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From Serious Eats: New York

How New York Gets the English Breakfast Wrong

WHAT !!!

Chips with a fry up and toast under the egg???? That's not an English breakfast.

Core of the English breakfast is:
Bacon
Eggs (fried or poached)
Sausage

With various the following add-ons (varying by region)
Toast and/or a fried slice
Fried mushrooms
Black pudding
Baked beans
Tomatoes (canned or fresh)
Kidney

Some English people like ketchup on their breakfast, uncouth. Brown sauce is best, not the ever popular and overly vinegar flavoured 'HP', but 'Daddies'.

hextor25 at 3:39PM on 11/13/09

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Serious Beer: Brown Ales from England and Beyond

Newcastle Brown (Newcie Brown or puckie brown as I call it) is pretty mainstream and it's disappointing so many travellers to the UK stick to drinking it or Guinness. It's a bit like being in the US and ignoring the microbrewery scene and sticking to Coors Lite.

So well done for trying Hobgoblin and the other lesser known pints.

hextor25 at 12:59PM on 10/23/09

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Meet & Eat: Kerry Saretsky, Serious Eats Intern

You don't eat organs? So that's liver, kidneys and other offal off the menu. Wow, that's a huge slice of gastronomy for a "foodie" to ignore.

hextor25 at 8:25AM on 10/04/08

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Serious Sandwiches: The Chip Butty

STOP. Please I beg of you.

I was born in Rochdale, a small town in Northern Lancashire, England. Chip butties were a normal part of my life growing up. I now travel throughout the US, UK and Europe as if they were one...city?

I feel slightly, no very, very, annoyed that chip butties have been discovered. Why is it that the food of my home could seem so odd?

hextor25 at 4:42PM on 10/03/07

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From Serious Eats: New York

How New York Gets the English Breakfast Wrong

WHAT !!!

Chips with a fry up and toast under the egg???? That's not an English breakfast.

Core of the English breakfast is:
Bacon
Eggs (fried or poached)
Sausage

With various the following add-ons (varying by region)
Toast and/or a fried slice
Fried mushrooms
Black pudding
Baked beans
Tomatoes (canned or fresh)
Kidney

Some English people like ketchup on their breakfast, uncouth. Brown sauce is best, not the ever popular and overly vinegar flavoured 'HP', but 'Daddies'.

hextor25 at 3:39PM on 11/13/09

From Serious Eats

Serious Beer: Brown Ales from England and Beyond

Newcastle Brown (Newcie Brown or puckie brown as I call it) is pretty mainstream and it's disappointing so many travellers to the UK stick to drinking it or Guinness. It's a bit like being in the US and ignoring the microbrewery scene and sticking to Coors Lite.

So well done for trying Hobgoblin and the other lesser known pints.

hextor25 at 12:59PM on 10/23/09

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Meet & Eat: Kerry Saretsky, Serious Eats Intern

You don't eat organs? So that's liver, kidneys and other offal off the menu. Wow, that's a huge slice of gastronomy for a "foodie" to ignore.

hextor25 at 8:25AM on 10/04/08

From Serious Eats

Serious Sandwiches: The Chip Butty

STOP. Please I beg of you.

I was born in Rochdale, a small town in Northern Lancashire, England. Chip butties were a normal part of my life growing up. I now travel throughout the US, UK and Europe as if they were one...city?

I feel slightly, no very, very, annoyed that chip butties have been discovered. Why is it that the food of my home could seem so odd?

hextor25 at 4:42PM on 10/03/07

From Serious Eats: New York

How New York Gets the English Breakfast Wrong

What I don't really get is why the Robs put this as 'news' in NY Mag this week. English or Irish breakfast has been available in the city before this - check out Kinsale's among other places, although I'm not vouching for the quality as it's been a while since I tried theirs.

A nice fry-up as actually quite useful for handling that 'just off the plane' feeling in the morning having taking the overnight flight from the U.S. to the UK. All those carbs and fat, plus a nice large dose of the caffeinated beverage of your choice, really take the edge off of jet lag.

