Voilà!
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This is new to me. I occasionally had Cumberland sausage (the real stuff, not the crap you get at the supermarket), haggis and black pudding for my breakfast when I was younger though.
I’m sure there’s a good stereotype that can come from that
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You’ve never had kedgeree, kippers or eels for breakfast? I love all of them! I think of fishy breakfasts as very British, although people here in the US do sometimes serve lox, gravlax, or smoked whitefish as part of a posh breakfast.
My family is loudly appalled that I enjoy blood sausages and black puddings, but even I draw the line at haggis. That’s only for True Scotsmen, innit? Wi’ tatties and neeps?
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You been dining at Downton Abbey again?. 
A Full English is usually bacon, soss, fried eggs, fried slice,mushrooms, beans or tomatoes or both, tea, toast and a stack of bread and butter. Sometimes black pud, bubble and squeak,hash browns, rarely kidneys. Regional versions exist (oatcakes, white pudding, etc.) but I’ve never seen eels added to it. Not sure that would play well in a greasy spoon off the North Circular.
Kedgeree’s proper old-fashioned posh brekky and kippers is what me Nan used to have on Sundays. 
Even had it’s own Usenet group back in the day - alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove
Good times.
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You’re having me on. You can’t grow tomatoes in England!
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Sure you can. Tricky bit is making sure you harvest them before the tin starts to rust.
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First LOL of the day! (and the day’s nearly over)
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Where’s the shot?
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Pas d’argent…
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I always forget to count Canada. (Sorry Canada. 
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And Holland, and Australia, and… Heck, we’ve even corrupted Asia.
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It’s funny, as the ewg.org extract says 22 tsp of added sugar, but goes on om to talk about the recommended maximum of seven tsp - but surely that maximum is total sugar, not added sugar??!
It’s as if the overall confusion is even eating into the scientists.
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Seriously, though. while cereal exists elsewhere, it’s not that common of a choice. A lot of places actually eat a reasonably nutritious meal similar to other meals in the morning (and even the stereotypical huge English and Irish breakfasts are really for tourists than what people normally eat there)
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Oh absolutely, and I think realistically most Americans don’t eat sugary cereal for breakfast either; it’s a stereotype, but I know very few kids who even eat breakfast. Or if they do, they eat a pop-tart or granola bar or something as they run out the door. I think if you were to survey Americans, the biggest contrast with other countries is that while elsewhere breakfast is seen as a hearty way to start the day, we tend to skip it entirely or minimize it.
Ermagerd. I’ve not smoked for years, and in particular not smoked ready-made cigarettes for about thirty years, but now I’m gasping for a straight unfiltered out of a soft pack. With a coffee.
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That’s better. Thanks!
[In this context, it only took me about ten seconds to work out I wasn’t looking at a chocolate chip cookie.]
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