The Real deal for the Cafe

[I am Spartacus]

http://www.sharenator.org/The_10_Breakfast/

apologies if already listed

 

[Arch]

Hmm, it may be the photos, but that is one of the least appetising breakfasts I've ever seen. The sausages look very cheap indeed.

 

[Shaun]

They should rename it to The MI!

 

[I am Spartacus]

I am just waiting on the good people of Bolton to awaken from their slumbers and give us the inside track

 

[Crackle]

It's made me hungry.

 

[Aperitif]

IS there a veggie option?

I once ate 29 slices of toast for breakfast at the Centre Hotel Cardiff and my team mate Steve drank a bucket of Brains 'dark', but there's a big challenge on that plate! Mind you, show it to a few of the FNRttC crew after a bit of nocturnal exercise and it would be licked dry in about 10 minutes.

 

[Wigsie]

The sausages look very cheap indeed.

They would have to be for the cafe to make any money, that breakfast must be a loss leader, you couldnt buy all that food for £10 surely? even with the cheapest sausages and the smallest most ill treated battery hens eggs and stringy bacon and value beans Bolton has to offer it must be over a tenner surely, plus to cook it, wash it up etc.

 

[Piemaster]

+1

And I may be an old fuddy-duddy, but I still don't like baked beans with the morning fry-up.

The best breakfasts I've ever had are the Ulster fries concocted by my mother-in-law, including the best potato farls on earth.

A what?
There is yet to be invented a superior food to baked beans.

They would have to be for the cafe to make any money, that breakfast must be a loss leader, you couldnt buy all that food for £10 surely? even with the cheapest sausages and the smallest most ill treated battery hens eggs and stringy bacon and value beans Bolton has to offer it must be over a tenner surely, plus to cook it, wash it up etc.

Theres a place in Hull does something similar. It's 'only if you eat it in xx minutes'. A supermarket would call it a loss leader, publicity is worth any loss on the food.

 

[Arch]

They would have to be for the cafe to make any money, that breakfast must be a loss leader, you couldnt buy all that food for £10 surely? even with the cheapest sausages and the smallest most ill treated battery hens eggs and stringy bacon and value beans Bolton has to offer it must be over a tenner surely, plus to cook it, wash it up etc.

At retail prices, maybe. Wholesale, I reckon you'd easily get that lot for a tenner.

Even at Sainsburys, at a rough guess, £2 on eggs, £2 on bacon, £2 on sausages, 30p on beans/tomatoes, 20p for half a value loaf for the toast... Eggs, bacon and sausages will be pretty cheap from a wholesaler - think sausages 50 at a time, frozen. If they bought up the rejects (odd sizes, ridged shells) from the free range egg place I get mine from, it's a pound a dozen.

There's a comment from a chap saying he'd get three meals out of it, and what value that makes it. That's £3.33 a meal. I reckon on the meat/protein part of any of my main meals being no more than 50p, and the veg/carbs are rarely more than a quid....

 

[Arch]

A what?
There is yet to be invented a superior food to baked beans.

Potato farl:

http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/culture/recipes/cooking/tatofarl.shtm

Heavenly, especially cook fried in bacon fat. With beans, for me.

You also get soda farl, which is soda bread - more like normal yeast bread, and also very, very nice fried for breakfast. 'Farl' just means quarters, since the potato and soda breads are divided into quarters...

Mmm, I've got a potato farl in the freezer at home...

 

[Arch]

Yes, you have a point, but not for breakfast. It's like chips at breakfast. It's plain wrong!

I agree about chips. But not beans.

 

[Arch]

I do make my own potato cakes sometimes - they are not the same thing, but nice nonetheless:

you need mash, (leftover real will do, but I actually prefer them with Smash) and you beat an egg into it, and a bit of black pepper if you like. Make it a soft dropping consistency (sort of dollopy). Heat fat in a frying pan, and fry dollops of the mash mixture, turning when the first side has formed a crust. You want them crispy on the outside, but still soft in the middle...

Mmmm.....

 

[Arch]

And then there's Polish potato pancakes, which are delicious as well:

Very finely grate three large potatoes, one large onion (saving all the liquid as well) into a bowl and add three desertspoons of flour and lots of white pepper and a bit of salt. Some people add an egg but I don't bother. Mix well and then fry in hot oil for three or four minutes on each side. Drain on kitchen paper and serve with sour cream for added calorific pleasure. Smacznego!

Mmmmm!

I'm off home now, I'm hungry!

 

[Dayvo]

that is one of the least appetising breakfasts I've ever seen.

It made me feel VERY hungry indeed!

I couldn't manage it now, but 20 years ago - no problem!

 

[Night Train]

When I was younger I would have been tempted to give it a go.
Lunch for me in my 20's was often:
BigMac meal with large fries
Quarter pounder with cheese
Filet of fish
Apple pie and doughnut
A large strawberry milk shake

Or

A ten piece bargain bucket from KFC complete with beans, coleslaw, Venetta and 2 litres of cola.

Or

A double donna kebab with salad and hot sauce on a 15" naan bread.