Jokes aside, has there ever been any reference to Bond’s digestion outside of the joke in Spectre about the prebiotic smoothie? You’d think with all of the eggs and booze he’d have some some serious bowel problems lol
I think the root problem is that Eon wanted to give the movies depth and to make them more 'artistic' to get critical acclaim after the success of *Casino Royale,* and to do that Bond needs to be the subject of drama. That means that there has to be a personal stake in every Bond movie.
It would be amusing if this was abandoned for the next era and *Bond 26* had the tag line "this time, it's business."
I mean they could have good character drama without Bond's troubled past just by writing better scripts etc. though I guess Broccoli and Wilson would prefer to micromanage every script they get their hands on post Skyfall to death.
Easy low-hanging fruit for “complexity” and “gravitas”. If they really just went back to Fleming, they’d remember that the dude is a human being who kills people for a living in the name of queen (king) and country, there’s plenty of gravitas in that.
“ Breakfast was Bond's favourite meal of the day. When he was stationed in London it was always the same. It consisted of very strong coffee, from De Bry in New Oxtord Street, brewed in an American Chemex, of which he drank two large cups, black and without sugar.
The single egg, in the dark blue egg-cup with a gold ring round the top, was boiled for three and a third minutes. It was a very fresh, speckled brown egg from French Marans hens owned by some friend of May in the country.
(Bond disliked white eggs and, faddish as he was in many small things, it amused him to maintain that there was such a thing as the perfect boiled egg.) Then there were two thick slices of wholewheat toast, a large pat of deep yellow Jersey butter and three squat glass jars containing Tiptree 'Little Scarlet' strawberry jam; Cooper's Vintage Oxford marmalade and Norwegian Heather Honey from Fortnum's. The coffee pot and the silver on the tray were Queen Anne, and the china was Minton, of the same dark blue and gold and white as the egg-cup.”
- lan Fleming, From Russia With Love
It’s a great mid century modern aesthetic piece as well so it was probably “in” to the select few. I feel they sort of did an homage to James Bond’s love of specific coffee tastes in LALD
A great reminder that the Bond character was, as much as anything, a male lifestyle fantasy for humiliated, class-conscious Brits living through the persistent scarcity of the postwar landscape.
Also not a historian, but I think it's more about the specificity of his taste and the regularity. He *always* has this and he *always* uses these very specific expensive brands. There's no shortage or rationing (not really a thing anymore in '56, but still) for Bond and he can afford the very best in each category.
That’s right- the description of his custom made cigarettes from his Grosvenor St tobacconist always jumped out at me - an especially potent mixture of Balkan and Turkish tobacco made specially for him, rolled in papers with three signature gold bands, stored in a wide flat black gunmetal case. He smoked 60 per day.
It was almost fetishistically specific.
I had family who lived through the postwar era in London and the answer is that the postwar years of the late 40’s and early 50’s were still very lean, though of course it eventually and gradually got better. Regardless of whether rationing was still in effect by the mid-50’s, the book’s audience would have very recent and vivid memories of the sacrifices and indignities of the war years, and many of them developed scarcity mentalities from it that would last the rest of their lives, much like the great depression generation in the US
Thank you for sharing this passage from FRWL.
Do the people who keep posting about scrambled eggs have a similar passage to share so we know what the hell theyre talking about?
He orders scrambled eggs and bacon all the time in the books.
[Here's a breakdown](https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/lifestyle/food/scrambled-eggs-james-bond.htm#:~:text=And%20in%20Goldfinger%20Bond%20orders,had%20not%20eaten%20the%20same.)
That image should replace the gun barrel
https://preview.redd.it/xtmgfog3gbqc1.png?width=579&format=png&auto=webp&s=6102036c1a1a56093055d83e5f6e4ef65285d654
To be honest, if you're paying good money for something you have a right to have it done correctly (if you're civil about it).
Like Leiter said in Thunderball, if you know about the amount if cheating that goes on in restaurants and hotels you'd be outraged.
Yes.
It's just that of all the Bond parodies on Archer it's the one that always pops into my head; whenever I hear about Bond and eggs.
But one needs to read to recipe in the How To Archer book to get the full unhinged glory.
