/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I always figured it's sort of a relic from an age where the Industrial Revolution was in full swing and men were worked to the bone in factories and mines, and thus could actually need such a hearty breakfast. That said I don't know and I'm not a bong.

>>18248224
That's no more than 900 calories

>>18248224
It all looks good but I could eat like a 1/4 of that and be stuffed.
Do brits really?

>>18248232
Nope.

That's a fairly small amount of Full English for an average-sized person, I'd say? The main reason Full Engish cooks so fast and "lasts" so short is that there isn't much density to it. I wouldn't WANT to eat a double helping of kippers in that timeframe, but I could easily.

I have one every weekend. Not that big, but black pudding, eggs, bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms, and beans if I can.

>>18248239
More like 1500-1700

>>18248232
>>18248277
I imagine it would've been more of a meal that the landed gentry and above could have regularly, not only due to the actual value of all the meal but also the time and resources required to put it together daily, something a dedicated housecook or maid would be responsible for. I also suspect it would have more greens and exotic items depending on the area and the imports available at the time.

Then over time people in middle and lower classes probably started making it during days off or special events as a show of class, and what ingredients they tended to use ended up defining the breakfast as we know it today. One thing I see is that most of those ingredients would have been available year-round after the start of the industrial revolution, though I assume the tomatoes and mushrooms would likely be available as dried/canned in the winter.

>>18248224
>Is the full English breakfast a meme or do brits actually eat 3000 calories for breakfast?
It's called doin your English duty and it's bloody lurvely

>>18248286

>>18248224
Raping and pillaging takes a lot of energy not to mention sacking.

>>18248224
i made a fry up a few weeks ago with bacon, fry bread, fried tomatoes, beans, and eggs. my eyes have been opened

It's eggs, back bacon, sausage, buttered bread, sugary beans, oily tomatoes and mushrooms.
Not really that many calories if you're not eating huge portions of each. I eat a variation of this plate at every hotel breakfast buffet i go to.

>>18248224
I used to eat a Full English then go play two rounds of golf. 20 fags, eight pints, bed.

>>18248232
that's what the burgoise has for breakfast while the workforce dies in the mine, only to be remplaced by another set of hands the next time.
after such a big breakfast you gotta rest and take a nap zzzz

>>18248224
>british
>eat

those cunts cant even afford electricity

>>18248224
You'd have one of those maybe ever couple weeks typically.
It's like the sunday roast of breakfasts

>>18248224
Only at weekends, Having one Saturday before the football. Helps soak up the beer.

>>18250442
>maybe ever couple weeks
>It's like the sunday roast
Um yikes sweaty there is a Sunday every week

>The Fry Up Police
They have a venn diagram for the Full English apparently, huh.

>>18250455
Um yikes, you don't have a roast EVERY SUNDAY tosspot.

>>18250487
A lot of people have a Sunday roast.....every Sunday .

>>18250461
Beans and mushrooms ought to not be in the USA section. Tomatoes are a tossup, though.

>>18250487
Uuuhhh hello? Like, yeah, you don't HAVE to have a roast every Sunday, but if you woke up early for church already, then why would you skip out on it?

>>18250487
Yes we do you working class scum.

>>18250503
It's not universal but they're common in the South and along the Appalachian chain because forage foods and pottage are 1000% 18th century english fare.

>>18250503
mushrooms yes, but as far as beans go we just don't go for the tomato sauce ones. itll be black beans or baked beans

>>18248401
>value of all the [meat] but also the time and resources required to put it together daily, something a dedicated housecook or maid would be responsible for
sausages, bacon and black pudding have never been particularly expensive, nothing on a full english is luxurious. sausages are cheap. bacon is cheap. black pudding is literally just blood, oats and offal.
and the whole thing doesn't take very long to cook or any preparation besides chopping some mushrooms or tomatoes if you have them
traditionally its served when you have guests, as a show of good hospitality, in homes of all stations

I've only ever cooked a full breakfast for myself alone when I know I won't have lunch and even then im skipping on the bacon and tomatoes. If you have less money or less appetite you just leave shit out.

