105 year old eats a big fry up every day

by **izzix** » June 28, 2008, 4:15 pm

Breakfast of champions

A 105-year-old Southampton man has revealed the secret of his longevity - a full English breakfast every morning.
Great grandfather Douglas Terrey reckons he’s eaten a fry-up every morning for 91 years - about 33,215 hearty breakfasts, reports Sky News. The retired engineer eats four rashers of bacon, a sausage, two eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding and three slices of toast each morning.
And in a nod to healthy eating, he also wolfs down a bowl of cereal. “I have been eating a fried breakfast for years and years now,” he said. “I think this kind of food is wholesome - like the food we used to have in the old days.”
Mr Terrey, of Marchwood, near Southampton, Hants, began his routine of a fry-up a day when he joined the Army as a dispatch boy, aged 13. “When I got my first job in the Army I would go to work on a good breakfast and I knew I wouldn’t get hungry,” he said. ananova

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\06\28\story_28-6-2008_pg9_10

by **westerby** » June 28, 2008, 4:25 pm

I'd hate to be around when he lets one go :fart:

by **mortiboy** » June 28, 2008, 9:37 pm

TELL ME ABOUT IT ! :-&

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I'd hate to be around when he lets one go

by **Guns482** » July 1, 2008, 8:32 am

What a wonderful story .Good on you Douglas.keep going for a few more years then best of luck.

by **mortiboy** » July 1, 2008, 2:03 pm

I find that very hard to believe.If his not talking porkies, inside his veins must be the size of a needle!
His cholesterol level must be colossal! Think of the strain on his heart! :^o

by **Guns482** » July 1, 2008, 7:59 pm

So what at 105 does he really care, they told my mother her cholesterol was too high at age 90 SO.!!

by **saint** » July 1, 2008, 8:43 pm

remember this is a sky news report!!!!! anyway ,it has to be rubbish, coz theres no way he ate a breakfast like that between 1939 and 1950 or so.

by **beer monkey** » July 2, 2008, 5:23 am

saint wrote:remember this is a sky news report!!!!! anyway ,it has to be rubbish, coz theres no way he ate a breakfast like that between 1939 and 1950 or so.

That would effectively be classed as an Evening Meal if he ate it Between those times AND therefore it would not be breakfast, although it would be easily possible to start and finish a full English in 11 minutes, but not so easy for an old man that is as old as that....... so yes this is a bit of bull me thinks. :^o

He has been Rumbled.

by **mortiboy** » July 2, 2008, 10:50 am

been Rumbled

Had many of them! Full monti with Heinze baked beans

by **747man** » July 2, 2008, 11:14 am

mortiboy wrote:
been Rumbled

Had many of them! Full monti with Heinze baked beans

Yeah Mortiboy We KNOW.......We hear & smell you every morning !! :mrgreen:

by **Prenders88** » July 2, 2008, 11:34 am

Where did he get his eggs from during the war?
The British public were rationed to one egg per person, per week.
Unless he was a farmer or rich land owner he would not have had access to all that meat.

by **Guns482** » July 3, 2008, 7:23 am

Unless of course he was working in one of the armed forces................!

people did eat not just die you know.

by **mortiboy** » July 3, 2008, 8:52 am

Well,he did say he was in the armed forces! [-X

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by **saint** » July 3, 2008, 8:58 am

even the armed forces did not eat as well as that during the war.

by **mortiboy** » July 3, 2008, 1:27 pm

Well, most of us cant go back that far! But if you say so

even the armed forces did not eat as well as that during the war.

105 year old eats a big fry up every day

105 year old eats a big fry up every day

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