THe Breakfast roll

Cienciano

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Superiority complex? Excuse me for offering my opinion that the cheapest sausages, rashers, pudding and eggs delivered onsite and heated up in an oven before being stuffed into a sickly white Cuisine de France 'baguette' doesn't exactly represent haute cuisine. It's cheap and nasty processed food that uses massive amounts of salt to mask the quality of the ingredients. The whole Irish deli thing that you find in Centra, Spar, Mace and Topaz is an example of the very worst type of convenience food. I've nothing against a good fry a few times a year. Queuing up so I can have one shoved into a roll by a surly counter attendant isn't exactly my idea of treating myself.

Christ, you talk some sh1te

Lapin

Tarzana2 wrote: »

Not much of a frequenter of deli counters myself, but down the years I have say the people who have served me of them have been very polite on the whole.

I agree with this but I think AVB is right in everything he says in the rest of his post. The ingredients used in the contents of breakfast rolls in deli counters is pure shítein the culinary sense.

But then, we already know that I suppose and the occasional roll every once in a while won't kill anyone.

But yes, the deli counter staff in the places I go are always nice and friendly. Especially the ones in Centra opposite Galway railway station.

contactbackup

January wrote: »

I'm a Dub through and through :P just don't drink tea or coffee! Besides they don't do tea or coffee in the place ha!

what does that actually mean

Tarzana2

Lapin wrote: »

I agree with this but I think AVB is right in everything he says in the rest of his post. The ingredients used in the contents of breakfast rolls in deli counters is pure shítein the culinary sense.

Yeah, it's true. I'd never eat a deli breakfast roll, in fact I'd rarely get any kind of roll or sandwich made up at a deli.

That wasn't my issue though. Superciliously generalising and knocking people who work on delis though - stay classy, AvB!

Aongus Von Bismarck

Lapin wrote: »

I agree with this but I think AVB is right in everything he says in the rest of his post. The ingredients used in the contents of breakfast rolls in deli counters is pure shítein the culinary sense.

But then, we already know that I suppose and the occasional roll every once in a while won't kill anyone.

But yes, the deli counter staff in the places I go are always nice and friendly. Especially the ones in Centra opposite Galway railway station.

Perhaps I was slightly harsh in describing the counter assistants as surly. I'll stand beside the rest of my post though. The whole deli experience in places like Spar and Centra is one of stodge, refined carbs and cheap ingredients. Luridly orange grated cheese that tastes of nothing, chicken that is more water than meat, mayonnaise full of sugar, rolls that barely qualify as bread. It's dreadful stuff.

Merkin

Did anyone ever read/remember the book/witness statements/newspaper articles about the Scissor Sisters from Dublin who got bleedin' marrouiva and stabbed your man on Paddys Day and then cut up his body into teensy pieces? They both had breakfast rolls from their local Centra that morning and it's still something I've difficulty getting my head around. WHY you'd want a breakfast roll full of sausage after cutting off an actual one is just beyond me. Puzzling.

previous user

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.

Thought you said eat while **** there :pac:

contactbackup

prefer to make it myself as the bread you get when out is normally a lower grade. grilled bacon, poached egg and I've been known to add a few sliced mushrooms. Bacon can be replaced with Irish breakfast sausages. It has to been eaten sitting down, never walking.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Superiority complex? Excuse me for offering my opinion that the cheapest sausages, rashers, pudding and eggs delivered onsite and heated up in an oven before being stuffed into a sickly white Cuisine de France 'baguette' doesn't exactly represent haute cuisine. It's cheap and nasty processed food that uses massive amounts of salt to mask the quality of the ingredients. The whole Irish deli thing that you find in Centra, Spar, Mace and Topaz is an example of the very worst type of convenience food. I've nothing against a good fry a few times a year. Queuing up so I can have one shoved into a roll by a surly counter attendant isn't exactly my idea of treating myself.

I aspire to live my life in everyway that you detest.

AlanS181824

God I'd kill for one right now...

Any takers?

