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According to the English Breakfast Society (yes, such a thing exists), a full English contains back bacon, eggs, British sausage, baked beans, bubble and squeak, fried tomato, fried mushrooms, black pudding, with fried and toasted bread on the side. Hash browns and chips are apparently not considered part of this breakfast.
What do we think?
I was under the impression that hash browns was more of an American thing when most of us were in school uniform - but I could be wrong and it may be a regional thing in Blighty for all I know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
Hash browns!!! ...maybe maple syrup on pancakes and grits as well ? chips have never been part of anyone's breakfast
I can’t agree with bubble and squeak which is a dish in itself. I’d also say that you can’t specify British sausage in an English breakfast as the Scots love slab/square/Lorne sausage. An English breakfast surely includes “link” sausage. But definitely you will need fried bread as well as toast, and black pudding too. It’s also extremely important that the mushrooms look and taste awful. If served by a lady who looks like she should be in Last of the Summer Wine you have gone balls deep !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
There are allowances for regional variations, so Irish or Lorne sausage etc. Haggis is included, potato scones. There's no mention of Wales and should cockles and laverbread be included in a Welsh breakfast?Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Bosch
No. A Welsh breakfast is nonsense. I’ve eaten these in Aberystwyth and Cardigan etc. cockles and seaweed have no place at a breakfast table after 8 pints the night before. An English breakfast is something the English should be damned proud of. I recently took my dad to a gastro pub for their ridiculously expensive brunch for his birthday. I told him that for the price of our coffees we could have tucked right in at Ramon’s in Cathays. When it comes to an English breakfast, increasing price does not mean increasing quality!!! It’s meant to be dirty and very much a guilty pleasure.
Hash Browns have been part of the " full English breakfast " for 20 years now
Its funny the US has gone over to Tater Tots or potato barrels now,
Hold on, where are the grilled half tomatoes???? Or at least fried tomatoes?
I'd rather tinned tomatoes than beans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Bosch
Yeah, I agree with you about the bubble & squeak.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Bosch
It has to be fried tomatoes and not plum tomatoes out of a tin, just too messy when it runs into the fried egg!
The Scottish full English? :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Bosch
Beans are deathQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
Mrs HaB could eat a tin of beans every day. The amount of wind that comes my way suggests she does. It's her favourite food. I haven't eaten beans in years and don't miss them one bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
More space between the egg and beans
Use the sausage as a breakwater
Beans on toast are greatQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
Anywhere else they taste like soap
Brown sauce or Worcester sauce?Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
My family called fried bread, 'bacon toast' which is far more appealling imo
I stayed at a B&B in Hertfordshire recently and the English Breakfast included sausages from Braughing.
I braughed all morning after that.....
I agree, hash browns are Yankee & no chips for breakfast. The rest is spot on but personally no baked beans for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
I prefer a full Irish.
Irish curry sauce ?
Wtf is all that about ?
Also, I think what passes for hash browns in the UK are like the McDonald's version. Real hash browns look like this:
Attachment 5476 Much less greasy and more thoroughly cooked.
Invalid attachmentQuote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
What happens when you click on the link? It looked fine when I posted it. Here's the website:
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/57...s-hash-browns/
Hash browns, chips, bubble & squeak and tinned tomatoes have no place in a full English.
The rest is fine, as long as the sausages are used as a breakwater between the eggs and beans.
Brown sauce to finish it off aswell.
Before the Bristol game my mates and I ate in Calabrisella in Canton (opposite the Ivor). Their Welsh breakfast had a chicken drumstick on it, the strangest thing I’ve seen on a breakfast.
Having read the definition in the OP, I'm pleased to say I've never had, or come close to having, a full English breakfast in my life.
Needs a hot fresh mug of tea
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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
I've made a few notes. Yes,
uh... Bacon, 10 on 10. Button mushrooms, bingo. Black pudding, snap. Minor
criticism, more distance between the eggs and the beans. I may want to mix them but
I want that to be my decision. Use a sausage as a breakwater. But I'm nit-picking, on
the whole, a very good effort - 7 on 10. Let's make love.
I've only ever had one, and i didn't like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
It dances for your amusement while sat on your plate.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
It has to be made in England
Since when did a simple fry up become a full English and even merit some sort of society to pontificate over its ingredients?
As an expert ( I'm one of the few English individuals on here) it remains a fry up, you can have whatever you want in it but the ingredients must be of poor quality and must be cooked with an evens chance of fag ash being included.
It is compulsory to have an overly brewed mug of tea with several sugars,as a side order, and all of this must be consumed whilst reading a tabloid newspaper.
Extra credibility can be garnered by leaving several breakfast stains down your shirt.
We associate chocolate with Belgium and Switzerland and tomatoes with Mediterranean countries whereas both comestibles come from South and Central America. Such is life :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Sausage, fried eggs, bacon, beans, fried tomatoes, hash browns, toast, mug of tea, god save the queen.
Ah such a diverse football message board....Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
The above link is simply Rosti, not Hash browns.
I go along with most contributors......no chips, no Bubble and Squeek.....(though I love that dish in its own right.....). Tomatoes have to be fresh, cut in half and fried......FRIED bread. My only non starter (although traditional) is that I don't like Black pudding. Of course it has to be Brown sauce on it..... TEA (black), has to be drunk after the meal while it is piping hot......Used to quite enjoy the one in The Conway decades ago, even though they had chips with it....then Brains changed it and filled the plate with a roll and I stopped eating there.
Yes , Welsh breakfast is utter nonsenseQuote:
Originally Posted by Harry Bosch
Same as the Welsh Baftas or Welsh Gogglebox ff sake
Yes I've always wondered what Italian cuisine was like before the tomato, there was an episode of "you're dead to me" about the colombian exchange the other dayQuote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
Nice to hear Ramon's is still there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Bosch
And Italy gets a bit of slack when it comes to coffee, in fairness, they get away with a fair bit. A tower called Pisa that's ****ed because it was built poorly and a city that has basically flooded and stinks of shit. Anywhere else they'd be seen as disaster zones. The price of being cool, eh .Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
I might want to mix them, but I'd like it to be my choice !!Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY