Rather Too True

Bed and Breakfast

"Where you see these words outside a hotel you know that you are guaranteed two things. These things are a bed and a breakfast. What they will be like is anyone’s guess, but by law you will be obliged to say ‘lovely, thanks’ when asked by the proprietor how you found either. Many B&Bs have modernised in recent years, with many installing indoor toilet facilities and ceasing the morning ceremony of slopping out. Others are said to have done some light dusting. Breakfast food will have carefully been selected from a vast array of local suppliers, though this is mostly because the eggs are cheapest at Asda, the bacon at Lidl and the sausages at Iceland. Tinned plum tomatoes are a compulsory part of the breakfast, even though no one has used them in this way at home since 1974."

Iain Aitch, We're British, Innit (2008)