"Breakfast on the go" poll

Cafe (toast). I get this in the works canteen not on the go though.

Kinda feel ill at the thought of all the Greggs I have eaten in my life.

Cafe (bacon sandwich). Should be cheap thin white sliced bread with lots of white pepper and tomato sauce.

I always thought there was something wrong with me for relishing a sausage roll in the morning. Thankyou for the validation.

Cafe (bacon sandwich). Should be cheap thin white sliced bread with lots of white pepper and tomato sauce.

― nate woolls, Thursday, 23 October 2008 10:28 (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

never with ketchup, always with tomato, I hate the white sliced. For the ultimate you need a Sheffield soft breadcake with egg and tomato as well. I rarely eat a bacon sandwich in london because they are so bad.

breakfast?

1) Cereal, sometimes it's porridge, sometimes mueslitype, cup of tea
2) Toast + coffee
3) Bacon roll.

Not usually all three. Sometimes only two.

Am I a fat git? No.

I don't do breakfast on the go. Today I had half a lightly toasted bagel with Nutella, and a glass of apple & elderflower juice.

URGENT AND KEY SEMANTIC QUESTION - what kind of sausage roll? As in actual sausage in a bread roll or sausagemeat encased in pastry?

I try to eat breakfast at home before going out as often as possible. But otherwise it's Cafe (bacon sandwich) BUT add a fried egg to that.

people have sausage rolls for breakfast?? that is so grim.

mcdonalds???! wtf.

URGENT AND KEY SEMANTIC QUESTION - what kind of sausage roll? As in actual sausage in a bread roll or sausagemeat encased in pastry?

― Matt DC, Thursday, 23 October 2008 10:41 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The former is a sausage sandwich. The latter was the purest of treats when forced to wander around a garden centre with your parents as a seven-year-old.

i guess i shouldn't be surprised at the absence of fruit from the poll, considering.

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i guess i shouldn't be surprised that some people seem to think fruit is a "pret pot-esque foodstuff"

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Always try to eat proper breakfast but if forced to pick something up on the go I gotta go with a sausage and mushroom sandwich here.

I like some fresh fruit in a morning too but no way is it gonna prevent embarrassing stomach gurgling at work.

McDonalds - underrated. Breakfast is about the only edible McDonalds foodstuff also they are very good at hash browns.
Ixby's/Bagel Nation/Bagel Nash/etc - overpriced and usually disappointing. Also always eight people in the queue in front of you which is unacceptable at a station.
Sausage roll - unnatural and wrong
Gregg's - anyone voting Greggs is a disgusting fat fuck
Cafe (bacon sandwich) - can be good, often disappointing
Cafe (toast) - seriously, why bother
Starbucks coffee/muffin combo - rub
Pret pot-esque foodstuffs - classic. The Eat ones have better fruit, the Pret ones have better nut/oat stuff. Needs a happy medium.

Missing option = whatever the marketing people are handing out outside Charing Cross station.

People repping for Mac-Do breakfasts need to ease off on the disgusting fat fuck accusations.

the best pret-pot esque things are the fresh & wild ones.

Missing option = whatever the marketing people are handing out outside Charing Cross station.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 23 October 2008 10:53 (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Muller Fruit Corner for breakfast is probably something people should have gotten out of aged... 14?

Should have a "People who skip breakfast need to man the fuck up unless they're on the Buckie" thread imo.

But a Pret Pot type thing is just a Muller Fruit Corner for people who won't admit to liking Coldplay, or something. Anyway it's usually some sort of rank oat/energy bar being handed outside the station, although I do notice an emerging trend for plastering OMEGA 3 across products in the hope that it'll make people feel more virtuous.

McDonalds is the honest disgusting fat fuck option, Greggs is the dishonest one. You always forget quite how greasy Greggs food is until going in there.

I just can't get into McD's breakfasts in the same way that I enjoy their day-time output. Gregg's Bacon and Cheese pastry thing is pretty great tho.

The Greggs website lists six whole "healthy" (as in "under 400 calories") options. One of those is "water".

McDonalds "HotCakes and Sausage" lum...

