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

I can face a fry up once a week, once a day would be too much. Its not so much the calories that are the problem its the saturated fats and the problems that go with it that people should think about.

Having one once a week should be fine as long as you eat normally the rest of the time. Everything in moderation and all that.

As for being a working class meal... thats probably somthing that came from years ago when most working class men did manual jobs and would need all the calories. A fry up would be the most cost effective way for the poorer people to get those calories as many people kept chickens for the eggs and meat was plentiful and relatively cheap years ago.
 
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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I'd associate the whiff of a lovely coriander soup to be a sign of culture.

I have a fry up once a week, on a Sunday.
 
Carzy said:
The majority of the population smoke do they? Interesting...
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"Seem to smoke..."

And in towns such as mine, they ALL smoke, me being the rare exception.

You wanna see outside the pub in winter since the smoking ban, funniest crap i've ever seen, i get complete control over the bar, whilst they shiver in the cold trying to get their lighters to work frantically as if they need a fag to breathe :)
 
pitchfork said:
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.
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Is that directed at me? Did you read the whole of the first post? I know it's very stereotypical, which is exactly why I was keen to emphasise the relativity of class definitions.

You may not class yourself. But you are part of a class and you know which, no matter how much you or I may hate the divisions. So what's your answer to the question? Is it more or a working class thing? Because in my experience it is.
 
iBot said:
No, Daily fry ups are something scotish people have.

Most people only have 1 a week or something.
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1) it's scottish
2) you've obviously never been to scotland, if you had been then you'd know all we eat is haggis
 
Gigi said:
Thats why its called an English Breakfast yeah.....
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You get Scottish and Ireland breakfast aswell. Scottish doesn't include hash browns though. They're all slightly different. Square sausages for the win :D

Although I don't really know anyone who has that for breakfast. Usually just get them if you go to the pub in the morning for breakfast etc.. or if you stay at a hotel. Can't beat a roll with square sausage and potato scone though if your running late. Fills you up and tastes great.
 
An Irish Breakfast is Chocolate Sponge cake..:)

And yeh, it probably is more of a working class thing. Middle class,etc tend to eat in restaurants where price isn't an issue or have breakfast at home with the family (being the only time they spend with them probably lol).

An English breakfast is always the cheapest thing on the menu, yet contains the most of anything, i mean i've seen them £1.99...i can't get a sandwich for that.
 
if you like a fry up eat a fry up.

Food doesn't have to be segregated into classes surely.

I would love a fryup every day...sure I would get bored of it though.

someone with a highly active job I would have thought almost needs a really hearty meal to keep them going. a bowl of cornflakes wouldn't cut it.

I sit at a desk all day. fruit is about all I eat for breakfast. anything else and I feel rubbish all day.

jobs are jobs, people are people, and being rich is overratted. I have quoted this once before today. have a think.

"We need these machines to stay alive, We need these prisons to be free, We need to suffer so that, We can buy a little harmony" - Darren "Wiz" Brown. RIP.
 
I have one once every 2 or 3 weeks on average, usually on a saturday or sunday when I'm so hungover that being alive is an effort
 
iBot said:
They all hate haggis. So I doubt your scotish or have been to scotland
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I was playing on stereotypes since you seem to like them, and a majority of Scottish actually like haggis, since it's not made the way it used to be anymore. I've lived in Scotland all my life and can trace my family back many generations.
 
I've started having sunday carvery's to solve the hangover issue, replacing fryups. I get the old veg quota, get to choose whats on it, and at £5.95, it's cheaper than all set meals.
 
lozza23_uk said:
Food doesn't have to be segregated into classes surely.
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Do you really mean that? Food is one of the main attributes used when defining classes.

Pie and chips are thought of as working class. Lobster and caviar are thought of as middle class. Working class people look down on those who eat refined food for being snobby, middle class people look down on the working class for eating food which is common. It's the way of the world.

I don't really have to link to the pyramid of the capitalist system do I?
 
Lysander said:
Do you really mean that? Food is one of the main attributes used when defining classes.

Pie and chips are thought of as working class. Lobster and caviar are thought of as middle class. Working class people look down on those who eat refined food for being snobby, middle class people look down on the working class for eating food which is common. It's the way of the world.

I don't really have to link to the pyramid of the capitalist system do I?
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I'd rather we forgot about classes and enjoyed good food. Whether it's a home made cottage pie, or home made moussaka.

I hate food critics. They like a meal - I may hate it. I may want more salt, less salt, more food, less food, more carrot, less carrot and so on.

I love food whether it's low end of high end. Food is food.
 
I have a small fry up during the week fairly regularly, where i work we have a canteen thats open till 10 with breakfast. For me it often consists of some hash browns, a couple of sausages a bit of bacon and a poached egg, i used to have fried bread fried eggs etc but in light of the regularity of eating them i thought it was better to go slightly healthier ;) For a couple of quid in the morning i cant say no :(

It does mean though that i have a light lunch (single sandwich) and reasonable dinner in the evening, as they say the biggest meal of the day should be in the morning.
 
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