A breakfast that put English efforts to shame
SIR – Jane Shilling (Comment, July 13) describes a typical pre-war British breakfast as “heroic”, but it pales into insignificance when compared with the gargantuan repast enjoyed by the Victorian George Borrow on his walking tour of Wales in 1854.
In his book Wild Wales, he describes “a noble breakfast” served at the inn in Bala, which included “tea and coffee, a goodly white loaf and butter; a couple of eggs and two mutton chops. There was broiled and pickled salmon, fried trout, potted trout and potted shrimps.”
Philip J Bennett
Perton, Staffordshire
SIR – We are heading to France in early August, taking the Channel Tunnel for the first time in years. We shall miss our breakfast feast on the ferry, with white cloths and silver service, which took up most of the crossing. A true start to the holiday.
Jacqueline Davies
Faversham, Kent