Pork scratchings...yes or no?

[Paul_B]

@Paul_B No egg yolk near black pudding, "crispy" bacon that can't withstand moisture, and a total failure to see a joke? Dammit, man, are you trying to make a mortal enemy here?!

P.S. In addition to my blind spot for pork scratchings, I also absolutely cannot stand baked beans. There, I've said it. If I'm ostracised, so be it. Talking of which, we used to have locally raised ostrich sausages, and they were nice.

So what's your view on pineapple with your full English breakfast?

 

[grainweevil]

Fast food.?

Slightly scary food actually, when they were still on the hoof, as it were. Can't say I was that sorry to see them go.

 

[grainweevil]

So what's your view on pineapple with your full English breakfast?

Good lord, that's horrifying. Only on pizza, you heathen!

 

[Paul_B]

Good lord, that's horrifying. Only on pizza, you heathen!

It was in the news a month or so ago. I'm against it but the story was about an American saying a full English should have pineapple with it. Apparently there's a society for the full English who backed it technically on the grounds of its origins.

Apparently meat for breakfast was a real showing off thing among the wealthy a few hundred years ago. Social status was high if you could give your guests meat and pineapple being a very luxury fruit grown by the wealthy it added to the meat in status. Of course the actual origins of English breakfast would include pork chops, pheasant, fish, etc. Real showing off food!

BTW I'm against pineapple for breakfast too. Not sure I like pineapple at all.

 

[Pattree]

Only if it’s been grown in British pineapple fields.

 

[grainweevil]

Kind of lost me at an American saying what should be had with a full English, gotta admit. Pineapple with gammon is, of course, still a thing, so not going to argue against that. But in my mind there's a difference between "a full English" and what might have been eaten for breakfast by the English back in the day. So I'd eat pineapple for breakfast, just not with bacon, eggs and the rest.

And British grown pineapples are a thing. Heligan got its pineapple pits productive again, for instance.

 

[Pattree]

That’s why I suggested hypothetical pineapple fields

There was a famous debate in the Times letters column as to whether a fried egg should be included in a mixed grill.

I eat what I like, with whatever else I like, whenever I like and take responsibility for both my enjoyment and my health.
Pork scratchings, black pud, and soft bacon with transparent fat make my world go around.

 

[Chris]

I went to pick up a few slices of black pudding today, to try the idea of it spread 'raw' on toast.

Unfortunately the butcher had it sliced and in the display with all the other raw meat so I didn't fancy the risk!

 

[Paul_B]

In the big houses they grew pineapple in the fashionable glasshouses. Something about rotting manure in boxes outside with the heat generated going into cold frames. Apparently they were quite productive. I think they did a bit about it on gardener's world about 20 odd years ago. Something about a head gardener's reintroducing it.

 

[The Frightful]

Got to agree with black pudding grew up with it and still love the taste. Goes with a lot of food to add to the flavours

Scallops for example.....mmmmmmm

 

[Robbi]

Stuffed in a chicken breast and wrapped in parma ham.... Beautiful

 

[Broch]

Mixed with orange (zest and juice) and stuffed into duck

 

[Megatramp]

Pineapple and cheese on a stick. Classy.

 

[Kadushu]

I grew a pineapple once.

 

[Pattree]

A good plastic surgeon can fix that.

 

[Hodge]

On the packets of scratchings sold in Holdens Brewery pubs they have a health warning stated that scratchings can damage teeth!

 

[Pattree]

Have you read that the right way round? Teeth can certainly damage scratchings.