Peep Show: Traditional English Breakfast

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Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about the blandness of a traditional English breakfast after finding out that instant coffee is a favorite in British households.

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00:00It is National Coffee Day.

00:06I'm sure you'll need a lot of that if you've been fighting a hurricane for 24 hours.

00:10Researchers tracked 450,000 people who were over 40

00:15and polled them on how much coffee they drank.

00:17Then they checked back in with them 10 years later.

00:21They found that any amount of coffee was linked to a longer life.

00:25The popularity of specialty coffee is at a five-year high.

00:3143% of coffee drinkers say they prefer something a little more sophisticated than regular coffee.

00:36Oh, my.

00:37What is fancy coffee?

00:38I guess specialty coffee, that's like a latte, like a pumpkin spice.

00:42Or is it like, what about your little shots?

00:46Is that there?

00:47Yeah, I think.

00:49British people, though, prefer instant coffee at home.

00:52It's by far the most popular type of coffee in the UK.

00:56It goes good with their morning sausages or whatever.

00:58Their morning baked beans.

01:00I'll be honest.

01:01You know, they just don't have.

01:03They don't do food that great.

01:05That's their thing, right?

01:06So it doesn't shock me, really.

01:09I mean, I'm from there, but I guess I can say that.

01:11I know, but the stuff they do, I'm sure, is they do it well.

01:15But the stuff they choose to do is like bangers and mash.

01:19That's all I know.

01:20That's what I'm saying.

01:22It's those kind of sausages.

01:23I mean, I don't hate the idea of bangers and mash.

01:27It's delicious.

01:28It's delicious.

01:28No, I'm not saying that bangers and mash is bad, but I mean, that's where they stopped it.

01:32They were like, you know what?

01:34That's good.

01:35We've got bangers and mash.

01:36We don't need to try and come up with pizza.

01:38I assume all their food is that.

01:40It's baked beans, boiled meat, and an egg.

01:42That's it.

01:43Like, that's what I always assume English food is.

01:46Did you have any baked beans?

01:48Would you like an egg?

01:49Would you like some baked beans?

01:51How about some boiled meats, huh?

01:53That's it.

01:54We've got some bangers over here.

01:56Have an egg with it.

01:58Yeah, like, good morning, good afternoon.

02:00It's egg time.

02:02Have some beans and eggs.

02:03That's the way it is.

02:04Do you do late night eggs?

02:06Of course we do.

02:07It's England.

02:08When I went over there and you'd go into, like, an English restaurant, that's kind of what

02:13it was.

02:14Like, the first thing was, like, toast with beans and egg and sausage, and then the only

02:19other things were just different combinations of, like, but one missing.

02:23You know, like, oh, well, you don't want eggs?

02:25Well, then you want the number two.

02:27Are those beans not as sweet as the baked beans over here?

02:29Are they a little different?

02:30No, they're the same.

02:31They're like Heinz baked beans.

02:32They're the exact same.

02:33Tomato sauce.

02:34They're like, well, how about we freshen it up with an egg?

02:37Yeah.

02:38We've got eggs.

02:39So the traditional full English breakfast is back bacon, British sausage, eggs, baked

02:45beans, bubble and squeak.

02:47What is that?

02:48What is that?

02:49Bubble and squeak.

02:51To me, it was, like, all the root vegetables left over from the night before that are then

02:56chopped up and fried in bacon fat, like cabbage and potatoes.

02:59Oh, I hate that.

03:00It's actually delicious.

03:02Oh, wow.

03:02Well, it's got a crazy name.

03:04It's named after the farts they cause.

03:08Who made a bubble and squeak on there for you?

03:10That's probably how they named it.

03:12I'm not kidding.

03:13It's probably how they named it.

03:15You sound like you had a bit of bubble and squeak.

03:17That's what it is.

03:17That's like every British meal.

03:19It looks like that.

03:20Oh, man.

03:20Yes.

03:21They add fried tomato, fried mushrooms, and black pudding, which is not my favorite thing.

03:26No.

03:26My grandmother used to eat that.

03:28What's it made out of?

03:29Blood pudding.

03:30Well, there's blood pudding and black pudding are different.

03:32Oh, okay.

03:32Blood pudding is made with blood.

03:34Yes.

03:35What is black pudding made with?

03:37Let's find out.

03:38Let's say.

