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If you are from a MC upbringing, do you eat a full English breakfast?

128 replies

Iamatissuebox · 15/05/2023 08:51

Thinking if out for for breakfast in a cafe or restaurant? Or is the old sausages, bacon, beans thing a WC thing?

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PuttingDownRoots · 15/05/2023 08:53

Depends what I'm doing.

If I'm out hiking or similar all day then yes.

Otherwise something lighter.

Hiphopopotamus · 15/05/2023 08:53

What every day? Or ever?

Saucemonkey · 15/05/2023 08:54

I’m not sure there are huge differences between WC and MC anymore - it just seems like there are the very rich and then the rest of us!
so, yes I think we would all eat an English breakfast

Sissynova · 15/05/2023 08:54

What is it about a lot of MNers who are fucking obsessed with the idea of class and enforcing class divides, attributing everything from what you eat for breakfast to how you tie your shoes with your so called class.

frankgu · 15/05/2023 08:54

do breakfasts have class associations now?! 😆

LadyGardenersQuestionTime · 15/05/2023 08:54

Very MC, happily choose Full English (or half, or Scottish, or variants) when out for breakfast. Also when out for lunch. But not every time. Really don't think of it as a class thing - Full English in the sense of a choice of expensive proteins was very UC in its time.

Iwantmyoldnameback · 15/05/2023 08:55

I don't normally eat breakfast.
Baked beans were never part of a full English when I was a child.

GeraltsBathtub · 15/05/2023 08:55

I don’t eat meat now but I probably wouldn’t order the veggie equivalent if I went out for brunch no. I’m a stereotypical avocado toast-eating millennial. I might get it in a hotel though.

sanityisamyth · 15/05/2023 08:56

I like a 'spoons large breakfast most mornings as it's cheap and sees me through for the day. Does the breakfast or the location make me WC or MC?!

TrollyHolly · 15/05/2023 08:56

Sissynova · 15/05/2023 08:54

What is it about a lot of MNers who are fucking obsessed with the idea of class and enforcing class divides, attributing everything from what you eat for breakfast to how you tie your shoes with your so called class.

It's so prevalent and so strange.

Monkmeister · 15/05/2023 08:56

Maybe occasionally at the weekend as a treat. Normally coffee and muesli

frankgu · 15/05/2023 08:56

I love an English or Irish breakfast, quite happy to go to the greasy spoon for one where it's half the price of the fancy cafe.

Comedycook · 15/05/2023 08:57

I had a mc upbringing and we would occasionally have a cooked breakfast...that's what we'd call it. I make them for dh at the weekends... sausages, bacon, eggs, hash browns, beans.

It's a treat rather than a staple.

Men in manual jobs eat them a lot more I think....and often in cafes before they start work. I guess if you're doing a physical job, you need a substantial breakfast. I think that's where the wc connotation comes from.

WhisperingAutistic · 15/05/2023 08:58

I grew up firmly working class and we couldn't afford the ingredients for a full English. If we did have it, we had it for tea.
With places like Wetherspoons now though, a full English can be really cheap.

Emotionaleating · 15/05/2023 08:58

DH is from a very middle class upbringing and from a privileged area and went to posh schools. I think full English breakfasts are one of his favourite things.

Not for me though! Don’t like any aspect of them! Dislike baked beans, don’t eat meat and don’t like veggie sausages anyway, cooked tomatoes are weird, fried mushrooms are flavourless… I’m also middle class.

This isn’t really a class thing OP! It’s a taste preference thing.

WhisperingAutistic · 15/05/2023 08:59

Breakfast would have been toast, sugary cereal or occasionally boiled egg and soldiers which felt like a treat.

wildinthecountry · 15/05/2023 08:59

Only if it's served from from silver serving dishes .

Ostryga · 15/05/2023 09:01

No I only eat caviar fro breakfast.

DucksNewburyport · 15/05/2023 09:02

I'm MC. If I go out for breakfast I'd be more likely to have scrambled eggs or similar than the whole shebang. My kids love a full English though!

JaceLancs · 15/05/2023 09:04

I was brought up working class and we were lucky to get porridge!
how does class work anyway? I am now in an above average income professional job so does that make me middle class now?
if we have a fry up it’s in the evening - I can’t face huge amounts in a morning even on holiday
I do like eggs though so my idea of luxury breakfast is couple of soft boiled eggs and some nice bread or scrambled egg with smoked salmon or avocado and poached eggs

Treeonahill · 15/05/2023 09:06

@Sissynova its generally new and not established MC that obsesses about class. My first degree was sociology, love a bit of a social habits discussion. They are basically incredibly insecure. My family are immigrants so I see it without having personal hang ups.

JulieHoney · 15/05/2023 09:07

‘Full English’ is such a bizarre phrase. So many possible variations, and people do eat cooked breakfasts in Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Seems weird to claim it as English by default.

I have a lower middle class background and we ate cooked breakfasts from time to time. My mate’s dad worked in construction and he had them all the time because his job required the calories. If my parents with their desk jobs had them several times a week they’d be the size of a barn.

coffeecupsandwaxmelts · 15/05/2023 09:08

As a child - no. My parents would never have bought bacon or sausages or anything like that.

As an adult I love a Full English. I also love all the other unhealthy foods I was never allowed as a child Grin

Billblight · 15/05/2023 09:08

MC here and would never touch it. Grease - yuck.

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