Regular fry-ups - only for the 'working class'?

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I don't know about you but I love a fry-up. Occasionally. So occasionally that I can't remember the last time I had one, it must have been months ago. The reason being I work in an office, lead a sedantry lifestyle and only need a small amount of food for breakfast. As much as I would love a fry-up most mornings I don't have one because a] it's expensive b] I'd get terribly fat and c] I worry about the long-term effects.

This article in The Times got me thinking about it, is it really only "stupid" people who eat fried breakfasts regularly? I wouldn't use the term 'stupid', I'd split it between very active people and people wantonly ignorant of their effects. I'm sure there are many intelligent people who have fry-ups regularly but who choose to ignore the health risks.

Generally fried brekfasts do seem to be eating regularly by the working class, especially builders [before anyone jumps down my throat I'm not looking down on people of different 'classes' only making observations]. But a lot of those builders can work off 2000 calories in one morning... however, as the article says, not everyone does. I would agree about fried breakfasts being generally for the working class though, I can't remember the last time I saw anyone - or knew anyone - middle class who had them.

I know some people are going to ask me to 'define' working class. This is a bit of a sore point for me since I had a girlfriend years ago who was very proud of her working class roots. She lived in a poor area of London and her family were Communists. I spent a lot of time being derided for being middle class [glad I'm out of that relationship] and it led me to question what the whole class system meant as well as being very aware of how relative the definitions were. As a lot of people will tell you, being working class is not about what job you have, where you live or how much you earn. It's about your background, interests, state of mind. Of course the original definition of the term came literally from "the workers". So.. in order to simplify the definition, let's go with that. So is it really the case? Do lots of middle class people eat fried breakfasts? Or is it more of a thing for the more active working man?
 
No, Daily fry ups are something scotish people have.

Most people only have 1 a week or something.
 
My dad is weird like this. He insists on having an idustrial strength extractor fan over his cooking hob becuse he thinks even a wiff of cooking smell in your house = working class. But then he thinks leaving a coat on the back of a chair for more than 5 minutes = working class too so.... he's an idiot.

Eat what you want at the end of the day, as for the "effects", i'd rather live 50 years eating/drinking what i want than 80 years eating lettuce and cardboard.
 
Surely if you do plenty of excercise then eating crap should not matter? I mean I cycle 23+ miles a day usually, eating crap for me should not be a problem no as I need more calories and a big fry up provides just that! :D
 
Makunouchi said:
My dad is weird like this. He insists on having an idustrial strength extractor fan over his cooking hob becuse he thinks even a wiff of cooking smell in your house = working class. But then he thinks leaving a coat on the back of a chair for more than 5 minutes = working class too so.... he's an idiot.

Eat what you want at the end of the day, as for the "effects", i'd rather live 50 years eating/drinking what i want than 80 years eating lettuce and cardboard.
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Having a extractor fan is great, You dont want greasy fat in your hizouse.
 
Have a fry up once a month, no more really. Although when I have them they usually consist of 4 sausages, 5 bacon, 2 eggs, 4 pieces of black pudding, two toast, one serving of beans and two hash browns.
 
I'd rather have a fry-up than smoke like the majority of the population seem to. I'll have a bet, see who dies first, if i have 1-2 fry-ups a week vs. 20 fags a day.

I like fry-ups and have them whenever i can, however this is usually only once a week tops. Contains the high protein i need and that fat has zero effect on me for the most part, and i suspect a middle class sunday roast would contain a lot more. For fry-ups to damage your health, you would have to combine them with some other unhealthy habits or eat them in large quanities.
 
lolthat article is nothing but the random musings of someone with nothing better to write about, please re-write the article and resubmit as you sir, make no sense.
 
You never see a person with a degree eating a fry-up, do you? Certainly not someone with a 2:1 or better in a humanities subject from a university founded before the invention of the iPod. That's because they are smart enough to know better.
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:)
 
Yet i bet those students have done more than their fair share of smoking/weed/cheap lager/eating cold baked beans out of a tin/living off pot noodles.

They ain't that smart :)
 
Middle class would do it if they weren't so busy trying to fill their boring lives with mowing lawns and washing cars, trying to impress their neighbours.

Come on mate, it's a bit stereotypical aint it?

I wouldn't class myself.
I eat fry ups most days. If not it's usually something fried in a sandwich else toast.
 
My standard weekday breakfast is two double espressos and an Old Holborn roll-up.

But the weekend? Ah, the weekend. Time to wheel out the giant, blackened cast-iron skillet and get frying: tight-skinned, juicy sausages from Sillfield Farm; sizzling rashers of streaky bacon from the Ginger Pig; plump Bury black pudding; a couple of golden-yolked, free range, organic eggs; a ripe tomato, halved and fried cut-side down with a dusting of sugar to caramelise; home-made Scots potato scones, home-made Irish soda bread. This is not about quantity, it's about quality and irreproachable provenance: ask any good butcher and he'll tell you the pig's name.
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This guy's talking my language :)

The giles character is just hamming up the sterotypical resturatant critic imo.
 
Im so up for a fry up right now...

I always use my old cast iron crying pan that hasnt been washed for about 20 years, which i inherited from my mum. Fried bread, then fried onions on top, then crispy streaky bacon ontop of that, then drench that in maple syrup (trust me its great) then a fried egg over easy onto of that.

Heaven.
 
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