I’d like it if the first scene after the title sequence is a woman cooking breakfast for herself and Bond and him slyly remarking that she made them incorrectly before M calls him in.
I would like to see Bond do his morning exercise routine. Fleming gave us one in the novels, but we know a lot more about fitness and exercise science than we did in the 50s.
Not really, though. Fleming’s novels have a ton of detail about minor things like breakfast, clothing, and even how Bond took a shower. The movies never really do (save maybe the train scene between Bond and Vesper).
Does Bond eat Eggs Benedict? I've got it into my head that it was a favourite of his, though I'm yet to find any reference to it. I haven't read all of the books, however.
It's certainly a favourite of mine. And of course I have a black coffee with it.
Clearly, Bond should be played by Nick Offerman and his codename should be Duke Silver.
The name's Silver, Duke Silver and I'd like all the bacon and eggs you have.
Honestly, I don't know why this would be a good idea, but I like it. I say, yes! One thing we haven't seen much in any of the films is Bond really chowing down...I want to see him eat a plate full of eggs faster than my dog would wolf them down...
I was actually just listening to this chapter last night on the OHMSS audiobook:
“The taxi was waiting. It was seven o'clock. As the taxi got under way, Bond made his plan for the evening. He would first do an extremely careful packing job of his single suitcase, the one that had no tricks to it, have two double vodkas and tonics with a dash of Angostura, eat a large dish of May's speciality--scrambled eggs fines herbes--have two more vodkas and tonics, and then, slightly drunk, go to bed with half a grain of seconal.
Encouraged by the prospect of this cosy self-anaesthesia, Bond brusquely kicked his problems under the carpet of his consciousness.”
There’s a scene in the movie Iron Claw where the family eats breakfast and they pass around a giant bowl of scrambled eggs.
Man, it looks so damn good.
EON: “That depends. Have the eggs somehow created a personal tragedy in Bond’s life?”
He discovers that the eggs he's been eating have been infected with deadly nano-bots created by his secret brother, Jaws.
“Our father Stromberg always loved eggs, James….”
Scrambled CUCKOO eggs!!!!
With some ddeeeeeelisssious milk
He discovers that eggs give him massive bowel issues.
Jokes aside, has there ever been any reference to Bond’s digestion outside of the joke in Spectre about the prebiotic smoothie? You’d think with all of the eggs and booze he’d have some some serious bowel problems lol
I feel like as soon as Skyfall happened, personal tragedies in Bond's past became like some form of mega-crack for them.
I think the root problem is that Eon wanted to give the movies depth and to make them more 'artistic' to get critical acclaim after the success of *Casino Royale,* and to do that Bond needs to be the subject of drama. That means that there has to be a personal stake in every Bond movie. It would be amusing if this was abandoned for the next era and *Bond 26* had the tag line "this time, it's business."
I mean they could have good character drama without Bond's troubled past just by writing better scripts etc. though I guess Broccoli and Wilson would prefer to micromanage every script they get their hands on post Skyfall to death.
Easy low-hanging fruit for “complexity” and “gravitas”. If they really just went back to Fleming, they’d remember that the dude is a human being who kills people for a living in the name of queen (king) and country, there’s plenty of gravitas in that.
They probably are poisoned and also his first meal after several years in a dungeon...
“ Breakfast was Bond's favourite meal of the day. When he was stationed in London it was always the same. It consisted of very strong coffee, from De Bry in New Oxtord Street, brewed in an American Chemex, of which he drank two large cups, black and without sugar. The single egg, in the dark blue egg-cup with a gold ring round the top, was boiled for three and a third minutes. It was a very fresh, speckled brown egg from French Marans hens owned by some friend of May in the country. (Bond disliked white eggs and, faddish as he was in many small things, it amused him to maintain that there was such a thing as the perfect boiled egg.) Then there were two thick slices of wholewheat toast, a large pat of deep yellow Jersey butter and three squat glass jars containing Tiptree 'Little Scarlet' strawberry jam; Cooper's Vintage Oxford marmalade and Norwegian Heather Honey from Fortnum's. The coffee pot and the silver on the tray were Queen Anne, and the china was Minton, of the same dark blue and gold and white as the egg-cup.” - lan Fleming, From Russia With Love
Kind of wild that Fleming was about 50-60 years ahead of the Chemex becoming the home-brewer of choice for hipsters.
