How Europe’s proverbial voters explain a continent
What Irish breakfasts and Polish proboscis monkeys share in common
THE IRISH breakfast roll is a feat of culinary engineering. Take a baguette, slice lengthways and butter it. Add a sausage, two fried eggs, two rashers of bacon, hash browns and some black or white pudding, cover in ketchup, then serve. At around 1,300 calories, it is nearly half the recommended daily allowance for a man, and is traditionally consumed while hungover.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Meet the proverbial voters”
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