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-and don't forget stewed tomatoes.
Don't go to Café by the Coast in George Street, Hastings, if you want baked beans with your full English breakfast. The young proprietor, Toby Welfare, refuses to serve them, on aesthetic grounds.
'Beans are very sweet,' he tells me. 'Just a red glob of sweet, over-salty stuff.' Welfare would rather send customers away – directing them to a caff down the road – than allow beans to sully his nicely composed plates of griddled butcher's sausage, bacon, egg, grilled tomato and bubble and squeak (with organic toast on the side).
The components of a true English breakfast can cause passionate disputes. Is black pudding satanic or essential? And where do you stand on the sauce question? Welfare is torn. 'Ketchup is best for bacon,' he insists. 'But then sometimes it runs over on to the egg yolk and becomes a mess.'
Besides which, sausages are 'better with brown sauce'. Perhaps there is a third way. Welfare has noticed that the 'real foodies' in his café opt for mustard.
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