....:rolleyes:

contactbackup

Brooke Salmon Suffix wrote: »

I aspire to live my life in everyway that you detest.

why? he has a point

NachoBusiness

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

What will their breakfast set you back?

€15.50, Father..

Certainly not for those that only eat a small amount and maybe drink one cup of tea for breakfast but if you're the type that has a large breakfast and could easily polish off another, and washes it down with a pot of tea or a few cups of coffee, then it's defo worth the expense. They have all sorts of other breakfast stuff there too, selection of cereals, kippers and the like. Michelin breakfast star from me anyway.

Has anyone ever been in Gallahers beside the Screen Cinema? Has a reputation for being a great place for a breakfast roll but I just worked out that a 2 rashers, 2 sausages, 2 eggs, 2 pudding roll (which are only available from 10am to 11.30am) would set you back €14.50! They have to be taking the Michael.

http://www.gallahersbistro.com/menu.html.

Sheepy99

They're overrated..

ArtSmart

If only there was a brekkie roll celebration song of some sorts....

contactbackup

contactbackup wrote: »

why? he has a point

Yeah he does, in his over inflated hole:rolleyes:

mikemac1

Brown sauce is the devils work

It is getting far too much love in this thread

Charlie19

No need for sauce if the roll consists of butchers white pudding and a runny egg.

I would wolfe one right now.

Egginacup

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.

Agreed.

But pork sausages or those delicious Cumberlands or Leek and Garlic Lancashires trump those radioactive red and sewery kanckwursts and those appalling krackauer things you get in Germany. What were those other vile abominations that my Austrian sister in law eats.....those revolting grey things that she peels the skin off and then has with tasteless rye brot.
I must admit a dozen Nuremberegers on a bed of proper sauerkraut is a tasty treat (but only with a belly full of beer).
A good fresh fry up from Ireland is classical and in fresh bread....beats all breakfasts.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Rotten stuff.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Egginacup wrote: »

Agreed.

But pork sausages or those delicious Cumberlands or Leek and Garlic Lancashires trump those radioactive red and sewery kanckwursts and those appalling krackauer things you get in Germany. What were those other vile abominations that my Austrian sister in law eats.....those revolting grey things that she peels the skin off and then has with tasteless rye brot.
I must admit a dozen Nuremberegers on a bed of proper sauerkraut is a tasty treat (but only with a belly full of beer).
A good fresh fry up from Ireland is classical and in fresh bread....beats all breakfasts.

I agree. There are cheap and nasty sausages sold here in Germany by the trolley load. Sausages were never high cuisine anyway as they were a way of using otherwise difficult to cook or unwanted cuts of meat. However some of the artisan wursts sold here are fantastic. My local butcher, Gref-Völsings, speciales in a range of sausages that are simply incredible. Incredibly bad for your cholesterol as well, so they are an occasional treat. Wolfing down a fry twice a week after 20 pints is a dramatic shortcut on the way to the ICU of your local hospital.

Baby Jane

The breakfast roll from a deli counter is total crap - salt and stodge central! But god it's so taaaaaaaaaaasty!

I do treat myself to the odd medium sized one if delicate after the night before - it will have sausages, extra salty rasher, dried-up white pudding, ketchup, maybe rubbery fried egg. SO yum! And then a tea and sugary treat.
Thirsty and sluggish for the day though.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I agree. There are cheap and nasty sausages sold here in Germany by the trolley load. Sausages were never high cuisine anyway as they were a way of using otherwise difficult to cook or unwanted cuts of meat. However some of the artisan wursts sold here are fantastic. My local butcher, Gref-Völsings, speciales in a range of sausages that are simply incredible. Incredibly bad for your cholesterol as well, so they are an occasional treat. Wolfing down a fry twice a week after 20 pints is a dramatic shortcut on the way to the ICU of your local hospital.

