but compared to a nice bacon and egg butty, pretty crap.
Bacon and egg butties are great. Especially dripping with fat. Nothing can quite beat the taste of a full fry-up though. The cheaper 40% MRM/bread w/fat pork sausages, not the dry, slightly ammonia-tasting 120% meaty kind. Crispy bacon of course, preferably streaky and smokey. Deep-fried black pudding. Fried bread topped with fried egg. Fried mushrooms. Some of those hash browns, glistening with taste, soft inside yet with some slightly- burned crispy-bits on the outside. Food of the Gods.
Nothing comes close. Except maybe leftover pizza with extra cheese and piles of pepperoni. Simply reheat in the oven. Smother with garlic and herb dipping-sauce.
Pitting a humble, hearty-yet-syrupy porridge against the above-mentioned gastronomic out-of-body experiences = the odd cup of coffee vs mainlining heroin. Meditation vs high-energy, high-speed, risk-taking sports. A safe and loving marriage at home vs a series of wild affairs in dangerous countries involving innocent lives.
Choose wisely, but we (may) only live once, so horse for courses, better die fast and young, or middle-aged and fat, etc.
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