Did you cook that using your camera flash?
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Brit here, all the elements are correct but jeez please cook all of that for at least twice as long
Mate they’ve obviously boiled this long enough. All the colours gone
Needs mushrooms still I think. Or fried tomatoes, or black pudding if you are feeling fancy.
The shit in a full English breakfast always seemed so random to me... Tomato? The fuck are you talking about?
Nobody visits England for the food.
I love English food. All of the British Isles do pub food to die for, especially in colder weather.
Well no, people visit the UK to experience our culture and history.
When they arrive they are often pleasantly surprised that our food is actually quite good.
A proper fried breakfast with quality meats and good sundries beats an american breakfast hands down. Proper back bacon instead of that crispy streaky shit Americans eat, proper sausages instead of those shitty little cat turd "links", toast made from thick cut bread from a real bakery (or baked on site). God tier.
I challenge anyone to eat a proper shortcrust pastry meat pie made with slow cooked beef in a rich beer/red wine gravy with vegetables and chips and come away thinking it isn't anything other than delicious (unless they dont like pies....)
Proper back bacon instead of that crispy streaky shit Americans eat,
This is the only part I'll push back on being better, and even then, it's with some qualifications. Rashers are fine, and I think I even prefer them if it's on a sandwich or burger, but just sat on a plate? Slab bacon beats it every time for me. A nice, thick cut piece of streaky bacon is just more tasty to me, though you need the right balance of lean and streaky bits. Honestly, I think that's where rashers lose me at breakfast, they're just too far on the lean side, so you hardly get any of the nice, crispy fat bits, just a little strip of it at the edges.
Then again, I have no complaints with an Irish breakfast roll for breakfast if I'm feeling lazy, which, around here, gets you some sausage links, rasher, and a couple pieces of black and white pudding, wrapped up in the same sort of pastry you'd make a sausage roll with. Not the healthiest of breakfasts, but it certainly does the job when you're hungry and tastes great with some brown sauce on it.
When you say "American breakfast," we do have that sometimes, but what it actually consists of and the quality (e.g. type of bacon or sausage, how the eggs are cooked) varies widely. Where I live, breakfast tacos are much more common than the stereotypical American breakfast though
I'm not even sure a "stereotypical American breakfast" even exists in 2026.
My go-to is a breakfast sandwich on a toasted bagel
As an Australian, English pies make me sad.
As a Kiwi, Australian pies make me sad.
Their sausage rolls pale compared to their oceanic descendants too.
They should be embarrassed by what they call sausage rolls.
they have no idea, haha, they got very offended over there when I told them I was disappointed to find they were so shit compared to NZ ones
I managed to find one good sausage roll at the Southbank market one time (lived there for 8 years and was actively seeking out acceptable sausage rolls and pies the whole time), I blew the mind of the guy selling it by suggesting he should make some with bacon and cheese in the sausage meat.
I'm feeling a bit defensive about UK food in this thread, but it's undeniably true that our sausage rolls are an absolute embarrassment. Supermarkets predictably are the worst -- gristly flavourless meat in anaemic half-baked pastry. Same goes for pasties.
I actually liked a lot of the food I had when I lived in the UK. Not necessarily all the cuisine as such (although plenty of it is fine), but I found in general that supermarkets had really good quality produce and ingredients for very decent prices, and I love cheddar and various other British staples. An English breakfast is great too, and I know this picture isn't representative.
But Australia and NZ have really perfected pies and sausage rolls, and they're far more of an everyday thing. You can get pretty decent ones basically anywhere. I moved to the UK after a couple years in France, where the food was of course great, but I was really looking forward to being able to finally get a good sausage roll. So you can imagine my disappointment when I couldn't.
You can get everything you listed in the US relatively easily
I disagree
The best, most fun meal of my life was in England
I lived there for 30 years, now live in Germany and by God if I see another Maultasche I will scream.
I think the picture is also intentionally heavily de-saturated. It's food already somewhat bland in colors, but if you further remove colors from the picture it looks even sadder.
I'm convinved that this post is some kind of bait.
Some yank who hasn't left their state, let alone understand how to apply for a passport
Funny thing to say when the british believe this food looks good
As a Brit, If I got this in a greasy cafe, i would send it back. Fellow Brits will attest how bad it has to be for THAT to happen.
This is an abomination of a fry up.
Shouldn't you be celebrating how the slaughter of children in schools means you're free?
Man the energy crisis has hit UK hard; they’re only half toasting their toast and parcooking their food.
Maillard would be very upset with the lack of caramalisation and browning on any of this supposedly fried food.
That looks so undercooked, where's the tomatoes, mushrooms, black pudding and hash browns?
Did you microwave that 🤢
The mere fact there are 3 "sausages" but only one rasher of bacon tells me this person has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
The cuisine of England led their people to become the best sailors in the world.
This looks like someone was afraid they might accidentally cook something.
everything on that plate looks like it should be boiled for a little bit longer.
ragebait? I'm not even British this food just looks like it was intentionally cooked in the worst ways possible
Ugh wtt why is it all so pale
Ah yes, boiled sausages, my favourite.
Take the egg off the plate (probably best to fry a new one)
Throw the whole plate under a high broiler for 2 minutes
Return the egg
Based on how well cooked everything else is on this plate, that tea hasn't got enough milk in it
Where's the fried bread, where's the buttered toast, where's the fried tomatoes, where's the rest of the bacon, why are the sausages raw? For some, the black pudding and hash-browns seem to be missing.
for some
oi oi oi whutz goin on ere then
They must hate Maillard.



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