Best Breakfast Around? That's not one I've heard touted before. Expand plz. The stereotypical british breakfast in my head is undercooked bacon, beans, hard cooked eggs.

You forgot the sausages! Compare and contrast to the "continental" "breakfast" which is usually a muffin.

And you forgot the black pudding! Not to mention tomatoes, mushrooms (if you insist) and of course fried bread and/or toast. I won’t complain if hash browns or white pudding make an appearance either.

You can’t beat a good fry up!

Yeah, the "Full English" breakfast is popular worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast

Yes the end result of rich western nations that get strangled by government is to be a museum

I agree it’s tragic but out of all the ways a culture can strangle itself, museumification is the least horrible

There's always the option of, you know, not strangling itself.

That would be splendid although it seems to have been a controversial choice until recently

don't kinkshame the lovely people of the Isles, they apparently have a penchant for many things, like separate cold and hot water faucet and a bit of autoerotic asphyxiation.

> like separate cold and hot water faucet

This was, oddly, for regulatory reasons; the concern was that a blocked mixer unit could cause hot water (considered potentially unsafe) to be forced into the mains supply (presumed safe). This hasn't been a concern with mixer designs for a long time, but it took til the 90s to get the rule changed.

The hot water was considered unsafe initially because early hot water cylinders over there were open tanks subject to incursion by vermin

This is a weirdly persistent myth, but no, that's not the case (think about it; what would happen if you had an open hot water tank? It would cool down very quickly, and you'd have horrendous humidity problems). _Cold_ water tanks used to be like that (sometimes still are), which I suspect is where the confusion comes from.

Hot water getting into the mains would be a concern anywhere; in particular, unless all equipment is in perfect working order, there's a legionnaires disease risk, but there are many other risks.

Thanks for the details! (Completely randomly just a few hours ago I got a many-many years old Tom Scott video recommended to me on YT about this topic.)

...plenty of weather, scenic potholes, medieval plumbing and occasional trains.