Just about to cook up my second massive breakfast of the weekend, lovely stuff!!!

wp_rathead

Pitta bread with bita butter and Ballymaloe relish
In the pitta bread put a grilled Thick Cut Rasher and two fried Superquinn sausages.
*drools*

wprathead

wprathead wrote: »

Pitta bread with bita butter and Ballymaloe relish
In the pitta bread put a grilled Thick Cut Rasher and two fried Superquinn sausages.
*drools*

I don't know why I keep reading breakfast roll threads.. Haven't had one in years and would kill for one now.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Brooke Salmon Suffix wrote: »

Just about to cook up my second massive breakfast of the weekend, lovely stuff!!!

It's well into the afternoon in Ireland... why are you only beginning to cook your breakfast?

Aongus Von Bismarck

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

It's well into the afternoon in Ireland... why are you only beginning to cook your breakfast?

Because I'm still in bed, getting up shortly now for a feed and continue watching soccer for the rest of the afternoon.

contactbackup

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

It's well into the afternoon in Ireland... why are you only beginning to cook your breakfast?

I reckon he has breakfast at this time everyday.

Flood

Prefer the ones i make at home, simply for being able to fill it with better products.

cassid

There a new crowd in Tallaght area in Dublin who now deliver a breakfast to your house, with a can of coke. People are posting their deliveries on a FB page. Sold out, so obviously a demand especially at weekends.

Tarzana2

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Incredibly bad for your cholesterol as well, so they are an occasional treat.

Dietary cholesterol has no effect on blood cholesterol. There is no data to support the contention that it does, except for in a tiny minority of people, and consequently, guidelines are beginning to reflect this. The main problem with sausages is that they tend to be highly processed.

GHOST MGG

I had the misfortune of deciding to buy a breakfast roll in the local convenience store
I hadnt eaten one in maybe 2 years but i decided what the hell..
First thing i was told was "we dont do eggs anymore" like wtf is it so hard to cook an egg...
The roll was way way to crispy..there was only 1 sausage inside cut into 2,two pieces of white pudding
which were dried out and a hash ****ing brown squashed to bejaysus..all smothered in red sauce..oh and 2 dried up rashers which the dog nearly choked on..
never again..4.40 euros for a bag of ****e..never again.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Brooke Salmon Suffix wrote: »

Because I'm still in bed, getting up shortly now for a feed and continue watching soccer for the rest of the afternoon.

Mother of God! :eek:

Aongus Von Bismarck

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Mother of God! :eek:

Not sure what you are finding fault with. A pretty standard Sunday by all accounts.

Fat Christy

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.

Awwwwwwwh.......I'm really craving the above!! Brown sauce, always brown sauce.

contactbackup

contactbackup wrote: »

I reckon he has breakfast at this time everyday.

Unfortunately not as I've to be up for work so around 10 am is my usual breakfast time.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Brooke Salmon Suffix wrote: »

Not sure what you are finding fault with.

You're still in bed at almost 3pm on a Sunday! You're about to eat an unhealthy fried breakfast for the second time in one weeked! You had a rake of porter last night and plan on spending the rest of the day slumped on a couch. You by your own admission do this every weekend. It's an awful way to live your life!

Compare that to my own. I had 2 glasses of Schloss Johannisberger 2009 Trockenbeerenauslese Riesling and a delicious turbot dish that my girlfriend prepared. I arose this morning at 6am and ran a nice steady-paced 18km. I had a breakfast of fresh fruit, natural locally sourced yoghurt, and toasted granola. I plan to spend the rest of the afternoon reading, meditating and listening to some music. This evening I will be attending a musical with my partner and some of our friends.

The human body and mind is an incredible thing. The way you treat it is tantamount to vandalism

Fat Christy

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

You're still in bed at almost 3pm on a Sunday! You're about to eat an unhealthy fried breakfast for the second time in one weeked! You had a rake of porter last night and plan on spending the rest of the day slumped on a couch. You by your own admission do this every weekend. It's an awful way to live your life!

Compare that to my own. I had 2 glasses of Schloss Johannisberger 2009 Trockenbeerenauslese Riesling and a delicious turbot dish that my girlfriend prepared. I arose this morning at 6am and ran a nice steady-paced 18km. I had a breakfast of fresh fruit, natural locally sourced yoghurt, and toasted granola. I plan to spend the rest of the afternoon reading, meditating and listening to some music. This evening I will be attending a musical with my partner and some of our friends.

