THe Breakfast roll

Gwynplaine · 21-02-2015 2:43pm

Lad I know, was a year or two ahead of me in school. He's about 36 now and he's huge. He's known as Breakfast roll man. A terrible diet, 20 fags a day, breakfast roll and takeaways every day. Lives on his own, never had a woman, drives a digger, wears his rigger boots to the pub and sits at at bar supping Guinness all night, with the big belly hanging out over the jeans. I'd that Pat Shortt song is his favourite song ever, because he is that song.
Let's just say, I won't be at all surprised if hear he has had a heart attack or a stroke.

Cienciano · 21-02-2015 2:49pm

Foxhound38 wrote: »

I've feckin seen that in quite a few shops - why bother getting a breakfast roll if you're going to be all health conscious about it? Just get something else or fcuk off :mad:

Sometimes if you take a bite the fat on the rasher doesn't break and it pulls the entire rasher out. Not necessarily a health decision, could just be convenience

Cupcake_Crisis · 21-02-2015 3:07pm

Breakfast rolls are the devil of hangover foods. The first bite when your body just wants grease and stodge- best thing ever. But that feeling that hits you about half way through....no buddy...not worth it.

NachoBusiness · 21-02-2015 4:01pm

Never got into the breakfast roll craze.

Much prefer some juicy lightly fried rashers and runny fried egg on buttered toast, with a little brown sauce. Or substitute the rashers for sausages, if their dacent ones (hard to get decant sausages in places that sell breakfast rolls tbf).

Radisson Blu in D8 do a buffet fry up fit only for the breakfast aficionado. The quality of the produce the use is exceptional. Rashers are sublime and the sausages so gorgeous you could happily eat a plate full of them and be hungry for little else.

Their bacon is also beautiful. None of your over cooked, dried out Kylemore crap here. Same with their black and white puddings. Their so nice and tasty, would love to know who supplies them. So succulent. Fried eggs glistening in butter with yellow gooey sunshine slowly using from within.

I'll usually go though five or six slices of toast with the above, maybe a half pound of butter but last week their warm all butter croissants just looked so inviting and so for the first time I abandoned my love of Johnston Mooney and O'Brien's finest and went continental and boy was it worth it. Had many a breakfast since, and toasted bacon sambo also but I can't help feeling dissatisfied as now that I've had one, nothing compares to a few rasher stuffed Radisson Blu breakfast croissants.

zcorpian88 · 21-02-2015 4:40pm

Used to love them and was getting too fond of them last year.

Have pretty much cut them out after Christmas after I started to feel bloaty for a few weeks even if I wasn't eating much of anything else.

Replaced it with a pint glass of low fat milk and 3 wheatabix in it, keeps me right for the day

TerrorFirmer · 21-02-2015 4:49pm

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Vile things. A cheap and stodgy roll filled with even cheaper ingredients. Withered looking sausages that have been under lights since they were heated up in an oven 5 hours earlier. Pudding without any of the flavour that makes good black pudding such a beautiful occasional treat. Then drown it in sugary sauce and eat while walking. Yuck.

You are so far up your own arse you could crawl out your mouth and turn yourself inside out handily enough. The stench of superiority complex wafting off your almost every post is unbearable.

Tarzana2 · 21-02-2015 5:05pm

Not mad keen on them, they're way too big and way too greasy.

I've always been a fan of rasher sandwiches/baps. A much more manageable, less gluttonous, less greasy option. Homemade or in a cafe, rashers from delis tend not to have crispy fat. Sometimes I'll fry and egg and add that too.

Piglet85 · 21-02-2015 5:07pm

zcorpian88 wrote: »

Replaced it with a pint glass of low fat milk and 3 wheatabix in it, keeps me right for the day

Hang on, is that not what a bowl is for?

Unless they're home-made I'm not that keen really. I'd rather get a sausage sambo from a deli, on white bread with butter and tomato relish. 'Cause I'm fancy like that! :pac:

Fr_Dougal · 21-02-2015 5:08pm

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Never got into the breakfast roll craze.

Much prefer some juicy lightly fried rashers and runny fried egg on buttered toast, with a little brown sauce. Or substitute the rashers for sausages, if their dacent ones (hard to get decant sausages in places that sell breakfast rolls tbf).

Radisson Blu in D8 do a buffet fry up fit only for the breakfast aficionado. The quality of the produce the use is exceptional. Rashers are sublime and the sausages so gorgeous you could happily eat a plate full of them and be hungry for little else.

Their bacon is also beautiful. None of your over cooked, dried out Kylemore crap here. Same with their black and white puddings. Their so nice and tasty, would love to know who supplies them. So succulent. Fried eggs glistening in butter with yellow gooey sunshine slowly using from within.

I'll usually go though five or six slices of toast with the above, maybe a half pound of butter but last week their warm all butter croissants just looked so inviting and so for the first time I abandoned my love of Johnston Mooney and O'Brien's finest and went continental and boy was it worth it. Had many a breakfast since, and toasted bacon sambo also but I can't help feeling dissatisfied as now that I've had one, nothing compares to a few rasher stuffed Radisson Blu breakfast croissants.

