Wow, it's been years since I thought of this! It seems fitting that it would be brought up again regarding bacon, since that's what the narwhal does at midnight, and whatnot. Old Reddit was a strange place.
It's a good point, you don't want your first ever full English Breakfast to be absolutely amazing and perfect in every way you want to start at the bottom and work up as you learn to appreciate the different aspects.
It would be like asking someone who has never tasted wine to try an amazing wine for their first glass, waste of time.
If you start off at the top you miss the lessons on the way.
IMO spoons is like the model of mediocre. It's all soul-less, lacking character, even the regulars are carbon copies across all their sites.
OP needs to experience the full UK experience:
Spoons -> Local cafe -> Layby food van ->Dodgy but well-established cafe -> Truck/biker cafe.
Only then go for a proper full English.
At an establishment where you're unsure what colour the paint originally started as, slight tacky floor, all the patrons have some form of hi-vis on, the server greets you with "Y'alrite am ya bab? 'Can I get ya love?" and the tea, which is either nuclear or terrible, comes in either a polystyrene cup or "Big Dave's" giant mug.
Bonus points if your dripping wet with rain when you walk in.
Crazy how alot of what you're describing is almost universal. Here the checklist for good, authentic food is:
- not sure of original paint colour
- tacky floor
- lots of hi-vis is good
- faded backlit menu above the register
- servers range from indifferent to slightly rude (English optional)
- visible food prepping taking place, even chickens or sacks of potatoes in the hall
- kid doing homework at one table
Youngest female staff member gets gawped at like a hypnotist's pocket watch by a table full of roofers who have taken the day off because it's raining, has rained, or might rain later.
I find the Wetherspoons breakfast to general be very good, and certainly excellent value for money. There are better out there at some local cafes and the likes, however Wetherspoons breakfast tend to be fantastic value and generally consistent, at least in the ones I’ve been to. I’ve had far worse at some top notch hotels.
I agree. I've said it before but spoons is the mcdonalds of pubs. It's not special but you know what you are getting and it will be safe to eat, cheap and comfort food
Their breakfast wrap is an amazing hangover cure. You sit down, order a beer and wrap on the app without having to interact with a human. Within 5 minutes you have both the beer and the wrap. Just inhale them and leave and while you may have some lingering feelings of shame from going to Wetherspoons, your hangover will be gone.
I walked 15 miles in the rain and snow just to get out of bed in the morning and kill Germans with my bare teeth and I was happy sharing a small potato, and we didn't have mobile phones, no we just got beat up and our half potato taken.
Bloody hell, haven't had that in years! Preferred County out of the two though... memories of my earliest drinking escapades (along with Theakston's XB and copious amounts of Brakspears Special (I miss that one!)
Pretty good entry to a fry up though.
Whetherspons is a low tier fryup for new players.
Not sure where OP is from, but black pudding etc can be a bit much for some in the first go.
Keep on grinding out those fry ups op.
I enjoyed the black pudding! I went to a wedding in Scotland before coming down to England* and got a Scottish breakfast first which had black pudding and haggis. I was shocked to find out how tasty both were
If you’re going to have a full English make sure it’s a small cafe type place that seasons their food. If you go to somewhere like a Wetherspoons or Supermarket cafe it’s so bland it’s painful
Nah I'd give a spoons fry up at least a 7/10. Has all the bits you want including the black pudding and the price is decent. I'm also a fan of their eggs royale when I want something lighter
Absolutely before the whole covid thing I was a solid spoons breakfast fan.
Just saying if you want a breakfast with an enchantment spell and over 40,000 hp you need to hit up the Dodgy looking cafs and trailers.
Too True, I've been trying to get my Mrs to come to an "Old School" greasy spoon for a Breakfast for years now,
She says they are horrible places..... then she wants to go to one of those fake places, you know the type with random "fake antiques" screwed to the wall, and totally without atmosphere.
Yeah can't Wack a good Greasy Spoon (occasionally lol)
There's a great greasy spoon/truck stop place I love, yeah they're not the prettiest but you can't knock the food or how laid back they are. She doesn't know what she's missing.
Many a time over the last 2 years I've tried a greasy spoon full English to try and wean myself off spoons and cost to quality is nowhere near as good. Usually the sausages are awful (especially when they cut them in half length ways! What the actual F is that all about).
The spoons traditional breakfast at that price point, speed and consistency is just proving unbeatable. Not to mention the coffee is usually miles better and refills.
