The Telegraph said the UK’s EU negotiators enjoyed a ‘patriotic’ English breakfast – 9 delicious responses
Now that Boris Johnson’s got Brexit done, all that remains is to actually sort out the day to day detail of, basically, everything.
And it was with great excitement how the Daily Telegraph reported that the UK’s team of negotiations enjoyed a ‘patriotic’ English breakfast before going into battle, sorry, talks with the EU.
David Frost enjoyed a delicious patriotic breakfast of sausages, baked beans, bacon and eggs before leading a team of 100 UK officials into negotiations https://t.co/K6zlF0Jd8m
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 2, 2020
And it’s fair to say it prompted quite a bit of debate among people who wondered how a breakfast could be patriotic and, you know, how English an English breakfast is anyway.
Here are our 9 favourite replies.
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I once made the mistake of heading into a negotiation powered only by a seditious petit-déjeuner. I'm not allowed to disclose exactly what happened but suffice it to say things didn't go as planned and New Zealand is now an independent country or something. https://t.co/CE3oUG9ueg
— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) March 2, 2020
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It’s this sort of playground idiocy that just confirms that the British side have no idea what they’re up against.
— Richard Bentall #FBPE Project We Told You So. (@RichardBentall) March 2, 2020
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A ‘patriotic breakfast’?
Sausages were invented by Sumerians circa 3000BC; all beans used in baked beans are native to South America; pork was first salted in ancient China & hens were first domesticated in ancient Egypt. ‘Patriotic’
What an awful joke Brexit is making of the UK. https://t.co/DA1Trgwdw8— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) March 2, 2020
4.
I had patriotic marmite today but I had it on unpatriotic bagels does that cancel it out? – this patriotism stuff is complicated
— Peter Sutton (@Suttope) March 3, 2020
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Others will correct me, but I thought chicken domestication was in early Holocene China
— Dan Hicks (@profdanhicks) March 3, 2020
6.
Ah, the Full English! Breakfast of champions! Those croissant-munching Eurocrats won’t stand a chance in negotiations!
— Mark Vipond (@markvipond) March 2, 2020
7.
I had croissant and yoghurt for breakfast, which will no doubt confirm some of my former colleagues' view of me.
Hopelessly naive of me but any chance we could focus on the jobs and security that are at stake in these negotiations, not what our negotiator had for breakfast? https://t.co/9qN1S6vcb3
— Gavin Barwell (@GavinBarwell) March 3, 2020
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At risk of over-egging #breakfastgate, it is oddly illustrative of a bigger picture. A bunch of people mock the objectively ludicrous notion that a breakfast can be 'patriotic'. The mocked, meanwhile, furiously claim that it's everyone else who's furious.
The silly sausages.— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) March 3, 2020
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