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I think this killed my appetite
Category: Weirdness
Posted on: September 3, 2009 11:23 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Carlie | September 3, 2009 11:28 AM
I want it.
Posted by: Sigmund | September 3, 2009 11:30 AM
Hmmmmmm.... bacon chalice...
It's like the holy grail of porkaholics
Posted by: uknesvuinng | September 3, 2009 11:31 AM
I think that picture gave me a heart attack...
I wants the baco-licious!
Posted by: marty | September 3, 2009 11:32 AM
That is the greatest thing I've ever seen. The Bacon Grail.
Posted by: Bullet Magnet | September 3, 2009 11:32 AM
Needs more ice cream.
Posted by: RobinSV | September 3, 2009 11:32 AM
No beans, no mushrooms, no grilled tomato. "Full" English my ass.
Posted by: Somnolent Aphid | September 3, 2009 11:33 AM
Maybe uhe UU's could uuse a pork based chalice.
Posted by: Standard Curve | September 3, 2009 11:34 AM
At first I thought that it was a section of a very old skull with ice cream in it, but now it sounds pretty good.
Posted by: Medievalist Jon | September 3, 2009 11:35 AM
I apologize for an off-topic, but the tag on the post is "weirdness."
Am I seeing things or does our good friend Bill Donohue have a blurb on his new book from Stephen Colbert?
http://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1667
Please excuse me while I now go to my grave laughing.
Posted by: Celtic_Evolution | September 3, 2009 11:35 AM
Heh!
"You have chosen WISELY!"
Posted by: JBlilie | September 3, 2009 11:37 AM
Bacon: The Other White Meat! Yum yum, eat 'em up!
Posted by: Matt Penfold | September 3, 2009 11:38 AM
Those eggs looked scrambled to me. You do not have scrambled eggs in a Full English Breakfast. They are fried (or at the very least poached). You need runny yokes.
There also seems to be an absence of both fried bread and black pudding.
Posted by: Christophe Thill | September 3, 2009 11:38 AM
Too bad really that the Monty Python couldn't see this before they made their movie. It would have been a great inspiration, I'm sure.
Posted by: Brock | September 3, 2009 11:38 AM
Yeah, I thought it was holy ice cream in a chocolate grail at first.
Now if they could just make the bacon watertight, I could enjoy my flavored diet coke in it...
Posted by: Ray Moscow | September 3, 2009 11:40 AM
See what you guys are missing by being on the wrong side of the pond?
Actually, I've been here for 10 years and have never seen such a thing before.
Posted by: charley | September 3, 2009 11:40 AM
Where's the warm, mushy tomato?
Posted by: william e emba | September 3, 2009 11:42 AM
The bacon explosion is still king.
Posted by: Hannah | September 3, 2009 11:42 AM
Simply one of the strangest ways to eat a meal I've ever seen o0 wouldn't the bacon get distressingly cold...?
Posted by: Lorence | September 3, 2009 11:42 AM
YES! Monty Porkthon and the Quest for the Bacon Grail. I think that's the only thing that would have make the movie better. Well, maybe if the killer rabbit had a piglet sidekick...
Posted by: Peter | September 3, 2009 11:43 AM
That's ... beautiful.
Posted by: strangebrew | September 3, 2009 11:44 AM
#6
"No beans, no mushrooms, no grilled tomato. "Full" English my ass."
Don't forget the 'bangers'...what Full English is a full English without pork sausages?...that tis heresy!....no fried eggs either....scrambled is for the poor man's apologist.....!
Cos ya can't dip ya fried bread into scrambled eggs...simple like so!
Posted by: jck | September 3, 2009 11:53 AM
Mmm. I would drizzle melted Velveeta over it.
Posted by: Happy Tentacles | September 3, 2009 11:58 AM
That's not a full English breakfast! No sausages, no black pudding, no fried bread, no fried eggs, no tomatoes, no mushrooms, no baked beans, and none of that lovely eggy, beany, sausage-fatty residue to be wiped up afterwards with thick brown bread in order to prolong the whole wonderful experience of breakfast! Best meal of the day.
Posted by: dead yeti | September 3, 2009 12:00 PM
i think i see some sausage under the egg but it needs black pudding, beans, fried egg, fried mushrooms and some more black pudding until then we english refuse to put our name to such a thing
Posted by: Margaret | September 3, 2009 12:00 PM
They forgot the HP too! (I'll forgive the lack of tottie scones, just this once).
