{"id":46310,"date":"2019-01-03T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46310"},"modified":"2022-12-14T18:28:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T23:28:22","slug":"the-full-english-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/03\/the-full-english-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Full English Breakfast&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Liam emailed me to ask whether I had strong opinions on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_ca\/article\/7xyj5q\/answering-the-most-important-question-about-the-british-fry-up\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this serious debate<\/a> despite having been raised in Canada. This was my response:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Full-English-Breakfast.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Full-English-Breakfast-853x617.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"617\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Full-English-Breakfast-853x617.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Full-English-Breakfast-150x108.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Full-English-Breakfast-480x347.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Full-English-Breakfast-768x555.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Full-English-Breakfast.png 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, of course. I have a pulse, you know.<\/p>\n<p>A proper <em>Full English Breakfast<\/em> is actually composed of eggs, bacon (English bacon, not side, back, or peameal), beans, and black pudding. Sausage is for wimps who can&#8217;t handle black pudding. Optional, but completely acceptable additions include fried mushrooms, fried onions, fried tomatoes, potato fry-up, and toast.<\/p>\n<p>Anything else is an <strong>Abomination<\/strong> in the sight of the Lord. <strong>ESPECIALLY<\/strong> chips.<\/p>\n<p>As to the positioning on the plate &#8230; these must also be people who colour-code their sock drawers and have secret notebooks filled with locomotive spotting numbers. You know, &#8220;anoraks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bloody wankers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Liam emailed me to ask whether I had strong opinions on this serious debate despite having been raised in Canada. This was my response: Yes, of course. I have a pulse, you know. A proper Full English Breakfast is actually composed of eggs, bacon (English bacon, not side, back, or peameal), beans, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,74,66,849,73],"tags":[1499],"class_list":["post-46310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-food","category-health-science","category-personal","category-randomness","tag-bacon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c2W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46313,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46310\/revisions\/46313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}