Showing posts with label English Breakfast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English Breakfast. Show all posts

Saturday, 23 November 2013

Kettering Asda Breakfast Review

I don't often go out for a cooked breakfast but today I fancied a treat and as I needed some shopping from Asda I decided to give one of their cooked breakfasts a go.

Now I have to be honest, they've not been particularly brilliant in the past, in fact it's been downhill at this site since they took over from the Co-Op who did fantastic cooked breakfasts!

On ordering my breakfast I was asked if I wanted one of the fried eggs (that had clearly been cooked a long, long time ago and had gone all hard) or a fresh one.  Obviously I opted for a fresh one.  After taking my money, the young whipper-snapper on the till started ranting out-loud to her colleague how much she hated eggs, both eating and cooking them.  Nice thing to say in front of customers when it's your job to cook them.

I was told to take a seat and she'd bring my breakfast over when the egg had been cooked and within a matter of minutes my luke-warm breakfast was brought over to me:


The egg was perfect, hot and runny just how I like it.  However as I started to tuck in I soon found that the rest of the breakfast was luke-warm at best and when I got to the sausages, well I was in complete and utter disbelief:


As you can see there was a thick-black burnt crust to them.  Surely the young girls who had cooked them had noticed this??  They clearly didnt have the gumption to realise they should not be serving substandard food items and should have binned them and started again, but no they served them to their customers.

After I scrapped off the barely edible part of the sausages I was left with two bits of charcoal that would be more at home in an artists studio than on a plate of food.

I dunked the now cold bacon in my actually yummy freshly cooked fried egg and left the rest.

Like I said before, Asda cooked breakfasts here have never been particularly nice, but they've always (just) been edible but this experience has put me off for life.

A real shame as everything else in this store is brilliant.



Saturday, 4 February 2012

The Most Succulent Sausages in Britain

Palmers Butchers in Kettering sell/make what I personally believe are the best Sausages in Britain.  Their pork and leek sausages are simply succulent, meaty and very, very tasty!

They also sell the most amazing Black Pudding that (as any good black pudding is), is made in Scotland and simply does not compare to any you would find in a supermarket.

I would also recommend their bacon as not only is it very tasty, but unlike a lot of bacon, their bacon is thickly sliced for extra flavour.

And to top it off, they sell Corby Rolls which are basically Scottish Breakfast Rolls that are made in Corby which is also locally known as Mini Scotland.

If you treat yourself now and again to an English Breakfast then I would definitely recommend a visit to this butchers, you wont be disappointed!