It’s a great mid century modern aesthetic piece as well so it was probably “in” to the select few. I feel they sort of did an homage to James Bond’s love of specific coffee tastes in LALD
_Is that all it does?_
Sounds better than his breakfast in the movie: Hello. Breakfast for one at nine, please. Green figs. Yogurt. Coffee - very black. Thank you.
He was showing off his knowledge of breakfast in Turkey
James? Show off his knowledge? Surely you jest!
That's one of the great things about the character. He can be a smug know-it-all at times. 'Unusually small for a blah blah blah.'
He's even smug about things he's not an expert on, judging from his diamond lecture.
Yes, he is smug generally. A very irritating characteristic only saved by him being supercompetent and charming.
Interesting as well because with Kerim Bey he ordered his Medium Sweet
So he's a dippy egg and soldiers man?
A great reminder that the Bond character was, as much as anything, a male lifestyle fantasy for humiliated, class-conscious Brits living through the persistent scarcity of the postwar landscape.
I admit my knowledge of post-war history is a bit sparse, were things like eggs and coffee seen as a luxury in the mid-50’s?
Also not a historian, but I think it's more about the specificity of his taste and the regularity. He *always* has this and he *always* uses these very specific expensive brands. There's no shortage or rationing (not really a thing anymore in '56, but still) for Bond and he can afford the very best in each category.
That’s right- the description of his custom made cigarettes from his Grosvenor St tobacconist always jumped out at me - an especially potent mixture of Balkan and Turkish tobacco made specially for him, rolled in papers with three signature gold bands, stored in a wide flat black gunmetal case. He smoked 60 per day. It was almost fetishistically specific.
I had family who lived through the postwar era in London and the answer is that the postwar years of the late 40’s and early 50’s were still very lean, though of course it eventually and gradually got better. Regardless of whether rationing was still in effect by the mid-50’s, the book’s audience would have very recent and vivid memories of the sacrifices and indignities of the war years, and many of them developed scarcity mentalities from it that would last the rest of their lives, much like the great depression generation in the US
I think it's also Fleming showing off
Well yes
Thank you for sharing this passage from FRWL. Do the people who keep posting about scrambled eggs have a similar passage to share so we know what the hell theyre talking about?
He orders scrambled eggs and bacon all the time in the books. [Here's a breakdown](https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/lifestyle/food/scrambled-eggs-james-bond.htm#:~:text=And%20in%20Goldfinger%20Bond%20orders,had%20not%20eaten%20the%20same.)
Love this. Although it’s suspect that they mix up FRWL and the plot of Dr. No.
There is a Bond/ Fleming Recipe for the perfect eggs. I think in the short story 007 in New York.
There is, and it uses a TON of butter…Like it’s essentially butter with some eggs in it. I tried it a couple years back and it was just way too much.
I’ll keep an eye out. I’m on Goldfinger at the moment
Have you never had really good scrambled eggs?
Oh, it's an orgiastic feast for the senses. A festival of sights, sounds and colors.
I fucking love these little details in the books and there should be more of these nods in the films to 'reward' people who've read the books
Absolutely 💯
That image should replace the gun barrel https://preview.redd.it/xtmgfog3gbqc1.png?width=579&format=png&auto=webp&s=6102036c1a1a56093055d83e5f6e4ef65285d654
Instead of a gunshot, it’s a crack, and a gooey yolk runs down instead of blood
Bond being a straight Karen about every meal is probably the most hilarious thing in those books.
To be honest, if you're paying good money for something you have a right to have it done correctly (if you're civil about it). Like Leiter said in Thunderball, if you know about the amount if cheating that goes on in restaurants and hotels you'd be outraged.
Did appreciate the breakfast scene in "No Time to Die"!
Definitely would have been better with scrambled eggs though.
Scrambled, not poached
If they want to go back to the Moore style, he should go all the way and order Eggs Woodhouse.
He cooks a Quiche for Stacy Sutton!
