matter of principle

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

The play's the thing

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Lord Olivier and the side of kippers

The legendary incident on the 'Brighton Belle'. Still shrouded in mystery!

I myself, love kippers and scrambled eggs plated up for an invigorating trad Brit breakfast.

At least once a week, a regular on my stovetop. It's a great Saturday morning fry-up similar to beans'n'mash or rice curry.

Or for a quick sammich on-the-go, I fix a kipper & poached egg on a fresh Portuguese roll. With a slice of Bermuda onion and some cayenne.

Anyway. At some point in Olivier's career, the Brighton Belle (which sped he & Plowright to & from performances in London & Brighton) began delimiting its menu.

No one else on the train ordered kipper except this famed thespian. So they unceremoniously dropped it.

If you've never tried it, kipper is as good as --or even better than --bacon, with your eggs. Evidently, a fave dish of Olivier's too.

So, he raised a a public outcry. He got it temporarily restored, (a brief reprieve in the sense that the Belle herself was soon dropped from the line too).

But I sure don't blame him for causing a ruckus. Henry V --savior of England --deserves a hearty morning feed.

At this late date I still can't make heads-or-tails of what happened exactly --many of the news stories at the time, are archived behind silly paywalls --nevertheless I support Olivier in his demands for crispy kipper!

http://vivandlarry.com/larry/articles...
https://www.dailydrone.co.uk/how-lord...
https://www.herripedia.com/olivier-la...

[Betsy]

Kippers are a great treat. Haven't had since my last trip to the UK.

[Jill]

That's three of us who love kippers. They don't seem very popular in the US.