McD breakfasts used to be the best source of pancakes/scrambled eggs/sausage patties in the UK. One post-hangover McMuffin a month (estimate) does not a disgusting fat fuck make, as I weigh less than Kate Moss, yo.

I haven't had breakfast in like 15 years. I'm almost as cool as Suzy!

Missing from this poll is the train station croissant/pastry plus coffee option. Also the Pret breakfast baguette type things.

You always forget quite how greasy Greggs food is until going in there.

Yeah, just the look of those Gregg's paper bags with grease stainson them is enough to put me off eating the contents. Especially those sausage rolls that they do where the pastry just falls apart, leaving the sausage meat in the middle like some kind of dried out turd...

Reading Station has the usual pricey snack operations on it's concourse.

Round where the bus stops, however, is a 'priced for Taxi and Bus Drivers" caffcounter where you can get reasonably priced tea, coffee and sausage/bacon buns...

or indeed the train station ham and cheese croissant option

I used to quite enjoy Gregg's vegetable pasties, about once a fortnight I'd buy a couple. Then one day, right in the middle of eating one, I realised they were rancid and always had been.

I voted other.

This morning I had leftover apple crumble.

Hang on, missing option: vegetable samosas from newsagents

Don't any of you have breakfast at home?

I normally do bacon and eggs at home.

Breakfast at home = 15mins less time in bed. Fuck that.

The breakfast I do at home is x1000 better than any cafe fry-up and in excelsis, has my recipe for home fries.

Station croissants are only doable if they come from M&S shopette and/or Paul. And fuck a Costa Coffee.

PS I have never eaten Greggs because a) greasy and flaccid-looking b) all their customer queues locally look like identity parades combined with Hippodrome queue c. 1995 and random emergency-room children. GIGO.

Oh wait I didn't read the poll title.

Plain rolls and bananas and orange juice from a supermarket plus coffee. Maybe chocolate too. Normally have cereal and stuff at home though.

bacon roll/sausage bagel from office canteen. that's like a cafe, right?

^^^lucky to work at a place with probably the best staff canteen I've ever been to

hahaha Charlie eats goyim bagels!

McDonalds - underrated. Breakfast is about the only edible McDonalds foodstuff also they are very good at hash browns.

^^^ truthbomb

oh and yeah i'm well fat.

oh yeah, i love a bit of pigflesh in my jewbread ;-)

is that so wrong?

Other - roll & square sausage and/or roll & fried egg & potato scone from a food van near a building site/garage/factory that has a wee greasy certificate on the wall somewhere indicating that one of the former staff once went to catering college for the Foundation Level Filled Roll module.

confused by this poll. did they close down all the Benjy's since i've been gone? it seems like a stretch to call Benjy's a cafe, so i will file my marmite toast or cheese and tomato toastie under Other.

Croissant with vegemite - it's the quickest and easiest thing I can do with a morning. Also it is tasty but your mileage may vary.

Benjy's went down a few years back.

Pret pot-esque foodstuffs - classic. The Eat ones have better fruit, the Pret ones have better nut/oat stuff. Needs a happy medium

is this about breakfast on the go, or wasting as many unnecessary £££ as possible? fuck a pret pot-esque foodstuff and everything about it.

i've voted cafe/bacon roll, but i'll admit greggs has supplied me with many breakfast-related comestibles in my life. mcdonald's not so much ... i remember having an egg mcmuffin in cardiff, before an interview, which was the single greasiest object i've ever encountered.

i had one of those burger king fat-bastard-special breakfasts last year. bitterly disappointing.

it was about a year and a half i think re: benjy

roll & square sausage and/or roll & fried egg & potato scone from a food van near a building site/garage/factory that has a wee greasy certificate on the wall somewhere indicating that one of the former staff once went to catering college for the Foundation Level Filled Roll module

hmm. i kind of crunched this down into "cafe -- bacon roll", although that's because i'd probably be buying a roll and bacon with tattie scone rather than a roll and square sausage (although fuck me, i really fancy a roll an square sausage now. is it lunchtime yet?)

lol, Benjy's is actually gone, eh? fuck me. where was the letter writing campaign?

have had a pretzel from Pret for breakfast occasionally. place is way too expensive for breakfast items in particular.

xpost to self ... just reminiscing now ...

there used to be an awesome newsagents near my old job that had a little kitchen churning out the rolls. bacon, tattie scone and brown sauce on a well-fired roll. heavenly. and about 80p.