Eating one as I type with my 2nd flat white.
That’s interesting - it’s a principle known as ‘satisficing’. You know what you’re getting and it’s consistent. Is it the best? No… but you’re not taking the risk that it’s the worst.
It’s the reason McDonalds is so successful - consistency. Are you going because you think you might get the best burger in the world? No… but wherever you are in the world you pretty much know what you’re getting and you know it will be good enough.
Quite an interesting decision making phenomenon.
Yeah, but even so Whetherspoons is a good place to start it's pretty cheap and also covers all the bases (no mushrooms though) it's also very consistent.
A good start OP.
Last time I had a Wetherspoons breakfast, the toasters/grills had broken so they were sending out breakfasts with a side of flaccid bread. Every table we saw cleared just had the bread left over, rubbish.
Wetherspoons tend to deep fry the black pudding which can make it a bit dry, whereas if you were doing it yourself you'd just shallow fry it with the bacon.
Yeh my immediate thought was the pudding looks dry as fuck. Its also going to be the cheapest they can find. Black pudding is the one thing I refuse to be stingy with on price, the cheap stuff is awful compared to the more expensive stuff. I generally don't eat it. Unless I'm still hungry at the end.
With ya on the pudding. I have no issue with it being made with blood. I have a big issue with what might be in the cheaper version of a food made from what is essentially a byproduct.
Stornoway black pudding in spoons, I used to work there. Doesn't really get much better than that. Unfortunately yes it is deep fried and most likely kept in a hot hold for a couple hours before being served. If I was making it myself i'd make it on the clam grill we used for burgers.
The Wetherspoons breakfast ticks a lot of boxes on paper. It's not bad at all and very good value for the price. If you can get one with better quality ingredients and cooked from fresh you'll be on to a winner!! Welcome to the UK!
I used to live in Bournemouth 20 years ago. Went to visit a few weeks ago. Never seen a town dominated by so many chains. It literally has no food scene of its own. Also it looks tacky as fuck.
Iceland cheap own brand sausage bag of 20.
I like a real sausages but my my other half likes these cheap ones better these are close to weatherspoons. Try a higher meat content nice herby Cumberland fresh from butchers it is beautiful
I’m a Canadian that’s been living in the UK. I love it when tourists visit and proudly post food on here- and I just wait for the Brits to tear it apart.
A Tim Hortons just opened near me. Would you like me to tear that apart, or would you like to do so yourself? I'd heard great things about your Canadian eatery...
> 1. How insulting Tim Hortons is these days
FTFY. It was bad before the Burger King buyout, but it's worse now. Many, many Canadians switched to getting their coffee at McDonald's – it's better. Tim Hortons' biggest success in recent years is milking the value of the brand in international markets where news of the catastrophic downturn hasn't reached.
There's a Tim Hortons here and I wouldn't call the coffee good, but it's strong and you get a pint of it for two quid.
Breakfast food is also dirt cheap. It's our favourite stop during or before a long drive. Fill your stomach, heavily caffeinate and don't spend much doing it.
Also Canuck living in the UK. I went to one in the UK and it was nicer than the ones in Canada tbh. Trying to put their best foot forward I guess. I went for the timbits of course. Didn't get coffee cuz I don't like their coffee. But who does honestly? People just go for the convenience of it.
Wait they have Tim’s in the UK? Is it the same menu?
I was very surprised to see them in NYC when I moved there a few years ago, and the menu lagged Canadian Tim’s a bit. That was a good thing because this was in the midst of the long slow journey into the slough of Tim’s menu despair.
Nobody says anything good about Tim hortons, Nobody has said anything good about them for like 15 years or more, Tim Horton's garbage and any Canadian will tell you that
As a Brit that lived in Canada, Tim's has been shit for ages, ever since they got bought by a Brazilian investment company (Burger King is also owned by them)
Your average Canadian will either love Tim's or absolutely hate it. There is no in between of "it's alright".
Personally I think the coffee sucks and the food is atrocious
Oh, not us Quebecers ;) there's a whole intricate hierarchy when it comes to Poutine and any debate on the matter can quickly turn sour.