Posted by: JefFlyingV | September 3, 2009 12:04 PM
LOL, Art for arts sake? I know there is creative art and destructive art, but edible art? If this is a restaurant, they certainly know how to save on silver ware and china. Could this be going green to the exterme?
Posted by: Ritchie Annand | September 3, 2009 12:05 PM
*laugh* I thought I recognized that from someplace! That's from RatherGood.com, one of my guilty pleasures to visit.
My almost-2-year-old also really loves them. I suppose that should tell me something.
If they'd make a version of the Spine Song for atheists, I'd be ecstatic.
The coccyx really is a classic,
As are the twelve which are thoracic,
But my vertebral number one,
Has got to be the fused sacrum.
Posted by: Qwerty | September 3, 2009 12:16 PM
Where's the Rev BDC's comment on this? Did he have to sleep on the couch last night after praying before sex?
Posted by: ChrisH | September 3, 2009 12:16 PM
As has been mentioned, not exactly a Full English of the old school... but that guy is my new hero.
*frantically cross posts*
Posted by: DaveX | September 3, 2009 12:16 PM
Okay, that's just disgusting.
Posted by: Ritchie Annand | September 3, 2009 12:18 PM
Not a restaurant, that just Joel Veitch and his evil cholesterolergic ways. The article is linked through, but here is a direct link to the original.
Posted by: Qwerty | September 3, 2009 12:18 PM
BulletMagnet @ 4 - I say chap; I think the "ice cream" is actually scrambled eggs.
Posted by: Rick at shrimp and grits | September 3, 2009 12:20 PM
This could be improved.
Deep-fry the whole thing and attach it to a stick.
Posted by: tmaxPA | September 3, 2009 12:20 PM
Re: #9. Here's the blurb (so nobody else has to give the Catholic League an traffic). It is the last one on the page, but is included with a stack by Micheal Medved and Laura Ingraham. Apparently, indeed, the Right Wing is blissfully unaware that Colbert is mocking them. SCORE!
As far as a "full English breakfast", the only things missing in the Bacon Grail are beans and tomato slices (the sausage is under the eggs). Black pudding and mushrooms may be semi-common, but a full English breakfast is eggs (whatever style), bacon, toast, sausage (bangers), baked beans and grilled tomatoe slices. Anything else is an optional add-on. At least that is what I got every time I ordered "Breakfast" in England: not once was I served black pudding or mushrooms, and not once were any of the others missing. Not that I ever ate the beans or tomatoes; I wouldn't have them for lunch, let alone breakfast.
Posted by: JefFlyingV | September 3, 2009 12:28 PM
...but it isn't a complete meal without the lard, butter and salt. Waiter, what happened to my eggnog? You forgot my eggnog?
Posted by: aineolach | September 3, 2009 12:37 PM
#17 Concur! Excuse me I'm going off to the kitchen now.
Posted by: Hypatia's Daughter | September 3, 2009 12:38 PM
Is the "stem" stuck into a slice of scrapple? (Mmmm, I like scrapple, souse or headcheese - and tongue - and steak & kidney pie - O.K., I'll stop now). And where's the kippers?
The bacon explosion LOOKS excessive, but slices would be great on a breakfast buffet.
Posted by: Epinephrine | September 3, 2009 12:39 PM
Well, I lived in Scotland and England, as well as spending time in Northern Ireland. Pretty much all full breakfasts I had included black pudding. Most also had fried bread, and sometimes white pudding, tattis scones (in Scotland), and soda bread (in Northern Ireland).
And I miss kippers...
Posted by: DuckPhup | September 3, 2009 12:41 PM
Bacon? Man... that's a relief. I was served such a mess once, and afterward I was informed that it was fried goat smegma ensconced in a fried elf penis and scrotum. I haven't been the same since. Perhaps I can get better now.
Posted by: Paulino | September 3, 2009 12:47 PM
"I think this killed my appetite", and my coronaries...
Posted by: Bill Dauphin, OM | September 3, 2009 12:57 PM
Party foul!
A "cocktail glass made of bacon" ought to be filled with a cocktail (presumably incorporating Bakon vodka), not breakfast. Much as I love scrambled eggs, I take cocktail glasses very seriously. Y'all have been warned!
Posted by: Qwerty | September 3, 2009 1:09 PM
Epinephrine - Ah, yes, kippers. Always being served in BBC drama series. Please, enlighten me. What are they? Are they tasty?
Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites
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September 3, 2009 1:17 PM
I'm pretty sure recovering this fella for the Council is a quest in the Kingdom of Loathing.
Posted by: Halfpint | September 3, 2009 1:21 PM
Now THAT is a thing of beauty. Crispy, grease-glittering, artery-clogging beauty. You've definitely got to admit that someone put some serious effort into crafting that "glass."
Posted by: Yubal
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September 3, 2009 1:22 PM
I want somebody to figure out how to make a drinkable version of bacon. I had something like that in mind:
1/2 cup o' bacon
1/2 cup o' eggs
1/4 cup o' lard
one dash black coffee and Gin Tonic
crumbled beans and pork rinds for dressing
recommended sides:
chicken fried steak
mashed Cheese-Potatoes
deep-fried chitterlings
4 Marlboro's (full-flavor)
Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites
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September 3, 2009 1:22 PM
They're merely herring, Anglicised, so sorta.
They do make a nice accompaniment to eggs and bacon.
Posted by: Happy Tentacles | September 3, 2009 1:24 PM
Kippers are wonderful, Qwerty. They're smoked herrings - only you must make sure they've been smoked in the traditional way. A lot of those you find in supermarkets have been treated with artificial smoke flavours and artificial colours. They've got a lot of small bones in them, which some people find off-putting, but as every kipper-connoisseur knows, a good kipper is worth the effort!
Posted by: Qwerty | September 3, 2009 1:27 PM
I have English ancestors; so, I'll have to pay a visit to the UK and try some kippers. The Norwegian in me appreciates pickled herring; so, I am sure I'd enjoy some kippers with my eggs and bacon.
Posted by: Prometevsberg | September 3, 2009 1:32 PM
What this needs is Candied Bacon Ice Cream as a dessert
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2008/03/candied_bacon_i_1.html
Posted by: evinfuilt | September 3, 2009 1:42 PM
@ #45
Well, maybe not drinkable bacon (yet) but Fois Gras Vodka.
http://www.offalgood.com/site/videos/no-reservation-deleted-scene
Posted by: Blondin | September 3, 2009 1:43 PM
I think Celtic_Evolution's Last Crusade reference at #10 wins this thread.
Posted by: Louis | September 3, 2009 1:48 PM
Ok, I've taken a lot and I can take no more. As others have politely...some might say accomodatingly...pointed out this bears very little resemblance to a Full English Breakfast (say it with pride people).
Day after day the people on this blog commit heresy after heresy. Tearing down social conventions as if they were nothing. Well it stops here you bunch of heartless bastards. You swing on to the internet (an English invention I'll have you know, no matter what your made up American "facts" might say) using a language you have no right to and insult one of the....no, not one of.... the single greatest institution of the modern world: The Full English Breakfast.
Oh you can pretend you haven't crossed a line, but you know deep down you have. Feel the shame burn you, you unfeeling abreakfastists. Think of all those breakfasts made PROPERLY across the great island of Albion. Lovingly prepared by mothers, grandmothers, cooks and greasy gentlemen in transport cafes. All those people cannot be wrong. You trample on their dreams.
Not only that but you abreakfastists are clearly ignorant of the great sausagological works of Crispy Sausage Lewis and Braised (Sausage) Pascal. After all you who do not believe in a proper breakfast have failed to consider that if there is a proper Full English Breakfast (and there is) and you don't believe in IT and are wrong you will be condemned to Bad Muesli for all eternity. But if you just believe in a proper Full English Breakfast (as you should) and IT exists (and it does so nyah) then you will be blessed with >90% Meat Sausages forever and ever and ever. If you believe in a proper Full English Breakfast and you are wrong (sha, right) then the worst that can happen to you is that you get a healthy first meal of the day.
And think about it, all the recipes about Full English Breakfasts tell you that they contain Sausages. Do you believe them? What's more plausible I ask you? Celery, Shit, or Sausage?
Not only THAT but you vile liberal abreakfastists will probably claim that my perfectly reasonable adherence to good, old fashioned breakfast dogma is some white, male, Anglocentric, heterosexual, culturally hegemonic bigotry. Nothing could be further from the truth. Some of my best friends eat croissants. So there.
Louis
Posted by: Tezcatlipoca | September 3, 2009 1:48 PM
Mmmmmm,
Bacon!
Posted by: maureen brian | September 3, 2009 1:59 PM
"Merely herrings" says Brownian OM. Sad, you just went down, right down, in my estimation.
