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[Way-Out-West]

Why is all the meat in a 'Full English' breakfast dead pig? Was it a brilliant bit of marketing by the Dead Pig Marketing Board, or is there some historic or cultural reason?

Cured meats so stored well?

 

[classic33]

Rabbit would have been cheaper, I think, wouldn't it? Though a bit more fiddly, I admit. Mackerel though was once as cheap as chips, and is dead simple to prepare.

Less meat on a rabbit than a chicken. And we've had the various Myxomatosis scares over the years, when a fried breakfast was still popular.

 

[Ian H]

They were made of metal when I was a yoof.

Mine still are.

 

[briantrumpet]

Cured meats so stored well?

Salted beef used to be bigger (but granted, more expensive... it's delish, if one likes meat).

But if one ignores the question of why most cured meats are dead pig (ignore a question? in this thread??), that might be a good reason. Not undermined by this 'cultural history' of the FEB: https://www.ourhistory.org.uk/the-history-of-the-full-english-breakfast-a-cultural-institution/

 

[Ian H]

If you wonder why, in the UK, the boot of a car is so called, a brief Google will entertain you with a barely credible evolution of meaning (culminating of course in 'boot sales').

 

[Ian H]

Salted beef used to be bigger (but granted, more expensive... it's delish, if one likes meat).

But if one ignores the question of why most cured meats are dead pig (ignore a question? in this thread??), that might be a good reason. Not undermined by this 'cultural history' of the FEB: https://www.ourhistory.org.uk/the-history-of-the-full-english-breakfast-a-cultural-institution/

Don't forget that the family pig was traditionally kept at the bottom of the garden and fed on scraps.

 

[briantrumpet]

Don't forget that the family pig was traditionally kept at the bottom of the garden and fed on scraps.

One of my biggest photo-regrets was not stopping and asking if I could take a photo of a big deaded 'family pig' in the front garden, by the road between la Chapelle-en-Vercors and Vassieux. There it was, laid out on a table in the sunshine, ready for the first incision, as I cycled past. Quite surreal.

 

[Hover Fly]

Was there a happy ending?

Yes, the family enjoyed a delicious breakfast, dinner ,tea ... until they were sick of it.

 

[Way-Out-West]

Do female rugby players get cauliflower ears?

 

[raleighnut]

Interestingly, the spelling with the L only became established in the 19th century, up till then it had been 'souder', 'sowder' or 'sawder', and the irons were called 'soddering irons' in the 17th century.

Americans still pronounce it without the 'L'

 

[ColinJ]

Americans still pronounce it without the 'L'

Yes, they still still pronounce it that way - see other posts!

 

[matticus]

Do female rugby players get cauliflower ears?

I had to know!!!!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-u...several reasons why,players are such a rarity.

 

[briantrumpet]

Don't forget that the family pig was traditionally kept at the bottom of the garden and fed on scraps.

Did they look like this? (Advert from 1907).

 

[Ian H]

I once came across a book of essays by Bowdler. I was so afraid of being disappointed if I discovered that it didn't contain the long dashes of self-censorship that I replaced on the shelf unopened. It's probably still there in the big Alnwick bookshop.

 

[briantrumpet]

I once came across a book of essays by Bowdler. I was so afraid of being disappointed if I discovered that it didn't contain the long dashes of self-censorship that I replaced on the shelf unopened. It's probably still there in the big Alnwick bookshop.

Wasn't that meta self-censorship by you?