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Old May 22, 2013 | 11:22 am
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Originally Posted by Jenbel
At the other end of the scale are the £20 generic chain hotel breakfasts. Buffet breakfasts with a buffet full of poor quality items - which in fairness are usually not cooked too badly, but where the bacon, black pudding and sausage is poor quality nasty rubbish (still edible and enjoyable though ) the mushrooms are tinned, the scrambled eggs are powdered, and the hash browns are frozen. Toast comes out of one of those awful machines where you have to hover to get them out at the other end, the butter is rock solid and the bread for the toast is the cheapest sliced cotton wool bread imaginable. The choice of fruit juice selection is orange or apple, and the glasses are the smallest thimbles in the world.

Those places are hell. You only eat there if it's included in the price, or you are hungover.
I wouldn't call a place like that hell, and I've certainly eaten comparable breakfasts in the cheaper US hotel chains (when they were included in the price of the room), but there's no way I'd pay 20 bucks for one. It's edible, sometimes it's even enjoyable, but there's no way it's worth 20 bucks.

By the way, what's black pudding?
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