I avoid it at work but our restaurant is the same and you can see people ranging from the cleaners to the big wigs tucking in to a big greasy breakfast any day of the week, and on the other side of the spectrum you get all "classes" eating fruit and salads and running/cycling to work
Regular fry-ups - only for the 'working class'?
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If you don't have many meals a day, say 2 (like me), a big fry-up will have little effect on your weight, just will not give you the sufficient nutrients. Your body won't absorb all that you pass through it, it's how you eat it.
So would I, but taking the topic into consideration it has to be addressed. Food has class connotations - very strong ones in fact. The idea of 'good food' is totally relative to the individual, and the kind of food that individual eats will have a strong link to their 'class'.
Food is food on the level that we all need it to survive, yes. But offer the miner smoked salmon and scambled eggs for breakfast and he'll tell you to sod off. Offer the man from the City bacon and fried bread for breakfast and he'll turn his nose up.
That's like saying 'clothes are clothes'. It's not that simple.
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I eat the odd fry-up, especially when on holiday (nothing beats a fry up when camping) and I am a fully paid up member of Homo Superior who scoffs and looks down on the plebs.
Of course I cycle everywhere and eat plenty of fruit and veg as well so the fat and extra calories of the occasional fry up have no effect.
I normally give my scraps to a coucil worker or some other poor person.
Of course I cycle everywhere and eat plenty of fruit and veg as well so the fat and extra calories of the occasional fry up have no effect.
I normally give my scraps to a coucil worker or some other poor person.
I think the miner would probably love it but not waste money buying it himself - I agree the man from the city would turn up his nose though. Maybe.
I goto Marks & Spencer Food for lunch, apparently they don't serve you if you don't wear a suit. I'm well snobby with most things, but am working class. My missus had a go at me last night, saying i think her food isn't good enough because i never eat at hers, i didn't reply because to be honest, deep fried stuff isn't 
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I'll pay any price for good food with quality ingredients. In my opinion however, a well made fry-up, grilled mind you, is unbeatable value.
.I'll pay any price for good food with quality ingredients. In my opinion however, a well made fry-up, grilled mind you, is unbeatable value.
But it just doesn't work like that at all.
I have eaten a wide range of food and I would never eat salmon as I don't like it. Also I don't really like pie and chips - but I love home made pie with home made chips.
I went down to the house of my mum's partner for his birthday and on the Sunday morning we had an egg/sausage/bacon. This is from a person who lives in a huge detached house, in a protected forest. He was a big city boss with a 2.1 in aeronautical engineering from imperial. He has travelled the world and eaten many things. Yet he still loves a fry up, or home made pie.
Good food IS good food, whether it's a home made meat and potato pie or grilled sea bass. Maybe I should have mentioned good food instead of just food.
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Smoked Salmon for breakfast is just pretentious in the same way that those people who show off about their expensive "designer" clothes or car are pretentious.
Goof food is great and includes a good fry up complete with fried bread and black pudding. The city worker who turns his nose up at it is a pretentious knob (see above)
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no but my point is SHOULD food be linked to class?
I love caviar, and lobster. I dont buy it on a regular basis though. does that make me a wannabe middle class citizen?
I love a fryup sometimes. does that make me working class?
who is anyone to tell me what I am by my food intake?
edit. just trying to stir braincells, not really looking for arguments on the subject. I already know my thoughts on it.
Well yeah, everyone has different tastes. I refuse to take stock in any kind of table relating the food we eat to the class we fit with.
Buy decent produce and grill/oven cook and it's actually pretty healthy and has less fat than croissants on other typical European breakfasts.
As for the whole food = class thing. Rubbish. Eat what you want. The only people who might look at food = class. Is snobby old money types. Who should be ignored anyway.
As for the whole food = class thing. Rubbish. Eat what you want. The only people who might look at food = class. Is snobby old money types. Who should be ignored anyway.
I was boiling it down to its base ingredients. It's about what you and your peer group eat the majority of the time.
Sure, he may love a fry-up and home made pie. But I doubt whether he has those many times during the week.
Not the fry up, but the home made pie certainly
Because he isn't an idiot - pure and simple.
You've just proved the point then. Some people think it's pretentious, some people thinks it's delicious. I'm of the latter category and I don't think it's pretentious at all.
Ideally not, no. But it's unavoidable I think.
Theres nothing unhealthy about a good english breakfast
NOTE i said english breakfast, not fry up.
You can grill everything and use quality ingredients and it does infact turn into a not bad meal, with a calorie content much lower than something people would pick up on the go, or even a filled bagel.
Im middle class and i LOVE fryups, sometimes i will have loads of em, sometimes i will go months without having one, it depends what im doing and what i fancy.
I think we all look down on the turkey twizzler brigade etc, they are the real scum.
NOTE i said english breakfast, not fry up.
You can grill everything and use quality ingredients and it does infact turn into a not bad meal, with a calorie content much lower than something people would pick up on the go, or even a filled bagel.
Im middle class and i LOVE fryups, sometimes i will have loads of em, sometimes i will go months without having one, it depends what im doing and what i fancy.
I think we all look down on the turkey twizzler brigade etc, they are the real scum.
This is what the article was takling about. So are people who do it regularly idiotic? Choosing to ignore the risks certainly is an idiotic trait, but that doesn't mean the person is idiotic overall.
there's working class and there's total scummers that don't even work
massive difference
i'd consider most people i know to be working class (at least from that background)
my dad has the best part of a fried breakfast everyday, but he's out working on the farm all day, so needs the food tbh
massive difference
i'd consider most people i know to be working class (at least from that background)
my dad has the best part of a fried breakfast everyday, but he's out working on the farm all day, so needs the food tbh