£40 full English breakfast leaves people speechless

There are a few things the British public are protective over, but a fry-up might just top the list.

Sausage, bacon, eggs, beans, toast, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes and maybe some black or white pudding if you’re so inclined.

It’s so easy to get it right, but when a Redditor posted their fry-up at a hotel in Gainsborough, commenters were left livid.

According to the poster under the r/fryup Subreddit, the person explained that they had purchased the delicious meal for a full 40 quid.

On the plate was a tomato, two rashers of bacon, a sausage, a couple of fried mushrooms, what appears to be either two circular hashbrowns or two chicken nuggets, two poached eggs, a little bowl of beans, and some watercress to top it off.

According to Venue Report, which shares the inside scoop of UK hotels, the hotel offers its breakfast for £40 per person for their Full English Breakfast and £25 per person for Continental Breakfast if they do not include breakfast in their stay package.

Apparently, this came from Gainsborough Hotel in Bath, which offers guests a ‘dinner inclusive package’ and ‘a three-course dinner in the Gainsborough Brasserie’, as well as a ‘lavish Full English breakfast the following morning’.

However, ‘lavish’ isn’t what people would use to describe the image on the Reddit post.

The plate left people upset (Reddit)

One person scathed: “There's a point beyond which it ceases to be funny, or annoying, and moves into the realm of performance art.”

Another said: “Did the £40 include the room?”, while another added: “40 bastard pounds for this pathetic effort? No. Just no.”

A user then asked: “I hope that £40 included something else substantial, because 8 fivers would be more filling than that.”

Because there were so many, I’ve compiled a few that really encapsulate the feelings of Reddit below:

• “I thought it said £4 for a second I had to do a double take— what the actual f***?”
• “Not even enough beans to fart a house of cards over, and what's with the chicken nuggets?”
• “I’d be furious. Ffs I’m furious on your behalf!”

However, one person did ask what was included in its breakfast buffet.

Fry-ups can be a contentious topic (Steven Robinson Pictures/Getty Images)

They asked: “What was in the buffet? Folks are triggered by this, but without knowing what else you were entitled to, it's a bit misleading as to how value-for-money this deal was.”

To this, the OP revealed they had coffee and tea included in the ‘pretty basic’ buffet which featured ‘Cheese/ham, some cereals etc.’

In the end, they called it ‘nothing special and actually a lot less than I'd expect from a hotel like this’.

FOODbible reached out to the Gainsborough Bath Spa hotel for comment.