What will their breakfast set you back?

mikemac1 · 21-02-2015 5:13pm

Noooooo to butter. The deli staff ask me everytime if I want butter. I can't imagine anyone adding that to their breakfast roll.

zcorpian88 · 21-02-2015 5:15pm

Piglet85 wrote: »

Hang on, is that not what a bowl is for?

I know it sounds odd, when I was a kid I had it in a bowl all the time.
My uncle does it with a pint glass all the time when he would be in a hurry for work, just stir the hell out of it in a pint glass and neck it off, saves me having to sit down and eat it, can consume it quick and wash up quicker then get on with the day.

I do it with cold milk and it saves the mess of saucepans and all that shyte!

Tarzana2 · 21-02-2015 5:19pm

The Peanut wrote: »

Heading off many years ago to matches in Thurles. Something similar to this was the order of the day followed by a day's consumption of stout. Nothing like it for soakage but, my God, how unhealthy was it? Top it off with a visit to a chipper at about midnight. Carnage to the body.

A googol or so calories.

jimgoose · 21-02-2015 5:22pm

Tarzana2 wrote: »

A googol or so calories.

Some of us are nature's Top-Fuel dragsters.

The Peanut · 21-02-2015 5:25pm

The Peanut wrote: »

I'm a big man - 6'2 - and if you get an Irish mammy working in a shop to make you a breakfast roll, it could keep you going til dinner time. There's a lovely old dear in my local shop who's either trying to kill me or thinks I need extra feeding but she packs in the fillings the very rare time I get one.

She packs in the extra rasher and the extra sausage and the extra hash brown. I'd say the full daily calorie intake there in one go. She smiles sweetly as she sends me one big, greasy breakfast closer to a heart attack.

It is 8hrs since I posted this morning. So far today I've ignored the yearning, the craving. I've had a lovely bowl of porridge, an apple, a fist of grapes, homemade soup for lunch and a banana.

But no more! Dinner for the family has been purchased. Mine will consist of 2 thick-cut slices of freshly baked bread, courtesy of my wife. Each slice shall be lathered in copious quantities of Bandon butter. A layered bed shall be place on 1 slice of bread consisting of 2 large butcher sausages sliced in half, 2 large thick-cut rashers, 2 slices of Clonakilty white and 2 slices of Clonakilty black and a final topping of a fried egg. The second slice of bread shall be placed on top and said feast shall be devoured. Watched down with a mug of tae and 2 gaviscon tablets.

Goodnight.

Tarzana2 · 21-02-2015 5:27pm

CarrickMcJoe wrote: »

Breakfast roll guy's just aren't the same anymore. 3 young bucks in front of me, dressed head to toe in Snickers gear ordering rolls but insisting on the fat being cut off the rashers.
Bloody wimps.

Might be more because the fat on deli rashers tends to be pale, flabby and chewy rather than for health concerns.

harry Bailey esq · 21-02-2015 5:32pm

Un Croissant wrote: »

Has to be a soft roll. Crispy rolls just ruin it.

Soft rolls hold a hell of a lot more fillings too,I'm on the fence.I love them both equally

Tarzana2 · 21-02-2015 5:40pm

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Radisson Blu in D8 do a buffet fry up fit only for the breakfast aficionado. The quality of the produce the use is exceptional. Rashers are sublime and the sausages so gorgeous you could happily eat a plate full of them and be hungry for little else.

Their bacon is also beautiful. None of your over cooked, dried out Kylemore crap here. Same with their black and white puddings. Their so nice and tasty, would love to know who supplies them. So succulent. Fried eggs glistening in butter with yellow gooey sunshine slowly using from within.

I'll usually go though five or six slices of toast with the above, maybe a half pound of butter but last week their warm all butter croissants just looked so inviting and so for the first time I abandoned my love of Johnston Mooney and O'Brien's finest and went continental and boy was it worth it. Had many a breakfast since, and toasted bacon sambo also but I can't help feeling dissatisfied as now that I've had one, nothing compares to a few rasher stuffed Radisson Blu breakfast croissants.

What a shill! :pac: Canyonero-tastic! :P

Tarzana2 · 21-02-2015 5:40pm

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

You are so far up your own arse you could crawl out your mouth and turn yourself inside out handily enough. The stench of superiority complex wafting off your almost every post is unbearable.

It's funny though.

Tarzana2 · 21-02-2015 5:42pm

mikemac1 wrote: »

Noooooo to butter. The deli staff ask me everytime if I want butter. I can't imagine anyone adding that to their breakfast roll.

Real butter - hell, yes.

