's uses; burgers, hotdogs and very occasionally on very hot very, crispy chips but that all. 

This maybe the root of your problems but I urge you to reconsider beans are a wonderful, wonderful thing.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Unfortunately my bowel can't do beans anymore but I did like beans a lot. Refried, black beans, proper baked beans with smoked paprika, onion, bacon and brown sugar. That bean salad with green beans and all.

Canned heinz beans have always been one of my big food dislikes. Its the sauce.

[Sebastian Cobb]

A substansial midweek breakfast I've been having during lockdown is crumpets but with toasted cheese on, usually with marmite in the mix on at least one of them.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Unfortunately my bowel can't do beans anymore but I did like beans a lot. Refried, black beans, proper baked beans with smoked paprika, onion, bacon and brown sugar. That bean salad with green beans and all.

Canned heinz beans have always been one of my big food dislikes. Its the sauce.

Love refried beans. I make a big vat of them, mixed with rice, cheese and home-made salsa. Mix it all up and divide it up so a portion =  a weeks worth of quesadilla for lunch (or sometimes, in keeping with the thread, breakfast).

[Video Game Fan 2000]

A substansial midweek breakfast I've been having during lockdown is crumpets but with toasted cheese on, usually with marmite in the mix on at least one of them.

I used to half toast a crumpet, spread grainy mustard on it then put a dairylea triangle on and grill that.