Egg, bacon, mushrooms and media

Never go to a conference on an empty stomach. Heading to the NMK Forum this morning I stopped off at High Taste on Farringdon Road. It's a greasy spoon of the eggsbaconchipsandbeans variety. However, I order eggsausagebacontomatomushroomstoast which has far less of a ring to it. This is possibly the only cafe in London that also sells "sandwishes" and where you can "eat inn".

Onto mucho social media, blog talk. Jason Calcanis has just announced Mahalo Greenhouse and it all sounds like a rather cool way of searching the web.

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Comments

[ourman]

I was about to gush about how much I missed it...but...

Breakfasts here are good.

I do still miss baked beans though. Black pudding too.

[Trig]

My dad tells me that the order in which you name the components of the meal is (or at least used to be in the old days) taken as a sign of social class. Working class people order eggbaconsausagebeansandfriedbread. Middle class people order baconeggbeanssausageandtoast. Or something like that.

[Graham]

I never heard that one Trig...

I did hear my sociology A level teacher tell me that if you call your evening meal, dinner then you're middle class. if you call it tea, you're working class.

So, on that basis. I was once working class and I am now middle class. So, why don't I feel it in my slef or my pocket :(

[ourman]

Graham, I suspect it has more to do with living abroad. I always used to call lunch dinner and dinner tea - but it just confuses foreigners and southerners.

Now I have standardise it otherwise it is all way too confusing.

I never quite worked out where supper fits into all this but my quite posh gran wedges in all sorts of meals. Her day was: breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea, dinner, supper.

Yes, she is a large lady.