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Article: How to live like a lard; Dr Atkins Biography Channel.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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Byline: VICTOR LEWIS-SMITH
WHY do thirdrate hotels in this country persist in offering visitors that most grotesque of matutinal gastronomic horrors, the Full English Breakfast?
We're not just talking bacon and eggs here, but fried bacon with fried eggs, with fried mushrooms, with fried sausages, with fried black pudding, with fried tomatoes, with fried bread, with fried kidneys, with fried fries, with ... all consumed at an unearthly hour by crapulent businessmen in plastic suits with halitosis that can bubble paint off a window sill at 50 paces.
Although they pass on the cereal, their mastications are nevertheless accompanied by the ...