A photo of the “abominable” breakfast at a Dublin hotel has upset and shocked the Irish public after it was posted online.
The €20 breakfast included two hash browns, two sausages, two poached eggs, one rasher that “looks so dry it'd snap like a cracker”, one slice of tomato, a ‘dismally-sized’ pudding and “warm lettuce topped with big bits of raw onion and a splattering of red pepper”. The reddit post received more than 400 comments to date and the one thing people could not agree on was which was the most offensive part of the breakfast.
While there is no canonical full Irish for the most part, a reddit user said, if it has rashers, sausages, eggs, mushrooms, black or white pudding, toast, and some other stuff a reasonable amount of Irish people will agree on, then it's good. “Note the non-negotiable plurals on those. If you give me one sausage – I don't care how big it is – I won't be happy. If I get one rasher, also a paddlin’.”
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Only one egg is also abhorrent in the eyes of reddit users. “I dislike those kinds of breakfast,” another reddit user said. “Let me pile my plate high with 20 sausages without judgement!”
“The salad masking the lack of food is such an insult,” yet another commenter said, adding that it was like they were telling people they need to eat less. Here are some of the other, shall we say, entertaining comments:
“If we were American I'd tell ye to sue for emotional damages and hate crimes against real Irish frys!”
“You don't win friends with salad. Especially in the morning.”
“It looks like they just dove round the corner to the nearest deli and lashed whatever they had onto it. It's just missing a dollop of potato salad with chives.”
“Why isn’t this on The News?”
The post by a newly wed couple revealed they missed a flight to Iceland for their honeymoon on Saturday, then they lost the return flight too and decided to cut their losses and just stay in Dublin one last night before heading home. They paid more than €200 for the night and got two portions of these up to room at a cost of €40.
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