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

Its no good, I have now had to go and look up exactly what andouillette is and no, stick to the croissants!

Well to be fair, it is sausage. Stinky colon sausage that is...

Please tell me this is a joke thread to annoy people.

The best thing about hotels abroad is freshly baked crusty bread, honey and good coffee. You can keep your eggs and bacon.
I don't like hotel breakfast in the UK, they all seem to assume everyone wants a cooked breakfast or toast. If you're lucky you get some defrosted blueberries and maybe a pastry. I don't want pastry I just want good bread.

We live in Spain. The food is lovely. It never fails to amaze me that nearly all our British visitors order a "full English" when we go out for breakfast. Now I'm off to Google when a "full English breakfast" even became a thing 😆

That sounds more like a German breakfast to me.

I think it probably is, given the use of "hubbie" and the OP's disappearing act.

Some of the rather ridiculous responses on the thread OTOH seem, alas, to be real.

Although hot cooked breakfasts were a long tradition, the "full English" is largely a late 20th century working class thing, mostly from the 1970s onwards.

Before that, a cooked working class breakfast with various fried items was simply called a "fry-up".

Your “hubbie” doesn’t deserve nice things sorry

I was once given a scoop of white rice with 2 fried eggs. He should count himself lucky. I was particularly annoyed as I had wanted what the locals were having.

Thanks BeansQuisine. That's pretty much what I got too.

Pre-WW2 - that's why it's called a Full Monty. Named after Field Marshal Montgomery who wanted a full English breakfast wherever he was in the world.

Now we use 'The Full Monty' to mean the lot - the full works, as it were.😁

I thought a proper English breakfast, was kedgeree, devilled kidneys or maybe some scrambled egg with smoked salmon. toast and marmalade to finish, all washed down with Twining English Breakfast Tea

As I said, hot cooked breakfasts in England (featuring various components) had a long tradition, but they weren't called "full English breakfasts". According to Google, the term didn't appear in print until the 1950s and didn't become a common commercial eatery term until considerably later.

I'm usually willing to try the local food, but fish curry for breakfast didn't appeal to me in Sri Lanka. Our guide had his with a helping of baked beans on the side.

That's more your Country House Hotel, not the greasy spoon. 😄

Fish curry in the form of kedgeree used to be a very popular high-class breakfast in England, and probably still is in some quarters.

It offered on lots of breakfast menus round here so I guess it's still popular.

Althoigh I love wating locally, I also have an affection for a slightly insane hotel breakfast.

Years ago (about 2001) we booked a trip to Prague using the fairly new and exciting Lastminute.com

It was back when they literally searched for standby flights and rooms and sold them to you together. We got rooms at this insane seventies 4 star.hotel in the suburbs of Prague. I forget why, something to do with it being owned or part owned by the Libyan government I think, but American companies could not use it. So as a consequence 22 year old idiots like us could afford to stay there.

As well as the fact it had more gold than Trump Tower, still remember the breakfast buffet to this day - a vast free buffet with a slighty odd interpretations of literally every breakfast food that was popular in Europe. I think we ate until we nearly burst every morning.

English breakfast abroad usually consist of some watery scrambled egg, tomatoes, streaky fatty bacon and horrid sausages. I wouldn't get one abroad. Your husband is mad for not ordering a pan au chocolate. Not keen on eating cheese and ham for breakfast or things that look like they belong a pizza but the French have it right with the croissant and pancakes.

On a positive note at least he didn't order the Glasgow breakfast, 3 paracetamol and a can of Irn Bru.

Food is important to you but you want crushed pigs testicles?

Urgh this is my husband. Me and my lids look at him like wtf but we pref continental breakfast

Leave him at home next time. What a bore!

🤣 love it!