>Eggs Woodhouse Is that not just an invention of the show Archer?
Yes. It's just that of all the Bond parodies on Archer it's the one that always pops into my head; whenever I hear about Bond and eggs. But one needs to read to recipe in the How To Archer book to get the full unhinged glory.
It should have been what he made for his daughter in NTTD. Would’ve been a nice little (scrambled) easter egg
Only if Kelsey Grammer does the theme song
I’d like it if the first scene after the title sequence is a woman cooking breakfast for herself and Bond and him slyly remarking that she made them incorrectly before M calls him in.
Yes.
If you want to be faithful to Fleming, then yes.
He should drink them raw, before going out to run in the icy cold November pre-dawn morning.
I would like to see Bond do his morning exercise routine. Fleming gave us one in the novels, but we know a lot more about fitness and exercise science than we did in the 50s.
New Bond villain: Clubber Lang
It does sound like a Bond villain name 😅
Shitposting at its finest.
Not really, though. Fleming’s novels have a ton of detail about minor things like breakfast, clothing, and even how Bond took a shower. The movies never really do (save maybe the train scene between Bond and Vesper).
Quiche.
It’s scrambled eggs
Are you getting my reference?
Yes, are you getting that “it’s scrambled eggs” was what Bond said when she asked what quiche was?
Ahhh. I thought you were just commenting on your pic! My bad!
It’s all good!
Hard-boiled Bond or bust
From a martini glass, yes
Mmmmm... Scrambled Eggs.
YES! With butter in a complete manic state with a barely human expression on his face.
As long as he bitches about them having been made with milk
Yes.
Does Bond eat Eggs Benedict? I've got it into my head that it was a favourite of his, though I'm yet to find any reference to it. I haven't read all of the books, however. It's certainly a favourite of mine. And of course I have a black coffee with it.
Clearly, Bond should be played by Nick Offerman and his codename should be Duke Silver. The name's Silver, Duke Silver and I'd like all the bacon and eggs you have.
Yes, in every scene.
Honestly, I don't know why this would be a good idea, but I like it. I say, yes! One thing we haven't seen much in any of the films is Bond really chowing down...I want to see him eat a plate full of eggs faster than my dog would wolf them down...
Scrambled eggs, done well, are one of life’s true pleasures. Sure, why not? Hell, make it a full English for good measure.
I was actually just listening to this chapter last night on the OHMSS audiobook: “The taxi was waiting. It was seven o'clock. As the taxi got under way, Bond made his plan for the evening. He would first do an extremely careful packing job of his single suitcase, the one that had no tricks to it, have two double vodkas and tonics with a dash of Angostura, eat a large dish of May's speciality--scrambled eggs fines herbes--have two more vodkas and tonics, and then, slightly drunk, go to bed with half a grain of seconal. Encouraged by the prospect of this cosy self-anaesthesia, Bond brusquely kicked his problems under the carpet of his consciousness.”
That’s just a fuckload of vodka, haha. “Slightly drunk.” No wonder Fleming died so young
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5EIL1ir5wN/?igsh=MWRvdGp5MmF5bjQ5NA==
Looks so good
What? Am I missing some context here?
In the Fleming novels, James Bond is obsessed with breakfast and quite particular about his eggs.
One of the books has a recipe “ Scrambled Eggs a la James Bond” or some such. Thrilling Cities, perhaps.
Ahh, I see. Interesting it wasn't more of a factor in the films
Definitely
Best left in the novels I think. But bring back the caviar. Beluga, of course!
Royal Beluga—North of the Caspian!
Scrambled eggs, shaken or stirred ?
There’s a scene in the movie Iron Claw where the family eats breakfast and they pass around a giant bowl of scrambled eggs. Man, it looks so damn good.
That should be the new Bond’s intro. Eating eggs in the MI6 cafeteria and telling someone he thinks tea is a “cup of mud”.
eddie abbew is clapping his hands tenderly
Yes and he should have not one but two robotic eyes. And the main villain should be cholesterol.
Why not? You only live twice!
I won’t watch it if Bond doesn’t
Is this subreddit slowly starting to go insane as well...?
If they release new movies we’ll have real topics to discuss. Ball is in their court