Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about the blandness of a traditional English breakfast after finding out that instant coffee is a favorite in British households.
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00:00It is National Coffee Day.
00:06I'm sure you'll need a lot of that if you've been fighting a hurricane for 24 hours.
00:10Researchers tracked 450,000 people who were over 40
00:15and polled them on how much coffee they drank.
00:17Then they checked back in with them 10 years later.
00:21They found that any amount of coffee was linked to a longer life.
00:25The popularity of specialty coffee is at a five-year high.
00:3143% of coffee drinkers say they prefer something a little more sophisticated than regular coffee.
00:36Oh, my.
00:37What is fancy coffee?
00:38I guess specialty coffee, that's like a latte, like a pumpkin spice.
00:42Or is it like, what about your little shots?
00:46Is that there?
00:47Yeah, I think.
00:49British people, though, prefer instant coffee at home.
00:52It's by far the most popular type of coffee in the UK.
00:56It goes good with their morning sausages or whatever.
00:58Their morning baked beans.
01:00I'll be honest.
01:01You know, they just don't have.
01:03They don't do food that great.
01:05That's their thing, right?
01:06So it doesn't shock me, really.
01:09I mean, I'm from there, but I guess I can say that.
01:11I know, but the stuff they do, I'm sure, is they do it well.
01:15But the stuff they choose to do is like bangers and mash.
01:19That's all I know.
01:20That's what I'm saying.
01:22It's those kind of sausages.
01:23I mean, I don't hate the idea of bangers and mash.
01:27It's delicious.
01:28It's delicious.
01:28No, I'm not saying that bangers and mash is bad, but I mean, that's where they stopped it.
01:32They were like, you know what?
01:34That's good.
01:35We've got bangers and mash.
01:36We don't need to try and come up with pizza.
01:38I assume all their food is that.
01:40It's baked beans, boiled meat, and an egg.
01:42That's it.
01:43Like, that's what I always assume English food is.
01:46Did you have any baked beans?
01:48Would you like an egg?
01:49Would you like some baked beans?
01:51How about some boiled meats, huh?
01:53That's it.
01:54We've got some bangers over here.
01:56Have an egg with it.
01:58Yeah, like, good morning, good afternoon.
02:00It's egg time.
02:02Have some beans and eggs.
02:03That's the way it is.
02:04Do you do late night eggs?
02:06Of course we do.
02:07It's England.
02:08When I went over there and you'd go into, like, an English restaurant, that's kind of what
02:13it was.
02:14Like, the first thing was, like, toast with beans and egg and sausage, and then the only
02:19other things were just different combinations of, like, but one missing.
02:23You know, like, oh, well, you don't want eggs?
02:25Well, then you want the number two.
02:27Are those beans not as sweet as the baked beans over here?
02:29Are they a little different?
02:30No, they're the same.
02:31They're like Heinz baked beans.
02:32They're the exact same.
02:33Tomato sauce.
02:34They're like, well, how about we freshen it up with an egg?
02:37Yeah.
02:38We've got eggs.
02:39So the traditional full English breakfast is back bacon, British sausage, eggs, baked
02:45beans, bubble and squeak.
02:47What is that?
02:48What is that?
02:49Bubble and squeak.
02:51To me, it was, like, all the root vegetables left over from the night before that are then
02:56chopped up and fried in bacon fat, like cabbage and potatoes.
02:59Oh, I hate that.
03:00It's actually delicious.
03:02Oh, wow.
03:02Well, it's got a crazy name.
03:04It's named after the farts they cause.
03:08Who made a bubble and squeak on there for you?
03:10That's probably how they named it.
03:12I'm not kidding.
03:13It's probably how they named it.
03:15You sound like you had a bit of bubble and squeak.
03:17That's what it is.
03:17That's like every British meal.
03:19It looks like that.
03:20Oh, man.
03:20Yes.
03:21They add fried tomato, fried mushrooms, and black pudding, which is not my favorite thing.
03:26No.
03:26My grandmother used to eat that.
03:28What's it made out of?
03:29Blood pudding.
03:29Blood pudding.
03:30Well, there's blood pudding and black pudding are different.
03:32Oh, okay.
03:32Blood pudding is made with blood.
03:34Yes.
03:35What is black pudding made with?
03:37Let's find out.
03:38Let's say.
03:39I think it's oatmeal.
