Breakfast in the UK

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The only time I've EVER eaten beans for breakfast they were red beans (Creole, the only kind) in an omelette – an absolutely heavenly combination.

If you're ever lucky enough to know someone (or someplace) that makes red beans properly —and there are any leftover in the morning— you must give them a go in your omelette.

I actually do this with left over white beans, they are wonderful with an omlette.

I like beans, cook them in a Instapot with chicken broth, some ham, a few spices. They get better as leftovers, and great when added to burritos or omelettes.

 

[ukoldgit]

All the beans I've had with a Full English Breakfast are obviously from the can. Don't eat them. But the ones I View attachment 635419 made Iast night are entirely different.

Now they look the business,

This is what I've always had in UK.
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Suspiciously like American beans.

No, No, No,

When I was over there (Ireland), I could handle the beans, it's the blood pudding I didn't get along with. And I'm a hard core sausage lover of (most) all kinds.

I would fly back over there just for the rashers, though.

White pudding is Irelands national breakfast sausage and bluddy good it is too.

Cannot really comment on when beans in a fry up became a norm. Not unusual to have bacon and eggs on their own either.
If I have a fry up nowadays, I can't eat anything else until dinner/tea/supper.
On a side tangent regarding baked beans, they also go rather well in a curry. As do trusted english sausages
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Yess, the dogs bo hollocks

 

[circles]

I was in London for a while, but don't remember 'breakfast beans'. Seems like it could be good, if prepared in a pleasing manner.

 

[ukoldgit]

This is how it should be served and funnily enough Transport Cafe's do it best. (Truckers rest stops in Americanese)

 

[uncle daddy]

Mrs Daddy's regular brekkie is her version of rice and beans. She'll often take a can of baked beans and wash the goop off, and then add them to a mixture of cooked rice and vegetables.
Yup, it's weird.

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

Anyway you slice it, a full English / Irish / Scottish beats the snot out of a bran muffin and some kale juice.

 

[Frank Roberts]

This is making me hungry....

Its has had quite the opposite effect on me!

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

This is how it should be served and funnily enough Transport Cafe's do it best. (Truckers rest stops in Americanese)
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Little Chefs used to be my go to, but sadly I think they all closed down over a decade ago.
Last time I was home, last November, we stopped at the Fleet Services on the M3 after landing at Heathrow that morning. Okay, but not spectacular. I still went round twice.

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

Years ago, decades ago, one of the first things Ridley Scott directed were commercials. One of them was for instant porridge for kids. The slogan was "central heating for kids".

In the 80s, the UK's main nuclear fuel reprocessing plants was called Windscale. To say it was a bit leaky is a bit of an understatement, and changing the name to Sellafield fooled absolutely nobody.

Anyway, the 80s comedy show Not The Nine O'clock News put the two together and...

 

[Wrighty]

On another, non guitar related site, a few of us were talking about breakfast in the UK, and maybe it's peculiar to England, it doesn't seem gross...but it just seems odd that so often I see a breakfast with what appears to be baked beans. Is that something that's been going on since the olden days like when we had the unpleasantness between a very young us and King George, something that popped up due to rations during the colonial expansion and maintenance, or is this something that popped up during the lean years after world war II?
I know this is an odd question but...

Totally with you. I like baked beans but could heave at the thought of eating them with a full English. Hash browns are open for debate.

 

[1stpitch]

White pudding is Irelands national breakfast sausage and bluddy good it is too.

I had the black and the white. Didn't care for either one. But give me those rashers...

 

[abnormaltoy]

Rather than make a bunch of them I found a local source.
So it's breakfast for dinner tonight.

 

[ukoldgit]

Rather than make a bunch of them I found a local source.
So it's breakfast for dinner tonight.

If I had a choice I would go for your refried bean's but you rarily see them over here.

 

[abnormaltoy]

If I had a choice I would go for your refried bean's but you rarily see them over here.

I was sorely disappointed, I don't want to say these things tasted like boiled paper towels, but these had almost the least taste of anything I've ever put in my mouth. I saw a YouTube video a month or so ago where English school boys were tasting American food. One of the boys in that video said the English don't do flavor (or taste, I don't remember ). Those beans bear that statement out.

 

[Hal Nico]

I was sorely disappointed, I don't want to say these things tasted like boiled paper towels, don't remember ). Those beans bear that statement out.

You might be better off making your own again. I buy cheap Supermarket own brand over here in the UK and they are fine. I like to add a bit of chilli powder to give them a bit of bite

Try some of these,

Looking for a Savory, Tangy Baked Beans Recipe? This Is It!

White beans bake in tomato sauce with bacon, onions, garlic, honey, stock, and chili pepper flakes. The result is a unique tangy, savory version of baked beans.

www.simplyrecipes.com

 

[abnormaltoy]

You might be better off making your own again. I buy cheap Supermarket own brand over here in the UK and they are fine. I like to add a bit of chilli powder to give them a bit of bite

Try some of these,

Looking for a Savory, Tangy Baked Beans Recipe? This Is It!

White beans bake in tomato sauce with bacon, onions, garlic, honey, stock, and chili pepper flakes. The result is a unique tangy, savory version of baked beans.

www.simplyrecipes.com

Of the beans listed in that recipe, which type would you use?

 

[Hal Nico]

Of the beans listed in that recipe, which type would you use?

The most common used in ours are raw haricot beans and tomato sauce

I love a plate of baked beans and top it sometimes with a burger or a couple of fried eggs. Then make a ,"Baked Bean Butty" which is is a single slice of buttered bread with some Baked beans in it and folded. It's ,"Lush" as we say e.g Super Jummy

 

[abnormaltoy]

The most common used in ours are raw haricot beans and tomato sauce

I love a plate of baked beans and top it sometimes with a burger or a couple of fried eggs. Then make a ,"Baked Bean Butty" which is is a single slice of buttered bread with some Baked beans in it and folded. It's ,"Lush" as we say e.g Super Jummy

I love the names y'all come up with.

 

[Hal Nico]

I love the names y'all come up with.

Heh Heh






and good info,

 

[Neil.C]

I was sorely disappointed, I don't want to say these things tasted like boiled paper towels, but these had almost the least taste of anything I've ever put in my mouth. I saw a YouTube video a month or so ago where English school boys were tasting American food. One of the boys in that video said the English don't do flavor (or taste, I don't remember ). Those beans bear that statement out.

I think where you went wrong going by your picture was buying the no added sugar version.

My wife bought those once and they were pretty tasteless.