The human body and mind is an incredible thing. The way you treat it is tantamount to vandalism

Let him at it, his life, not yours.

I'd rather be taken out and shot with balls of my own sh*te then do meditation!

Arsemageddon

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

This evening I will be attending a musical with my partner and some of our friends.

A musical? And I thought you were supposed to be a man of taste and culture!

Aongus Von Bismarck

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Compare that to my own. I had 2 glasses of Schloss Johannisberger 2009 Trockenbeerenauslese Riesling and a delicious turbot dish that my girlfriend prepared. I arose this morning at 6am and ran a nice steady-paced 18km. I had a breakfast of fresh fruit, natural locally sourced yoghurt, and toasted granola. I plan to spend the rest of the afternoon reading, meditating and listening to some music. This evening I will be attending a musical with my partner and some of our friends.

The human body and mind is an incredible thing. The way you treat it is tantamount to vandalism

Sounds like a pretty crap way to spend your Sunday, eating boring food, wasting one of only two opportunities you get per week to sleep in and not watching sport. will get some sort of a takeaway in the evening then, Thai possibly to see the day out.

Eutow

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

You're still in bed at almost 3pm on a Sunday! You're about to eat an unhealthy fried breakfast for the second time in one weeked! You had a rake of porter last night and plan on spending the rest of the day slumped on a couch. You by your own admission do this every weekend. It's an awful way to live your life!

Compare that to my own. I had 2 glasses of Schloss Johannisberger 2009 Trockenbeerenauslese Riesling and a delicious turbot dish that my girlfriend prepared. I arose this morning at 6am and ran a nice steady-paced 18km. I had a breakfast of fresh fruit, natural locally sourced yoghurt, and toasted granola. I plan to spend the rest of the afternoon reading, meditating and listening to some music. This evening I will be attending a musical with my partner and some of our friends.

The human body and mind is an incredible thing. The way you treat it is tantamount to vandalism

So, you had something that costs over 1,000 Pounds Sterling then, this morning?

Not everyone wants to get up that early on their weekends. As for meditating, each to their own, but I wouldn't be interested in it. Southampton - Liverpool are on later, much more interesting in my opinion.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Compare that to my own. I had 2 glasses of Schloss Johannisberger 2009 Trockenbeerenauslese Riesling and a delicious turbot dish that my girlfriend prepared.

A large pizza followed by pints of Guinness, Jameson and jäger bombs was a nicer evening I have to say.

Gennady Golovkin P4P1 wrote: »

Sleeping in is a waste of life. Take a good look at your lifestyle if you find yourself regularly sleeping in.

Getting up early when you don't have to is a waste of sleeping time imo, also I went to bed at about 4am.

Tarzana2

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

You're still in bed at almost 3pm on a Sunday! You're about to eat an unhealthy fried breakfast for the second time in one weeked! You had a rake of porter last night and plan on spending the rest of the day slumped on a couch. You by your own admission do this every weekend. It's an awful way to live your life!

Compare that to my own. I had 2 glasses of Schloss Johannisberger 2009 Trockenbeerenauslese Riesling and a delicious turbot dish that my girlfriend prepared. I arose this morning at 6am and ran a nice steady-paced 18km. I had a breakfast of fresh fruit, natural locally sourced yoghurt, and toasted granola. I plan to spend the rest of the afternoon reading, meditating and listening to some music. This evening I will be attending a musical with my partner and some of our friends.

The human body and mind is an incredible thing. The way you treat it is tantamount to vandalism

Judgy-wudgy was a bear, judgy-wudgy had no hair.

epesapart

so are we all split then?
the breakfast roll is either a hearty accompaniment to the riggers of the hectic worklife in Ireland ,the fast paced economy all inclusive foodstuff to keep one nourished by combining 3 in 1 meals.

or

A soggy depressing foodstuff to show the "as Above , so Below" imprint on a quick decaying process....