The very best kippers come from here - the Isle of Man, of course - and used to have the US as their largest market until that Bush fellow became paranoid and started demanding a separate export licence for each pair of kippers.
Note: I have no commercial interest in this company. I just eat their kippers.
And do not let the Rev read the product description on their bacon. We need him calm to beat off Walton.
Posted by: John Haile | September 3, 2009 2:02 PM
That's not a full English breakfast! Scrambled egg? No tomato, mushroom, beans or chips? Pah!
I'm struggling to keep my stiff English upper lip over this!
Posted by: Nelson M. | September 3, 2009 2:11 PM
I'm a fan of the This is Why You're Fat blog. I think I would rather eat the Tempura Bacon than this Meatini.
Posted by: qbsmd | September 3, 2009 2:20 PM
I see your bacon explosion and raise:
http://bacontoday.com/turbaconducken-turducken-wrapped-in-bacon/
Although I have to admit I've never had either one.
Posted by: JefFlyingV | September 3, 2009 2:31 PM
Geez Loius, this isn't bangers n' mash, bubble n' squeak or toad in the hole? I want fish for breakfast!
Posted by: spondee | September 3, 2009 2:52 PM
I just want to know why the snack food conglomerates refuse to market bacon flavored snackfoods in the US? Where are the Frazzles and the Wheat Crunchies? I think it's the salt-n-vinigear lobby working with the bar-b-que/sour cream and onion people. All trails lead back to McCormick!
Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites
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September 3, 2009 3:00 PM
I'll have you know the Lithuanian in me appreciates a good herring, smoked or pickled. Unfortunately (or not) the swarthy and hirsute Croat in me tends to sneer at Anglo cuisine.
I was only drawing attention to the fact that kippers are not an exotic English creation, but a staple for people all along the Atlantic and Baltic seas.
I will say that Happy Tentacles is right in that they must be smoked in the traditional way--I've had 'em through bongs and even those new-fangled vapourisers all the head shops are selling these days, and they just don't compare.
Posted by: Ktesibios | September 3, 2009 3:01 PM
@Hypatia's Daughter (#37):
I thought the same thing- "is that a piece of good ol' scrapple I see peeking out from under the scrambled eggs?"
According to the rathergood.com site, it's actually a product called "haslet", which they describe as "a kind of pork meatloaf made mostly from entrails".
Darn darn darn darn DARN!
I'm from Philly and I haven't had any scrapple since I moved to L.A. ten years ago. You can't get it out here (you also can't get an authentic cheesesteak).
Posted by: Sili | September 3, 2009 3:06 PM
Iono - I tend to go all hoity-toity when I want to splurge on the calories and ask for eggs Benedict.
Posted by: Martin | September 3, 2009 3:12 PM
I would just like to point out to everyone complaining that it's not a "full" English breakfast that the original article shows a Meatini complete with black pudding "olive" and a tomato (admittedly, a cherry tomato rather than a grilled tomato). Also, the base of the "glass" is made of a slab of haslet, a sausage-like product, and there are "cubes" of haslet under the eggs as well. So, it's not as far off the mark as PZ's picture would have you believe.
Posted by: Alan B | September 3, 2009 3:56 PM
KIPPERS!
They go from the sublime to the ridiculous.
The sublime is freshly caught herrings, gutted, arranged on racks in a proper smokery (with tar running down the outside), smoked, grilled and served on their own or with good bread. Wonderful!! You savour one mouthful as you prepare the next, peeling away the backbone, along with the ribs, as a whole.
The ridiculous is unspeakable (but that has never stopped me). Often so small they look like sprats rather than good herring. Never seen smoke in their lives (or afterwards). The brown colour is produced by a dyestuff called Brown BFK (the BFK standing for "Brown for Kippers" - did they have to actually invent a new dyestuff just to make perfectly good herrings look like kippers?). The smoke taste is just chemicals again. The fish is so small it is almost impossible to take all the bones out by machine so every mouthful is full of tiny bones (usually, mercifully soft so they don't actually stick in the throat).
IMHO you don't serve kippers with anything except a plate - good bread optional. They are a flavoursome meal on their own. If you add bacon, sausages, egg, black pudding, white pudding - anything - you are missing the point or you have 2nd rate kippers.
Posted by: heironymous | September 3, 2009 4:21 PM
The problem with the Bacon in a full English Breakfast is that it isn't cooked to a suitable crispiness. The eggs are cooked too hard, the bacon; not enough.
