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

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

They’re both unhealthy. Porridge with almond milk, chia seeds and a bit of almond butter is my breakfast of choice!

Working class. Cornflakes or weetabix for breakfast as kids. Fighting for space in front of the one bar fire in winter. Oh the luxury!!
Dad was a milk man up at 4am. Came home for breakfast. Bacon&eggs etc. Until his heart attack age 40, out goes the bacon and eggs, in comes the porridge and skimmed milk.
Adult me: weetabix or porridge.
Full English only when staying in a hotel

And shock horror a fry exists outside England and isn't called 'a full English'.

DH and I both firmly WC - my nana made us one every Sunday (it was the best fry ever!) but DH's family never did.

I'm Scottish and DH is English if that makes a difference, Sunday breakfast was a big thing when I was growing up.

Who doesn’t?

I absolutely love a full English at a posh hotel. I used to travel a lot with work and they were my absolute downfall.

I cook them for friends who stay for the weekend but not at any other time. Most of my friends are middle class.

People on this thread describing themselves as "very middle class" 🙄

That's such a morally loaded descriptor. Ugh.

What, no champers? Slumming it!

I've never considered a "full English" to have anything to do with class. If anything it's one of those classless meals - a bit like fish and chips has become - that everyone from your "working class" manual labourer/truck driver to your resident of a country house hotel can enjoy tucking into.

I've got a fairly middle class background but my parents were on a modest income and a "cooked breakfast" didn't feature very much, if at all when I was growing up. Breakfast would more typically be cereal and toast. These days I alternate day in day out between porridge and a couple of poached eggs on toast and maybe toast and marmalade. However I do, occasionally - like once every few months - have an urge to push the boat out. Like the other morning when I rustled up sausages, bacon, black pudding fried eggs (2), mushrooms, tomatoes, baked beans and fried bread. It was fantastic! Once in a while a "full English" is just glorious.

I agree with those saying a cooked breakfast transcends class.

Late DF was in the navy and years ago was at a reception where caviar was served. Very would-be posh lady he was talking too gushed over the canapes and how much she loved caviar, do your and your wife eat a lot of caviar, Captain X? pop told her only when there was some left over from the children's breakfast.

That's trendy...thats all.

No one will convince me that almond 'milk' is actually healthier than eggs.

I’m so fascinated by the whole Mn class thing 😂

And also - no. I don’t (very very very rarely) eat breakfast. I’ve had what you call a full English for lunch tho. It’s really filling.

Yes - that!!

The original post made me want to say - fuck off stupid - but the above sums it up better.

OP, please can you tell us why you asked this question and which class group you feel you fit into? I'm just trying to figure out where all these class posts are coming from

Grew up WC but less so than my parents did and like PP we'd have had a 'big breakfast' for tea if one was happening. Usually if my mother was having a tantrum and my dad was cooking. Breakfast was cereal. Cornflakes or cocopops. My mother had alpen. No one else was to have the alpen. Her horror of her MIL helping herself to a huge serving of it was AIBU worthy.

On holiday, we'd be encouraged to eat a cooked breakfast so we'd not need lunch. The joys of bed, breakfast and evening meal type English guest houses!

Nowadays, I like eggs and toast or weetabix for breakfast. DC prefer cooked but are currently on croissants.

This thread reminds me of a wonderful breakfast option at my local cafe. They do the traditional English, but then a vegetarian and a vegan option. Where does class sit in these last two?

I’m a veggie, so no to a fry up. I like eggs though, scrambled or poached on toast. We’ll have that for brekkie a couple of times a week, when I can be arsed 😂 I’m middle class but it’s the not eating meat thing that sways it for me, my kids will sometimes have a fry up if we go out for brunch.

Also, where does the poached egg factor in on this?

@Bedtimemode I was called (jokingly) ‘common’ by my friend for ordering one 😊

I don’t eat breakfast, but we do enjoy a fry up for brunch at the weekend occasionally. We quite often have a bacon roll from a van at equestrian events!

Also it’s a great way to use up eggs when the hens go mad!

We used to have a fry up on a Sunday morning, but rarely bother now. I prefer porridge or cereal
The big tesco has a cafe that does various breakfast options and their eggs and avocado is very nice and the veggie breakfast

DH used to eat a full English breakfast when he was working on the building sites, every morning

Now we have them as an occasional treat. Never considered it to be WC or MC.

Yes, but only if there's a decent veggie full English and they're happy to leave the baked beans off the order.