TheExperimentalGourmand at 2:10PM on 11/15/09

From Serious Eats: New York

How New York Gets the English Breakfast Wrong

English don't eat chips with breakfast? HA!

You don't get more British than "Little Chef", and the standard Olympic Breakfast includes chips:


peekpoke at 7:19PM on 11/13/09

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Serious Beer: Brown Ales from England and Beyond

I love Black Sheep Ale and Monty Python Holy Grail Ale, both by Black Sheep Brewery in Yorkshire.

I also go through gallons of Newscastle, but it is as NotAmerican said. A Yorkshireman once told me Newkie Brown is considered a beer for "students."

Remander at 12:53AM on 10/30/09

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Serious Sandwiches: The Chip Butty

and by the way, I'm Welsh, and "butty" is a term of endearment as in "shw mai butty" - "hello my old friend".

Hoppy at 5:14PM on 08/14/09

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Serious Sandwiches: The Chip Butty

About 20 years ago I was working in Washington, D.C. I always have my supper at the bar in the hotel, and one evening, I was just finishing off my meal by opening my dinner roll and loading it with fries. a guy down the bar said "Excuse me, you're British, aren't you?"

Hoppy at 4:55PM on 08/14/09

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Serious Sandwiches: The Chip Butty

correction,
- i just did a little lookup on the old interwebs - it seems the word butty in welsh is more for "mate" or "friend" and the use of butty for "sandwich" seems to be a northern england slang, so - hey, there we go!

best wishes

trehug at 2:18PM on 03/21/09

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Serious Sandwiches: The Chip Butty

Here's some other details:

- the word butty is a welsh word for a sandwich.

- butty is pronounced with the first syllable like "book", not like "putty", and not like "booty". The double "tt" is soft, not pronounced like a "d"

- one of my favourite variations is to make these using triangular ciabatta buns - mmmmmmmm - i gotta go now and make one

ta ra for now then love

trehug at 2:13PM on 03/21/09

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Meet & Eat: Kerry Saretsky, Serious Eats Intern

Right on "whimsical fondue and beignets"! Welcome Kerry!

hungrychristel at 4:08PM on 10/05/08

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Meet & Eat: Kerry Saretsky, Serious Eats Intern

Thank you Kerry. :)

I've been feeling like a pervert ever since I posted that.

:embarrassed:

FastFoodCritic at 12:35AM on 10/05/08

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Meet & Eat: Kerry Saretsky, Serious Eats Intern

Kerry, that sounds very much like my son's idea of eating. He moved to NYC (Brooklyn) - maybe you know him (kidding, I know there a million people there) - seriously tho, check him on face book- Ryan Bailey -he's a fabulous photographer (and even though i'm his mom, I think he's very cute as well)!

Please don't tell him i'm matchmaking from here in Florida!!

floridayaya at 2:18PM on 10/04/08

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Meet & Eat: Kerry Saretsky, Serious Eats Intern

@Luna, I am only an honorary European! My mother is French, and I live mostly in England, but all in all, I'm a New Yorker. But I hope to still impart "European elegance"!

@FastFoodCritic, absolutely none taken...what is friday without fun?

@hextor, no, i don't. To me being a foodie is loving food, and there's no point faking love if it's just not there. That would leave a bad taste in anyone's mouth. Some people don't like Merlot, some don't like vegetables, and I don't like organs. I was vegetarian for 12 of my 25 years (that answers the age question), and so I say, we must always remember to be thankful for the little things (like burgers, and bacon). If you are what you eat, then you should make very sure that you only eat what you like--and be respectful and at times admiring of what you don't.

Kerry Saretsky at 11:45AM on 10/04/08

From Serious Eats

Serious Sandwiches: The Chip Butty

When you're hungry and need to be fed,
Get some frites (still hot); butter and bread;
With a sprinkle of salt;
And some vinegar (malt).
Haute cuisine — this chip butty will spread!

pilgrim4truth at 10:14AM on 03/11/08

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Serious Sandwiches: The Chip Butty

The trick to a good potato po-boy is mayo and good beef gravy. The sandwich from Rocky and Carlo's is heavenly.

Lorin at 6:11PM on 10/03/07

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