First Day in the UK, tested the most casual thing I could think about. Your English Breakfast is awesome!

One sausage? What is this, the 3rd world?

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Cutbacks. There's a cost of living crisis, man!

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banger and mash

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Not a bad looking effort either, no black pudding or tattie scone, and some iced coffee looking abomination over a good builders tea keeps it from perfection, but good go. Glad you liked it.

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Is that what that 'drink' is? It looks like mushroom soup.

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Yeah, I haven't found any coffee shop around me where I can buy myself something better than instant coffee for home, so when I saw they had coffee I had to go for it!

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- There's been a real boom in roasters over here in the UK over event years. No idea how you like your coffee but I love Roaring Stag up in Ballater, Scotland. They so online delivery, if you like a real dark roast their Dark Lochnagar is great.
  
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- Good coffee shops are becoming more common over there, but still a long way from the US, France, Italy, etc, where there's two cafes on every corner.
  
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Tattie scone ftw.

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Separation of beans. Good. Always like to see that. I'd rather fried bread than toast and one solitary sausage is a bit mean. Overall, good effort.

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I'd rather fried bread than toast

Nah, eggy bread for the win.

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- On a full English? That feels blasphemous.
  
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This post is generating waves of nostalgia for /r/Fryup for me. We need somewhere on the Fediverse to post, lust over and critique other people's fry-ups.

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There's apparently !fryup@lemmy.world but there's no content yet

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The differences between the classic American and English breakfasts are one of those things that make travel between the two countries so pleasing, at least for me.

Different enough from one another to feel mildly exotic, yet similar enough to make you feel (mostly) at home.

Did wonder while I was over there ages ago why no one had shown them you can fry green tomatoes too for a bit of variety. Searing a ripe one just kinda makes a mess, lol.

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We don't really have green tomatoes here. I don't know why.

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Fried green tomatoes are fairly common in the south, there's even a movie called "Fried Green Tomatoes"

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Where is the slice of fried black pudding?

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I See you've awoken the fry up police....

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Guilty your honor!

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As a connoisseur of hotel breakfasts, I can say that's one of the best examples. Maybe a bit light on the beans, but that toast looks awesome and the bacon is cooked very well. One little sausage is a bit stingy, but then I'd have traded that in for more bacon anyway. The proof is obviously in the tasting, but I'm jealous just by looking at it!

I do prefer a Scottish breakfast, though. Perfect so long as it still includes beans (purists don't), but the potato scone is far superior to the hash brown. I'd leave the haggis usually anyway, just like you left the black pudding here.

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The Toast was so good! And the Bacon was per-fect, I love bacon like that, way more than the way I found it in the US dry as a crisp and super salty, here it had juice! it had taste!

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- Yeah, the UK does back bacon, while the US and Canada seem to love streaky bacon. They're both the same area IIRC, but the back bacon just includes a chunk of meat along with the streaky fat part. This can be challenging when cooking, as the fat and the meat cook at different rates. When you fry it you have to render the fat at a very low heat, then raise the heat gently to cook the meat. If you do it just right you can get crispy fat and tender, chewy meat on the same piece. Typically in commercial kitchens they just oven cook it, which is easier to achieve a more consistent result, but I love doting over them in a frying pan.
  
  You do need to be a little careful what you buy. Most bacon is cheap and injected with brine by an automated production process, whereas Dry Cured bacon is done by hand. It's a little more expensive, but generally much better quality. The gold standard is that one little old butcher's shop that has an old hand crank machine to slice you fresh, thick cuts of bacon - if you find a place like this, try their pork pies, especially when they're fresh.
  
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Needs more sausage but aside from that it's pretty alright looking. Maybe go in with the brown sauce.

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They asked me If I wanted any sauce, this was my first time and I had no idea their where some so I said no, will give it a try mate!

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- To be fair if someone asked me for 'brown sauce' I'd probably turn it down too. Enjoy your stay.
  
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- Brown and mustard for that meal
  
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Beans belong on the plate 😡

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You are incorrect in more than one way.

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Tip them out.

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Needs more

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What's the ratio of Brits who always have full English breakfast vs other types of breakfasts like French (white coffee an croissant ) or cereals for example ?

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Almost nobody, it's not meant to be a daily meal, more like once a week or so as a treat.

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Lack of blood sausage is a deal breaker for me

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"Black pudding", surely.

Blood sausage sounds yuk, black pudding is ... well I'm not a huge fan (hands in passport) but at least it sounds like it should be palatable.

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- Black pudding not just because of the name, but because blood sausage is a much wider category that black pudding is only one part of. Would be a bit weird to get Korean blood sausage with your full English
  
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I foresee heartburn and congestion in the pipeline for your future.