Deli "butter" - eh, no thanks.

epesapart · 21-02-2015 5:43pm

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

But that's not a breakfast roll,its a rasher sambo,no matter how you dicky it up.I do like the idea of a beer with a fry though,reminds me of great drinking holidays with the lads along the Spanish Costas during my teens.In most places a pint of beer is/was included in the price of the breakfast

I knew it, Im a sick bastard!!

jimgoose · 21-02-2015 5:56pm

The Peanut wrote: »

It is 8hrs since I posted this morning. So far today I've ignored the yearning, the craving. I've had a lovely bowl of porridge, an apple, a fist of grapes, homemade soup for lunch and a banana.

But no more! Dinner for the family has been purchased. Mine will consist of 2 thick-cut slices of freshly baked bread, courtesy of my wife. Each slice shall be lathered in copious quantities of Bandon butter. A layered bed shall be place on 1 slice of bread consisting of 2 large butcher sausages sliced in half, 2 large thick-cut rashers, 2 slices of Clonakilty white and 2 slices of Clonakilty black and a final topping of a fried egg. The second slice of bread shall be placed on top and said feast shall be devoured. Watched down with a mug of tae and 2 gaviscon tablets.

Goodnight.

<sniff> Jaws of the Tiger. This truly, is the Tao!

Lucyfur · 21-02-2015 5:59pm

I just had;

2 jumbo saussies
2 rashers
3 pieces of white pudding
1 egg

on a CRUSTY roll, with brown sauce.

I also had 2 cups of tea. And a bar of chocolate. Cos I decided earlier that today has no calories.

Lapin · 21-02-2015 6:09pm

A big yes to this.

mikemac1 wrote: »

Noooooo to butter. The deli staff ask me everytime if I want butter. I can't imagine anyone adding that to their breakfast roll.

Butter only belongs on toast and spuds - in molten form.

Also this ketchup problem we have. There really is only one way to fix it.

Anyone who takes ketchup should be allowed to enjoy their breakfast roll in comfort and finish it in peace with their tea or coffee. Then they should be taken out the back and shot. It's for their own benefit and the good of humanity.

Brown sauce is the condiment of choice for a breakfast roll, or mustard on occasion. But only if it's Colman's.

epesapart · 21-02-2015 6:10pm

Lucyfur wrote: »

I just had;

2 jumbo saussies
2 rashers
3 pieces of white pudding
1 egg

on a CRUSTY roll, with brown sauce.

I also had 2 cups of tea. And a bar of chocolate. Cos I decided earlier that today has no calories.

This is what we were put into incarnation for!
To experience Calorie intake...I mean..the poor Buggers who were there back in the famine would have been rolling on their bellies Laughing about Calories beside food...

Whether your fat, thin, a guru sage or an amadán , the experience of a Jumbo breakfast roll making its voyage though the body is a little ecstasy.

Lucyfur....you were taking heaven on a ride!

contactbackup · 21-02-2015 6:14pm

A Ulster fry can be a welcome change once in a while.

January · 21-02-2015 6:57pm

The corner shop near me does soft rolls with your egg cooked to order. Nice runny yolk on your egg is delicious. Huge rolls, packed with sausages, rashers and pudding and your egg, €4 with a can of mineral.

amtc · 21-02-2015 7:15pm

I was in the Crown Casino in Perth Christmas and the restaurant served breakfast rolls!

[Deleted User] · 21-02-2015 7:15pm

The Peanut wrote: »

It is 8hrs since I posted this morning. So far today I've ignored the yearning, the craving. I've had a lovely bowl of porridge, an apple, a fist of grapes, homemade soup for lunch and a banana.

But no more! Dinner for the family has been purchased. Mine will consist of 2 thick-cut slices of freshly baked bread, courtesy of my wife. Each slice shall be lathered in copious quantities of Bandon butter. A layered bed shall be place on 1 slice of bread consisting of 2 large butcher sausages sliced in half, 2 large thick-cut rashers, 2 slices of Clonakilty white and 2 slices of Clonakilty black and a final topping of a fried egg. The second slice of bread shall be placed on top and said feast shall be devoured. Watched down with a mug of tae and 2 gaviscon tablets.

Goodnight.

My breakfast/lunch today was 3 sausages, 3 rashers (maple cure

), 4 black pudding, 4 white pudding, 2 fried eggs, a tomato (all grilled bar the eggs, much nicer) and 3 slices of toast with lasting of mustard and loads of tea

. Will have the same tomorrow after a feed of porter tonight, in fact I have something similar every Saturday and Sunday (amounts vary). Wouldn't be the weekend without a good cooked breakfast, we have had them at home more or less every weekend since I could eat solid food!!

A good feed lol e the above will see you through to dinner no bother anyway so it might be big but skipping lunch means you are spreading it over two meals really.

Cienciano · 21-02-2015 7:26pm

contactbackup wrote: »

A Ulster fry can be a welcome change once in a while.

soda farls are fúcking amazing with a fry.

Tarzana2 · 21-02-2015 7:28pm

January wrote: »

...with a can of mineral.

You big culchie! Love it! :pac::p:D

THe Breakfast roll

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