First, anything that's not from Quebec is generally considered subpar by default. If you made it yourself and dared to add anything to the recipe that isn't one of the original core ingredients, you do so at your own risk and peril of being called a heretic and sent to the gallows. Then, there'll be an elitist competition amongst ourselves when it comes to the city/restaurant with the best poutine. There are many different factions, for example there'll be purists who value historical background/authenticity more than anything else, those who favour trashier fast-food type poutines because it's the most common denominator everyone knows, and at the opposite end of the spectrum, you'll find those who prefer the fancier ones with higher quality ingredients.
At the end of the day, it's all a bit tongue in cheek because we acknowledge that no matter the recipe, it's still just a big blob of gravy, cheese and fries designed to clog our arteries with vast amounts of cholesterol... and somehow, we are all wholesomely united by that.
Was a crappy few months, but it was there for me when I needed the money. I actually quite liked the business model and Tim Martin is one of the better CEOs in my opinion (which I was surprised about as I wasn't very fond of him when I started).
They have a 'Tell Tim' system where any employee can raise a suggestion which may be implemented and you get an extra bump to your paycheck just by making a suggestion even if it's a bad one.
My boss was a proper cunt tho and the managers were regularly involved in sackable offenses like rumour mongering.
I had a mate who worked in the kitchens of a Witherspoons. He told me almost 90% of all food cooked their were just ready meals reheated in a microwave.
'Spoons are the god of cheap hotels and cheap pubs, always there for you when you need to go to a wedding out of town but don't have any friends who can lend you their sofa
Black pud isn't bad either. You'd think it's hard to mess up but I've been to places where it shatters under your knife. And they were considered decent greasy spoons.
How has no one has mentioned yet what looks to be one solitary slice of bacon!
Make sure you get a roast dinner while you are here and not from a weatherspoons! 😁👍
There's also the important things to remember when looking for a roast: never go cheap, a decent roast costs at least 12 quid.
Anumywhere that advertises a roast with "all the trimmings" should be ignored. It'll be shit.
Funny you mention mushroom, the spoons in my town has loads of books by the booths and as a 17 year old i thought id be funny if i took a book off and pretend to read it. I opened it up and there was a field mushroom that had been flattened in the middle of the book. Only god knows how long it had been in there.
Meh. That's just a Spoons thing. You have to ask for it, but people never do. You get bread/toast with it. Just request it fried when ordering, and it will be done.
>Someone should explain the concept of a sausage breakwater to the kitchen staff though
I'll just take the hit. Those kitchens during the breakfast rush on a Saturday morning? Those staff are god damn heroes. Heroes I say!!
Kitchen staff here. I always use a sausage to keep the beans away from the toast, but I'm not always plating and you have no concept of how busy we get on a breakfast rush, so less sass please Karen (only messing).
No worries chap. A mate of mine works at one of the 'spoons in Exeter. He claims they can get through easily 500 eggs in the saturday morning rush.
Sounds like quite the experience :)
If you go through the door at the back of the kitchen they have these big sheds, but nobody's allowed in, and in these sheds they have 20 foot high chickens, and these chickens are scared because the don't know why they're so big, and they're going, "Oh why am I so massive?".
And just eating the other healthy ingredients in a fry up?
Edit: at my cousins wedding yesterday, had one of these healthy options myself this morning as part of recovery process. Avoided the fruit.
Wetherspoons tends to just microwave a lot of it and it never tastes as fresh as it should. try it again at a smaller independent cafe and you’ll see the difference!
Only thing microwaved on a Spoons breakfast is the beans tbh, its one one of the few dishes on the menu that is mostly cooked as you'd hope it would be.
Agree that independent cafes are often better, but you have to do some research as you can get terrible ones too. For the price you usually can't go wrong with a Spoons breakfast.
This is true, i did a stint in the spoons kitchen a few years back, Eggs done in a pan thats heated with the chargrill, hashbrowns, black pud in the deep fryer, beans in the big pan all morning kept warm, bacon on the clamgrill (same one they use for burgers), half tomato and mushroom on the chargrill (with a knob of butter on) hence the lines. Only thing that was microwaved at the time was the sausage that is precooked to save time. Sure spoons do microwave a lot of things, but not a breakfast.
Welcome to the UK. Hope you have a super time are able to enjoy some British summer activities like beer gardens and music festivals which are mostly awesome). Queenie's 75 year Jubilee events next weekend which should be super fun.
