I am a big breakfast fan. I prefer to fuel up with a proper eye-opener, like bacon and eggs, or fried ham and potatoes, or hominy and sausage. Fill up the tank for a big day, pause for a light lunch (apple slices with peanut butter, maybe a granola bar) for lunch, and then all hell breaks loose for dinner.
It must be my English heritage! Over there, they have what's called the Full English breakfast. And there's a Facebook page called Rate My Plate, on which a woman named Stacie E shared her morning meal.
Stacie E got the beatdown of the century, probably because she put gravy on her breakfast. Gravy!
She served up three link sausages, one fried egg, two plum tomatoes, three rashers of bacon (the English call a slice of bacon a "rasher"), a scoop of baked beans and a slice of buttered white toast.
And then she ladled on a cup or so of gravy.
She took a picture for Facebook, and captioned it "Full English with Gravy by Stacie E."
About the nicest word that anyone used to describe her morning vittles was "vile." It seems that English breakfast lovers do not believe in slopping gravy on their meals, and also, people were pointing out that the real deal would have mushrooms and blood pudding.
Blood pudding, if you haven't heard of it, is "made from pork blood, with pork fat or beef suet, and a cereal, usually oatmeal, oat groats or barley groats." That's how Wikipedia defines it.
It's a sausage, and you remember the old adage: There are two things you don't want to see being made: Laws, and Sausages.
Breakfast, anyone?
2 comments:
Tomatoes (say "tome-ah-toes") are usually present as well. The first time I ordered a full English breakfast, I asked the waiter what a half pound of sauteed mushrooms were doing on my plate. Surely a mix-up in the kitchen!
I would love the sautéed mushrooms if Worcestershire sauce was abundantly used in the sizzle! I love mushrooms well cooked.
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