Well no, people visit the UK to experience our culture and history.
When they arrive they are often pleasantly surprised that our food is actually quite good.
A proper fried breakfast with quality meats and good sundries beats an american breakfast hands down. Proper back bacon instead of that crispy streaky shit Americans eat, proper sausages instead of those shitty little cat turd "links", toast made from thick cut bread from a real bakery (or baked on site). God tier.
I challenge anyone to eat a proper shortcrust pastry meat pie made with slow cooked beef in a rich beer/red wine gravy with vegetables and chips and come away thinking it isn't anything other than delicious (unless they dont like pies....)
I've never had a Kiwi pie, but I'd like to hope you've toured around the regions and based your opinion on country bakery pies or on-point roadhouse pies rather than the standard city servo fair.
I managed to find one good sausage roll at the Southbank market one time (lived there for 8 years and was actively seeking out acceptable sausage rolls and pies the whole time), I blew the mind of the guy selling it by suggesting he should make some with bacon and cheese in the sausage meat.
I'm feeling a bit defensive about UK food in this thread, but it's undeniably true that our sausage rolls are an absolute embarrassment. Supermarkets predictably are the worst -- gristly flavourless meat in anaemic half-baked pastry. Same goes for pasties.
When you say "American breakfast," we do have that sometimes, but what it actually consists of and the quality (e.g. type of bacon or sausage, how the eggs are cooked) varies widely. Where I live, breakfast tacos are much more common than the stereotypical American breakfast though
Proper back bacon instead of that crispy streaky shit Americans eat,
This is the only part I'll push back on being better, and even then, it's with some qualifications. Rashers are fine, and I think I even prefer them if it's on a sandwich or burger, but just sat on a plate? Slab bacon beats it every time for me. A nice, thick cut piece of streaky bacon is just more tasty to me, though you need the right balance of lean and streaky bits. Honestly, I think that's where rashers lose me at breakfast, they're just too far on the lean side, so you hardly get any of the nice, crispy fat bits, just a little strip of it at the edges.
Then again, I have no complaints with an Irish breakfast roll for breakfast if I'm feeling lazy, which, around here, gets you some sausage links, rasher, and a couple pieces of black and white pudding, wrapped up in the same sort of pastry you'd make a sausage roll with. Not the healthiest of breakfasts, but it certainly does the job when you're hungry and tastes great with some brown sauce on it.
I think the picture is also intentionally heavily de-saturated. It's food already somewhat bland in colors, but if you further remove colors from the picture it looks even sadder.
Where's the fried bread, where's the buttered toast, where's the fried tomatoes, where's the rest of the bacon, why are the sausages raw?
For some, the black pudding and hash-browns seem to be missing.
Black pudding - or blood sausage as the Germans call it - is the most disgusting thing I've ever had the misfortune of tasting. I consider hash-browns as something septics eat and less so the British, although they do taste good.
Different meal. For breakfast, the beans are on the plate. For dinner, it's just beans on toast. Breakfast, the toast is essentially a side dish. Sometime it's fried too. You don't want beans on fried bread.
Great British Bake-Off gave me unrealistic expectations for British food. Recently I went to a British branded restaurant near me, and ordered a decent shepard’s pie and the world’s worst apple pie.
It was a sphere of what seemed to be Wonder Bread smothered in totally flavorless custard, filled with soggy apple slices containing no flavor that were extraordinarily grainy. No sweetness or saltiness or tart apple flavor or even texture other than the graininess. One of the saddest things I’ve ever eaten.
I don’t think it was a good representation of British food because I’ve been to London before and done the rounds, but it fit the memes perfectly.
Yanks like to shit on food from the UK, but that's because they're stupid and insecure
I've had amazing food all over the world, including the UK and US.
I've dined at Heston Blumenthal's restaurants and been blown away, and eaten at Michelin started places in New York City that were hugely disappointing
The cheap shots from 'Muricans are only second in frequency to the shots killing children in their schools because they think owning firearms makes their dicks less shrivelled and pathetic because they cut the most sensitive part off
Soo what do we see in this picture? What looks like a white european's dick cut in half, some part of his bladder, with a splash of vomit and industrial bread.
Did you cook that using your camera flash?
Left it out until there was a break in the clouds
Gotta take it in before that UV hits it. What if it accidentally developed some color or flavor?
I was going to say something but this is way better.
Lmao. Cooked 'em with this comment that's for sure.
I meannnn
Brit here, all the elements are correct but jeez please cook all of that for at least twice as long
Nobody visits England for the food.
Well no, people visit the UK to experience our culture and history.
When they arrive they are often pleasantly surprised that our food is actually quite good.
A proper fried breakfast with quality meats and good sundries beats an american breakfast hands down. Proper back bacon instead of that crispy streaky shit Americans eat, proper sausages instead of those shitty little cat turd "links", toast made from thick cut bread from a real bakery (or baked on site). God tier.
