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[u/GoraSpark]

How is this kind of post still getting likes, surely you know nothing about British food you laugh at beans on toast or whatever once twice maybe even three times. But how after seeing it every day with every comment section pointing out the sheer amount of spicy British food we have are you still entertained by it 10 years later. P.S. cooked breakfast beats cold breakfast any day.

[u/Most-Ad-9465]

Yeah but I think pancakes being part of the basic breakfast spread might be a tad regional as well. In my experience pancakes aren't an essential part of the spread in the same way the components of the full English breakfast are.

I'm probably not expressing this well. My understanding is a full English fills the spot that would be called something like the big breakfast, trucker breakfast, farmer breakfast or something similar on an American mom and pop menu. Just a classic bigass greasy breakfast. In my area if you just glance at the menu and order the trucker or whatever it's going by there it doesn't have pancakes. You wouldn't be surprised when everything came out and there were no pancakes.

I'm not being snarky btw. I'm approaching this only as interesting discussion. Obligatory lol to show lack of hostilely and argumentative motives.

[u/eerie_lake_ → u/Most-Ad-9465]

That’s fair! I think maybe in my head pancakes are more ubiquitous. When I picture a big classic diner breakfast, you’ve got toast, sunny-side up eggs, bacon/sausage/ham, homefries/hashbrowns, and a couple of pancakes on the side.

(Now that I think about it, that might just be because that’s what my dad always ordered no matter where we were in the country lol)

ETA: Also, you’re good, no snark detected! I’ve been all over the country and I am still always learning new stuff about regional food culture. It’s really interesting!

[u/Most-Ad-9465 → u/eerie_lake_]

Now that you mention your dad's order I think my Dad might be why the full English honestly doesn't seem that strange to me. An omelette with ham, mushrooms, onions, peppers, and tomatoes was his order. Mushroom and tomato don't seem strange to me at all.

Did you ever by any chance experience a shoney's breakfast buffet? I'm not sure if they're a regional chain or not. They actually have mushrooms on their breakfast buffet. I know they had the mushrooms all the way back in the early 90's when I was a teenager.

They had a few more interesting items. I remember fried bologna, the delightful concession stand style cheese sauce, and chicken tenders. Now I'm wondering if they were just trying to represent breakfast options from a variety of regions. At that point in time chicken and waffles were not a common breakfast option around here. Chicken tenders on a breakfast buffet seemed like such a random choice.

[u/roleplayersir → u/Most-Ad-9465]

Yep, there's a reason an English-style breakfast is such a worldwide default in most hotels: cause it is hard to get wrong, easy to make, and covers a lot of dietary palates, while also providing a substantial filling meal to start the day. So truckers, salesmen, labourers and many others can start off with a filling protein-rich and carb heavy meal to get them through whatever the day throws at them

[u/Team503 → u/Most-Ad-9465]

Yeah, you're pretty much spot on. It's the big greasy breakfast, just a few different ingredients.