Our local butcher does hot bacon & tattie scone rolls for £1.20 - good value and decent fresh bacon.

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Half of the things in the poll options don't really count as "food".

Plus, y'know, it's not "OMG DUDE THAT STEAK BAKE IS SO AWESOME YOU SHOULD MELT SOME CHEESE OVER IT AND WRAP IT IN BACON AND EAT IT DURING A CHICAGO CORNBLAP GAME. WITH BEER!"

Breakfast at home = 15mins less time in bed. Fuck that. OTM.

Cheese and Bacon croissant from that horrible french place (Delice?)they have at stations when I'm feeling flush. Cheese and bacon ANYthing in fact.

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"McD breakfasts used to be the best source of pancakes/scrambled eggs/sausage patties in the UK. One post-hangover McMuffin a month (estimate) does not a disgusting fat fuck make, as I weigh less than Kate Moss, yo.

― Bedframes and Broomsticks (suzy), Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:03 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I haven't had breakfast in like 15 years. I'm almost as cool as Suzy!

― Niles Caulder, Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:05 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark"

Apparently Suzy and Niles added together equal me! I haven't had "breakfast" since I can't remember when. I weigh less than I ought for my frame. B'fast never was my thing, I aim to make up for it at dinner.

Breakfast is serious business. That's why I only have it at weekends.

I eat breakfast every day. Wiggy, I know you are a lot of things but half a sockpuppet ain't one of them ;-).

still not over the disappearance of the basic sausage mcmuffin

basic?

No egg. Just sausage and glorious Kraft cheese.

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10 PRINT "MUFFIN"
20 PRINT "SAUSAGE"
30 PRINT "MUFFIN"

but that's mad, the perfectly muffin shaped egg is like one of the 7 wonders of the crappy food world

dunkin donuts bizzarro pre-cooked eggs freak me out

xpost the perfectly muffin-shaped egg may be an æsthetic and engineering miracle, but it detracts entirely from the taste of disgusting SAUSAGE and disgusting PROCESSED CHEESE of the standard mcmuffin.

Nobody brought up on the standard rusk-heavy English cafe breakfast sausage best complain about the rusk-free US sausage patty, y'hear?

but I was brought up on sausage mcmuffins

Nobody brought up on the standard rusk-heavy English cafe breakfast sausage best complain about the rusk-free US sausage patty, y'hear?

― Bedframes and Broomsticks (suzy), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:46 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

English sausages are an abomination in the eyes of the lord.

also in the eye of the LARD.

A good chipolata, Cumberland or Lincs sausage is right up there with those big bois I get from the Italian deli near the Guardian.

I voted Greggs because you can get a roll and square there (though not a great one).

the perfectly muffin-shaped egg may be an æsthetic and engineering miracle

Miracle, my arse. You can make one yourself by breaking an egg into a mug and microwaving it.

there was an article (on webmd, i think) about the healthiest fast food options, and McMuffins were recommended.

Dunkin' Donuts egg & cheese croissant sandwiches are the best.

Greggs is a better lunch option in that their bloomer sandwiches are still better than Pret's (altho part of that is because Pret's bloomer range is so lousy) - would only buy the granary bread ones tho

Roll and square sausage only breakfast-on-move option worth considering, and concur with Madchen that Greggs do not do them very well. Also they don't add tattie scones.

Gregg's macaroni pie and a sausage roll are my usual hangover breakfast treat. McDonald's breakfast is surprisingly edible as many above have mentioned (as are the Fillet o' fish you get in McDonalds, which no-one ever eats). Other than that I usually go for a roll and lorne sausage from a greasy-spoon/van.

Other: I find the whole concept of breakfast on the go distressing, and symptomatic of society in decline.

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Other: the breakfast of champions.

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o dear.

Canada has a far superior option: the Tim Horton's breakfast sandwich - egg, sausage or bacon, and cheese on a tea biscuit-like bun. Incredibly, terribly bad for you though, I read the nutritional data once and I was so very sad, it made the Sausage & Egg McMuffin look healthy.

so good tho