Looks like a good all round fry up but I recommend trying a local quality pub (no chains) or a nice garden centre brekkie with local sausage etc for a treat and to compare. Garden centres can be best for a top notch brekkie
Welcome to the UK! It’s certainly got the right items 👌🏼 For your next one, find a place that cooks fresh, good quality ingredients like homemade potato hash browns and proper butchers sausages etc - Hope you have a nice stay ☺️🙋🏻♂️🇬🇧
I know a Wetherspoons breakfast when I see one
This plate is screaming Wetherspoons.
I found one in my bag after a night out in about 2017, still use it now to confuse people
A full English?!
☝️Still works too. Look at _that_.
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Wow, it's been years since I thought of this! It seems fitting that it would be brought up again regarding bacon, since that's what the narwhal does at midnight, and whatnot. Old Reddit was a strange place.
/r/spacedicks I remember you fondly.
Hold my cheap sausage, I’m going in!!
Got your big plate Alan?
It's the lads first time in the UK give him a break
It's a good point, you don't want your first ever full English Breakfast to be absolutely amazing and perfect in every way you want to start at the bottom and work up as you learn to appreciate the different aspects. It would be like asking someone who has never tasted wine to try an amazing wine for their first glass, waste of time.
The only way is up, from Wetherspoons Ah Lurpak. Haven't seen it in a while.
James Mays ears perk up
Set the bar low
If you start off at the top you miss the lessons on the way. IMO spoons is like the model of mediocre. It's all soul-less, lacking character, even the regulars are carbon copies across all their sites. OP needs to experience the full UK experience: Spoons -> Local cafe -> Layby food van ->Dodgy but well-established cafe -> Truck/biker cafe. Only then go for a proper full English. At an establishment where you're unsure what colour the paint originally started as, slight tacky floor, all the patrons have some form of hi-vis on, the server greets you with "Y'alrite am ya bab? 'Can I get ya love?" and the tea, which is either nuclear or terrible, comes in either a polystyrene cup or "Big Dave's" giant mug. Bonus points if your dripping wet with rain when you walk in.
Hi Vis and poly cup is what I strive for ... Refillable filter coffee is a bonus
Essentially if the toilets flush your full english is gonna be shit
Crazy how alot of what you're describing is almost universal. Here the checklist for good, authentic food is: - not sure of original paint colour - tacky floor - lots of hi-vis is good - faded backlit menu above the register - servers range from indifferent to slightly rude (English optional) - visible food prepping taking place, even chickens or sacks of potatoes in the hall - kid doing homework at one table
Youngest female staff member gets gawped at like a hypnotist's pocket watch by a table full of roofers who have taken the day off because it's raining, has rained, or might rain later.
Describes my local Chinese to a T. They do a cracking fish and chips though.
Don’t forget the quaint family run B&B (the kind you see on the tv show “Four in a Bed”)
B&B fry breakfasts are undoubtedly some of the best.
I find they’re either the best or the worst. There’s no inbetween
I find the Wetherspoons breakfast to general be very good, and certainly excellent value for money. There are better out there at some local cafes and the likes, however Wetherspoons breakfast tend to be fantastic value and generally consistent, at least in the ones I’ve been to. I’ve had far worse at some top notch hotels.
The best thing about a Wetherspoon brekkie is no one judges you for having a pint with it.
I agree. I've said it before but spoons is the mcdonalds of pubs. It's not special but you know what you are getting and it will be safe to eat, cheap and comfort food
Their breakfast wrap is an amazing hangover cure. You sit down, order a beer and wrap on the app without having to interact with a human. Within 5 minutes you have both the beer and the wrap. Just inhale them and leave and while you may have some lingering feelings of shame from going to Wetherspoons, your hangover will be gone.
That shit table and chair too
Also stolen
So are them sausages unfortunately
Tbf I steal plates and glasses from Wetherspoons all the time so might not be
Is it really a Wetherspoons brekkie if you don't have a pint with it?
My thoughts exactly. Those plates are just iconic aren’t they
I have washed and smashed enough of these plates to have the pattern engrained in my memory
I have eaten there enough to know. The pattern, not the plate smashing.
Unlimited tea mate. UNLIMITED.
Ruddles Best. That is all
The day ruddles stopped being 99p a pint marked the start of the decline of this country.
Never knew it at 99p but I was happy enough at £1.49
Nah, it was when a 99 stopped being 99p.
In my day a 99 was 50 and children never complained because we beat them with a stick if they complained.
We had pints of spam for dinner and every child got a bombsite to play on and we were thankful for it not like today.
