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

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I wouldn't dream of ordering an English breakfast abroad. Surely you go abroad to try something different?

I'm going to take a wild guess here and suspect that the Full English was not a one off on this trip

Best stay at home.
I remember my ex DF complaining that he could not get some beer in France, l just thought idiot but didn't tell him.
If you go abroad surely the pleasure is to try different foods etc.

I have read most but not all of this thread, hoping for a pp to explain what was in her Indian breakfast.

I love breakfast, best meal of the day. I think my favourite country for breakfast is Israel but I had some unfortunate experiences in Sweden - lots of smoked reindeer and herring.

I think OP's hubbington is NBU to order the full English, but is BU to bother getting grumpy about it.

The restaurant shouldn’t be selling an ‘English Breakfast’ if they are not willing to purchase the correct ingredients. Typical lazy French. I am with your husband on this one. I bet they didn’t even have Yorkshire tea.

The French can probably cook an excellent English breakfast if a French person orders it. but save the nasty frankfurter version for actual English people.

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Pardon? Can you get both more xenophobic and ignorant than that?

For your information, there is no sausage in france that look like the English sausage. You have the saucisse the Toulouse, lots of smoked version. Chipolatas are for the bbq (alongside merguez which is a spicy sausage.

And I can assure you that French people are not giving Brits as much headspace as you think they are

Lol.

An "English" breakfast is essentially a cooked breakfast. Its been taken out of its original context long ago.

If you visit a country, youre getting their local food version. It won't be authentic.

Had my best ever (in 46 years of life) English breakfast in a dreary sad "expat" caff in Spain.

Despite that, I'd not even look for a Full English anywhere other than England.

And definitely not in France.

Lots of hotels in France do offer a hot breakfast buffet, not really comparable to a ‘full English’ but it usually has scrambled eggs, crispy bacon and some kind of mini chipolata sausages. Sometimes also ‘knacki’ sausages, these are knackwurst , I.e. German frankfurter type. Grilled tomatoes but no baked beans, thank god. They also have varied sliced breads for toasting and fresh eggs that you can boil in an egg boiler machine.
It’s fine. I’ve had some indifferent ‘full English’ breakfasts in British hotels to be fair.
But the pastries are generally lovely, as is the French bread.

If you are in the French Alps, Bluebird Cafe in Chamonix does the most delicious full English! It is absolutely the real deal. Their coffee is great too.

He’s being absolutely ridiculous!

“Hubbie” was bad enough, but “hubbington”? 🤦‍♀️

Hoping it was irony.

If they are best from the home country, why would croissants be best in France.

I'd expect someone trying to judge on the topic of food, to have some basic knowledge to start with otherwise they can be safely ignored as having nothing of value to contribute.

Me too.

Hard cringe. As PP said, this is why I avoid anywhere ‘brits abroad’ when I travel. Happy to be called a travel snob. Will wear the badge with pride.

Need you ask?!

@croydon15 you absolutely can get good beer in France. Yes the little tabacs and traditional bars will often serve a rather meh blonde beer like Pelforth, and you will get huge side eye if you try and order beer with a meal in most restaurants But in the north there are a lot of decent Belgian style beers and increasingly all over France there are very good ultra local craft beer breweries and pubs in France.

We went to one in Sete this year and were rather amused to see French people enthusiastically ordering stout in 35 degree heat!

You can never tell these days, but I am reassured 😊

Just take him into any French supermarket and ask him to fill the basket with the makings of an "English breakfast".

We used to live in France and wouldn't have dreamt of attempting to do a full English. We would occasionally ask friends to bring over bacon/sausages (for us - not our guests!), but you are no longer allowed to bring in meat products.

Conversely, we were just in a nice B&B in the South East. Breakfast was superb - freshly cooked to order, nothing sitting under light bulbs - but the (non British) guests at another table were very surprised that there were no fresh croissants.

@BulbsbulbsbulbsI think it was you that asked what French people have for breakfast most days, I'd probably the most common thing would be fresh baguette and jam or butter with a coffee (in a bowl if it's with milk). Croissants are more for ''''special'''' occasions (this could be anything from it being the weekend, having guests over, going out for breakfast, or being at your grandparents' house etc.) or just as something easy to grab on your way to work or somewhere else.

Can't think of anything worse than exoecting an 'English' breakfast whilst on a foreign holiday - how stereotypical of Brits abroad!

It wasn't me who asked, it must have been someone else. I said it certainly wasn't an English breakfast. I have French friends.