Personally my preferred large breakfast is a couple kippers and scrambled eggs on toast

>>18248703
>buttered bread
fried bread m8, accept no substitute

>>18250461
commie shite

>>18248224
Why would anyone want to eat beans, pork blood, tomatoes, and mushrooms for breakfast ? No wonder France hate your country and fought you during it's whole history

>>18250932
>Why would anyone want to eat beans, pork blood, tomatoes, and mushrooms for breakfast
Because they can't afford something much better. Picrel

>>18248224
It’s a breakfast-lunch kinda deal, but Picrel is excessive

>>18250932
Black pudding originated in France, you blithering retard.

>>18251002
>Eating french food

>>18251018
Buddy, try to be consistent with your whinging.

>>18251002
Where did you get that information ? Wikipedia and every sites I went to say it comes from the UK

>>18251018
>He doesn't like fondue, boeuf bourguignon, aligot, or onion soup
You got shit taste, sir

>>18251035
Black pudding comes from the French boudin noir, which was adapted from various forms of blutwurst. The French version added oats/groats as filler, and the eventual English version omitted meat entirely in favour of just filler and suet.

>>18248239
It's probably 2000-2500.

>>18250705
>We
>Working class
Sure thing muhammed, get back down the dole.

>>18251736
>dole
Get your ass back into the quarantine camp, cunt.

Ate pic related at an Irish-owned restaurant in the US

>>18251809
Finally some eggs that don't look like a brit retard cooked them

>>18251809
Had this one at another Irish-owned place in the same town.

My dad, 70, has jam and toast for breakfast, or corn flakes
My uncle, 65, has the same, without jam.
A full English is a nice treat occasionally and it's rarely that large
The most popular one in England is the Wetherspoons large breakfast. Smaller but still quite a lot of food.
The only people who eat one regularly are builders.
I'd have one like once a month.

>>18251041
>onion soup
>literally just boiled onions
Ooh la la, hot cuisine

>>18248224
>do brits actually eat 3000 calories for breakfast?
No, a Full English is a rare treat that usually follows a hangover. No one's eating this everyday.

>>18250487
Mon then you dickhead

>>18248232
i really doubt that some poorfag peasant working in a fucking coal mine or a shoe factory could've afford all that food every single day
they probably ate a slice of bread with some cheese at best as breakfat

>>18250442
>its like a sunday roast!
so it's inedible english sloppa. got it

You don't have it every day

>>18248239
that stack of toast is 400 by itself

I fixed it. Now its no longer that british abomination

>>18250745
Thanks for the info anon

>>18252543
great now will all that jizz its 10x more unhealthy thanks anon

>>18250932
Tomatoes and mushrooms are great breakfast additions.

>>18248224
The plan is you eat that for breakfast. Then you go to church, then you mow the lawn and do the garden, then you go up the park and play cricket, then you go to the pub, then you return home for a Sunday Roast.

It's meant to fill you up for the day.

Sunday roast is beef or chicken, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, mashed swede, roasted parsnips and carrots, Brussels sprouts, spring greens, cauliflower cheese, pigs in blankets, sage and onion stuffing.

>>18252600
sometimes there's more to food than counting calories anon. you've gotta get out there

>>18248232
lel those people were eating wheat gruel and piss alcohol or dirty ass water for every meal

>>18252130
for real. does no one here know their history? english peasants were broke as shit and had boat loads of kids for the most part. no fucking way they ate this well every day.

>>18251809
That'll be £49.95 plus vat guvna

>>18248224
it's a breakfast for working men

>>18248224
>cleverly slips /pol/bait in there
very nice anon, 10/10 thread.

>>18250932
This is objectively correct and what I came here to post. You fuckers romanticize this big plate of shit but complaint about "oh nooooo Amerilard breakfast" but it's the same fucking thing with some shitty useless vegetables on the side. Which would you rather have? Waffles/pancakes/French toast? Or some ghoulish mushrooms and tomatoes?