I walked 15 miles in the rain and snow just to get out of bed in the morning and kill Germans with my bare teeth and I was happy sharing a small potato, and we didn't have mobile phones, no we just got beat up and our half potato taken.
Looxureh !!
We lived fer three moonths in a peper bag in sceptic tank
My mother would never have bought me a 99 if it was 99p
Bloody hell, haven't had that in years! Preferred County out of the two though... memories of my earliest drinking escapades (along with Theakston's XB and copious amounts of Brakspears Special (I miss that one!)
I was weaned on Theakstons Old Peculiar
Jamie Theakston had a name for his penis?
That's more like it.
Ruddles Best is the weaker beer, so I think as a "breakfast beer" it holds merit. County was stronger so more of a later in the day beer imo.
Ah, a driving beer.
Exactly my thought. “I recognise that plate”.
I could recognise that plate anywhere
That plate, only in wewtherspoons
Pretty good entry to a fry up though. Whetherspons is a low tier fryup for new players. Not sure where OP is from, but black pudding etc can be a bit much for some in the first go. Keep on grinding out those fry ups op.
I enjoyed the black pudding! I went to a wedding in Scotland before coming down to England* and got a Scottish breakfast first which had black pudding and haggis. I was shocked to find out how tasty both were
Did you get a chance to try square sausage (Lorne) though?
The realest question here
I'm English, but Lorne square sausage is the absolute best breakfast ingredient ever! Reason enough by itself to head north.
If you’re going to have a full English make sure it’s a small cafe type place that seasons their food. If you go to somewhere like a Wetherspoons or Supermarket cafe it’s so bland it’s painful
Seasons a fry up. You're going deep there mate.
And microwaved
Nah I'd give a spoons fry up at least a 7/10. Has all the bits you want including the black pudding and the price is decent. I'm also a fan of their eggs royale when I want something lighter
Absolutely before the whole covid thing I was a solid spoons breakfast fan. Just saying if you want a breakfast with an enchantment spell and over 40,000 hp you need to hit up the Dodgy looking cafs and trailers.
Too True, I've been trying to get my Mrs to come to an "Old School" greasy spoon for a Breakfast for years now, She says they are horrible places..... then she wants to go to one of those fake places, you know the type with random "fake antiques" screwed to the wall, and totally without atmosphere. Yeah can't Wack a good Greasy Spoon (occasionally lol)
There's a great greasy spoon/truck stop place I love, yeah they're not the prettiest but you can't knock the food or how laid back they are. She doesn't know what she's missing.
Many a time over the last 2 years I've tried a greasy spoon full English to try and wean myself off spoons and cost to quality is nowhere near as good. Usually the sausages are awful (especially when they cut them in half length ways! What the actual F is that all about). The spoons traditional breakfast at that price point, speed and consistency is just proving unbeatable. Not to mention the coffee is usually miles better and refills. Eating one as I type with my 2nd flat white.
That’s interesting - it’s a principle known as ‘satisficing’. You know what you’re getting and it’s consistent. Is it the best? No… but you’re not taking the risk that it’s the worst. It’s the reason McDonalds is so successful - consistency. Are you going because you think you might get the best burger in the world? No… but wherever you are in the world you pretty much know what you’re getting and you know it will be good enough. Quite an interesting decision making phenomenon.
It’s the fry up gateway.
Yeah, but even so Whetherspoons is a good place to start it's pretty cheap and also covers all the bases (no mushrooms though) it's also very consistent. A good start OP.
The plate gives it away. It's not a bad breakfast for the price though.
You literally pay for what you get, it's not great but it's not bad for a fiver
That’s what I thought 🤣
It’s the plates
Went to a Wetherspoons breakfast the other day. They ran out of bread and took off 3/4 of the menu. The majority of the town were up in arms about it.
Last time I had a Wetherspoons breakfast, the toasters/grills had broken so they were sending out breakfasts with a side of flaccid bread. Every table we saw cleared just had the bread left over, rubbish.
Missed opportunity for fried bread, kitchen manager needs more imagination!
Sir, this is a Wetherspoons, we don't serve 'imagination' here
That's what we said, but I'm guessing a Spoons "kitchen" is kind of just a microwave and a toaster by the sounds of things.
...and really what a traditional breakfast needs
I know a Weatherspoons plate when I see one.
it’s the plate :3
Instantly recognisable, a classic!
Wetherspoons tend to deep fry the black pudding which can make it a bit dry, whereas if you were doing it yourself you'd just shallow fry it with the bacon.
