Henry Jeffreys

The great breakfast dilemma: should baked beans be part of a full English?

After cycling round Britain in search of the perfect fry-up, Felicity Cloake ends up wondering whether it isn’t actually a bit gross

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issue 09 July 2022
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  • Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey

    Felicity Cloake

    Mudlark, pp. 384, £16

A popular pastime in Britain is to post one’s breakfast on social media for strangers to pass judgment on bacon crispiness, egg doneness and whether baked beans are a vital component or just spoil the whole thing.

Felicity Cloake is a writer after my own heart: she is not a fan of beans with her full English.

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