03:40You don't want to know.
03:41Oh, God.
03:42It's not a pudding at all.
03:43Oh, it's a regional blood sausage.
03:43Oh, it's meat.
03:44It's a blood sausage.
03:45It's made from pork or beef.
03:47I thought black pudding and blood sausage were different.
03:50Maybe they're the same.
03:51I'd try it.
03:52Oh, my goodness.
03:53It has a real bloody flavor.
03:55Can I tell you?
03:56Yeah, it's like an iron.
03:57You know when you're like, cut off yourself?
03:59Yeah.
03:59It has that flavor, but in a breakfast meat.
04:01Yeah, like the iron.
04:03Mm-hmm.
04:03Ooh.
04:04It's a real vampire-y meat.
04:06Good morning.
04:07Might not try it.
04:09Have you some bloody, bloody meat.
04:11Hey!
04:12Wash it down with an egg!
04:14Wash it down with an egg!
04:16What about beans?
04:19Oh, of course we've got beans to go with this bloody meat.
04:24I don't eat meat if it don't taste that blood.
04:26Well, you will if there's an egg with you, won't you?
04:28You're right.
04:32I know.
04:33You ain't bubble and squeak.
04:34Of course, I'm bubble and squeaking right now.
04:37I'm bubble and squeaking.
04:39I'm going to count on the eggs.
04:41Try a little squeak there.
04:43Yep.
04:43Little bubble.
04:44So, yeah, you use leftovers to make cabbage, bacon, ham, onion, potatoes.
04:49You mix an egg in there, you've got an apple.
04:51That's exactly it.
04:52If they had an egg, they'd crack it right on top of that.
04:54We love things that look like you threw them up.
04:59Yeah.
05:00Their whole thing is sort of using stuff from the night before and then just cracking an
05:06egg on it.
05:07Yep.
05:07And then frying it up.
05:09Honestly, that's a lot of cultures.
05:10That's just what they had the night before, right?
05:12So, like, Amber's family, they have, like, breakfast curries because they'll do the same
05:16thing.
05:16They'll have a curry and crack an egg beside it.
05:18Right.
05:18And it's breakfast.
05:19So, I guess what it is is they're just using stuff that, to us, is not exotic.
05:24Yeah.
05:25And then so, to us, it just seems so plain.
05:27But if you use, like, exotic materials and you're doing all this stuff, you're like,
05:30ooh, that's kind of fancy.
05:31Now, this is how I've always had it.
05:32It's more like my family always does it more like a hash brown.
05:35And they take the leftover potatoes and cabbage and whatever, and then they fry it in bacon
05:39and butter.
05:40Oh, yeah.
05:41Yeah.
05:41Not heart healthy.
05:42But that is how we've always done it.
05:44And it's more like a hash brown.
05:46I would dip that in an egg.
05:47Oh, it's delicious.
05:48Honestly, if you have good bubble and squeak, he'd tell you.
05:52Why don't you go bubble and squeak if you don't go back?
05:54Yeah.
05:55I got a good bubble and squeak right now if you want to know.
05:58Okay.
05:58Thanks, Jason.
05:59Oh, man, the cabbage.
06:00You're going to be squeaking.
06:01Yeah.
06:02Oh, cabbage makes you squeak and bubble.
06:03Oh, man.
06:04Yeah.
06:04Gurgle, bubble, and squeak.
06:06Yep.
06:07But that's a traditional British breakfast.
06:09That's what I grew up with.
06:10I just can't imagine how gassy that would make you.
06:12So gassy.
06:13Very gassy.
06:14All of the things that start you off.
06:16The beans are real.
06:17They're a gassy food.
06:19The eggs really top it off with a nice ogre, I bet.
06:22A nice bubble and squeak.
06:23Yeah.
06:23A nice bubble and squeak.
06:24I don't know what, like, the farts per capita are in the U.K.,
06:29but it's got to be fairly high.
06:31Fairly high.
06:31That's what all that fog is.
06:36That's why it rains so much.
06:39Yeah, that London fog.
06:41That's just bubble and squeak.
06:45We're pretty heavy thick on the bubble and squeak today.
06:47You can smell it.
06:48Yep.
06:48It's in the air, all right.
06:50Ooh.
06:51Ooh, just make some eggs.
06:52It'll be all right.
06:53All right.