Breakfast, what's your usual, what's your treat ?

[Ian]

I've been told before that the kitchen wouldn't do them loose due to the health risk.

I was given un-toasted bread with my marmalade in Leicester Royal Infirmary because 'its health and safety'.

[Pirahna]

The Spanish don't really do anything special, at best it's going to be a tostada. I treated myself this morning to tostada con tomate y jamon, queso.

[Trinity765]

Coffee, unless I'm on a diet and then I'll just have coffee.

[MingtheMerciless]

Usual: Bowl of GF cereal and Alpro soya light.

Treat: Full English with butchers bacon, GF sausages, GF black pudding, a few baked beans, tinned tomatoes, fried mushrooms and either fried GF bread or (heresy) hash browns.

[Silly Car]

Usual choice is cereal, whatever is closest to hand, today it was faux Alpen as I thought I’d give the supermarket own brand a try, it’s a poor relative of the original

Treat wise is a fry up or any combination of the usual suspects in a bap / barm / stottie / roll etc. A local greasy spoon does a full fry up in a roll which takes some eating but typically sees me through the day.

If I’m out and about, then it is usually a toss up between full fry up with poached egg(s)* or eggs Benedict depending on the establishment.

*not a massive fan of crispy edged fried eggs preferring them to be softly fried / steamed.

[Cousin Jack]

Usual is cereal with fruit juice (I hate milk) and 2 mugs of tea.

Treat is full English with ALL the trimmings. Rarely seen at home, but very welcome on hollibobs

[Count Steer]

Oh, and if you want a really 'breakfast of champions' I can wholeheartedly recommend the Turkish Işkembe Çorbasi it'll put hairs on your chest and fix your hangover.

(Some Turkish café style places only opened in the mornings serving it - it's sheep tripe soup, with garlic, egg yolk and lemon juice in - or Paça - lamb 'trotter' soup, which I don't recommend at all!).

[Cousin Jack]

Oh, and if you want a really 'breakfast of champions' I can wholeheartedly recommend the Turkish Işkembe Çorbasi it'll put hairs on your chest and fix your hangover.

(Some Turkish café style places only opened in the mornings serving it - it's sheep tripe soup, with garlic, egg yolk and lemon juice in - or Paça - lamb 'trotter' soup, which I don't recommend at all!).

Dear God!

I have never tried a Turkish breakfast, and, deo volente, never will!

[Taipan]

The Spanish don't really do anything special, at best it's going to be a tostada. I treated myself this morning to tostada con tomate y jamon, queso.

I thought the Spanish favoured churros and hot chocolate for el brekkieo? That looks much better!

[Count Steer]

Oh, and if you want a really 'breakfast of champions' I can wholeheartedly recommend the Turkish Işkembe Çorbasi it'll put hairs on your chest and fix your hangover.

(Some Turkish café style places only opened in the mornings serving it - it's sheep tripe soup, with garlic, egg yolk and lemon juice in - or Paça - lamb 'trotter' soup, which I don't recommend at all!).

Dear God!

I have never tried a Turkish breakfast, and, deo volente, never will!

Bah. (Or baaaaah ). Işkembe tastes mainly of lemon and is vaguely a bit 'lamby'. Depending where you eat, the tripe is usually just shreds of it. I loved the stuff.

PS Dunno what it's like now but a biking trip around Turkey would have been epic back in the 80s and 90s. Only ever saw German bikers there though.

[636mick]

Am I the only one to have to choose between Maccys breakfast or Greggs? Earlies my norm is Maccys, normally a sausage & egg McMuffin, hash brown and Cappuccino, Greggs is a sausage and bacon batch with a Cappuccino. I then burn off all of it in a normal morning. If im out with the F or on a work meeting it’s a full English every opportunity.

If I’m at home, it’s normally Costco croissants that have been frozen then heated up in the air fryer with butter and jam.

Coffee always features, b 2 c machine at home with some Waveney Coffee beans, but then I can do 8 or 9 coffees in a normal working day, or Maccys coffee, mainly because we don’t often have to pay!!

Can’t understand why I can’t lose weight though!!

Mick, having coffee as we speak.

[Yorick]

Cereal most days. Porridge, Alpen, Frosties or Honey Cheerios.

Once a month head into town for a Full English.

Once or twice a month head to nice restaurant on sea front for big dish of yoghurt, fruit and nuts

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[wheelnut]

Blueberries, raspberries, Greek yoghurt, nuts and a big dollop of honey is the usual one.

Bacon and brie sandwich on a Saturday.

[Noggin]

I''m not a fan of breakfast at breakfast time - as in, once up and showered! It's too early! I can do coffee early. Then take something with me for later. If I 'have' to eat something, I tend to have natural yoghurt with a bit of fruit in the bottom of the pot!!

BUT, if I do the First Tracks thing here, the breakfast on offer if croissant/pastry/bread with cheese and ham. And lots of coffee. And also the option of Myrtille Tart!! Really like this, but it feels odd, cos not really breakfast - not sure what I'd call it!!

My treat is if I have time/it fits, I do anything from a bacon butty (NOT smoked - Why would you smoke bacon, it's awesome as it is!!) or sausage butty or a combination with an egg and black pud if I have it

Proper treat is a brunch of a small full english breakfast - definitely can't eat that early morning and still move/function!! But for a late brunch/lunch it's awesome - specially if I haven't actually eaten anything first


Don't see the point of cereal cos to me it doesn't really 'do' anything, but I feel the same about toast and pastries!! LOL

[MrLongbeard]

(NOT smoked - Why would you smoke bacon, it's awesome as it is!!)

PLNOK
Smoked bacon, off the BBQ or smoker is da bomb, especially if you leave it just a smidge too long and the edges are on the verge of burning.

[Noggin]

(NOT smoked - Why would you smoke bacon, it's awesome as it is!!)

PLNOK
Smoked bacon, off the BBQ or smoker is da bomb, especially if you leave it just a smidge too long and the edges are on the verge of burning.

But why? It just doesn't taste like bacon then - it just tastes like smoke

[MrLongbeard]

(NOT smoked - Why would you smoke bacon, it's awesome as it is!!)

PLNOK
Smoked bacon, off the BBQ or smoker is da bomb, especially if you leave it just a smidge too long and the edges are on the verge of burning.

But why? It just doesn't taste like bacon then - it just tastes like smoke

Smokey bacon, smoke doesn't delete the bacon flavour, I'd hate to think about what you've been eating

[Mr. Dazzle]

I've yet to come across a food which wasn't made better by being smoked.

[KungFooBob]

If given the choice of smoked or au naturel bacon, smoked wins every time.

[Count Steer]

I've yet to come across a food which wasn't made better by being smoked.

Cheese.

I'm with Nogs, there's an awful lot of really bad 'smoked' bacon out there and it stinks of some sort of unnatural chemical process. Walk past many places in the morning and the stench assaults your nostrils. There are, to be fair, many things masquerading as unsmoked bacon too that aren't dry cured just dunked in brine and left there and there's some decent smoked bacon out there but it's not the majority of the vile imitations that get served up. (If you want examples of the way humans can insult a pig carcass just visit N America/Canada...no wonder they want sugary glop on their 'bacon').