Great Brit fry-up successful abroad ‘smashing cultural boundaries’ and large in Japan
The traditional English breakfast is finally a hit overseas, experts now say.
The English Breakfast Society says despite decades of being the butt of jokes, the fry-up has finally smashed cultural boundaries. The society has been monitoring the dish’s popularity in foreign climes for years and says the brekkie has now “burst out of the Anglosphere into global popularity.”
It has around 12,000 visitors to its website every month and two-thirds of them are now international visitors. As well as that, the society has been tracking the number of overseas Tweets detailing foreigners’ enjoyment of the English breakfast and has seen a huge uplift.
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Chairman Guise Bule said” The English breakfast tradition has broken free of the Anglosphere into global popularity for the first time in history.
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“We have never seen this before.
“Foreigners have mocked British food for a long time, but now foreigners want to eat breakfast like we do.
“The Foreign Office is increasingly using English breakfast events as a way of bringing people closer to our culture and it works.
Mr Bule said the tradition had previously been “in the gutter” and the society had worked hard to get it seen as an important piece of British heritage.
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“It’s big news – never before has the English breakfast been so popular overseas,” he added.
There are now hundreds of Tweets showing foreigners take on the British eggs, toast, bacon and sausage, black pudding, baked beans and hash browns.
Sharon, from Uganda, posted a pic at her favourite cafe, Tweeting: “We are back to my favorite English breakfast place y’all.”
Other offerings come from as far away as Poland, Nepal and Morocco, where Brit Lara Forrester ordered a full English and was served bananas instead of sausages.
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In Japan in particular, the dish seems to have really taken off, with dozens of pics online.
Guise, who works in cyber security, helped set up the non-profit, volunteer-run English breakfast Society ten years ago.
They run English Breakfast Day on December 2 every year – which he claims is loved by the Foreign Office as a diplomacy tool.
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