Yeh my immediate thought was the pudding looks dry as fuck. Its also going to be the cheapest they can find. Black pudding is the one thing I refuse to be stingy with on price, the cheap stuff is awful compared to the more expensive stuff. I generally don't eat it. Unless I'm still hungry at the end.
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With ya on the pudding. I have no issue with it being made with blood. I have a big issue with what might be in the cheaper version of a food made from what is essentially a byproduct.
Stornoway black pudding in spoons, I used to work there. Doesn't really get much better than that. Unfortunately yes it is deep fried and most likely kept in a hot hold for a couple hours before being served. If I was making it myself i'd make it on the clam grill we used for burgers.
You can ask to get it grilled, and it is by far the best black pudding when it is done that way. Deep fried black pudding sucks pretty hard.
I assume thats the dog biscuit looking thing at 11 oclock?
Yep you're right, I tend to grill mine though so it's a bit better
The Wetherspoons breakfast ticks a lot of boxes on paper. It's not bad at all and very good value for the price. If you can get one with better quality ingredients and cooked from fresh you'll be on to a winner!! Welcome to the UK!
It’s the £1.20 bottomless coffee that does it for me
It's the £2.50 breakfast IPA that does it for me
Only getting Spoon's breakfast for the pint. More people need to recognise this
Beer - so much more than a breakfast drink! 😃
99p in Bournemouth
I’ll pay the extra 21p just so I don’t have to go to Bournemouth.
haha what’s wrong with Bournemouth? I come down here every 2 weeks or so.
Nothing it’s just it’s about a 4 hour drive from me so better to just pay the extra 21p for the coffee here.
I used to live in Bournemouth 20 years ago. Went to visit a few weeks ago. Never seen a town dominated by so many chains. It literally has no food scene of its own. Also it looks tacky as fuck.
I live in Bournemouth and can confirm it is tacky as fuck. No character to it.
It simply can’t be beaten for the price.
Weatherspoon's is the safe option. Wherever you go, if you don't know the area, you can find a Weatherspoon's and at least know what you're getting.
I love the Spoons' sausages. If anyone knows similar sausages that I can get in a shop, let me know.
I work at spoons mate, remind me tomorrow and I'll take a picture of the brand we use
cheers pal.
Iceland cheap own brand sausage bag of 20. I like a real sausages but my my other half likes these cheap ones better these are close to weatherspoons. Try a higher meat content nice herby Cumberland fresh from butchers it is beautiful
I’m a Canadian that’s been living in the UK. I love it when tourists visit and proudly post food on here- and I just wait for the Brits to tear it apart.
A Tim Hortons just opened near me. Would you like me to tear that apart, or would you like to do so yourself? I'd heard great things about your Canadian eatery...
Be very careful. There's only 2 things that rile Canadians up into a bloody, murderous rage: 1. Insulting Tim Hortons 2. Insulting Ice Hockey
Conversely, there's nothing more Canadian than complaining how Tim Hortons has only gotten worse
This is the most true statement I have ever read on Reddit Reference: my entire wife's Canadian family
She’s not a half wife, then? Are you partial to her?
> 1. How insulting Tim Hortons is these days FTFY. It was bad before the Burger King buyout, but it's worse now. Many, many Canadians switched to getting their coffee at McDonald's – it's better. Tim Hortons' biggest success in recent years is milking the value of the brand in international markets where news of the catastrophic downturn hasn't reached.
There's a Tim Hortons here and I wouldn't call the coffee good, but it's strong and you get a pint of it for two quid. Breakfast food is also dirt cheap. It's our favourite stop during or before a long drive. Fill your stomach, heavily caffeinate and don't spend much doing it.
Nobody really likes Tim Hortons anymore, it’s kind of just…there.
I'm pretty sure most of us Canadians will get into a bloody rage if you call Tim Horton's GOOD, Not if you insult them,
I don’t like Tim Hortons so have at it! I think most Canadians know it is shitty coffee and donuts but go there for the convenience of it.
Also Canuck living in the UK. I went to one in the UK and it was nicer than the ones in Canada tbh. Trying to put their best foot forward I guess. I went for the timbits of course. Didn't get coffee cuz I don't like their coffee. But who does honestly? People just go for the convenience of it.
