Not to understand when people go to eat out and order...

[DogCalledRudis]

Beans on toast.

In our neighbourhood a new cafe opened. They have a wonderful menu and Italian chef. People come for beans on toast when they can have Eggs Benedict. Ok, thats not to everybody's taste but beans on toast? Really?

Why not? Maybe thats what they want for breakfast.

I sense some food snobbery !

How about a instead?

It's just a cafe and I don't see why the chef's nationality makes any difference.

I'd probably still order a fry up.

Other people like beans on toast.

Exactly why is it any of your business what people spend their own money on?

I won't eat rice when I'm out because I cook it at home as a cheap filler upper.

I'm one of those people who orders chips with a curry....

I know I know.

Why do you worry what people eat?

Maybe it's what they felt like, shouldn't people have that choice in a restaurant. If it's on the menu then a person can order it if that's what they bloody well want

Not my business, i just don't understand. You don't go to eat out to have a frozen pizza or instant noodles for example.

Lots of people order pizza in a cafe

Being a cafe, a lot of it is frozen unlike in a restaurant when you'd expect it to be freshly made.

DH loves the occasional full english in a cafe, I can't stand the thought of anything that stodgy for breakfast. I'm the same with the thought of hollandaise.
Something like toast, or beans on toast would be perfect for me!

If i order pasta in a restaurant DH gets all twitchy. He cannot fathom why I would order something out that can be cooked quickly at home.
Sometimes I order pasta just to see him squirm.

I would have thought beans on toast would be quite commonly ordered in a british cafe.

They can order what they like.

Is it breakfast you are referring to? If I went out for breakfast, or if we were in a hotel/b&b then I would usually order a cooked breakfast, and it often includes baked beans.

Also, a fair bit of food in cafes and some (but maybe not all) restaurants is prepared in advance or frozen, as I understand it. It helps with time keeping and not keeping customers waiting too long.

You make it sound like people are deliberately going out of their house and straight to that cafe in order to eat beans on toast. But maybe they are in town doing other stuff, and want something to eat, and like beans on toast. So the option isn't 'stay in or go out to eat' but 'I'm out, I'm hungry, I like that'.

Ther's nothing intrinsically wrong with preferring a simple food to a more unusual one.

I am about to have beans and scrambled eggs on toast....Heinz beans :) I live abroad and my mum sent me supplies ;) nothing wrong with hearty beans on toast. For what its worth I don't like eggs benedict....

Im with you OP, but I got flamed for making a similar comment a few weeks back. When I eat out, I want something that is not a piece of piss to make at home, like beans on toast.

Beans on toast is the same whether in your own house, or at the fucking Ritz - there really is no point paying someone else to make it for you. I almost never have steak or any cooked breakfast type thing either when eating out, because its so quick and easy to make at home.

I like lots of different types of food so often have real difficulty narrowing down what I would like off a menu, so one factor I use is to choose something that is fiddly, time consuming or requires a long ingredients list.

Eggs Benedict is something that I would choose, because even though I can make Delias cheat version of hollandaise sauce, it is a little more involved than beans on toast.

The Brits do love their beans.....

I would find it very odd too OP, but then I don't live in UK.

TheRealAmandaClarke feel the same about pasta eaters in restaurants

But as my DH quite rightly points out to me, the steak I'm tucking into is even easier to cook at home.

If I'm 'going out to eat' then I'd usually have something I don't cook at home.

If I'm eating because I'm out, I'll often pick something straightforward that I could just as easily have cooked myself.

In fairness I wouldn't have beans on toast either way, as I can't stand the things...

So they don't have to wash up?

Sometimes I order peanut butter on toast at a caf near me. Shock horror.

I agree with you because when I go out to eat I want to try something different not something I could just as easily prepare at home, but a lot of people only eat to 'fuel up' and are genuinely not that interested in what they order ............... I wish I could be like that would probably be a lot slimmer.

I often have lunch at my gym as it's in a Crowne Plaza. Always have a fish finger butty and pint of cider.

Personally I loathe eggs benedict or any runny egg things.

I completely agree that people can order what they want, and if they're out doing some shopping and overrun and want lunch, they like beans on toast, why shouldn't they order them. But at the same time I would sit there and think "how much would it cost me to make this at home?" then compare with what the cafe were charging, and it would give me a little pang of 'but why??!".

I know cafes have to charge staff costs and rent and everything else on top, but still I doubt you'd get beans on toast out for less than £3 when it would be less than a third of that to make it yourself and you'd have exactly the same thing. It's not even like you can justify that the cook/chef has used some skill to make you something nicer than you can make yourself - I can't do an omelette properly to save my life, so although that seems basic I might pay someone to make me one! (I always end up with scrambled egg...)

Generally if we go out we like to have something we couldn't cook at home, but sometimes if you're out and about you just want something simple that doesn't cost too much. And if you like baked beans why not?

In a restaurant I too tend to go for food that I find a bit more laborious to cook at home but I do order beans or eggs on toast if i'm going to a cafe because I am out and about and can't get home for lunch or can't be arsed to cook and wash up for myself