Can anybody save this thread?

please....there is a place for it

Chickentown

With the last few months a large scale building under construction near my place of work has seen me quite frequently mixing with my building brethren in the local shop at lunch time.
I honestly can't help be jealous of the confidence the exude as they stroll in the door and head directly toward the deli counter, hard hats turned backwards, loudly conversing about last nights game or the antics of one of the group while "out on the piss" the previous weekend, moreover the female anatomy appears to be of great interest to these creatures and no shame appears to be incurred whilst leering at any bum they can find in their peripheral vision. Quite often I find myself sandwiched between the groups while waiting in line, me with a bagel, cappuccino and the Times, them with a large breakfast roll, bottle of Coke and the Star/Sun. We never speak but I always feel they are aware of a pussy standing next to them (me). We part our ways outside the shop door and as I settle back down in front of the computer screen I can't help but feel, maybe it would be a more enjoyable life to just grab a hammer, forget about my caloric intake/macro & micro nutrient breakdown and join them down in the trenches and fuk this stuffy office sh1t.

Chickentown

Fat Christy wrote: »

Let him at it, his life, not yours.

I'd rather be taken out and shot with balls of my own sh*te then do meditation!

Just on the basis of your username; i'd imagine you'd skip the 18km jog and fruit breakfast also?

Fat Christy

Chickentown wrote: »

Just on the basis of your username; i'd imagine you'd skip the 18km jog and fruit breakfast also?

Don't judge a user by their username! I'm actually quite sexy IRL if I'm being honest. True story. :cool:

Aongus Von Bismarck

Eutow wrote: »

So, you had something that costs over 1,000 Pounds Sterling then, this morning?

Good God no! I had it last night, I wouldn't ever drink alcohol in the morning. That particular wine is another story altogether. I was gifted it by one of my clients in December and was saving it for a special occasion. My OH was hosting a dinner party last night and insisted that we serve it. I argued it would be wasted on her friends as I wouldn't consider any of them to be true wine aficionados. Alas, it can be difficult to try and change the mind of a lady as strong-willed as my partner.

Does it really cost 2000 pound a bottle though? I was under the impression it averages around 800 euro? I never actually researched the price, as I thought due to it being a gift that it would be poor form.

Not everyone wants to get up that early on their weekends. As for meditating, each to their own, but I wouldn't be interested in it. Southampton - Liverpool are on later, much more interesting in my opinion.

Each to their own. I have no problem enjoying the spectacle of sport, it was just one of the points I raised to demonstrate the type of sedentary lifestyle nox appears to lead.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Arsemageddon wrote: »

A musical? And I thought you were supposed to be a man of taste and culture!

Tell me about it! A remake of the 90s film Ghost no less! The things I do for love!

epesapart

Chickentown wrote: »

With the last few months a large scale building under construction near my place of work has seen me quite frequently mixing with my building brethren in the local shop at lunch time.
I honestly can't help be jealous of the confidence the exude as they stroll in the door and head directly toward the deli counter, hard hats turned backwards, loudly conversing about last nights game or the antics of one of the group while "out on the piss" the previous weekend, moreover the female anatomy appears to be of great interest to these creatures and no shame appears to be incurred whilst leering at any bum they can find in their peripheral vision. Quite often I find myself sandwiched between the groups while waiting in line, me with a bagel, cappuccino and the Times, them with a large breakfast roll, bottle of Coke and the Star/Sun. We never speak but I always feel they are aware of a pussy standing next to them (me). We part our ways outside the shop door and as I settle back down in front of the computer screen I can't help but feel, maybe it would be a more enjoyable life to just grab a hammer, forget about my caloric intake/macro & micro nutrient breakdown and join them down in the trenches and fuk this stuffy office sh1t.

Flashfiction award of the day.

Arsemageddon

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Tell me about it! A remake of the 90s film Ghost no less! The things I do for love!

Leave.

Leave immediatley.

Don't waste time packing, just get out now!