Originally Posted by
langleybaston
Yes, totally agree.
A modest, tailored "English" at a good Briitish hotel yesterday: served on a hot hot plate with toast, 2 mighty rashers with rind still on, and some fat, one sausage, one hash brown, half a tomato for a bit of colour, and one poached egg: I turned down lunch as unnecessary.
Suggested alternatives: mushroom, black pudding, fried egg, , fried bread cooked in tomato pips.
Baked beans are not an officer option, merely a token gesture to the bowels.
Just out of historic interest. When did hash brown(s), an American invention, become part of the 'full english breakfast'?