American breakfast is the good parts of this poverty plate with none of the shit on the side. Get over yourselves.

>Oi mum but wot about me earl gray and footy? Just takin the piss lad. Hon hon hon. Luv me muslims and the queen, Nigel.

Fuckinn kys

>>18253718
ive a book on the english medieval period that says the average english yeoman farmer ate 8000 calories a day
source:ISBN: 0224079948
but i cant be bothered to find a page reference, but its a very fun read

>>18255470
>This is objectively correct and what I came here to post. You fuckers romanticize this big plate of shit but complaint about "oh nooooo Amerilard breakfast" but it's the same fucking thing with some shitty useless vegetables on the side. Which would you rather have? Waffles/pancakes/French toast? Or some ghoulish mushrooms and tomatoes?
>American breakfast is the good parts of this poverty plate with none of the shit on the side. Get over yourselves.
>>Oi mum but wot about me earl gray and footy? Just takin the piss lad. Hon hon hon. Luv me muslims and the queen, Nigel.
>Fuckinn kys

>>18248277
>>18248401
>>18248782
>>18252130
>>18253718
>>18253438
navvies, poor canal diggers in the victorian era, ate up to 10,000 calories a day
Time Team gave the following daily menu:

Breakfast: 6 slices of bacon, 2 pints of beer, can of condensed milk, tea, loaf of bread.
Early elevenses: 1 pint of beer.
Late elevenses: 1 pint of beer, bread and butter.
Lunch: steak, loaf of bread, 2 pints of beer, tea.
Late lunch: 1 pint of beer.
Snack: bread and butter, 1 pint of beer.
Dinner: steak, boiled potatoes, loaf of bread, 2 pints of beer, tea.

>>18248224
100% of Brits eat this for breakfast every day.

>>18255483
I can believe it. Reminds me of this bloke who went viral last year for eating two fucking pounds of cheese every day as a snack in addition to regular meals, turns out he's a gardener and logger.

>>18251051
>Based food historian BTFOs the smelly foreigner
Good job, mate.

>>18252373
I do.
Not proud of it but I do.

>>18248239
my estimates
>2 fried eggs = 200 calories
>3 pieces of fried back bacon = 200
>3 pieces of fried streaky bacon = 200
>3 fried sausages = 450
>2 pieces of black pudding = 350
>fried mushrooms = 100
>beans = 100
>hash brown = 300
>fried tomatoes = 100
>2 slices fried bread = 350
>4 slices of toast = 300
>1tbsp hp sauce = 18
>total calories = 2,668

>>18248232
That's exactly what it was, but it wasn't as extreme as what's presented today. It was a super calorific way to start a day of hard work, and was only for the working man of the house.

All these fags thinking working people couldn't afford sausage and bacon and an egg in industrialized britain are city-dwelling 15yr olds obsessed with status. It was affordable but likely poor quality. Meanwhile miners in more rural areas were surrounded by farms.

Rich folk in industrial age britain were far more interested in eating exotic imports and spices as symbols of wealth and status. Kedgeree, soft fruits, sugar and spice etc.

>>18248224
Fuck off with your beans, nigger.

>>18248224
Hyper compensation if small pgmg2genises?

>>18251875
>>18251809
both fried eggs are done in the retarded US style not the UK style

brits be like oi mate, im aboot to haf some faggots and mash

this is a good thread thank you Yanny (aka Laurel

>>18255633
Imagine the sheer SIZE of this man's shits

>>18257669
Yeah. He's a logger.

