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Mr. Word Muir writes in The Sphere: -Somebody wrote an article the other"day deploring the awful monotony of the Eng- lish breakfast. The article suggested that we ought to gitar our breakfast dielary— to eat orange salad one morning, an ome! lette the next, and so on. Away with the eternal bacon-and-eggs? Why didn't hotel kopers at least (the writer demanded) offer their clients n decently diversified breakfast menu! People are only waiting for the chance to break the shackles of bacon-and-eggs and "rejoicingly munch maana in the shape of fresh fruit or minced' mushroom paction.
He was a theorist, of course, and when This article appeared he was immediately squashurd has by a dealer, not in theories, but in factu. A hotel keeper wrote from (I think) Buxton and offered his experi enge of the variegated breakfast menu. "It! appeared that the hotel keeper, was necus tomed to places, on the breakfast table of his guests a hill of fare containing äfteen |different items, "Ard," he said, the Englishman and his wife very carefully read through the list. Having read it, they ponder, look, ur each other, and say, Oh, well, I suppose we had better have bacon-and-egg"."." A few, a very, few, order, is a change "ggs-and-bacom
That letter from the Buxton botet keeper! bore the stamp of truth. One recognised instantly the verisimiltude of the picture ho done, equally one recognised the psychological miscalculation of the man who thought that the inhabitants of this country are anxious to breakfast after the style of the inhabitants of other countries. Has that national delicacy. bacon-and- eggs, been forced apoɑ us against our will? The notion in merdy comic.
Manifestly the original accusation was not that bacon-and-eggs is (or should I say are unpalatable, but merely that no dish should be eaten day after day,"year" after year. changelessly. One's eating | should show -enterprise. One should not become the slave of a gastronomic obsession, But if it is not allowable to discover, and then stick to. & favourite food, why should it be allowable to stick to a favourite drink? The very critics who profes shockedness at the bacon and egg habit namely, Americans will quaff coffee every morning of their lives, and think no shame, I don't remember seeing anyboly take tea at breakfast when I was in America. It was alway a case of coffee, a fire, coffee, sometimes preceded by a glass of iet water. The spectacle of iced water on the breakfast tahle made me shudder. In the warm Weather I fell victim to the fashion of bibbing iced water at odd moments--but ' #west-breakfast I need a stimulant at breakfast, and if I had, to put up with water it would be hur, qui iced. But, like Most Europeans. I am secretly of the opinion that water is indigestible-ut any rate, if drunk with food. Taken between meals it mens to be harmless, even bene ficial, American dyspepsin is a 'dubious testimonial to its benefits when drunk at
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Bat thee i had persuaded the waiter to remor "trom my onsgusted gure the iced- water carafe, the American "breakfast bo came a cheerful proposition indeed. When I out of England 1 can forget bacon- and eggs. I can't, I admit, squite bring. mysel to tackle chops, beefsteaks and potato at breakfast; bar in New York and Boston it was pleasant to sample *cerenla “quer, puddingy muses which jone'wenld have booked iskance at in Løn- don. A sulatundel valind, eream of whet ffascinated me. It is commonly eaten, I regret to say, with sugar, and this could not countenance, any more than I can coun thic: the barbaric custom of putting sugar on Seuten porridge. But with a sprinkling of salt it was delicious, and admirably less filling, than anything made of culpeal.
1 in love with cream of wheat in Anierica, yet I never have any hankerings after it in England Why is this ↑ Why is it, we, that the moment we cross the Channel to the Continent we are cleaned of the desire for bacon-and-eggs and are placidly satisfied with cafe "complet↑ A cup of coffee and a roll seems a miserable breakfast in England; in France, it is lample and refreshing. · Only in one Euro- pean country have I been given without asking for it) anything beyond the French for Swiss cafe" compère fur breakfast. At a hotel in Amsterdam I observed on my tray a plate containing (apparently) thin slices. of bean lain. the thinness sa extreme that they wern almost transparent,„„And I said to myself, "Have at last reached a foreign country where the pig's flesh is teemed a breakfast rationis inevitably {andsrespectfully as in my home !' On in- vestigation I found that the slices were not slices of ham, but slices of a pinkish- hued chime. Well, envése is the last vinnd. I should have thought of th the, in Amsterdami, I sound that I liked chee for breakfast..
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But ob, the joy of returning to breon. and-egg I am one of those individuals. who never feel homesick until they actual ly arrive at home, after un absence in alien land; and the phenomenon which most harply take me with the glad to be back emotion that of bacon-and-eggs for breakfast. To reach home in the evening it so feel vaguely uncomfortable at home's strangenew. Ono's rooms have been tidied, One possions ist beanpacked, the prospect of settling to work or domesticity. in a little irksome to the wanderer. Bat. in the morning when one is shaving, an xquisite aroma wafts itself from the kitelion-the aroma of sizzling rashers. One begins to eher up. One enters tha bright breakfast room. One-lifts the cover from the dish. Bacon and eggs f Ab It in. a. põignant pang of recognition: recognition of the perfect food, the Eng Jish prodigal son's equivalent of the fatted calf, the patriotic symbol of nationality av moving, in its way, no that other syrahol the Union Jack
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