You have to try a full English breakfast. It’s a heart attack on a plate: eggs, bacon, sausages, beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding (blood sausage), and toast. It’s designed to fill a coal miner for a week, or you, for about four hours. Order it at a greasy spoon café, not a hotel. More grease = more flavor.
For a snack, get a pasty from a shop that looks like it’s staffed by time-traveling miners. They are hot, flaky, and filled with steak and ale. You will burn your mouth. It’s a rite of passage.
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And then there’s the black cab driver. They have to pass a test called “The Knowledge.” They memorize every street, every alley, every dead cat in a 6-mile radius. It takes them years. It’s the most terrifying and impressive thing you’ll ever see until they can’t find your hotel because you said “the one by the red door.”
