This week someone told me about a B&B in Buenos Aires called Abode that prides itself on its ‘full English’ breakfast.
“Can they get ‘baked beans?” I asked instantly, trying not to salivate too obviously. I was told that if they can’t get baked beans, the owner has honed her own recipe. Perhaps I should try that. The only baked beans I’ve seen here are sold in the ethnic food section of a China Town supermarket and cost over £3 a can. They’re not even Heinz.
Full English Breakfast / Flickr photo by philcampbell
Of course, I am all for ‘going local’ at breakfast and every other time of day, but there are only so many media lunas a person can take. Yes, some days, I want fried eggs, brown sauce and a mug of Tetleys. God lord, that sounds good now. Where can I get some brown sauce? I hope it doesn’t come under on the absurd imported food ban that Argentina is currently trying to enforce.
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I love this! When I went to Lisbon last week and stayed with a local couple, we made them English Breakfast one morning because Maria said how much she loved it! Fred, her partner, was not such a fan and refused to even watch us eat such a mammoth meal at breakfast!
We managed to get everything but bacon and the sausages turned out to be turkey sausages but otherwise it was the real deal and a fun 'cultural exchange'. However I wouldn't recommend 'a full english' in 32 degrees.
You can read about the rest of my trip in Lisbon here: http://www.tripbod.com/blog/2010/06/07/local-lisb…