03:39I think it's oatmeal.

03:40You don't want to know.

03:41Oh, God.

03:42It's not a pudding at all.

03:43Oh, it's a regional blood sausage.

03:43Oh, it's meat.

03:44It's a blood sausage.

03:45It's made from pork or beef.

03:47I thought black pudding and blood sausage were different.

03:50Maybe they're the same.

03:51I'd try it.

03:52Oh, my goodness.

03:53It has a real bloody flavor.

03:55Can I tell you?

03:56Yeah, it's like an iron.

03:57You know when you're like, cut off yourself?

03:59Yeah.

03:59It has that flavor, but in a breakfast meat.

04:01Yeah, like the iron.

04:03Mm-hmm.

04:03Ooh.

04:04It's a real vampire-y meat.

04:06Good morning.

04:07Might not try it.

04:09Have you some bloody, bloody meat.

04:11Hey!

04:12Wash it down with an egg!

04:14Wash it down with an egg!

04:16What about beans?

04:19Oh, of course we've got beans to go with this bloody meat.

04:24I don't eat meat if it don't taste that blood.

04:26Well, you will if there's an egg with you, won't you?

04:28You're right.

04:32I know.

04:33You ain't bubble and squeak.

04:34Of course, I'm bubble and squeaking right now.

04:37I'm bubble and squeaking.

04:39I'm going to count on the eggs.

04:41Try a little squeak there.

04:43Yep.

04:43Little bubble.

04:44So, yeah, you use leftovers to make cabbage, bacon, ham, onion, potatoes.

04:49You mix an egg in there, you've got an apple.

04:51That's exactly it.

04:52If they had an egg, they'd crack it right on top of that.

04:54We love things that look like you threw them up.

04:59Yeah.

05:00Their whole thing is sort of using stuff from the night before and then just cracking an

05:06egg on it.

05:07Yep.

05:07And then frying it up.

05:09Honestly, that's a lot of cultures.

05:10That's just what they had the night before, right?

05:12So, like, Amber's family, they have, like, breakfast curries because they'll do the same

05:16thing.

05:16They'll have a curry and crack an egg beside it.

05:18Right.

05:18And it's breakfast.

05:19So, I guess what it is is they're just using stuff that, to us, is not exotic.

05:24Yeah.

05:25And then so, to us, it just seems so plain.

05:27But if you use, like, exotic materials and you're doing all this stuff, you're like,

05:30ooh, that's kind of fancy.

05:31Now, this is how I've always had it.

05:32It's more like my family always does it more like a hash brown.

05:35And they take the leftover potatoes and cabbage and whatever, and then they fry it in bacon

05:39and butter.

05:40Oh, yeah.

05:41Yeah.

05:41Not heart healthy.

05:42But that is how we've always done it.

05:44And it's more like a hash brown.

05:46I would dip that in an egg.

05:47Oh, it's delicious.

05:48Honestly, if you have good bubble and squeak, he'd tell you.

05:52Why don't you go bubble and squeak if you don't go back?

05:54Yeah.

05:55I got a good bubble and squeak right now if you want to know.

05:58Okay.

05:58Thanks, Jason.

05:59Oh, man, the cabbage.

06:00You're going to be squeaking.

06:01Yeah.

06:02Oh, cabbage makes you squeak and bubble.

06:03Oh, man.

06:04Yeah.

06:04Gurgle, bubble, and squeak.

06:06Yep.

06:07But that's a traditional British breakfast.

06:09That's what I grew up with.

06:10I just can't imagine how gassy that would make you.

06:12So gassy.

06:13Very gassy.

06:14All of the things that start you off.

06:16The beans are real.

06:17They're a gassy food.

06:19The eggs really top it off with a nice ogre, I bet.

06:22A nice bubble and squeak.

06:23Yeah.

06:23A nice bubble and squeak.

06:24I don't know what, like, the farts per capita are in the U.K.,

06:29but it's got to be fairly high.

06:31Fairly high.

06:31That's what all that fog is.

06:36That's why it rains so much.

06:39Yeah, that London fog.

06:41That's just bubble and squeak.

06:45We're pretty heavy thick on the bubble and squeak today.

06:47You can smell it.

06:48Yep.

06:48It's in the air, all right.

06:50Ooh.

06:51Ooh, just make some eggs.

06:52It'll be all right.

06:53All right.

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