And as sacrilitious as the new bacon chalice appears to be, Louis and Alan B have pointed out, the full on English Breakfast has black pudding, tomatoes, sausages... (Everything a good hobbit wants for second breakfast)
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbchimp | September 3, 2009 4:47 PM
Oh I see how it is. You'll post this but not the bacon chicken narwahl I sent you.
Harumph
Posted by: chrisD | September 3, 2009 4:53 PM
PZ, if this killed your appetite, I think we'll have to revoke your Atheist membership card. Unless it killed your appetite by eating it, then, um, whats the promotion beyond Atheist Pope?
Posted by: Pete UK | September 3, 2009 4:58 PM
Haslet? HASLET? WTF is Haslet? Only the finest, meatiest thickest pork sausages will do. Not amputated pinkies.
Bacon - nice thick rashers with a bit of fat, and not grilled to a frazzle a la US of A.
Black pudding - a OFEB without black pudding is like a bishop without a ... choirboy.
And where's the toast? To offer scrambled egg is a doctrinal wobble - it should be fried or poached. But to omit toast is ... yes .... heresy. The toast is the altar on which that virginal poached egg is laid out, and then rent asunder... and.....
Where were we? Oh yes...
Toast. When I talk about toast, I'm talking doorsteps carved off a fresh loaf, not a long-life, trephined Wallmart lab specimen.
I may be an atheist, but I have a communion of sorts on Sunday mornings (two sorts, if I'm lucky, but generally not simultaneously, although now I come to think of it..).
Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage
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September 3, 2009 5:16 PM
Isn't porridge part of a full English breakfast? Or do only True Scotsmen and bears eat porridge? As the Papa Bear asked: "Who's been sleeping in my porridge?"
Posted by: MosesZD
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September 3, 2009 5:35 PM
My mouth is watering...
Posted by: Canuck | September 3, 2009 5:35 PM
I'd gladly eat that bacon goblet if it had a poached egg in it.
Posted by: Thornavis | September 3, 2009 5:44 PM
To all of you who are saying that a proper English needs black pudding, I say vile unbelievers! B P is a northern heresy we southerners regard it as unclean, 'though not as unclean as mushy peas. Kippers however are definitely sanctified, funny how dull old Herrings can become food of the gods with a bit of smoke.
Posted by: Happy Tentacles | September 3, 2009 6:01 PM
Brownian OM # 60 - They really know how to smoke kippers in the north of Scotland and the Isle of Man! How else would they cope with the climate?
Recently, Johnathan Meades claimed on the BBC that Northern European culture is based on Gin and Herrings - if only he'd added Beer and Bacon! (Or is that the culture of global rationalists?)
Posted by: Patricia, OM | September 3, 2009 6:47 PM
Poor Louis. I'm afraid he's been snorting Stephen Fry's tea again.
Posted by: Simon | September 3, 2009 6:50 PM
Shouldn't a 'traditional' in the Agatha Christie sense at least, Full English breakfast also have kidneys & kedgeree at some point?
Kippers, if good are wonderful although some patience is needed with the bones.
Any form of Breakfast is better than none but a good english fry up with eggs, bacon, tomatoes, toast or Fried bread, mushrooms etc is good at any meal
Posted by: JefFlyingV | September 3, 2009 6:53 PM
This damned meatini is the funniest thing I've seen in a while. The creator's page is very funny as well.
Posted by: sparkomatic | September 3, 2009 7:10 PM
Its...its...(wipes tear)...so beautiful...
Posted by: Mayhempix | September 3, 2009 8:00 PM
Let's all raise our piglets for a toast to the tragic Hamlet.
Posted by: Troy | September 3, 2009 8:21 PM
I've just waiting for someone to take a snicker bar wrap its in bacon and then deep fry the sucker.
Posted by: Savory Tv | September 3, 2009 8:56 PM
Hmm...not bad, but I think they could have made it much prettier. Also questioning the stability of it.
Posted by: grumblekitty | September 3, 2009 9:41 PM
So am I the only one who saw the bottom half and, um, exit chute of a uterus? Cause it's a disturbing image, especially with the scrambled eggs inside.
Posted by: grumblekitty | September 3, 2009 9:45 PM
Ok, for all you complaining about it not being a full English breakfast, the pic is from the middle of a series. Go here: http://www.rathergood.com/meatini to see it complete.
