Favourite breakfast

Where's your favourite place to go for a cooked breakfast in the Wigan area? I like the White Lion at Wrightington and My Life in Standish

Not local but the best full English I've had was in glossop

My kitchen where I cook my own breakfast

Peter but it always tastes better if someone makes it for you

Once in Jamaica we were walking down the main road of the Beach and this native says to me, " Hey man you like to come in here for a beer can sandwich" , I thought it was a disgusting thing but, My wife said,," its the accent, He means a Bacon sandwich " DOH

Being naughty this morning and having 2 pork sausage 2 slices of bacon beans fried egg and 3 toast and a cup of tea Sod loosing weight and it will not do my cholesterol any good. Nurse once told me have every thing in moderation Porridge or cereal tomorrow

I'd say, If you like a big breakfast, have one, then moderate the rest of the day,

Spot on Peter/ Tom, just come down with covid so a full English is being had to speed up recovery

Scrambled egg and Smoked Salmon!

WHISTLE STOP CAFE King Street West.. Full English, including 2 slices of toast and a cup of tea £4.00.

Was it a dream?? Or could i have had a breakfast at asda in wigan one time??

About a year ago, I decided I needed my diet to be more varied.

I replaced my regular two slices of toast with a range of options for breakfast: Toast, porridge, cereal, kipper, full english, eggs in various guises, etc.

I have decided to go back to my two slices. Everytime I am dining on the other options, I am thinking, "I would rather be having mih toast"!

Why on this Earth would I travel all the way to Wrightington to have me breakfast ?

Peter Israel

Yoo can still have your breakfast in Asda, and although it is a bit ruff those parts, you won't be shot at or have a rocket landing on yer head

Try the Village Kitchen in Shevington TTS, it serves brilliant food all day, been today and loved it, yoo can sit in or takeaway.

OK

Are you able to buy bacon freshly sliced by the butcher, as opposed to the pre packed crap, which is all that I can find nowadays?

Yes you can from a decent butcher, and ask for a particular thickness as well.

Mollie,

You are luckier than I.

I cannot claim to have searched the entire county, but within 20 miles of my home, I have not found a butcher who still slices bacon.

That includes 'Fields' of Anlaby who regularly manage to bag the award of Britain's best butcher.

PS I am looking forward to visiting a campsite as soon as more clement weather prevails. The farmer occasionally has on offer to campers, farm cured bacon.

So, that will, I assume, not be pre-packed, though whether any good or not, I do not know.

I don't understand why a butcher wouldn't sell bacon they slice themselves. I've never heard of one that doesn't. In fact, your question surprised me.

I have to admit that I don't visit my local butcher as often as I used to due to time restrictions, and it's a pity, as they're a darned good butcher and have been in business since 1850, and at the same location for the last 60 years that I'm personally aware of, if not longer; and they're not overly expensive.

Have you tried searching the Internet in your area to see if there's an old-fashioned butcher who carries out this simple task?

If you are ever in or near Grimsby in N E L find the butchers shop just off freeman street near the market
The finest sausages you can buy.
Proper Lincolnshire pork sausages .

Mollie,

Your answer equally surprises me, though perhaps Wigan is characterised by good sense, and its butchers have resisted the trend to pre packed.

I find it very rare to find a butcher who still has a bacon slicer. (Cue the usual joke!).

Whenever I visit a butcher, I ask if they know of any butchers who do freshly slice bacon. I follow up any leads given, but so far to no avail.

A friend tells me that her village butcher does still slice bacon, She is 65 miles from me. It is the closest source I have found, so I am planning a shopping visit.

If you can find a butcher that slices their bacon on the slicer, off the bacon joint, you have done well.

Like Ena says, the majority of todays bacon is pre packed and they just take it out of the vaccum pack and put it on display. Its more convenient for them.
I can remember at one time every corner shop had a bacon slicer and they sliced everything on it.! Boiled Ham, Spam, Corned Beef, Brawn etc. The bacon joint would be stamped Danish Bacon, no Dutch!
These days health and safety food regulators would have a field day if they did that now!
But we never caught any harm

Brogans at Bryn Cross might slice you a bacon slice Chesh and, You may come to some ' Ham' there as well

Cheshire Cat

As regards bacon, you have said the magic word, and that is 'Danish' I used to sell the stuff, retail and for a time wholesale, and Danish was always far better than Dutch or British bacon, and bacon on the roll, which was what was sliced in corner shops, the best was Danish A1 which most corner shops sold, and I used to bone and roll sides of bacon, using string and netting, the Gamon, the best part of the side, the middle, which was cut into two 'half middles' one had the bulb of Gammon at one end, which was the Gammon end of the Middle, and at the other end was what was known as the 'fore end' of the side, sometimes referred to as 'lean bacon' the cheapest and lowest quality of the 'side of bacon' this sort of cheap bacon was used by cafe's and places like that.

Anyone remember the old fashioned hand cranked bacon slicers, they were normally red in colour ?

But bacon today just does not taste like the Danish bacon of yester year

When I worked, briefly, as a Commis chef, we sold a dish described as Cumbrian Ham. Part of my job was to remove the "Danish written all over it".

Those machines are now, Collector's items.

Jeeze, £13,000, and every corner shop had one