Give peas a chance
People In The UK Are Furious About This Guy's Untraditional Addition To His English Breakfast
As someone born and living in England, I'll be the first to admit that English cuisine is probably the least exciting on the planet. Plates of food of varying shades of brown, usually only jazzed up by spices and seasonings from other, more culinarily inspiring countries. There are some English dishes, however, that are undeniably good, and those are: roast dinner, fish and chips and the Full English breakfast.
The Full English breakfast, also known as a fry-up, traditionally consists of at least bacon, eggs, sausage, baked beans, toast, and fried mushrooms (some people also add a fried or grilled tomato and black pudding, but keep those away from my plate).
Given that very few of the foods we most enjoy in the UK are native to us, many Brits are protective of the Full English and do not like its constituent parts to be interferred with. This context is necessary in order to understand why the word "peas" and a photo of a man's breakfast is currently trending on Twitter.
So what happened?
Yesterday, Twitter user Jordan Mead shared a picture of two plates of food, joyfully captioning the image with: "Name a better start to a Sunday than a full English!"
Name a better start to a Sunday than a full English! pic.twitter.com/7Wj2PetUoh
β jordan mead (@jordymeady10) July 17, 2022
In case you hadn't spotted it, alongside the fry-up's more traditional elements are two generous servings of peas. For some Twitter users in the UK, the inclusion of a green vegetable in an English breakfast amounts to nothing less than desecration β β and they let poor Jordan know it.
No one has peas on a full English
β retroscal (@elbimbo4321) July 18, 2022
Full english does NOT have peas π€£
β Lucy (@LucyJ1425) July 17, 2022
we got no prime minister we're in heat transported directly from hell and now people are eating peas for breakfast https://t.co/aCqAVJh34e
β Quality Street (@ch8ngbin) July 18, 2022
Where the feck did the peas come from??? π³
β Geordie Gixxer π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ (@geordiegixxer) July 18, 2022
Peas? This is an abomination.
β The One And Only Billy Shears (@tigerbalmain) July 18, 2022
What sort of psychopath lashes peas on a full English you fucking menace https://t.co/K7PIE20LqQ
β Neil (@NeilLFC3) July 18, 2022
Peas in a Full English Breakfast?
β Chief Queef (@StephanieYeboah) July 18, 2022
We used to be a proper country! https://t.co/xPm8nM8RvJ
Putting peas on a Full English should get you sent to The Hague for war crimes.
β Daniel Orrett (The Sojourn, Spacedock) (@SpacedockHQ) July 18, 2022
And what's going on with that School Dinners looking ham and supermarket sausages.
Wheres the bacon, the black pudding, the toast, the mushrooms. Smh.
2/10 thank you for watching BreakfastDock https://t.co/wUHrxwcYbl
A clear North-South divide emerged in the comments, with Northerners holding the south of the UK responsible for the travesty, and Southerners firmly distancing themselves from any association with a pea-inclusive breakfast.
The peas must be a southern thing. The only explanation.
β Kris Coyle (@Thecoyley1) July 17, 2022
Youβve had a mare here lad. Peas!
β Pete Hulme (@thegoat10) July 17, 2022
Southern fairies at it again
People saying the peas is a southern thing. It is fucking not, never seen a pea on a plate of breakfast in my life
β Rootezroo (@Root_Ezroo1) July 18, 2022
Others took issue with the lack of bacon on the plate (though Jordan himself claimed the pieces of gammon count) and the absence of mushrooms, tomato and black pudding.
That's not a full English mate. There's no mushrooms, black pudding, bacon, tomato and you've got peas π
β π΄RedManπ΄ (@_LFC_Red_) July 18, 2022
peas ffs π³π and no bacon
β Simon1978 (@Simon197852) July 17, 2022
Peas?? No bacon, mushrooms, black pudding. That isnβt a full English
β Martin D (@MjdHldLmd2021) July 17, 2022
While it's true I have no skin in this game (I'm not precious about the fry-up, and as a vegan have many times found myself adjusting and replacing the ingredients of mine), I can't see what the big deal is. The world is burning, everything is bad, and if eating peas for breakfast makes Jordan Mead happy, so be it.
