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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother, growing up in America of the 1950s, had eggs in some form, toast, and either sausage or bacon for breakfast every single day. They just didn't eat in large quantities and she walked to school and everywhere.

I lived in the UK for a while and never liked the full English because it's such a heavy breakfast, as a PP commented, and was really something that working class men who had physically demanding jobs ate rather than everyone else. I'm just old enough to remember those little eateries in working class parts of London with big men were chowing down on a Full English with bottomless pots of sugary sweet tea and the air blue with smoke. Of course, they all died of heart attacks aged 60. There's a big class relationship with the full English and the frequency of it. Very few people I knew had it regularly, or at all.

I'd take the continental any day. [/quote]

I eat an egg or 2 and bacon most mornings. I'm skinny and in perfect health.  I only eat the equivalent of 1 or 1.5 strips of bacon, so that's under 100 calories. My whole breakfast rarely breaks 350 calories and that includes the cream in my coffee.  I think when people hear a "full American breakfast," they think it means a large quantity of food like you'd get for brunch. But that isn't really the case, at least in our household. [/quote]

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