Posted by: junglepig | September 3, 2009 10:32 PM
Doesn't anyone else see the head of Zeus in there?
Posted by: Hypatia's Daughter | September 3, 2009 10:36 PM
Ahhhh. Nostalgia and food.
Never heard of haslet but I looked up some recipes. Many use breadcrumbs and ground pork - sort of a home-made sausage meatloaf. Not genuine haslet, I suspect.
Now this one sounds genuine and very much resembles haggis.
Toast. Yes, one must have toast. Thick cut and buttered COLD. None of this hot toast with the butter melted to an oily puddle.
People are shocked by what I eat
Kidneys, parsnips and pickled pigs feet
But what seems to gross them out the most
Is spreading butter on ice cold toast.
(With apologies to Cuttlefish & Smoggy)
Posted by: Charlie Foxtrot
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September 3, 2009 11:45 PM
AMAZING! A whole 84 comments (at the time of writing) all on the subject of bacon, and not one mention yet of... you know... the 'L' word...rhymes with "Thespian"...
Posted by: NathanR | September 4, 2009 1:21 AM
That is the coolest thing I have ever seen.
Posted by: JJR | September 4, 2009 1:22 AM
My first thought (after "eew") was "Don't play with your food!"
Posted by: jim | September 4, 2009 4:34 AM
On the one hand it's a hideous atherosclerotic abomination, on the other, it's MADE OUT OF BACON! It is impossible for anything to be made out of bacon and not be awesome. Even the Creation Museum would be awesome if it were made out of bacon. (Mmm ... perhaps that's where Ken Ham is going wrong. We should suggest it.)
Posted by: DiscoveredJoys | September 4, 2009 5:52 AM
Even though I live in the land of the Full English Breakfast, I've never seen a Part English Breakfast.
Any partial attempt is usually promoted by a list of the ingredients, e.g. Egg & Bacon.
And as for Kippers.... fried in butter, sprinkled with vinegar, eaten with bread and butter, mmmm. Of course they repeat on you all day and the house stinks of fish. Win, win, win really.
Posted by: nat | September 4, 2009 7:14 AM
Definitely too hard for a french stomach...
Posted by: XD | September 4, 2009 7:57 AM
Thanks for the link, grumblekitty (#82). That was hilarious.
As this thread seems to be about what makes a perfect English Breakfast, I shall add my tuppence: Smoked back bacon (fried in butter until the fat starts to brown), thick sliced mushrooms (cooked alongside the bacon), eggs (fried in butter, and turned over for a few seconds before serving), beans (haricot beans simmered in a simple sauce of sieved tomatoes), and buttered toast (thick slices of home-made bread; not too fresh). I have that a couple of times a month. Fucking awesome.
Posted by: John Norris | September 4, 2009 9:00 AM
Killed your appetite? Of course, there are no tentacles!
Posted by: Stephen Moore | September 4, 2009 9:33 AM
That's supposed to be a cocktail glass? I see a funnel directing all that sweet, sweet delicious fatty goodness straight to one's heart.
Posted by: Somnolent Aphid | September 4, 2009 9:33 AM
I live with vegans who appear to find this humorless.
Posted by: Pacal
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September 4, 2009 9:41 AM
Thats really disgusting looking!
What are you trying to do turn everyone into a vegan?
Posted by: Somnolent Aphid | September 4, 2009 9:41 AM
Haslet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haslet
I have to get me some of that porky goodness.
Posted by: Espi | September 4, 2009 10:52 AM
OK! I love bacon but his is just.... Eeeewwww!
Posted by: kormgar | September 4, 2009 10:53 AM
I thought nothing could end my love of bacon
I was wrong
Posted by: eddie | September 4, 2009 12:02 PM
Of course, the english (or DEBs to use the technical term) "borrowed" their "full english" breakfast from us scots. In the glorious original, beans are optional, black pudden is always there, as are tattie scones and, most of all, it's NOT bangers, it's square slice;
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Square-slice-sausage/87919313934?_fb_noscript=1
Posted by: eddie | September 4, 2009 12:12 PM
Also, re the base. I think it's a trencher. A big slice of bread instead of a plate, to soak up the juices and save on the washing up. Yum!
Posted by: Pacal
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September 6, 2009 2:56 PM
UGH!! That is totally GROSS!!!
Posted by: Kevin | September 7, 2009 4:31 AM
@Matt Penfold:
"You do not have scrambled eggs in a Full English Breakfast." Uh...since when? You can have whatever eggs you like.