I challenge anyone to eat a proper shortcrust pastry meat pie made with slow cooked beef in a rich beer/red wine gravy with vegetables and chips and come away thinking it isn't anything other than delicious (unless they dont like pies....)
As an Australian, English pies make me sad.
As a Kiwi, Australian pies make me sad.
Always blow on the pie. Safer communities together
I've never had a Kiwi pie, but I'd like to hope you've toured around the regions and based your opinion on country bakery pies or on-point roadhouse pies rather than the standard city servo fair.
Their sausage rolls pale compared to their oceanic descendants too.
They should be embarrassed by what they call sausage rolls.
they have no idea, haha, they got very offended over there when I told them I was disappointed to find they were so shit compared to NZ ones
I managed to find one good sausage roll at the Southbank market one time (lived there for 8 years and was actively seeking out acceptable sausage rolls and pies the whole time), I blew the mind of the guy selling it by suggesting he should make some with bacon and cheese in the sausage meat.
I'm feeling a bit defensive about UK food in this thread, but it's undeniably true that our sausage rolls are an absolute embarrassment. Supermarkets predictably are the worst -- gristly flavourless meat in anaemic half-baked pastry. Same goes for pasties.
When you say "American breakfast," we do have that sometimes, but what it actually consists of and the quality (e.g. type of bacon or sausage, how the eggs are cooked) varies widely. Where I live, breakfast tacos are much more common than the stereotypical American breakfast though
I'm not even sure a "stereotypical American breakfast" even exists in 2026.
My go-to is a breakfast sandwich on a toasted bagel
Yeah mine is oatmeal with walnuts, honey, coconut, and a bit of cocoa powder with a scoop of cottage cheese. Classic American breakfast 😂
This is the only part I'll push back on being better, and even then, it's with some qualifications. Rashers are fine, and I think I even prefer them if it's on a sandwich or burger, but just sat on a plate? Slab bacon beats it every time for me. A nice, thick cut piece of streaky bacon is just more tasty to me, though you need the right balance of lean and streaky bits. Honestly, I think that's where rashers lose me at breakfast, they're just too far on the lean side, so you hardly get any of the nice, crispy fat bits, just a little strip of it at the edges.
Then again, I have no complaints with an Irish breakfast roll for breakfast if I'm feeling lazy, which, around here, gets you some sausage links, rasher, and a couple pieces of black and white pudding, wrapped up in the same sort of pastry you'd make a sausage roll with. Not the healthiest of breakfasts, but it certainly does the job when you're hungry and tastes great with some brown sauce on it.
You can get everything you listed in the US relatively easily
And you can get pretty much any cusine in the world, at Michelin star quality, somewhere in the UK. What's your point?
I love English food. All of the British Isles do pub food to die for, especially in colder weather.
Sticky toffee pudding is the king of desserts.
I disagree
The best, most fun meal of my life was in England
Micky D's happy meal?
spotted dick
wow, what an original and well-conceived take
I lived there for 30 years, now live in Germany and by God if I see another Maultasche I will scream.
Mate they’ve obviously boiled this long enough. All the colours gone
Mostly we just want to be sure it's dead.
Needs mushrooms still I think. Or fried tomatoes, or black pudding if you are feeling fancy.
The shit in a full English breakfast always seemed so random to me... Tomato? The fuck are you talking about?
And fried!?
you're frying most of the rest, might as well chuck it on
I think the picture is also intentionally heavily de-saturated. It's food already somewhat bland in colors, but if you further remove colors from the picture it looks even sadder.
I'm not sure any amount of image correction will make those sausages less criminal.
At least it reveals that the bacon looks tasty, though the egg is burnt.
The egg will be powder if it gets any more
I'm convinved that this post is some kind of bait.
Some yank who hasn't left their state, let alone understand how to apply for a passport
Funny thing to say when the british believe this food looks good
Trust me, we think this looks terrible.
As a Brit, If I got this in a greasy cafe, i would send it back. Fellow Brits will attest how bad it has to be for THAT to happen.
This is an abomination of a fry up.
Shouldn't you be celebrating how the slaughter of children in schools means you're free?
Even the bread was boiled to prevent browning.
Man the energy crisis has hit UK hard; they’re only half toasting their toast and parcooking their food.
It looks like they used the egg to protect the rest of the food from the heat.
Maillard would be very upset with the lack of caramalisation and browning on any of this supposedly fried food.
Was coming to say this.. This is considered cooked?
Even the toast is underdone
So would Gordon Ramsay
You just had to get political didn't you?
Frog is wearing a Lego hat, part number 4520723 usually used for Lego Indiana Jones sets.
Yes I'm autistic thanks for asking
I mean that’s the literal raw ingredients yeah.
Cooked with a withering glare.
That looks so undercooked, where's the tomatoes, mushrooms, black pudding and hash browns?
By the look of that egg, it seems to have taken all the heat for itself, leaving the other protiens in the cold.
