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Old 24-11-2016, 09:43
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Don't ever have one in the Wetherspoons at the NEC. How they manage to make such a mess of the most basic of meals is a mystery.

I could cook my own for somewhere around £1.50 so if I was somewhere where I couldn't do that I'd make to with some kind of roll. I can never see the point of paying for someone to cook a meal when it's so easy (and more satisfying) to do it myself.
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Old 24-11-2016, 09:46
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Obviously it depends on the quality. I'd rather pay a bit extra and get good quality stuff. I know of a fab place that charges £10 but it's great quality, all locally sourced, the bacon is almost as thick as a gammon steak and the sausage is 97% meat. Great black pudding too. I know of another place that is similar, they bake their own bread and make their own hash browns. I think a tenner is a good price if it's really nice food.
Love thick bacon, but it's a pet peeve of mine when people rate sausage quality by the meat %.

Sausages aren't supposed to be almost all meat - the rusk etc should be at about 30%.

Each to their own, but 97% meat doesn't make it high quality to me - just poorly made. The quality of the skin is more important!
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Old 24-11-2016, 09:48
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The best one I had was at the local YMCA during the 90s. For just £3.50 you would get three rashers of bacon, two sausages, two eggs, two hash browns, a generous helping of mushrooms, baked beans and a grilled tomato. You would also get toast or fried bread along with tea or coffee.

My friends and I used to think that the sweet old dear working there was bored as she used to make us extra plates of chips too at no extra cost.
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Old 24-11-2016, 09:53
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Up to £10 including a pot of breakfast tea, but I'd expect something really special for that amount. Most of the time I go to Wetherspoons but the baked beans annoy me as they're always lukewarm. So for the occasional treat I'll go to this cafe in Southampton called Mettricks which does an absolutely amazing fry up for about £7.50.
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Old 24-11-2016, 09:58
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Sainsbury big breakfast £4.25 and a filter coffee £1.45 hits the spot.
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:00
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Where to start with this.

It's own healthier and better if you are good at cooking, if you're not it won't be,

As for cheaper, my local greasy spoon does a massive full english for £4, not entirely sure I could get the ingredients for that much.

Yes, you can, honestly!
It's not that hard to cook,plus it's a valuable life skill that everyone really should have. if not, it's never too late to learn
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:01
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Love thick bacon, but it's a pet peeve of mine when people rate sausage quality by the meat %.

Sausages aren't supposed to be almost all meat - the rusk etc should be at about 30%.

Each to their own, but 97% meat doesn't make it high quality to me - just poorly made. The quality of the skin is more important!
I totally agree with you. An all meat sausage isn't something I enjoy either. It becomes something like a frankfurter, which is OK in its own way but isn't a banger and not what I would want with breakfast. A good sausage for me is about the balance of meat to rusk/breadcrumbs and seasonings/spices.
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:03
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Depends on the establishment and the quality of the ingredients used. Up to about £15 would be ok if the quality matched up to it.
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:06
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Yes, you can, honestly!
It's not that hard to cook,plus it's a valuable life skill that everyone really should have. if not, it's never too late to learn
My locals mega breakfast features sausage, egg, bacon, fried bread, baked beans, hash browns, tomatoes, mushrooms and black pudding. You honestly think I can buy all those for £4?
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:09
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My locals mega breakfast features sausage, egg, bacon, fried bread, baked beans, hash browns, tomatoes, mushrooms and black pudding. You honestly think I can buy all those for £4?
Yes, and better quality probably.
You just don't buy singly that's all. But then that doesn't mean you have to buy in bulk either.
You can probably buy all those ingredients in small family packs that would cost you less than a tenner, but you would get at least half a dozen meals out of it, so it works out cheaper overall.
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:10
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My locals mega breakfast features sausage, egg, bacon, fried bread, baked beans, hash browns, tomatoes, mushrooms and black pudding. You honestly think I can buy all those for £4?
Someone will now prove that you can. Providing you go to 8 different shops.. and don't mind eating sausages made from god knows what!

I reckon you could probably get all the ingredients (remember sausages and bacon tend to come in packs of 8) for about £7 ish.
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:13
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Sometimes you need to know the difference, now a sausage has to have 42% meat to be legally called a sausage but asda managed to slap the name 'banger' on and thus bypass the rules and have something where you'd be better off saying its 97% not meat etc.

In the trade circles you buy stuff by the kilo, eggs generally by the 48 tray etc.and baked beans by the artillery shell.

Quality will be included in the price, so if someone can make a full english for 4-5 quid including their wage/overheads etc don't expect the quality of the ingredients.
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:14
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Depends on the size, but upto a tenner for a decent quality, large sized one.
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:15
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Someone will now prove that you can. Providing you go to 8 different shops.. and don't mind eating sausages made from god knows what!

I reckon you could probably get all the ingredients (remember sausages and bacon tend to come in packs of 8) for about £7 ish.
No, not at all. Just done a quick shop on tesco direct for all of the above ingredients and yes it did come to more than a tenner ( £13.50) but using their finest sausages, ordinary bacon, Hovis bread, Napolina Tomatoes, McCain hash browns, fresh mushrooms etc.