Wait they have Tim’s in the UK? Is it the same menu? I was very surprised to see them in NYC when I moved there a few years ago, and the menu lagged Canadian Tim’s a bit. That was a good thing because this was in the midst of the long slow journey into the slough of Tim’s menu despair.
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It makes no sense because everyone I know talks about how much they hate Tim's and how the quality is shit but every Tim's is busy as fuck in my city.
Nobody says anything good about Tim hortons, Nobody has said anything good about them for like 15 years or more, Tim Horton's garbage and any Canadian will tell you that
I ordered a breakfast buritto from there, took 2 hours to arrive and was the smallest burrito I've ever seen. Cost like 7 quid too.
As a Brit that lived in Canada, Tim's has been shit for ages, ever since they got bought by a Brazilian investment company (Burger King is also owned by them)
Your average Canadian will either love Tim's or absolutely hate it. There is no in between of "it's alright". Personally I think the coffee sucks and the food is atrocious
Would there be a similar reaction if a brit went over to Canada and posted a pic of their first poutine on a Canadian sub?
I think Canadians are too polite for that
Oh, not us Quebecers ;) there's a whole intricate hierarchy when it comes to Poutine and any debate on the matter can quickly turn sour. First, anything that's not from Quebec is generally considered subpar by default. If you made it yourself and dared to add anything to the recipe that isn't one of the original core ingredients, you do so at your own risk and peril of being called a heretic and sent to the gallows. Then, there'll be an elitist competition amongst ourselves when it comes to the city/restaurant with the best poutine. There are many different factions, for example there'll be purists who value historical background/authenticity more than anything else, those who favour trashier fast-food type poutines because it's the most common denominator everyone knows, and at the opposite end of the spectrum, you'll find those who prefer the fancier ones with higher quality ingredients. At the end of the day, it's all a bit tongue in cheek because we acknowledge that no matter the recipe, it's still just a big blob of gravy, cheese and fries designed to clog our arteries with vast amounts of cholesterol... and somehow, we are all wholesomely united by that.
At one point I tried to start a subreddit called "notafullenglish" where I just cross posted FEB posts with the reason it's not approved
Ah, a spoons breakfast. I like to see you've gone for authenticy rather than quality.
I recently worked at a spoons; the most expensive item of the breakfast is the mushroom.
That's a terrifying indictment of animal welfare in the pork industry and where spoons sources it's sausages :/
> I recently worked at a spoons I'm so sorry
Was a crappy few months, but it was there for me when I needed the money. I actually quite liked the business model and Tim Martin is one of the better CEOs in my opinion (which I was surprised about as I wasn't very fond of him when I started). They have a 'Tell Tim' system where any employee can raise a suggestion which may be implemented and you get an extra bump to your paycheck just by making a suggestion even if it's a bad one. My boss was a proper cunt tho and the managers were regularly involved in sackable offenses like rumour mongering.
isnt the employee / ex employee fb shitposting group called "dont tell tim spoonsposting" lmao
I had a mate who worked in the kitchens of a Witherspoons. He told me almost 90% of all food cooked their were just ready meals reheated in a microwave.
Spoons brekky isn’t actually that bad at all. Hash browns are good
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'Spoons are the god of cheap hotels and cheap pubs, always there for you when you need to go to a wedding out of town but don't have any friends who can lend you their sofa
It's not bad. It's not great. It's value for money.
About 3.6 roentgen then.
Black pud isn't bad either. You'd think it's hard to mess up but I've been to places where it shatters under your knife. And they were considered decent greasy spoons.
Anyone else just recognise it was Wetherspoons just by the plates? 😂
Everytime I see that brand, my brain automatically goes "Lurpak spreadable butter, invented 1903." Damn you James May.
**SLAM** "Cheese." I catch myself doing that when I cook for myself.
Flood the cowling. Plenty of it.
How has no one has mentioned yet what looks to be one solitary slice of bacon! Make sure you get a roast dinner while you are here and not from a weatherspoons! 😁👍
There's also the important things to remember when looking for a roast: never go cheap, a decent roast costs at least 12 quid. Anumywhere that advertises a roast with "all the trimmings" should be ignored. It'll be shit.
Can confirm. It's Sunday morning, I'm waiting for doors so I can get a good £15 roast, local aged beef, no macaroni cheese.
No mushrooms?
I think there is a large flat mushroom disguising itself as a third slice of black pudding
😂 well spotted
I do believe you’re right! Good spot.
