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    Best breakfasts you ever had ?

    I dont normally do brekkie, preferring to eat later in the day, but I have had some interesting breakfasts in some interesting places.

    But for sheer good all-round brilliantness, the best breakfasts I ever had were in a 3 month pharmaceutical contract in Dartford about ten years ago.

    empty canteen, no queue
    perfect bacon
    sausages
    lovely toast
    runny eggs
    smothered in beans
    perfect coffee
    nice staff
    no time pressure


    I still think of it now and then. my perfect breakfasts



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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    I dont normally do brekkie, preferring to eat later in the day, but I have had some interesting breakfasts in some interesting places.

    But for sheer good all-round brilliantness, the best breakfasts I ever had were in a 3 month pharmaceutical contract in Dartford about ten years ago.

    empty canteen, no queue
    perfect bacon
    sausages
    lovely toast
    runny eggs
    smothered in beans
    perfect coffee
    nice staff
    no time pressure


    I still think of it now and then. my perfect breakfasts



    Hmmm, I was at GSK then too around then. But they changed from fresh grapefruit to tinned and it wasn't the same again after that. Best brekkie for me was in Malaysia, Chicken curry every morning.
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      #3
      Originally posted by Fred Bloggs View Post
      Hmmm, I was at GSK then too around then. But they changed from fresh grapefruit to tinned and it wasn't the same again after that. Best brekkie for me was in Malaysia, Chicken curry every morning.
      WHS.

      For me. Thailand. Fresh pineapple & melon from stalls in the street. Perfectly fresh, cut, laid out on ice and served to you with a stick.
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        #4
        That sounds very similar to the breakfasts I used to have on a DHSS contract some 20+ years ago. Get in early, big, excellent fry up, kip on the bog, do the work, go for elevenses, down to the bookies for the afternoon dogs, lunch, wander round looking at all the EDS consultants making tits of themselves, tea lady, shut down, pub. Shame we got escorted off the premises at that one after 3 months
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          #5
          Stayed with a friend's family in Coleraine years ago, his ma made us an Ulster Fry every morning...

          Me, me, me...

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            #6
            Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
            Stayed with a friend's family in Coleraine years ago, his ma made us an Ulster Fry every morning...



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              #7
              Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
              That sounds very similar to the breakfasts I used to have on a DHSS contract some 20+ years ago. Get in early, big, excellent fry up, kip on the bog, do the work, go for elevenses, down to the bookies for the afternoon dogs, lunch, wander round looking at all the EDS consultants making tits of themselves, tea lady, shut down, pub. Shame we got escorted off the premises at that one after 3 months
              Amazing

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                #8
                Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
                smothered in beans
                Yuck. A spoonful, maybe, but not all over the rest of the food.

                Probably the best ones I've had recently were in a small diner in Venice Beach (California).

                The ones I remember as best are from my childhood when we'd stop at Little Chef en route to Cornwall for holidays. I had the one that was fried bread, fried egg and sausage.

                These days my ideal breakfast would be:
                1. Scrambled egg
                2. Fried bread
                3. Sausage
                4. Fried potato cake (fried mash)
                5. Black pudding
                6. Mushrooms
                7. Maybe a few fried cherry tomatoes
                8. Fresh OJ
                9. Coffee
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                I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
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                  #9
                  The best breakfast I have ever had was in the Cairns Colonial Club on the Great Barrier Reef. Fresh fruit, amazing honey fresh from the honeycomb, just what I wanted on a hot Australian morning.

                  Hyderabad was also quite amazing – there is something wrong though about spinach curry for breakfast, so I opted for sausage. Chicken sausage that is!

                  Menzies hotel buffet breakfast in Glasgow was pretty special – haggis as part of the Scottish fry is too nice to resist every morning.

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                    #10
                    As much as I like a good fry up, you can't beat some of the breakfasts you get in American diners.

                    Hoooge stack of big thick pancakes, with butter and maple syrup oozing all over with loads of crisp bacon on top.

                    Best fry up I ever had was in a caff in Bethnal Green, the breakfast plates were massive and proper builders tea.

                    Or the Brick Lane beigel bake for smoked salmon and cream cheese beigels at 5am after a night on the tiles.
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