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07th Aug 2017

A Cardiff cafe is serving a cooked breakfast in a jar and everything is not okay

In what universe could this be considered to be acceptable?

Rich Cooper

The cooked breakfast is a sacred thing.

It’s one of our proudest national pastimes. It must be loved. It must be protected. It must be treated with respect.

This means serving it in an appropriate manner: on a plate, with a knife and fork and a cup of tea. Nothing fancy required, no special utensils, and definitely no serving it in a ja-

WHAT IS THIS.

A post shared by Munchies Cardiff (@munchiescdf) on

LOOK AT IT. IF YOU CAN BEAR IT, LOOK. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS.

To answer, this is a cooked breakfast in a jar, served by Munchies cafe in Cardiff. “Come try one of our breakfasts in a jar, the Instagram caption reads. “We’re serving them until 5!”

And then never again, presumably.

There’s so much wrong here. For a start, why on earth would scrabbling around in a jar be a good way to eat a cooked breakfast? The beans are going to make everything soggy – even a sausage breakwater would struggle here. You could drink this cooked breakfast, and you should never be able to drink a cooked breakfast.

The response online has been similarly incredulous.

https://twitter.com/chris1ar/status/894471821663326209

https://twitter.com/jen725/status/894476777032228864

https://twitter.com/Messiermum/status/894476555363254273

We can only hope that the cafe are having a laugh with us. Please tell us you’re having a laugh with us. For the sake of the cooked breakfast, for the sake of the nation: please tell us you’re having a laugh with us.