Talk:English breakfast

Not '"beans", surely, but rather the unpalatable tinned concoction known as "baked beans" (Navy beans?). Are they really baked? Or just boiled in sauce? Aleta Curry 19:37, 29 July 2007 (CDT)

Almost certainly they are slowly baked in the sauce. At least Boston baked beans are, and I've looked at some Brit. recipes, and they seem more or less the same except for the seasonings. "Baking" them in the sauce is essentially the same as "boiling" them in the sauce, except they're simmering slowly instead of boiling rapidly. Hayford Peirce 20:45, 29 July 2007 (CDT)

What happened to the traditional fried bread? And sausages are really quite normal for a British breakfast. Is there a standard definition of this meal, or are you making it up?

THe "baked beans" I know from Arab and Greek cookery, although in those cuisines they are considerably nicer and healthier. The large beans [as opposed to the mangy things that Heinz use] are partially boiled in salted water, then a sauce is prepared by frying chopped onion in olive oil, then adding chopped tomato, garlic, water, a few herbs... and slowly baking the beans. IN greek these are called Gigantes [Large] lol.--Martin Baldwin-Edwards 22:24, 29 July 2007 (CDT)

(a ghost from the past whispers): no I'm not 'making it up' -- sausages are less common than bacon in these breakfasts (see Bangers and mash instead); CZ will be hard put to equal the exhaustive (and exhausting!) Wikipedia entry here. Russell Potter 22:55, 29 July 2007 (CDT)

I lived in London for 8 months in 1968 and my own recollection is that bacon and sausages were about evenly divided. The sausages, compared to Jones Little Links, however, were universally excruciatingly bad. Mostly composed of sawdust, I would say. Hayford Peirce 23:25, 29 July 2007 (CDT)