Sunday, November 21, 2010

English Breakfast

I absolutely love the English, but their food is another thing entirely. (confession, I wasn't thinking about the English people's eating of beans for breakfast when I was making this. More like America's eating of "Beans and Franks", but I usually title things last moment, so here we are).

Speaking of England, an email friend from there, P K Munroe sent me his new book "You Can Stick It" (click the link for another person's description). I happen to think he's a rather clever fellow on a couple of fronts, so I want to give him a plug here.
My review- A sticker book for adults, whose publishers state- "We do not sanction any use which would deface or damage private or public property. No matter how amusing that may be."  Ha! Yeah, right. But don't worry, for those people who wouldn't want to deface public property etc., I would heartily recommend getting this book for the sheer fun of putting stickers on gifts to friends. It has subtle fake wine labels, a variety of stickers for book jackets ( "Winner of obscure prize", "Makes the film of the book look good"), DVD's ("Warning, may contain sluts"), CD's ("Difficult Second Album", "Contains Greatist Hit"), etc. Fun.

11 comments:

morganobrienart said...

Full Irish breakfasts are much the same....sausage, bacon, black and white pudding, eggs, tomato, beans and toast. Talk about filling. On the rare occasions the missus and I have said breakfast we have it for our evening dinner instead and call it "Brinner"...(Breakfast for Dinner)

Super work as usual Terry!

S.A. said...

I spent a few weeks in the UK this summer, and almost starved. I much prefer my cold cereal and milk to baked beans. :) Love the UK though!

Love the photo- it's great!

salahhe said...

That food looks just awful. I don't think any English person would eat something so junky. That definitely has "American" written all over it.

Shelly said...

Hmmm..Don't know about breakfast but as to "Stick It", I assume Amazon will not be selling a Kindle version.

Jorgelina said...

There's something really cute about this bent scene...reminds me of my niece and nephew when they take their toys to the bath and come out with prune-looking fingers and toes!

Sixteen Chickens said...

Is it bad that I looked and looked for tiny bubbles behind the frank?

Gaina said...

LOL This one really tickled me. I think it's the little boat that just perfects the scenario.

@salahhe - a well-cooked english breakfast is the best comfort food you'll ever eat :). Personally I like scrambled or fried egg with veggie sausage, tomatoes and mushrooms and bakes beans :).

Morgenstern said...

Haha, reminds me of Roger Daltrey bathing in beans for the cover of The Who Sell Out!

numeroeins said...

I'm so glad my friend sent me a link to your blog. I enjoyed the last three hours admiring your work.

The detail that you put into every piece is absolutely fantastic; especially with this one. You nailed everything from the lighting, to the reflection of the rubber ducky and the beans, and finally the juice spilling over like a little kid playing hard in the tub. All of this adds to the overall feeling that I get when I see this.

Keep up the great work! I cannot wait to see what you come up with next.

Noah said...

I thought the sailboats made this Navy Bean Soup...

GoGreyGirl said...

I really liked this one. At our house, this would be called Beanie Weenies...