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english breakfast:

protein ham
protein bacon
protein sausage
protein eggs
protein beans
protein/garbage blood sausage

garbage mushrooms
garbage tomato

starch hash browns
starch toast

...but the beans make it superior to anything americans do. seriously beans with breakfast wtf are americans doing wrong. missing beans that's what

but seriously...choose a protein or two and ditch the fucking mushrooms jfc wtf is wrong with people it's not an animal or a plant its a fungus i don't want to eat the stuff that grows at the base of your toilet.

ditch the mushrooms and it looks delicious. and add more beans.

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How does it feel to be so wrong about mushrooms?

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I've lived in the UK for nearly 20 years and see no benefit to having the beans anywhere near a full English plate.

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- I've lived in the UK for 42 years and see no benefit to having beans
  
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Downvote for being factually incorrect about mushrooms, one of the best things that can be put into a mouth.

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The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children. They are owed the unconditional love and protection of their creators. The experiences of animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own. It harms us when we take pleasure in cruelty and violence.

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Hey mate, After seeing your post, curious I went to check what you post. And found a very interesting post of your called The Science of Why People Hate Vegans it's a great post with a great video I just watched fully of BiteSizeVegan.org This comments makes you look a bit more "5:37" than "5:31" Seems like your doing a bit of "5:46" and a bit of "7:03" Especially this part, I would totally invite you to listen to it, it's very interesting.

I would even go to say you are right now actively participating to why people say those things at 10:12

Watch your own posts, you'll learn a lot, the video was very interesting.

To any UK vegetarian or vegan watching this except him, I would like your help

I'm a bit overwhelmed right now learning so much different brands, and products. I've got an Aldi near me where I got some "Planet Menu - Vive le Vegan" Soya Chicken" and found some fake steaks too so I'm quite happy as taht's what I usually buy for myself at home

I've been told there is also a Tesco around me, and I was wondering if anyone could tip me some good plant-based meat replacement brands that I would find at Aldi next time I go back or at Tesco, and if you knew if there was any Oat Milk? I usually buy Oat-ly in France, but I haven't found it yet at Aldi. If you have any tips fro brands or maybe specialised stores brands I can find, it would be a pleasure to get your help on that

Thank you in advance for any help!

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- As a veggie, just wanna say I bloody love this response here. And as a UK person, welcome! I remember you saying you were due to move here, in that thread about wholesome communities recently. Hope you settle in fine!
  
  (We don't do Tesco or Aldi so can't help you with specific brands of things, but the UK is very veggie-friendly so honestly you'll be able to pick up some decent stuff wherever you shop. Experiment and you'll soon find your new faves. Oatly is pretty widely available here too)
  
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- Oatly should be widely available, otherwise most supermarkets now make their own brand. Personally I'm a soya milk drinker, so can't really recommend any though.
  
  As for meat replacements - there are a lot, you can pretty much replace anything now from nuggets to donner to roast (like roast "chicken" or "beef", either whole or in pieces) to cold cuts. It's hard to say which you would like because they vary in texture and flavour, so I'd just start trying them out!
  Some brands I personally enjoy - Squeaky Bean, Oumph, Vivera. But most supermarket own brands to really good stuff nowadays, even Iceland (if you don't have a store close by, they all deliver).
  
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- Oatly is widely available, even in the little convenience shop round the corner from me.
  
  However, FUCK Oatly: "Oatly sues UK oat milk maker over trademark" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57425162
  
  Btw, Oatly lost.
  
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- BAH GAWD THAT MAN HAS (pig) FAMILY!
  
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- Hey, welcome! While I'm not a native, I've lived here for a few years now and would be happy to share some info!
  
  I have to say I've been pleasantly surprised by the amount of vegetarian stuff you can buy in most supermarkets here. My go-to for just adding a meat replacement into a dish is any of the "Quorn" branded stuff. I will say though that normally it needs quite a bit of salt added to it. Especially the mince is great though if you want to do something like a stir-fry or burritos. Their cold-cut looking selection is also pretty decent (the vegetarian ham slices etc), I prefer the vegetarian over the vegan options though, I think they taste a bit better
  
  Other than that, there is a brand called "Linda McCartney", their stuff is pretty nice as well and on offer quite a lot.
  
  I haven't been to Aldi and Lidl in a while now, not sure if they have any off-brand/own-brand options that are decent but I think it's worth a try. Anyway, welcome :)
  
  And be careful when you're in traffic, people here are terrible drivers
  
  Edit: oh and I forgot to say about oat milk: you can get Oatly at Tesco, Sainsbury's etc, there is also a nice brand called Minor Figures, they have it at Tesco and Lidl sometimes. Otherwise Asda (another cheap-ish supermarket chain) and Lidl have their own brand of barista-style oat milk, can't remember the name off the top of my head but it's easily as good as Oatly and much cheaper
  
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New to veganism, I see.

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- Mate here has 3 months of post on !veganism@lemmy.ca
  
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Username checks out.

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My children taste delicious

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First Day in the UK, tested the most casual thing I could think about. Your English Breakfast is awesome!

To any UK vegetarian or vegan watching this except him, I would like your help