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

I hope he complained to the cafe / restaurant /hotel in question. In fluent French of course.

He should not expect the full English to be the same, no.

Did he bring his own HP sauce and ask for a pint of Tetley's

I've only ever tried to eat one in places like Thailand and Cambodia. Unless you go to a British run place that imports stuff it'll be like American bacon. Usually not cooked enough. Tasteless eggs and plastic bread. Don't think I even saw a sausage. Or any mushrooms. Except magic ones!

No wonder the UK has an obesity issue

Had an English breakfast in Greece - well, I viewed rather than had it, it was an all inclusive hotel. The bacon was some sort of ham (not sure what), and I am not sure about the sausages. The fried eggs looked okay. I had some fried tomatoes (how can anyone get this wrong?) and they were fine, too. Scrambled egg not so much. Also there were scotch pancakes which is a sin against humanity! (Especially when, if you asked for one, you got a cold one for some reason). I didn't like the mushroom (had with something else on another day).
My general comment was 'it's an English breakfast, but not as we know it, Jim'.

In around 1983 I was on a cycling trip in France and we ordered an English breakfast at a cafe. What came was unexpected, a vast platter of cold meats, hard boiled eggs and pickles. We were hungry so we ate it, but it was in no way an English breakfast.

Don't you mean HP?

The type of sausage he gets could also vary by whereabouts you are in France. We love the proper Toulouse sausage that you get in a massive spiral in the south of france, and were shocked to discover when we travelled further north that you couldn't get it there...

I have travelled a fair bit, and I don't think I've ever found english style bacon or sausages served anywhere outside of the UK (though I've not been to Denmark...). Bacon is nearly always some form of streaky bacon, either crispy or very floppy and more like ham. Sausages are either frankfurters, or mini chorizo style.

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

How stupid is he? You're in France. The food is French. Simple.

Just stay home in future.

I'm laughing about "what they see as a sausage." As though English sausages were the correct variety and in France they only have pale imitations that aren't really sausages. 😅

If you're travelling abroad, surely you would appreciate the local cuisine. And that may include the local version of an English breakfast if that's the sort of thing you choose to order.

Because someone on holiday had a cooked breakfast that didn't meet their standards/taste?

It is a reference to "This Septic Isle" a satirical modern dictionary by Mike Barfield. For some reason the OPs DH wanting an English breakfast in France brought it to mind.

I love French food and their food culture but I'll have to admit I do return from holidays in France craving something a little more spicy than harissa.

*rosbif

This is why we visit African or East Asian restaurants at least once on each trip to France. At a certain point we usually miss spices.

I had one of the best full English breakfast I’ve ever had in Turkey which is an Islamic country. Our holiday rep recommended it we went 3 mornings out of the 7 we were there. The hotel breakfast was only a continental breakfast. It was ok but didn’t want it every morning. Had one of those annoying toaster’s that take forever to.

That's a German breakfast! I know this, because it's what my German friends eat when they visit me in England.

I think a lot of people want to start the day with something familiar, I know I do, but croissants are familiar for me and when I'm in France I have a café allongé and a croissant every day.

As one that doesn’t actually like Croissants I can feel his pain. But, I wouldn't go to France anyway.

Tell him not to go to America - They seem unable to cook anything properly.

I think him being cross about the food he received is more annoying than ordering it. Presumably it was on the menu, he didn’t shout until they approximated what they thought was an English breakfast.

Fair enough if you don't like croissants, but as for the rest of your post I hope you're joking. I assume you've never actually been to France or the US.

Then maybe they shouldn't offer an 'English cooked breakfast' in the first place if they are unable to actually do it or anything similar.

Best bit of a full English is fried bread dipped in a fried egg.

I avoid places that serve a good English breakfast abroad.

Is it?! I didn't know that and wondered at the time what the cafe were thinking. We were all very young and didn't say anything, just ate what was brought out.