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You can still get some nice grub in England. This was a pub lunch at the weekend. The beer is a locally brewed IPA, very nice beer. The ham is dry cured local new forest ham and the cheese is a special local smoked cheddar with nettles. The ham is lying on top of a bed of the same salad and pickles as on the other plate. The whole thing comes with some hot bread rolls with butter that aren't shown in the photos. The pub called this a "ploughmans" although it's not really the same as a traditional english ploughmans lunch, but it's still pretty nice. Not bad for a pub lunch. :)

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2 eggs... with salami or sausage in sauce... olives... rolled bread... some kind of dish with green herbs on top? And the rest... it's difficult for me to guess... 😂 It does look delicious :)

I think my pub photo is maybe a little difficult to understand because you cannot see all the salad and pickles under the ham and cheese. It's actually a lot, the plate is large. After you eat it you will be full 😁
 
blackbird9 said:
2 eggs... with salami or sausage in sauce... olives... rolled bread... some kind of dish with green herbs on top? And the rest... it's difficult for me to guess... 😂 It does look delicious :)
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Well, the Greek is more or less right. The way he says it not very polite.

In the whole region is the breakfast heavy, broad beans, Hummus (Chickpeas), Olives, ...

One could say 'Ottoman culture' and ask himself what is really Turkish there.

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Ahh so the dish with the green herbs on top is hummus, now I understand. I'm wondering what are the dishes at the bottom edge of the photo. I can't guess... haha. But, I think, after eating that breakfast, you don't need to eat much else until the evening. It looks good :)
 
This is what a 'Continental' breakfast looks like. Legend has it that the name 'continental' is of British origin. Supposedly some British tourists visited the European Continent, ate some pretty spartan-looking breakfast while on travels, and thanks to that limited experience, the name stuck. I think that's a US urban legend, though - a lot of inns and hotels in US serve that 'continental' breakfast.

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By contrast, this is what pop culture in US calls a 'Lumberjack' breakfast:
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blackbird9 said:
Ahh so the dish with the green herbs on top is hummus
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Not sure, perhaps below links. There are regional variations. Chickpeas are original from the region.

The herbs you see is just parsley.

Very typical are the tomato, cucumber, hot pepper, olives. Of course olives are since time immemorial there and have a deep cultural value, but tomato, hot pepper are from America.

What is ottoman could be also byzantine, except tomato and hot pepper. :)
 
The eastern empire goes back a long way... over 1000 years :). I guess tomatoes originated from south america, and peppers from the spice islands or india, they were later introductions. Civilisation survived in the eastern empire for centuries after it collapsed in the west. In the west we had the 'dark ages'. Perhaps the same kind of traditional food was eaten 1000 years ago... :). But I think such a breakfast could only be enjoyed by a rich man at that time!

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Hmm maybe you are right, some hot peppers are from middle and south america... brought back to europe by the conquistadores. But I think many hot peppers were also grown in the east... malaysia, south india. The search for spice was the beginning of the age of european exploration.
 
It's interesting how, in some ways, the roman empire is still with us. Many of the old structures still survive, underneath the modern countries. Even the roads and bridges, and towns, in many countries have roman foundations.
 
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"The ancient Roman diet included many items that are staples of modern Italian cooking. Pliny the Elder discussed more than 30 varieties of olive, 40 kinds of pear, figs (native and imported from Africa and the eastern provinces), and a wide variety of vegetables. Some of these vegetables are no longer present in the modern world, while others have undergone significant changes. Carrots of different colours were consumed, but not in orange. Many kinds of vegetables were cultivated and consumed. These included celery, garlic, some flower bulbs, cabbage and other brassicas (such as kale and broccoli), lettuce, endive, onion, leek, asparagus, radishes, turnips, parsnips, carrots, beets, green peas, chard, field greens, cardoons, olives, and cucumber."
 
blackbird9 said:
It's interesting how, in some ways, the roman empire is still with us. Many of the old structures still survive, underneath the modern countries. Even the roads and bridges, and towns, in many countries have roman foundations.
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At the moment, cities that are continuously inhabited since before the bronze era till today are being destroyed, flattened.
 
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