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Brunch
Sept 18, 2019 0:50:12 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Sept 18, 2019 0:50:12 GMT
So...Every Tuesday, Swimmer and I dine out midday.
It started out as a lunch gig, and then, I had a hankering for breakfast late one Tuesday, so we went to nearby Jam. It is a sister restaurant to Toast. They both specialize in brunch...which usually means they serve alcoholic drinks like daiquiris and mimosas. Today, I had no interest in booze, but I did have a hankering for a waffle.
I zeroed in on Jam because I'd seen their waffle offering the previous visit. They had Belgian waffles (here, that means large, deep pocket, waffles, served on a plate, not for handheld consumption, like the real deal) in standard and gluten-free offerings, with an array of additional amendment selections. It always came with butter and maple syrup. I ordered mine with strawberries and whipped cream on the side, and an order of crispy bacon and two eggs, over medium. And, a cup of coffee, to which I added cream.
It was exquisite.
It did determine that the strawberries and whipped cream were unnecessary embellishments; the butter and maple syrup were just fine to produce the exquisiteness. The coffee was a superb 'high note' to the meal.
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Brunch
Sept 18, 2019 1:35:38 GMT
Post by Kye on Sept 18, 2019 1:35:38 GMT
If I'm doing a fancy brunch, I go HERE.
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Brunch
Sept 18, 2019 1:51:20 GMT
Post by Moose on Sept 18, 2019 1:51:20 GMT
See, I like strawberries, and I like bacon and all, but I could not eat them on the same plate.
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Brunch
Sept 18, 2019 3:47:22 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Sept 18, 2019 3:47:22 GMT
The strawberries and whipped cream were 'on the side', so I put them on half the waffle, and just butter and maple syrup on the other half. The eggs and bacon were on a separate plate entirely. No touching. Not that that mattered; I'd have eaten eggs with maple syrup and strawberries. Another good idea from the good farther... Jam.
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Brunch
Sept 18, 2019 18:06:04 GMT
Post by JoeP on Sept 18, 2019 18:06:04 GMT
Once you accept that pancakes go with bacon and eggs (which they do if savoury), and you accept that pancakes go with maple syrup (which they do, on their own), and you put them on the same plate for whatever reason, there is no limit. Maple syrup directly on your bacon? Why not. Jam on your sausages? Why not. An apricot and walnut Danish with black pudding and kippers? Bring it on.
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Brunch
Sept 18, 2019 18:32:40 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Sept 18, 2019 18:32:40 GMT
Wait...wait....black pudding and kippers. Nnnnnh-uhhhh....
Those will NEVER make it on to my order.
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Brunch
Sept 29, 2019 20:50:22 GMT
Post by Moose on Sept 29, 2019 20:50:22 GMT
I don' like black pudding but kippers have their place in the universe (in a strictly non political sense). I do like a nice kipper or two.
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Brunch
Sept 29, 2019 22:37:56 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Sept 29, 2019 22:37:56 GMT
I confronted kippers in my first tour of the UK, in 1980. Indeed, at my first English Breakfast in England, in a Cambridge B & B.
The abomination was spurned.
I believe I met my first toast cooling rack that very same meal. That was intriguing. It still is.
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Brunch
Oct 7, 2019 3:09:17 GMT
Post by kingedmund on Oct 7, 2019 3:09:17 GMT
I will have to go look up what kippers are! It’s fish of some type?
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Brunch
Oct 7, 2019 10:26:04 GMT
Post by tangent on Oct 7, 2019 10:26:04 GMT
I will have to go look up what kippers are! It’s fish of some type? Smoked herring.
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Brunch
Oct 7, 2019 22:02:34 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Oct 7, 2019 22:02:34 GMT
Waiter! There is a herring in my breakfast!
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Brunch
Oct 8, 2019 9:36:05 GMT
Post by raspberrybullets on Oct 8, 2019 9:36:05 GMT
Brits have a very weird take on breakfast. Possibly the weirdest. I can understand a pastry in continental Europe. I can get behind soup and rice in Asia. Brunch in Melbourne is sublime. But Brits want cold toast!
