Irish breakfast

[Peter A. McGraw]

--On Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:00 AM -0700 Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> Nevvuh hoid of it.
>
> JL

Me neither.  (And BTW, there's no need to translate "B&B" for an American
audience.  It's well established over here, too.)

Peter Mc

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> neil <neil at TYPOG.CO.UK> wrote:
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> We Brits, when holidaying [vacationing] in the UK, staying at hotels or
> B&Bs [Bed & Breakfast establishments], often take the opportunity - not
> having to cook it ourselves - of partaking of the 'Full English':
> sausage, egg, bacon, mushrooms, grilled tomato, fried slice [of bread]
> and - if you're lucky - some local black pudding.
>
> So I was interested to see that our 'English' breakfast translates into
> 'Irish' breakfast across the pond:
>
> "You know what they've got here? You can get an Irish breakfast all day
> long."
> "What's that, a cigarette and a six-pack?"
> "Very funny. You must know what an Irish breakfast is, a sophisticated guy
> like yourself."
> I nodded. "It's the cardiac special, right? Bacon and eggs and sausage."
> "And grilled tomato."
> "Ah, health food."
> "And black pudding," he said, "which is hard to find. You know what you
> want? Because I'll have the Irish breakfast."
> -- Lawrence Block, 'All the Flowers are Dying', Orion, London, 2005, 2
>
> Neil Crawford
>
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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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