Why do England struggle to produce undisputedly great players?

[weldone]

A couple of points

1. The English breakfast is the best breakfast you can get. Anyone who refers to it as 'bad food' is a mouthbreathing deviant (though I don't eat tomatoes)
2. Furball trying to pass the Scottish breakfast off as the true breakfast would be like Dawood Ahmad comparing his poetry to Keats. There's a reason you can get an English breakfast anywhere in Europe and that many Scottish pubs don't even serve the jock version

actually in many big cities outside Europe too...but I'll put a lot of that down to colonial history

 

[weldone]

how do you people eat such heavy food before work/school when you're not even hungover

big breakfasts are for 10-11am aka brunch if you're a camp auckland wanker.

Breakfast should be the heaviest meal of the day, if you're following a healthy lifestyle (not saying that English breakfast with so much grease is v healthy)

 

[flibbertyjibber]

how do you people eat such heavy food before work/school when you're not even hungover

big breakfasts are for 10-11am aka brunch if you're a camp auckland wanker.

Well I don't all the time, just did it today as the dog woke me up before 6 needing to go out so once I was up I did the cooked breakfast for kids and it was rude not having one myself. Always do them at weekends but that not as a hangover cure as those days are gone having teenage sprogs as can't afford to go out anyway. Usually do something cooked when a test match is on early so Friday the kids will have something done for when they get up seeing as it starts at 5am.

 

[cnerd123]

10/10 thread if not for the presence of a certain member's posting.

Welldone everyone.

 

[cnerd123]

A couple of points

1. The English breakfast is the best breakfast you can get. Anyone who refers to it as 'bad food' is a mouthbreathing deviant (though I don't eat tomatoes)

If this is the best of English cuisine then no wonder your cricketers suck. They have no will to live.

 

[weldone]

Agree that ***** ruined the thread

 

[Fuller Pilch]

If this is the best of English cuisine then no wonder your cricketers suck. They have no will to live.

They definitely have the worst food of all the cricket nations.

 

[Prince EWS]

If this is the best of English cuisine

It's not. He didn't even say it was -- he said it was the best breakfast.

 

[vcs]

Breakfast should be the heaviest meal of the day, if you're following a healthy lifestyle (not saying that English breakfast with so much grease is v healthy)

One of those myths IMO (like the "drink 8 glasses of water a day whether or not you're thirsty" one). I don't eat breakfast and it's never done me any harm. I just eat two heavy meals a day.

 

[weldone]

One of those myths IMO (like the "drink 8 glasses of water a day whether or not you're thirsty" one). I don't eat breakfast and it's never done me any harm. I just eat two heavy meals a day.

How old are you? If below 50, that doesn't prove anything.

 

[OverratedSanity]

One of those myths IMO (like the "drink 8 glasses of water a day whether or not you're thirsty" one). I don't eat breakfast and it's never done me any harm. I just eat two heavy meals a day.

Nah I'm with weldone here. I've switched to the heaviest - heavy - light eating schedule a few months ago and it's great. Makes a lot of sense for Indian food too, since eating loads spicy Indian chicken before going to bed is just inviting trouble.

However dum aloo for breakfast, weldone? Bleh, never.

 

[cnerd123]

They definitely have the worst food of all the cricket nations.

That breakfast pic posted earlier literally made me want to barf. Just take a look at what the other nations eat:

India

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

Bangladesh

South Africa

West Indies

Australia

New Zealand

But England...man. Starting every morning with a that depressing plate in front of them, I mean, of course they're not going to achieve greatness. Of course.

 

[vcs]

How would it prove anything if I was above 50... you could attribute my hypothetical poor health to any number of things.

To prove your point, you'll have to do a study with two groups : a.) One where you give some people food in two heavy meals and b.) A set of people fed over several lighter meals.

The total composition of the meals should be identical, just the distribution different. Then their physical activity, lifestyle would have to be identical, predisposal to genetic diseases should be comparable and so on. If you then observe a distinct variation in the overall health of the two groups, you could make that claim. Even then, after that, you'd have to demonstrate some sort of causal link between how food is processed in the body and why it is beneficial to spread your meals.

 

[vcs]

That breakfast pic posted earlier literally made me want to barf. Just take a look at what the other nations eat:

India

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

Bangladesh

South Africa

West Indies

Australia

New Zealand

But England...man. Starting every morning with a that depressing plate in front of them, I mean, of course they're not going to achieve greatness. Of course.

These pictures deserve quoting and repeating. *drool*

 

[cnerd123]

How on Earth can you wake up every morning to these and still have any desire to do anything with your life:

JFC England, get your **** together.

 

[weldone]

How would it prove anything if I was above 50... you could attribute my hypothetical poor health to any number of things.

To prove your point, you'll have to do a study with two groups : a.) One where you give some people food in two heavy meals and b.) A set of people fed over several lighter meals.

The total composition of the meals should be identical, just the distribution different. Then their physical activity, lifestyle would have to be identical, predisposal to genetic diseases should be comparable and so on. If you then observe a distinct variation in the overall health of the two groups, you could make that claim. Even then, after that, you'd have to demonstrate some sort of causal link between how food is processed in the body and why it is beneficial to spread your meals.

I didn't say I'm a medical expert and have proven everything, I'm just saying that you not having breakfast and yet doing well doesn't prove anything.

 

[harsh.ag]

That breakfast pic posted earlier literally made me want to barf. Just take a look at what the other nations eat:

West Indies

Want to go to there.

 

[Prince EWS]

Fair point, but it can't get in on a fry-up unless it's fried.

I dunno, toast and beans tend to find their way in.

 

[Furball]

Square Sausage?? Scones?? Haggis?? And I don't even know what a Morton crispy roll is.........but I can tell you I'd rather be a deviant (which really is not so bad itbt) than eat that ****ing monstrosity!!

A Morton's roll is just a roll to put some of the brrakfasty deliciousness into.

Depending on where in England you come from you might have your own spacker name for a roll, but we'll stick to proper terms and proper food.

And no, it's not scones, it's potato scones, and you're missing out.

Plus Haggis is divine on a breakfast.

 

[vcs]

I didn't say I'm a medical expert and have proven everything, I'm just saying that you not having breakfast and yet doing well doesn't prove anything.

Yeah, it doesn't, but the burden of proof is on someone who says it isn't good for me.