Did you microwave that 🤢
I've seen more browning from a microwave. This atrocity was intentional
It's fucking raw.
The mere fact there are 3 "sausages" but only one rasher of bacon tells me this person has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
The cuisine of England led their people to become the best sailors in the world.
It really isn’t. Please do not
When you add beans to the plate for some color...
I'm offended and grossed, but I upvoted because that's about right.
Have you thought of cooking it?
This looks like someone was afraid they might accidentally cook something.
everything on that plate looks like it should be boiled for a little bit longer.
Is it so pale because of the lack of sun?
are they aware that the great war has ended?
Does it fuck. We'd at least cook it first.
ragebait? I'm not even British this food just looks like it was intentionally cooked in the worst ways possible
Ah, so you're familiar with British culinary principles then..
The sausages:
All these centuries of robbing countries of their spices and this is the best you can come up with???
They didn't dip into their own supply, and instead got us fools addicted to flavor
Britons still eat like they're trying to survive the Blitz
They actually ate really well during the Blitz. They were encouraged to.
Curry ring a bell? Chicken tikka? Ginger snaps? Christmas pudding?
Curry? You mean the Indian food?
Also, are people supposed to live off just cakes?
Looks like the weather there...
Ugh wtt why is it all so pale
Cause there's fuck all sun in Britain
Hahaha in your house maybe :D
No no no no no
Take the egg off the plate (probably best to fry a new one)
Throw the whole plate under a high broiler for 2 minutes
Return the egg
Ah yes, boiled sausages, my favourite.
Some day, you should try Weißwurst. It's always boiled, and it's incredible.
Ay, yes, boiled toast, my favorite.
That's from the chippy.
If i were as hammered as I am, I might find this appealing. Just saying.
Deep boiled English breakfast
They must hate Maillard.
Dude react to everything.
Where's the fried bread, where's the buttered toast, where's the fried tomatoes, where's the rest of the bacon, why are the sausages raw? For some, the black pudding and hash-browns seem to be missing.
oi oi oi whutz goin on ere then
Black pudding - or blood sausage as the Germans call it - is the most disgusting thing I've ever had the misfortune of tasting. I consider hash-browns as something septics eat and less so the British, although they do taste good.
Based on how well cooked everything else is on this plate, that tea hasn't got enough milk in it
Looks like it was cooked with sunlight
Sun tea is a thing. It's quite good when made properly
I'll let you into a little secret
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im hiding this post in hopes that i never have to look at it again
Wait you don't put the beans on the toast?
Different meal. For breakfast, the beans are on the plate. For dinner, it's just beans on toast. Breakfast, the toast is essentially a side dish. Sometime it's fried too. You don't want beans on fried bread.
Yikes!
Looks tasty. Ever put hot sauce on the egg?
Brown sauce.
This breakfast looks ridiculously anemic. I've never seen an English breakfast that looked so sad.
Yeah I love a good full English but this ain't it..
I recently discovered garlic chili crisp on eggs and I have been missing out.
I like it tbh
British people will only complain that there isn't enough
Deliberately ignoring the elephant in the room, isn't that a lot of protein (and especially meat) for a breakfast?
Mmm raw sausages and bacon, an essential part of every British breakfast
Great British Bake-Off gave me unrealistic expectations for British food. Recently I went to a British branded restaurant near me, and ordered a decent shepard’s pie and the world’s worst apple pie.
It was a sphere of what seemed to be Wonder Bread smothered in totally flavorless custard, filled with soggy apple slices containing no flavor that were extraordinarily grainy. No sweetness or saltiness or tart apple flavor or even texture other than the graininess. One of the saddest things I’ve ever eaten.
I don’t think it was a good representation of British food because I’ve been to London before and done the rounds, but it fit the memes perfectly.
Just like McDonalds is the best and only representation of American cuisine?
Cool story bro
Yum!
No, it's not
Yanks like to shit on food from the UK, but that's because they're stupid and insecure
I've had amazing food all over the world, including the UK and US.
I've dined at Heston Blumenthal's restaurants and been blown away, and eaten at Michelin started places in New York City that were hugely disappointing
The cheap shots from 'Muricans are only second in frequency to the shots killing children in their schools because they think owning firearms makes their dicks less shrivelled and pathetic because they cut the most sensitive part off
I mean it's a pretty offensively bad example of an English breakfast but I feel like you could probably chill out a bit mate, holy shit.
You're really hung up on other people's sausages aren't you?
Like I'm a brit, but what the fuck does bringing up human rights violations have to do with a breakfast shitpost.
"Yanks like to shit on food from the UK"
Buddy it's not just the Yanks.
Soo what do we see in this picture? What looks like a white european's dick cut in half, some part of his bladder, with a splash of vomit and industrial bread.
Oh, and the egg
Can confirm. Stayed in England for a few days ago. Why don't you like some cheese - when else would you eat Cheddar if not for breakfast?
For elevenses of course
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