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[Chrysalis]

I dont use hotels much now with the cost, but I had a english breakfast few months back, and portion ddidnt seem any smaller than when I was a child, will never grow old of english breakfasts's.

[sevenlayermuddle]

I dont use hotels much now with the cost, but I had a english breakfast few months back, and portion ddidnt seem any smaller than when I was a child, will never grow old of english breakfasts's.

I wasn’t suggesting it was smaller.  Quite the opposite, it was obscenely large, to the extent I was physically unable to eat any lunch, even after a morning stomping back and forth along the coastal path.  And that was my gripe, as I really look forwards to a lunchtime treat of fish & chips eaten on the pier, when on UK hols.

That said, by golly it was a good breakfast.  Black pudding would have made it perfect, but this was Devon.   

[Alex Atkin UK]

I sometimes pop down to the local Premier Inn JUST to have the buffet breakfast.

Full English, followed by a fruit salad to wash it down.  Actually planning on that tomorrow morning before I head off to Glasgow for the weekend.

[sevenlayermuddle]

Somerset Maugham apparently said “To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.”    Too true.  Would be good to see his advice officially sanctioned alongside other government published ‘eat well’ guidance, ‘5 a day’ whatever?

PS:  Despite being Scottish, I don’t actually mind Maugham’s specific use of ‘England’.   At risk of upsetting other Scots, sorry... but I’ve usually found English breakfasts, in some indescribable way, to have the edge.

[roseway]

As a southern Englishman, I'm going to put in a good word for Scottish breakfast (admittedly based on a small number of examples). I haven't forgotten a small hotel I stayed in about 25 years ago, not far from Glasgow. The breakfast consisted of the sort of things we think of as English breakfast, but with the addition of a piece of wonderfully mature, melt-in-the-mouth steak. I can still taste it now.

[sevenlayermuddle]

I’ve never come across steak for breakfast, but I can understand that it would make for a memorable experience.

The other decidedly Scottish feature, though not everywhere serves it, would be the square sausages, known as Lorne.  There was a time, if I let on I was visiting home, I’d get inundated with requests from fellow expats, living down south, to return carrying packs of Lorne sausages.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne_sausage

I think either Aldi or Lidl got in trouble recently (as in got some free advertising) for launching their own square sausage, as if it was a new thing.   Not so much reinventing the wheel, as reinventing the square?