For many Kiwis in lockdown, breakfast has become a newfound indulgence. Where we once wolfed down a bowl of cereal, milk dribbling down our chin as we rushed to get out the door, or tackled a piece of toast on the drive into the office, here in level 4, we find ourselves with the luxury of time in the mornings.
Time to make a salmon, courgette and whipped feta omelette, perhaps. Or load up a slice of homemade banana bread with cashew butter, a drizzle of maple, maybe a few coconut chips, for contrast and crunch. Or, before we log into our morning Zoom call, we find we can easily manage to fry up a good old round of bacon and eggs.
Which is exactly what this Tik Tok user did. But with one foul difference.
Shared to Reddit overnight by user "Dolamite09", a video of baked beans, bacon, eggs and kumara roasties cooked in the most putrid of conditions has caught the attention of the internet.
Some may well recognise the setting as a filthy student flat: a kitchen strewn with dirty dishes, greasy Sistema containers, bottle caps, a browning banana skin and a stove top that looks like something out of a 90s Ajax Spray 'N Wipe commercial - before it's attacked with the product.
The video begins with an old pan thrown on the stove, visibly encrusted with the remnants of the last meal fried in it.
Next, a dented half-can of baked beans is dumped on a dirty plate along with a few kumara roasties - which look quite palatable - and thrown in a microwave – filthy, of course.
Meanwhile, a bargain pack of bacon is slapped on a bench top among the flotsam and jetsam of a previous meal - maybe several. Then it's tossed in the pan and the cook picks up a pair of tongs from a crumb-covered corner of the floor. Burnt to a dry crisp, the bacon is added to the plate of beans and eggs are thrown into the pan without being cracked. These are topped with cheese, grated right onto the bench, and eventually added to the pile and doused in hot sauce.
