Originally Posted by nkedel
I've paid $20+ for breakfast a few times as a matter of convenience (and a couple times had it included in a hotel rate where paying otherwise would have been pricier than that), but I can't say I've ever had the food justify the cost increase over a $9 breakfast at a good local diner, and in many cases I'd have been happier with a $4 "Everyday Value Slam" Denny's or the $4 "big breakfast" at McDonalds. There are only so many ways to cook scrambled eggs, and most of them make them worse than the really simple ones.
But you won't get good quality eggs to make those scrambled eggs with. They'll be pale yellow, not bright golden and rich with flavour, from battery hens, not free range. Your sausage will be filled with filler and cereals. Your bacon will have been injected with water to bulk it up. In other words, if you eat a $4 breakfast, you'll be served the cheapest crap imaginable because they can't afford to serve high quality food for that and make a profit.
While I'm with the £20 is too much crowd - I think you are paying a surcharge for the place, not the food - for a good quality English/Scottish breakfast (the Scottish has a few other interesting items on it like haggis, tattie scones and clootie dumpling) I'd happily pay over a tenner if I knew they were using the best of ingredients, not the worst. Breakfast is a speciality of my house - I work hard to source good quality ingredients, particularly sausage and black pudding, usually getting them from the local farmers market because they make such a difference to the quality of the breakfast.
If you can't taste the difference between good and bad eggs, or other breakfast items, then please feel free to enjoy your $4 breakfast. But please don't tell those of us who are able to detect a difference that there is no difference