>>18255708
pic is clearly a sharing platter so yeah that sounds about right

when I was in London I'd eat about half of this every day at brekkie and it'd tide me over till tea at least

>>18248745
Like a dream

>>18248745
>20 fags
Watch out for the monkeypox m8

>>18255603
Wow so poor, I can't afford to fucking eat like that in Australia in 2022

>>18257734
kek

>>18258174
that 'steak' is not likely to be prime cuts

more like sausage made from offcuts and lots of offal

>>18248224
man i love baked cherry tomatoes

>>18250423
i'm in london and only like 2 retarded brands gauged their prices and are quickly degauging due to nobody buying them, food only costs like 10% more and like half the products are unaffected
i have no idea why america has to pay 20 bucks for some broccoli

>>18252141
You're missing out anon, one of the healthiest and filling meals you can have is a roast.
Now continue eating your hotpockets and deenz

>>18248224
it's not only a meme, it exists and it's dogshit.
In hotels, restaurants and pubs it is the worst cooking i've ever had the misfortune to taste, i mean even worse than modern french cooking.

Toast: the one one this pic looks acceptable but irl they use garbage toast bread from kike stores and that's barely digestable.
Eggs: the one on the image is clearly fake, they serve shitty eggs with almost completely white yolk, the real disgusting shit is when they make scrambled eggs from it and the whole shit looks sickly pale instead of nice healthy yellow that decent people know and love.
Black pudding: now this can taste good sometimes but usually lacks spices and flavour, a common theme in britbong cooking.
Bacon: can't go wrong with that when it's properly fried and not just half-cooked because the pakistani muslim intern in the kitchen can fuck up even this.
Fried, warm tomatoes: unsalted, tasteless, with the texture of warm snot. Absolutely disgusting, a crime against mankind and places with this shit should get EXTERMINATUS
Mushroom: acceptable. Again, mostly lacking flavours but at least not worse than that.
Sausage: garbage. 0 spices 0 flavour even the texture is bad, sometimes contains flour or soy which make it even worse.
Beans: the cheapest shit they can get out from a can, again barely tastes like anything.
That potato shtiin the middle: edible but don't expect any flavours.
Ham: see the bacon part.

What's not on the pic:
Grapefruit juice and coffee combination: repulsive.
Jams: ALL briish jams are fucking bitter.
Tea: usually cheap, commerse shit everywhere so tea enthusiasts will be repulsed.

>>18248277
>>18248401
>>18248782
>>18252130
>>18253438
zoomers legitimately believe that nobody in europe ate meat until 1950 lmfao
what a fucking embarassment

>>18258767
You're just wrong, simple as.

It's bloody lurvly

>>18258977
>reply to pasta
t. retard

>>18258983
I am pretty retarded tbqh

>>18258953
>legitimately
*genuinely
ESL retard

>>18258767
>Jams: ALL briish jams are fucking bitter.
What the fuck. Jam is like 50% straight sugar, how the hell do you find it bitter.

>ITT: peasants ate grey slop

Imagine being this fucking stupid. Peasants unironically are better farm fresh food than we do today. They just had less variety because there was no international shipping, but they still had regular access to bacon, eggs, milk, venison, etc.

Stop repeating the grey sloppa meme. The shit you eat is probably worse.

>>18259220
>peasants had regular access to venison
Lol, they'd be utterly fucked if they got caught. I doubt many risked it.

>>18258953
Coddled urbanite detected. Actually look up how frequently people ate meat before and during the industrial revolution fucking lmao. There's a reason post-industrial revolution people's heights rose sharply and it's not just caloric surplus.

>>18259220
>regular
once a week is not regular fucking lol

>>18259220
>95% of caloric intake is grain
No thanks, the middle ages were shit

>>18259231
yeah, we're talking about the industrial revolution retard. that is the time period that we are talking about. we are not talking about medieval england. >>18248232 is specifically talking about the industrial revolution and all the braindead zoomers replying to him think that the average english person was still living in a shack on a manor in the 1800s. learn to read dumb faggot.

>>18259210
Bong jams and preserves often include the peel, which lends a slightly bittersweet taste when you bite into it. Not everyone is a fan of that.

which is why you sometimes see picrel sold now, for those namby faggots

>>18259220
anon, my grandparents were peasants and ate significant amounts of meat only twice or so a week; the Sunday roast, and leftovers. most of the time protein came from eggs, or small amounts of ham and fish, not more than 100g a serving, often less

>>18250461
They include American breakfast but not Aussie breakfasts? Kind of insulting

>>18251051
So it came from the Germans then?

