Comments on: breakfast: a (second) review

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 23 May 2006 20:33:15 +0000

I recall you saying to me that we were listening to a Violent Femmes cover and I can confirm that it was the Gnarles Barkley version.

As for the eggs, you could ask for them to make ‘em runny but you run the risk of getting them with a runny white.

Now, where to for Sunday’s foodening? Would you like fancy, foreign-ish or just Irish?

By: kindle

kindle — Tue, 23 May 2006 18:20:35 +0000

I understand that the eggs aren’t made to order but cooked way ahead of time and sit in a greasy pan under a heatlamp, but I persist that eggs should have runny yolks.

Also it probably is the Gnarles Barkley cover, and I still say it sucks and offends me.

So both of you are wrong, wrong wrong. =)

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 22 May 2006 17:31:09 +0000

The V. Femmes cover…was it Gone Daddy Gone? Because if so that was probably by Gnarles Barkley (Cee-Lo + Danger Mouse), and that’s worth giving another chance. I got that album for my birthday and have been enjoying it, including that cover, which fits well with their sound while still capturing (IMO) some of the spirit of the song. And actually Danger Mouse said in an interview, “If you love Gone Daddy Gone, listen to Gone Daddy Gone.” So as much as I usually am hyper-critical about covers, that one I’ll make excuses for.

If it was that cover. Which it might not have been.

By: Cian

Cian — Mon, 22 May 2006 17:10:48 +0000

On the eggs, in all fairness it’s a bit much to claim that eggs “should” be soft, as far as I know there have been no EU directives on the consistency of egg yolks. Just the curvature of bananas. Some people actually like their eggs solid, my mom gets asked for it relatively regularly (we run a B&B) so ideally they should ask you how you like your eggs. Of course they can’t do that, the easiest and cheapest way to cook breakfast in a cafe situation is to cook in batches so food can be sitting under the heater for quite a while, the busier the cafe is the higher the turnover of food. When you arrive late in the service, when things have slowed down, you increase the likelihood that the food you are served has been sitting there for a good while. It’s different in hotels and B&Bs but then you won’t get breakfast for �7 in a hotel. Well I doubt it anyway. The easiest way for you to get the eggs you want is to try and hit the place early.

If memory serves, The Coffee Pot is basically in Blackpool right? That’s Red FM land, the radio station that taste forgot.