US woman irks Brits with her ‘British breakfast’

AN AMERICAN who sparked a diplomatic incident with her appalling recipe for “British tea” has risked further conflict – with her guide to – the traditional “British breakfast”.

The woman, who calls herself “Michelle from North Carolina”, yesterday told online fans she was addressing the issue in response to popular demand, before explaining how to make possibly the worst beans on toast in history.

In her video, she simply pours beans on to a slice of untoasted bread, tops it with a slice of processed cheese, then heats the lot in her microwave.

It was almost certainly a tonguein-cheek suggestion, hot on the heels of the jokey international row she sparked a week ago with her “British tea” instructions.

She suggested fans on the Tik Tok video network that Britain’s national drink is made by heating half a mug of water in a microwave, topping it up with milk, then dunking in a tea bag and stirring in spoonfuls of sugar.

Online uproar was so great that the British ambassador in Washington, Dame Karen Pierce, publicly made reference to the Boston Tea Party of 1773 that launched America’s war of independence, then called on the army, navy and RAF to show how to make a proper cuppa.

America’s ambassador to London, Woody Johnson, retaliated with instructions for “an American cup of coffee”, which was simply instant coffee in a mug.

The new beans-on-toast demonstration comes in a short video in which “Michelle” says: “Hey guys. So, I got a lot of questions after my last few videos – and everyone has requested that I make a traditional British breakfast.

“So, today we’re going to make beans on toast. So, the first step is you want to get your piece of bread, then you want to add the beans.

“I’m just going to pour mine on there, juice and all. Next, you’re going to get your cheese, put it on top of the beans, then you want to put it in the microwave.

“And that’s how you make beans on toast.”

Most people do not need a demonstration from a British ambassador and the armed forces to tell us that the bread should have been toasted, and probably buttered, and that the beans should have been heated separately.

“Michelle” has been described as a wind-up merchant. |