>>18259532
Still that isn’t grey slop like morons believe. I think people read Oliver Twist and thought a cheap orphanage trying to penny pinch by serving gruel was how everyone ate.

>>18259769
you said they
>just had less variety
>but they still had regular access to bacon, eggs, milk, venison, etc
I was clarifying that they did, but not in the amounts we regular enjoy today

also I would have mentioned fish; fish makes up a HUGE part of poorfags' food to this day, as much as 50% average of protein consumption

People on 4chan will even get into heated arguments over a traditional English breakfast

lol
lmao even

I'd drop a few things, namely the bread, tomato and beans

>>18259948
this is like, at worst mid tier for how stupid the shit people will argue about is

I guarantee there's another thread on the first page right now with something much dumber being argued

>>18258174
Those men spend 30-40% of their wage on that though. You probably spend 10-15%.

>>18259267
Its not even medieval. An average Finn got like 50% of his annual protein from milk alone due to an average consumption of 1,2 liter per person per day.

>>18258767
>Grapefruit juice and coffee combination
what the fuck are you babbling about, anon
this alone should discredit your weird wall of text

>>18251002
No, blood sausage was a Viking import.

>>18251051
It pre-dates French cuisine. The Vikings used to hold blood sausage festivals.

>>18260857
>>18260860
"Viking" blood sausage wasn't made with grains and filler like black pudding and boudin noir, moron.

>>18255603
Yeah but I show up to work after a few pints and I get put on leave without pay.

Kazinsky was right, the industrial revolution was a mistake.

>>18248224
>do brits actually eat 3000 calories for breakfast?
The pic shows a very big breakfast, a good sized breakfast would be 2 bacon, 2 sausage, 2 egg, 2 toast, 2hash browns, beans or tinned toms, black pudding (if you're lucky).
I'd eat that maybe 2/3 times a year at home, then gave a lie down.
Pic related is more the kind of thing you get out at a traditional greasy spoon, it's more something you'd have on a Saturday (before football at the pub), or a weekday lunch if you do a job that fits that lifestyle.
Builders, labourers etc will often start very early, have a fat fry up around 12, then work the afternoon semi-comatose.

im britfag and my english breakfasts are like 1 egg 2 toasts 1 tomato and some mushrooms and bacon, served with a fat glass of orange concentrate

adding anything more is just fuckin pointless, sausages? fucking black pudding???? why????

>>18261052
To eat them

>>18261062
yeah but then thats too much fuckin shit on your fork

with my style you actually get to taste everything with each forkful and you can actually finish your fuckin meal in under 30 mins!!!!!!!

>>18261071
>!!!!!!!
"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
-Pratchett

>>18261105
dont be an arsehole

>>18261071
why the fuck do people on blue boards type like this with increasing frequency, are there this many new redditors?

>>18261141
>are there this many new redditors?
Yes, were all redditors now.

>>18250461
Poached egg is fine and i'm english so i can say that.

>>18261071
"Everything in each bite" is the second worst eating style. The worst, of course is "completely finish each component in strict succession."

>>18259267
Book is genghis khan and the making of the modern world. Great book
For anyone on this board who actually reads anything more than image board shitposts

>>18248401
>landed gentry willingly eating oats

anon oats were considered horse feed.

>>18261982
>eat oats to become strong as a horse
Got it

>>18259508
best thing for marmalade is to lightly use a potato peeler to get just the outside zest with very little pith and then chop it in small pieces. You get the zesty flavor and more substantial consistency and avoid the bitter pith. Also, I always add cinnamon.

>>18248224
This cost me £5 including tea. This is your typical full English. Probs the best post gym brekkie food I could have asked for.

>>18262338
Good idea. But I rather like the bitter taste of thick-cut marmalade. It's like dark chocolate.