Con Breakfast

[daveon]

One thing that Concussion will be remembered by me (and my middle) for a long time to come, was breakfast at the Crowne Plaza.

Wow! Like, wow! As I was up at 6am on the Friday, I assumed that I was lucky to be there before the mad rush, but no, other samplings taken at 10 and 10.30, indicated that the food remained plentiful throughout the breakfast. There were mushrooms (of course), there were fried AND scrambled eggs, there was bacon, there were sausages but then it settled down to the business; square sausags; hagis; rich, dark, fatty black puddings; frid potatoe scone; pancakes (ok so these weren't so good); waffles; cereals; fruit; cheeses; toast; different breads; fruit juices...

*sigh*

The only time I've felt happier with a Convention Breakfast was the 1996 Fantasycon in Docklands where they served kidney. Many people assumed they were funny looking mushrooms and probably were not impressed. But I know good offal when I see it!

Comments

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Oh, the haggis. I am tempted to demand that all con breakfasts in future feature haggis. So many meat products, so little time. Oh, and the potato scones.

Really, the Crowne Plaza breakfsts reminded me of nothing so much as the Royal Angus breakfasts in the early 1980s, and I can offer no higher praise. As an impoverished con-goer in those days, I could fill up on Angus breakfasts and last all day. These days I space the meals out and am a little more abstemious, but I already miss the CP beakfasts (not the coffee, which was frankly bloody awful, but the tea was acceptable).

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

FRied potato scones. Square sausage. Siggghhhh. (Though I admit one morning they were rock hard and I wondered if they were recycling the buns from the night before..)Also being till 12, it was lunch for me, which was why I didn't have to buy expensive lunches..