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

Always disappointing which is why I don't bother. Sausages invariably the frankfurter type. Very fatty streaky bacon.

Given the discrepancy in what an "English breakfast" can be like on our very own septic isle and even within the confines of the nation of Engerland itself, I would personally be intrigued to see what a French version was like.

Vive la variété!!!

British/Irish type sausages/bacon are invariably only easily available in the UK/Ireland.

I am curious to know what you said to him . ODFOD springs to mind .

I spend a lot of time in France, and you'd be surprised at the number of French people who think that all Brits cook and eat a full English breakfast everyday. Who would have the time, and indeed the metabolism, to be able to do that?

Either in Germany or Austria there was fruit cake available for breakfast, ham and cheese and pastries. I always have ham and cheese in croissants now.

All Inclusive in Spain, the sausages and bacon were a travesty but everything else, fruit, yogurt and Cocopops were great.

Unless you are going to drip feed with the fact that he has an eating disorder or any condition that makes him only want to eat certain foods on repeat...What was he expecting?
Surely if you go abroad you eat the local food and try their specialities, it's part of the excitement of being abroad.
He has the rest of the year to eat the same thing over and over again 🙃

😂

If he wants an English breakfast he needs to stay in England! He should eat the local
breakfast, it is always much nicer.

The whole point of being abroad is to experience something different from home, starting with breakfast .

Just be greatful he did not attempt anything gluten free in France. They are so bad at that my husband had lost weight and was starving from lack of safe food once he flew back to the Uk.

It’s getting harder and harder to find a decent full English in England. I give you the now endemic hash browns, yes I am giving them to you, you are welcome to them, a disgusting American import.

Not to mention the lack of decent fried bread, the meanness of only one tomato, the barely cooked mushrooms ( I have even seen the abomination of tinned mushrooms not properly cooked in butter until they are a bit caramelised full English mushrooms). Flabby bacon . Pale floppy eggs. Supermarket sausages.

The thought of being bold enough to order a full English in France takes my breath away.

No I don’t expect it to be ‘just like home’.
I don’t expect to find baked beans in france (yes I know…theyre now in the ‘exotic areas’ of supermarkets).
I don’t expect English sausages or hash browns.

Why would one think those foods are easily found in other countries?

As for ‘cooked breakfast’, that only makes sense to English natives. Anyone else? Not so much because the whole concept of ‘English breakfast’ just doesn’t exist agd a cooked breakfast is just the same as an English one. Mainly because the whole egg, baked beans etc… cooked in the am is very much a British thing. No one ‘cooks’ breakfast in france

Why go to France and order an English breakfast? Embrace the culture and eat a French breakfast!

Highly unreasonable to expect British sausages/bacon.

I'm always, unfailingly, disappointed that it isn't though.

He’s BU to expect a ‘full English’ style breakfast in France, but otoh it’s unreasonable of them to offer something under that name if they can’t source British/Irish style sausages and bacon.
As to why someone would order it - as others have said, the typical carb+fat continental pastries really don’t suit everyone. We only just about get away with it nowadays if we’re immediately going to be doing a lot of walking.

I noticed on a recent visit to Paris that some of the cafes selling breakfast offered omelettes which may be the best option for someone who wants more protein but in a form that doesn’t differ too much across the Channel.

Hopefully after breakfast you popped off to lourdes to cleanse his pitiful soul. 🤣.

Tell him to try some lovely local food next time 😋.

Fucks sake....

I’d expect poetic licence but maybe not a frankfurter. I had a ‘Scottish breakfast’ in a Muslim country with a description that started ‘chicken sausage with sundried tomato, basil and Parmesan’; it was delicious but very unScottish. Also featured roast vine tomatoes, poached eggs, turkey bacon, toast and a potato scone.

You eat whatever is local, I heard another table of guests complaining about similar in Greece recently, I was eating a delicious bowl of Greek yogurt, fruit, walnuts and honey, with greek coffee thick almost tar like. DS was eating yogurt, what he described as the juiciest peach he'd ever had, and Bougatsa, while driving dreamy squeezed orange juice. All lovely. It would be like coming to the UK and comparing the croissants are sub par

Maybe he should just have asked for fried bacon, sausages and egg and left the English bit out.

“Hubbie” - ick.
Grumpy - ick.
Expecting a Richmond sausage in France - ick.

Just totally embarrassing. No wonder we get a dire reputation across Europe.

Our septic isle.

Are things really that bad ? I know Farage is pretty toxic but even so……

Why would they even try! Brexit means Brexit so no brekkie for the EU leavers.

I went to Benidorm years ago and the hotel served up the best Sunday roast I have ever had before or since.