English Breakfast in Maidenhead, England
Photograph by smoothdude on Flickr
There is something beautiful about this English breakfast, photographed by Daniel Krieger in Maidenhead yesterday morning. I feel tubby just looking at it. While the spread of yolk-popping eggs, fried bread, sausage, beans, chips, and a tomato can seem like a mess of things—plus the toast squeezes in there, "wait for me!"—it looks so clean and methodic. Krieger says it's one of the better English breakfasts he's had, but get this. One of his favorites is at Chip Shop in Park Slope, Brooklyn, which he believes actually rivals this one.
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7 Comments:
No mushrooms? No black pudding? No dice.
shoneyjoe at 7:47AM on 03/11/09
I will never understand the sad baked tomato chunk.
bobbob at 8:45AM on 03/11/09
Maidenhead, England ? UP THE IRONS!
jword2001 at 8:47AM on 03/11/09
That's not a proper English Breakfast!
Consider the lonely, pink sausage, I bet it never met a butcher, and barely knew a pig! The tomato has clearly been fished out of a tin, the lack of mushrooms or black pudding - its a sorry plate.
And as for the intruders - leave off that classic english potato preparation, the hash brown. I'm not that keen on chips on my breakfast either.
helenex at 9:00AM on 03/11/09
@helenex; agreed. Fried eggs, with the yolks just runny, more bacon, proper sausage, Heinz beans, mushrooms, and roast tomatoes. Thick-cut toast with lots of butter. Black pudding if desired (none for me thanks).
That said, I never have a full breakfast unless I'm traveling or on holiday.
NotAmerican at 9:48AM on 03/11/09
I write from the homeland in London - this is not a Full English - chips? Hash browns? No No No!!!!!
However - I like the kind of stewed looking baked beans.....
Ah! I now really fancy a greasy spoon trip
PeckhamEater at 12:57PM on 03/11/09
I'd rather read one of my favorite sites, eggsbaconchipsandbeans.
stncttr908 at 6:35PM on 03/11/09