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Brunch
Oct 8, 2019 11:42:29 GMT
via mobile
Post by tangent on Oct 8, 2019 11:42:29 GMT
Not cold toast, moderately luke warm toast so that butter becomes slightly less viscous but doesn't melt completely.
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Brunch
Oct 8, 2019 12:28:52 GMT
Post by Kye on Oct 8, 2019 12:28:52 GMT
Ew. This North American likes her toast HOT!
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Brunch
Oct 8, 2019 13:30:27 GMT
Post by JoeP on Oct 8, 2019 13:30:27 GMT
British attitudes to breakfast toast are definitely mixed. I like mine properly hot with all the butter melted, but my parents let their toast air for ages and eat it pretty cold. Weird.
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Brunch
Oct 8, 2019 13:31:07 GMT
Post by JoeP on Oct 8, 2019 13:31:07 GMT
But the toast must have marmalade. I'm not sure North America even knows what marmalade is?
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Brunch
Oct 8, 2019 15:19:23 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Oct 8, 2019 15:19:23 GMT
Oh, we here in North America certainly know the abomination of 'marmalade'.
We're not really sure why Brits tolerate the packaging and retailing of compost as a food item, though.
:noid:
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Post by Kye on Oct 8, 2019 15:38:57 GMT
I find marmalade too bitter for my taste.
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Brunch
Oct 8, 2019 15:54:18 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Oct 8, 2019 15:54:18 GMT
Yeah. Me, too. It goes directly to the same bin as the Marmite.
I had a friend ask if I'd ever had 'the real deal'. Not knowing what that was, she informed me that 'Dundee marmalade' was the result of a shipwreck scavanged for its rotting cargo and that cargo subsequently transformed in to marmalade and foisted upon the world. It's something of a typical Scots making do....when life hands you vast amounts of free oranges, you make marmalade. It evidently lives on as James Keiller & Sons marmalade.
What else does one do with a literal shipload of rotting oranges?
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Brunch
Oct 15, 2019 22:09:36 GMT
Post by Moose on Oct 15, 2019 22:09:36 GMT
orangeade?!
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Brunch
Oct 15, 2019 22:40:39 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Oct 15, 2019 22:40:39 GMT
Well, yes...but you're still left with the pulp and rinds. With marmalade, you throw it all in and just strain out the seeds.
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Brunch
Oct 15, 2019 22:44:52 GMT
Post by Moose on Oct 15, 2019 22:44:52 GMT
But marmalade is .. so horrible!
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Oct 15, 2019 23:53:52 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Oct 15, 2019 23:53:52 GMT
Yes...And?
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Brunch
Oct 16, 2019 7:31:19 GMT
Post by tangent on Oct 16, 2019 7:31:19 GMT
I have nothing else on my toast (apart from butter).
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Brunch
Oct 16, 2019 14:28:56 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Oct 16, 2019 14:28:56 GMT
How do you keep the nothing away from the butter?
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Brunch
Oct 16, 2019 15:19:19 GMT
Post by JoeP on Oct 16, 2019 15:19:19 GMT
How do you keep the nothing away from the butter? Nothing is on top of the marmalade.
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Brunch
Oct 16, 2019 20:48:29 GMT
Post by tangent on Oct 16, 2019 20:48:29 GMT
I'm not sure I understand.
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Post by Kye on Oct 16, 2019 23:16:40 GMT
In order: toast, butter, marmalade, nothing.
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Brunch
Oct 17, 2019 7:02:17 GMT
via mobile
Post by tangent on Oct 17, 2019 7:02:17 GMT
I understand, thank you Kye. My mind wasn't working yesterday.
But I have to confess I do sometimes have marmite on my toast, though not at the same time as marmalade.
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Brunch
Oct 17, 2019 9:43:53 GMT
Post by JoeP on Oct 17, 2019 9:43:53 GMT
Marmite and marmalade together would be ... disturbing
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