Brekkie

"In the morning I treated myself to a big breakfast...Breakfast is, of course, our most savage event in Western society (if you hesitate to agree, then I urge you to name me another occasion-any occasion at all-when you would happily devour an embryo), and Australians seem to have a good fix on this. A lot of it comes down to a mastery of bacon. Unlike the curled shoe tongues that are consumed in Britain or the boringly crisp, regimented strips we go for in America, Australian bacon has a rough, meaty, fair dinkum heartiness. It looks as if it was taken off the pig while it was trying to escape. You can almost hear the squeal in every bite. Lovely. Also, they cut their toast thick. In short, the Australians know what they are about with breakfasts."
Bill Bryson, from "In A Sunburned Country"