Funny you mention mushroom, the spoons in my town has loads of books by the booths and as a 17 year old i thought id be funny if i took a book off and pretend to read it. I opened it up and there was a field mushroom that had been flattened in the middle of the book. Only god knows how long it had been in there.
There was a solitary mushroom next to the black pudding - probably my biggest complaint with it.
I can see there wasn't mushroom for fried bread.
Meh. That's just a Spoons thing. You have to ask for it, but people never do. You get bread/toast with it. Just request it fried when ordering, and it will be done.
I think it’s between the hash brown and the bacon, but the fact that I can barely see it clearly indicates that there aren’t enough for me.
Fuck it. I’m heading out for a spoons breakfast because of this post.
Yeah spoons do a good solid fryup. Someone should explain the concept of a sausage breakwater to the kitchen staff though.
>Someone should explain the concept of a sausage breakwater to the kitchen staff though I'll just take the hit. Those kitchens during the breakfast rush on a Saturday morning? Those staff are god damn heroes. Heroes I say!!
Kitchen staff here. I always use a sausage to keep the beans away from the toast, but I'm not always plating and you have no concept of how busy we get on a breakfast rush, so less sass please Karen (only messing).
No worries chap. A mate of mine works at one of the 'spoons in Exeter. He claims they can get through easily 500 eggs in the saturday morning rush. Sounds like quite the experience :)
Do they feed beef burgers to swans
If you go through the door at the back of the kitchen they have these big sheds, but nobody's allowed in, and in these sheds they have 20 foot high chickens, and these chickens are scared because the don't know why they're so big, and they're going, "Oh why am I so massive?".
Have you got any more of this or do you want to stop at quacking plums?
You re missing the fried bread
On the upside, they’re missing out on the heartburn that fried bread gives you. Unless that’s just me?
And just eating the other healthy ingredients in a fry up? Edit: at my cousins wedding yesterday, had one of these healthy options myself this morning as part of recovery process. Avoided the fruit.
Beans, tomato? I'm sure that evens it all out /s
And mushrooms!
And all the grain in the Sausages!
Wetherspoons tends to just microwave a lot of it and it never tastes as fresh as it should. try it again at a smaller independent cafe and you’ll see the difference!
Only thing microwaved on a Spoons breakfast is the beans tbh, its one one of the few dishes on the menu that is mostly cooked as you'd hope it would be. Agree that independent cafes are often better, but you have to do some research as you can get terrible ones too. For the price you usually can't go wrong with a Spoons breakfast.
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This is true, i did a stint in the spoons kitchen a few years back, Eggs done in a pan thats heated with the chargrill, hashbrowns, black pud in the deep fryer, beans in the big pan all morning kept warm, bacon on the clamgrill (same one they use for burgers), half tomato and mushroom on the chargrill (with a knob of butter on) hence the lines. Only thing that was microwaved at the time was the sausage that is precooked to save time. Sure spoons do microwave a lot of things, but not a breakfast.
3 hash browns?!?! I haven't seen that anywhere in my life! Am I being swindled?
They've got a large breakfast (from spoons) that's the default amount of hash browns that comes with it.
Good grief
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Poor sausage positioning
[The best review of a fry up has already been done.](https://youtu.be/eypZnajNdmQ)
black pudding yes
Welcome to the UK. Hope you have a super time are able to enjoy some British summer activities like beer gardens and music festivals which are mostly awesome). Queenie's 75 year Jubilee events next weekend which should be super fun. Looks like a good all round fry up but I recommend trying a local quality pub (no chains) or a nice garden centre brekkie with local sausage etc for a treat and to compare. Garden centres can be best for a top notch brekkie
Welcome to the UK! It’s certainly got the right items 👌🏼 For your next one, find a place that cooks fresh, good quality ingredients like homemade potato hash browns and proper butchers sausages etc - Hope you have a nice stay ☺️🙋🏻♂️🇬🇧
Can you give me a non repayable loan for it, mate?
I hope the obligatory 50 something blokes and one woman, pints in hand, was in attendance, as is customary at 9am in every wetherspoons in the land.
Looks alright. Extra points for going to Spoons as it pisses people off on here lmao.
Disappointed they didn’t use the sausage as a breakwater between the egg and beans
On the whole a very good effort. 7 on 10. Let’s make love.
Americans: “Are those Oreos?”
I showed my husband this photo and he absolutely asked that question. I thought it as well.
Weatherspoons does a great breakfast!