All in one place, good quality food, and way less than £4 per meal.
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:20
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No, not at all. Just done a quick shop on tesco direct for all of the above ingredients and yes it did come to more than a tenner ( £13.50) but using their finest sausages, ordinary bacon, Hovis bread, Napolina Tomatoes, McCain hash browns, fresh mushrooms etc.

All in one place, good quality food, and way less than £4 per meal.
Per meal yes. But what if I only want one cooked breakfast? Buying the ingredients to make a single cooked breakfast it works out expensive.

Obviously most people buy foods they can use for more than one meal, but it isn't entirely true to say that it is cheaper to make one single meal at home than it is to buy it out somewhere.
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:24
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No, not at all. Just done a quick shop on tesco direct for all of the above ingredients and yes it did come to more than a tenner ( £13.50) but using their finest sausages, ordinary bacon, Hovis bread, Napolina Tomatoes, McCain hash browns, fresh mushrooms etc.

All in one place, good quality food, and way less than £4 per meal.
but how much do you expect to pay to turn up and demand a full english? the place must keep stock and pay business rates/insurance/gas/electricity etc just to keep the doors open.

The costs of the meal physically may be less that £4 but the added costs soon add up. Normally its a balance between quality and price so the cheaper you go the cheaper the ingredients have to be etc.
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:25
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Per meal yes. But what if I only want one cooked breakfast? Buying the ingredients to make a single cooked breakfast it works out expensive.

Obviously most people buy foods they can use for more than one meal, but it isn't entirely true to say that it is cheaper to make one single meal at home than it is to buy it out somewhere.
Not for single meals no, not always. But I think you're nitpicking a little bit there.
Overall though my original statement stands true.
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:27
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but how much do you expect to pay to turn up and demand a full english? the place must keep stock and pay business rates/insurance/gas/electricity etc just to keep the doors open.

The costs of the meal physically may be less that £4 but the added costs soon add up. Normally its a balance between quality and price so the cheaper you go the cheaper the ingredients have to be etc.
If you insist on going out for a meal then I reckon anything between £7.50 and £12 for a good quality brekkie, but there are loads cheaper that I wouldn't really want to eat personally.
My body is not exactly a temple, but I do like to know what's going in it if I can
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:29
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Love thick bacon, but it's a pet peeve of mine when people rate sausage quality by the meat %.

Sausages aren't supposed to be almost all meat - the rusk etc should be at about 30%.

Each to their own, but 97% meat doesn't make it high quality to me - just poorly made. The quality of the skin is more important!
It's all down to taste though, I prefer a sausage with a higher meat content, I'm sure some poor quality sausages with a high meat content do exist but I've yet to have one. All the higher meat content sausages I've eaten have been good.

I've made my own sausages too (I had a grinder and sausage machine for xmas a few years ago) and always prefer to make them with a high meat content.
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:30
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Per meal yes. But what if I only want one cooked breakfast? Buying the ingredients to make a single cooked breakfast it works out expensive.

Obviously most people buy foods they can use for more than one meal, but it isn't entirely true to say that it is cheaper to make one single meal at home than it is to buy it out somewhere.
I have a marvellous contraption called a fridge freezer. You should get one. It will change your life and pay for itself quite quickly seemingly.

You can buy a pack of sausages and bacon and spit them into portions, use one portion and keep the rest for another day. Same with a box of eggs except its best to put them in the fridge, along with the mushrooms in a paper bag (not the plastic thing they come in)
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:33
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I live near Weatherspoons but find their breakfast disgusting...... There's a posh place near me great quailty but its £10
£17.50 apparently.
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:35
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I have a marvellous contraption called a fridge freezer. You should get one. It will change your life and pay for itself quite quickly seemingly.

You can buy a pack of sausages and bacon and spit them into portions, use one portion and keep the rest for another day. Same with a box of eggs except its best to put them in the fridge, along with the mushrooms in a paper bag (not the plastic thing they come in)
I am well aware

But just visualise if you will, you want to make one single cooked breakfast and have no intention of using any of the leftover ingredients ever again. Is that cooked breakfast you made at home still cheaper than one you could go to a cafe and order?
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:41
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Have we even defined what it is we're talking about?

2-3-4-5-6-7 rashers of bacon?

2-10 sausages?

5-10 mushrooms?

you get the idea as until theres a standard on the actual thing how are we to compare things?
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:43
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Have we even defined what it is we're talking about?

2-3-4-5-6-7 rashers of bacon?

2-10 sausages?

5-10 mushrooms?

you get the idea as until theres a standard on the actual thing how are we to compare things?
Right, government petition on it's way that standardizes the Great British Breakfast!
Hmmm, maybe there's a TV show in there somewhere?
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Old 24-11-2016, 10:45
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I am well aware

But just visualise if you will, you want to make one single cooked breakfast and have no intention of using any of the leftover ingredients ever again.
But why would anybody do that?
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