Expectations of an 'English breakfast' abroad

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Hubbie had an English breakfast in France yesterday and was grumpy that the sausages and bacon weren't what you'd get at home

Would you expect what you'd get at home?

Or allow poetic licence given the frankfurter type sausages are what they see as a sausage

Should a Beijing visitor expect Peking duck in London if that’s what they order?

I am always baffled by people who travel to different countries and expect English food. Even worse when they grumble it isn't the same as at home. It seems very uncultured.

I actively avoid holidaying in foreign places that are full of local establishments with big signs saying full English breakfast. Usually the sort of places where people wear football tops and stagger around the streets drunk. Not my idea of fun at all, but each to their own.

You can't have a food-related thread without someone shoehorning in a reference to obesity. It's the law.

What’s wrong w a continental breakfast? Much nicer!! 🥐

They want the sun, Basically.

I've just been reading about it and looking at pictures and am now tempted to try the full thing, it looks amazing and a good way to start the day.

Couldn’t get past “Hubbie”. Just knew he’d be whinging about the sausages. Bet he complained about the tea as well….

...and the waiters speaking to each other in French.

It does make me chuckle at all the disapproving judgement for someone who chose from a French menu in a French restaurant to have an English breakfast.

This morning I have already picked up a cappuccino on my way to work, for lunch I will probably have some sushi or maybe a ciabatta and I'm going out with a friend this evening and we are planning on having tapas. I'm in good old Engerland - should I be eating these foods? Imagine being in England and eating French / Italian / Turkish / Japanese! Should I just be eating pie and gravy? Should all the tourists who visit our small corner of the earth just eat English food when they get here?

The man was in France and the French menu offered him English breakfast - why the hell shouldn't he have eaten it? If the French didn't want him to eat it, then they wouldn't be selling it! I'm reasonably willing to bet that he will have had access to baguettes, croissants or pain au chocolat here in the UK, so he is likely to have known what he was missing out on!!!!!!

In fairness, there are enormous groups of Chinese people in London’s Chinatown.

I agree, but I think it’s really about what’s described. Whatever it’s described as that’s what it should be.

I think in China they don’t take the bones out of Peking duck, they just smash them with a hammer before they cook it.

We were in Cambodia and my husband ordered bacon and eggs. I had the local stuff (congee with fermented vegetables). Guess who had the better experience? To be fair, our hotel (which was lovely) was trying to cater for Europeans. The chef was so intrigued to see who'd ordered the congee that he brought it to our table himself!