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Sunday, July 16. 2017

Scottish Breakfast menu


Pic: I like Kippers. That's the morning I ordered kippers with fried eggs. Best kippers I ever had but, sheesh, it's just too much. I never ordered haggis or blood pudding (pudding in the UK can mean sausage), but Mrs. BD is fond of the latter. Funny thing I saw: A food truck on a scenic overlook in Skye serving sliced haggis on a burger bun with ketchup. Very popular. Seemed revolting to me.


Scottish breakfast menus are a variant of English breakfasts with a Scottish accent. Typical items on the menus we were presented with in Inverness and the Hebrides below, whatever combinations or numbers of items you wish, of course - it comes with the room:


Tea or coffee (Scots, Aussies, and Brits take the tea)


Porridge (aka Oatmeal)
Scrambled eggs with lots of of smoked salmon (yum)
Haggis
Kippered Herring
Toast
Bacon (not the crunchy goodness of American bacon - more like fried pancetta)
Eggs however you want 'em
Smoked haddock poached in milk with poached eggs (yum)
and, always, "Full Scottish Breakfast": Blood Pudding (aka Black Pudding), Haggis, roast tomato, roast mushroom, baked beans, potato scone, and choice of eggs from (obviously) free range Scottish chickens. Very rich yolks.


Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 05:24 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Haggis on a bun certainly sounds like sacrilege. The real thing should be served with mashed potato and roughly mashed turnip ("bashet neep and mashet tattie" according to Burns).

My experience of American bacon (always in hotel breakfasts so therefore limited) is of what we English would call streaky bacon -narrow rashers with meat interleaved with fat. We like that too but it's generally regarded as low quality so you wouldn't get it at breakfast in a hotel. There you are likely to get back bacon: wider strips with more meat with an edging of fat http://www.rd.com/food/fun/why-british-bacon-tastes-better/.

Tea versus coffee?
You can get very good coffee in the UK these days-without having the vilely burnt and poor quality coffee that is Starbucks'. The chains Costa Coffee and Caffe Nero are both excellent. However, in most small hotels you would indeed be better advised to take the (English breakfast) tea.
#1 Clovis Sangrail on 2017-07-16 06:25 (Reply)
Having learned about the contents of haggis before heading off to Scotland a couple of years ago I intended to try it but also to dislike it. The real thing turned out to be quite tasty. The flavor, with all the warm spices, reminded this New Englander of Thanksgiving.

Serving it on a bun does seem odd.
#2 steve walsh on 2017-07-16 08:04 (Reply)
Reminds me of the layovers at Prestwick and Mildenhall many years ago. Only place on the line where we usually skipped breakfast.
#3 BillH on 2017-07-16 10:54 (Reply)
On our first trip to Ireland I was served both black and white pudding and I didn't wish to be offensive so I ate some of both. I shall never do that again. Full Scottish sounds almost like a fill Irish except for the meat products I wouldn't eat.
#4 JC on 2017-07-16 15:06 (Reply)
Loved everything in the full English breakfast, except the black pudding, wouldn't even try such a nasty thing. There is such a thing as being too thrifty.
#5 Pbird on 2017-07-17 02:31 (Reply)

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