I like a good breakfast but.....

[pete75]

New Breakfast roll at Morrisons 3/4 of a kilo and 1740 calories.

https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2018/11/lin ... -127712781

[661-Pete]

Is this responsible merchandising?

[Bonefishblues]

It's a fairly large fried breakfast shoved in a roll. Effectively uneatable in that format.

[Spinners]

For the past 10 years or so, my Friday morning treat has been a 'greasy spoon' breakfast consisting of;

1 Egg
2 Rashers of Bacon
1 Sausage
1 Hash Brown
Beans
2 Rounds of Fried Bread (a weakness of mine)

Swilled down with a mug of tea. Lovely!

I've no idea what this weighs or how many calories it has but think that once a week does me no harm. It's all about balance.

[661-Pete]

Meanwhile, first item on BBC News last night.....

[Bonefishblues]

Meanwhile, first item on BBC News last night.....

I saw the report. At least the guy blamed nobody but himself

[peetee]

Edited (duplicate post)

[peetee]

Meanwhile, first item on BBC News last night.....

They should be taken to task about the way that report is written. There are many diabetes sufferers for which their lifestyle is not to blame but you wouldn't know it until you read a long way down that story.

[661-Pete]

They should be taken to task about the way that report is written. There are many diabetes sufferers for which their lifestyle is not to blame but you wouldn't know it until you read a long way down that story.

Quite true. Most of these will be Type 1 sufferers for whom lifestyle is not a factor. I know at least one. And Theresa May is one too.

But the patient cited in that news item was a Type 2 sufferer. He blamed himself for a poor lifestyle - and whilst one may sympathise with him, one has to agree with that assessment.

Anyway - OK many people will continue to indulge in the high-fat-high-carb-high-calories 'full English' lifestyle - I'm not about to try stopping them! But for a supermarket to deliberately promote this sort of eating habit - is that right?

[pete75]

Wetherspoon's breakfast is not far off - 1500 calories and another 260 if you add black pudding. There's a cafe near here that does what they call the beltbuster breakfast which must be over 2,000 calories if Wetherspoons or the Morrison's offers are anything to go by. A friend sometimes has his shoot breakfast there instead of in the farmhouse and fairly large farmers have struggled to eat it.

[mumbojumbo]

In contemporary eating greed seems very acceptable.Personally I would not choose to eat such food and find a dish of porridge more than adequate-occasionally adding a pinch of salt or aloes for a treat now and then.I do not like the way Morrison's etc seem to encourage gluttony,but in the end the consumer must accept some culpability.

[Cyril Haearn]

There is or was a burger restaurant near me, monster burger € 30, if one managed to eat it all plus fries and salad at one sitting one did not have to pay and won € 100 cash

Maybe the staff called the ambulance too

Cooking sprouts for supper now
Porridge for breakfast

There is something to be said for a Big Breakfast if one does not have a Big Lunch and Big Tea too