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What's the first thing you do? (Particularly the "nicely" endowed)

(58 Posts)
ferry23 Sun 09-Nov-25 10:55:30

Very occasionally I'll have a nice cooked breakfast, sometimes go out for it, sometimes cook it.

So this morning I decide I shall cook a nice Sunday breakfast, it was lovely.

So here's the question - you have a cooked breakfast consisting of the normal things, eggs (any way you like them) bacon, sausages, black pudding, mushrooms, toast or fried bread, baked beans, tomatoes. Any combination of those but your plate MUST have baked beans and/or tomatoes on it.

You sit down to eat it and what's the first thing that you do?

(Just wanting to see if it's just me wink)

Basgetti Wed 04-Mar-26 11:57:02

Salt the eggs 🥴
I know but some things just have to have it. Not many, eggs, chips, rice.

Pleasebenice Thu 12-Mar-26 07:03:48

Put the beans in the bin!

M0nica Thu 12-Mar-26 09:49:15

In my childhood a cooked breakfast was eggs and bacon, and if you were lucky a slice of fried bread.

The idea of a 'full English breakfast' is a nonsense dreamed up by chain hotels. The full English breakfast, English country house style included devilled kidneys and kedgeree. I have yet to see those on a Premier Inn buffet.

The first thing about any cooked breakfast I eat is that it does not include an egg in any form. I do not like eggs. It will contain bacon, tomato, mushroom, and hash browns. And I will start by picking up my knife and fork and cutting off a piece of hash brown and putting it in my mouth.

Whitewavemark2 Thu 12-Mar-26 09:58:16

My full English is a bit sparse compared to others. It is bacon, egg, mushrooms and tomato. My napkin never saves it as it sits in my lap, although I suppose I could do a Poirot 😊.

Toothpaste is always an issue as well. I am frequently to be seen with a white mark down my front, it won’t rub out.

TerriBull Thu 12-Mar-26 10:17:55

Same as Monica, I don't like eggs anymore, I did once. My husband doesn't like mushrooms, although I prefer the larger ones. Sometimes we'll do a mushroom/egg swop, as long as he can get the offending egg off my plate without any yolk residue - yuk! otherwise pretty much everything bar black pudding. I do like a little ramekin of baked beans and yes I'll tuck a napkin in to preserve whatever I'm wearing, nothing worse than a baked bean stain, well an egg stain would be worse I suppose grin We only have the full English in a hotel. At home it's porridge and fruit for him and fruit and Greek yogurt for me. Although apropos of the thread about it, I intend to give the overnight oats a go.

MT62 Thu 12-Mar-26 10:55:16

Head for the lanzoprazole as I know I will have chronic indigestion. Sounds delicious 😋 though.

TheSunRisesInTheEast Thu 12-Mar-26 11:50:10

Our local seaside cafe does a delicious cooked breakfast - egg, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, beans (in ramekin), tomato, hash brown, toast with butter (or fried bread), cup of tea, all for under £10. We often go there on a Saturday morning, a delicious breakfast with a view of the sea, a perfect start to the weekend. The first thing I do is tell my husband to lean into his plate, otherwise he ends up wearing his breakfast 😂.