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?

Most middle class people I know will have a full English every now and then, like maybe at the weekend. It's the same for working class people I know. I don't know anyone who has one every day, or even a few times a week.

I’m working class but like to eat out.

I’ve had a full English in Michelin restaurants, they are served in most central London restaurants so to consider them a working class thing is strange. You can get them anywhere, the Connaught, the shard, Sketch etc Ok they cost £23+ at times but they are the same ingredients. Of course that’s not the same quality you would get in a greasy spoon but the key food elements are exactly the same.

On holiday, we'd be encouraged to eat a cooked breakfast so we'd not need lunch

We still do this on holiday. Half board is usually breakfast and dinner. If you eat a big breakfast, you usually don't need a substantial lunch and can just have something snacky to keep you going until dinner.

https://www.the-connaught.co.uk/special-offers/bed-and-breakfast/

and yep it’s called a full English.

I don't think there are class differences really on breakfasts other than some people might be more inclined to give their children very cheap junk carb cereals.

I tie my shoelaces with my little finger crooked. I come from the nice part of Surbiton (we all did that to show we weren't chavs). My cleaner wears a shell suit, and I make her call me 'Ma'am'. We have devilled kidneys, grilled bacon, poached eggs, toast, but no common brown sauce. My children all go to Alleyn's or JAGS.

Full English suits my diet much better than a carb heavy protein light alternative. I'll take that. Egg, bacon, beans and veg over sausages, has browns and friend bread for preference.

It’s definitely a MC thing too - only MC people have it with ‘naice’ ingredients like locally reared sausages, sourdough bread, organic eggs etc..Think more River Cottage less greasy spoon!

I grew up in a solidly MC household, and we rarely , if ever, had a full English breakfast. Eggs (poached or scrambled) on toast or grilled bacon sandwich maybe.

Nowadays, I only really eat a Full English when I stay in a hotel. If I go out for breakfast/brunch, I'm more likely to have something like Shakshuka, Huevos Rancheros, Eggs Benedict. I think that's my personal food preferences though, rather than any reflection of social class?

I avoid cafes which serve tinned tomatoes, tinned mushrooms and beans. In two minds about hash browns which are American. But you can only get them now for ease of preparation. We had left over potatoes, mashed or sliced, or bubble and squeak in my youth. Grilled tomatoes and mushrooms, bacon, egg and sausage. Fried bread to absorb the juices.
Don't know about class, both parents WC including Mum off a small farm.
Drat, I'm hungry, and no sausage or potato or mushrooms.

I love a good Full English breakfast but no mushrooms as I'm allergic to them. I cook this on both weekend days for D's and me and DS has 3 eggs scrambled and a tin of tomatoes with toast every other day.

Yes indeed. That's where I go wrong in choosing AI rather than HB. I eat a breakfast designed to keep me going but still somehow manage to find room for a substantial lunch. And dinner. And if they've got afternoon tea on offer...😂

Very middle class upbringing, and we had a cooked breakfast every Sunday morning growing up. No beans or black pudding, though, as none of us like them! Now I have a cooked breakfast once a week at work with my full team, and quite often on a weekend at home with DH and DS. Also happy to go to a greasy spoon for one!

Hell no. I love a full Scottish but it's a rare treat for high days and holidays. Most full fried breakfasts contain your entire calorie needs for the whole day.

Honestly, MN really shows how the class system is so entrenched in the U.K. and pulls the wool over the eyes of so many (both WC and MC) getting screwed over by the government and elites.

I like that in America you can get a side of home fries with your breakfast.

A full English, like a Sunday Roast, a pie or fish and chips transcends class but can be wildly varying in quality and presentation. I always used to feel obliged to order the veggie equivalent whenever we were in a hotel or out for brunch. Even though I never really enjoyed it and it left me leaden all morning

A recent decision to accept that even though I might have paid for a full breakfast, I didn't need to eat it. And toast with marmalade and fruit suits me more. Life changer lol.

Class wise growing up we were borderline middle class (serviettes not napkins) and never had a cooked breakfast apart from Christmas Day. Soft boiled eggs and soldiers were a weekend treat. Porridge, ready brek and cornflakes were every day options.

I would call myself pretty MC and I love a full English but I don’t eat it very often because I know it’s not the healthiest thing - I usually have cornflakes with skimmed milk. However, I will have brunch-type options like eggs Benedict or French toast with bacon, sausages and maple syrup when I’m out for lunch every now and again.

I love devilled kidneys, haven’t had them for years. Trouble is you have to find a good old fashioned butcher to source them.
A cooked breakfast is universal. Maybe where you buy the ingredients may point to where you sit in the class system. But what you cook and eat it is irrelevant.

I'm 66 and have just been diagnosed with high cholesterol, I'm on porridge now!

I low carb so my cooked breakfast is eggs, mushroom, tomato, spinach every day.

Depends on what you want for breakfast, I think. Dh and I are both pretty painfully MC. Me personally, no, I think I've had 4 ever in my adult life. I have digestive issues and honestly just can't eat like that for breakfast. Makes me feel ill.

Dh, yes, loves a full english. He doesn't have it often, maybe a couple times a year, as it's rare to eat out for breakfast and we just can't justify the time and expense of making a cooked breakfast at home regularly.

I'm a unemployed single mum in temporary accommodation however as I found out the other day my son drinks babychinnos which makes me middle class and I do enjoy a full English. X

I am in my 50s. Educated working class parents who gave me a lower middle class childhood.

I don't think I ever saw either of them eat a full English breakfast. Breakfast was (still is, for them) toast and/or cereal.

Occassionally, like on holiday, my mum might have cooked some bacon for bacon sandwiches on the camping stove and even bacon and eggs once or twice in my childhood.

I have inherited their tastes. Full English breakfast is only a thing for me at a Premier Inn, through work, if it's already been paid for! Even then, it's really too much at that time.

Class starts rearing it's ugly head when chips come in to play