OT; Full English

[LSR]

Statins for one thing, which you may well need after a lifetime of fry-ups. You're probably OK with half a fresh grapefruit; less so with a glass of juice.

-- LSR

[The Medway Handyman]

Assuming statins are any use in the first place.

[Andy Hall]

Wrong. A very large number of medications have an interaction with grapefruit. It either makes them more or less effective.

[Rod]

Andy - agreed.

Carbamazepine (Carbatrol, Tegretol) Buspirone (BuSpar), clomipramine (Anafranil) and sertraline (Zoloft) Diazepam (Valium), triazolam (Halcion) Felodipine (Plendil), nifedipine (Adalat, Procardia), nimodipine (Nimotop), nisoldipine (Sular) and possibly verapamil (Isoptin, Verelan) Saquinavir (Invirase) and indinavir (Crixivan) Simvastatin (Zocor), lovastatin (Mevacor, Altoprev) and atorvastatin (Lipitor), simvastatin-ezetimibe (Vytorin) Cyclosporine (Neoral, Sandimmune), tacrolimus (Prograf) and sirolimus (Rapamune) Amiodarone (Cordarone) Methadone Sildenafil (Viagra)

If you take any of these drugs, you should completely avoid grapefruit products, tangelos and Seville oranges, unless otherwise directed by your doctor. Waiting to take these medications ? even up to 24 hours ? after you drink grapefruit juice will not prevent an interaction.

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[Dave]

I'm not surprised. That is a trad English breakfast in my eyes. Forget the crappy hash browns that taste of nothing. By the way, what happened to a slice of black pudding?

Dave

[Dave]

The consensus in my local real ale pub is that white pudding is crap.

Dave

[Adrian C]

Grapefruit also raises post-coffee caffeine levels in the bloodstream, so is something to be careful (or reckless) with!!

[Dave]

But shouldn't the tomato be cut in slices for this? It certainly spreads that much more.

Dave

[Rod]

I snuck it into my pocket to make a sarnie for lunch.

[Dave]

You are not offered the right stuff then. Our local butcher not only sells very good black pudding but does an excellent haggis and black pudding. It is to die for.

Dave

[Dave]

There's nothing English about that.

Dave

[OG]

Yum Baked beans plus half a tomato = two of your five a day!

BTW, I'd heartily recommend the Wetherspoon's Traditional Breakfast / Farmhouse Breakfast as an excellent way to start the day - it's quite likely to see you through to teatime.

[Dave]

It would probably run off into the drip tray before it could set.

George Foreman machines are the work of the devil. What is wrong with a good frying pan for this meal?

Dave

[Harry Bloomfield]

It happens that The Medway Handyman formulated :

Gipsey toast....

Cut a hole in the centre of the bread big enough for the yolk. Fry the bread then drop the egg in the pan, now put the fried bread on top - yolk visible through the hole. When the egg bottom is done, flip in over to do top if you like all the white cooked.

[Dave]

Then try Tesco's 'no added sugar, no added' salt ones.

Agreed.

Absolutely - leftover mash (or boiled),

I only dislike tinned tomatoes because of all the water they have. I don't like soggy fried slice.

On the odd time I have a full English (less that 5 times a year these days) I don't even consider the cholesterol.

Dave

[Dave]

Yes, but who believes a word he writes :-)

Dave

[Dave]

Yes, but not a pharmaceutical degree.

Dave

[Dave Liquorice]

Fresh uncooked, tomato is just about tollerable. Put tinned on and I'm quite likely to reject the whole breakfast. Ghastly stuff, though I do use tinned chopped tomatoes as a base for a tomato pasta sauce, but that can have herbs, pepper, salt, sugar & balsamic vineger added to mask the tinned flavour.

[Dave Liquorice]

Can't stand either. Ketchup but not with breakfast. Ketchup is for your chips at tea time.

[Dave Liquorice]

Wot no chips? How can you 'ave caff wivout chips?

That I can believe, even with modern temperature controlled things.

Ah, it's a ponsey up market caff. You'll be telling us next you have table cloths and the cutlery and mugs all match. B-)