What constitutes a full English breakfast?

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

I just prefer to keep my wet items apart and choose to mix them if I want to.

Keep wet stuff away from toast and fried bread

Or I am not even coming in the shop

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

tinned plum tomatoes on toast is very underrated. Although when i cook something like that or beans on toast I have a hard time justifying to my wife that British cuisine isn't as bad as it is made out to be

Salt n Pepper on Tom's and eggs

Sorted

[Taffster]

If potatoe makes it a fry up rather than a full English, what does Mayonnaise make it?

Perfect.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

I might want to mix them, but I'd like it to be my choice !!

Now you are speaking my language

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Perfect.

You don't like fried mushrooms with your bacon ?

We don't want your sort round here

[Alan Lung]

Mushrooms have no place on a fried breakfast.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

tinned plum tomatoes on toast is very underrated. Although when i cook something like that or beans on toast I have a hard time justifying to my wife that British cuisine isn't as bad as it is made out to be

I've never thought about looking in the supermarkets for tinned plum tomatoes here in China. However, you've given me food for thought now (pun intended). If I can find some tomorrow morning my lunch is sorted!

[Wales-Bales]

I'd rather tinned tomatoes than beans.

Grilled tomatoes instead of the B&S, leave those beans alone!

[Wales-Bales]

I've never thought about looking in the supermarkets for tinned plum tomatoes here in China. However, you've given me food for thought now (pun intended). If I can find some tomorrow morning my lunch is sorted!

What's wrong with chicken porridge for brekkie?

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

Mushrooms have no place on a fried breakfast.

Or in any other meal or food product!

[Rjk]

What's wrong with chicken porridge for brekkie?

the mrs makes a beautiful congee, usually with salted duck eggs and pickled vegetables - but sometimes you just want tinned tomatoes on toast

[NYCBlue]

Why do people have a thing with beans and eggs? I love beans and egg on toast..

Me too. It's what I had for breakfast on Saturday.

[TWGL1]

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.

Neither do baked beans - as American as you can get.

[dembethewarrior]

Tinned tomatoes are traditional as there were no tomatoes in the UK for most of the year until relatively recently (in my lifetime). Unless you lived in the manor house and your Gardner grew some in his Victorian Greenhouse.
I can remember at this time of year, just before Easter, looking forward to the boats from The Canary Islands arriving with their gorgeous sun kissed tomatoes.

It must've been weird to be young in your time.

[dembethewarrior]

Me too. It's what I had for breakfast on Saturday.

Black pepper all over the top... lovely.

[life on mars]

Toast

[NYCBlue]

Keep wet stuff away from toast and fried bread

Or I am not even coming in the shop

What about beans on toast? Do you have the beans on the side?

[life on mars]

Marmalade

[dembethewarrior]

Marmalade

You're more like marmite

[NYCBlue]

Black pepper all over the top... lovely.

Exactly!

[The Bloop]

What about beans on toast? Do you have the beans on the side?

2 pieces of toast - 1 on top of the other. You only eat the bottom piece 😊

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

I will say this

If black pudding is well done , it's a gastronomic pleasure

If it raw and rubbery its a trip to casualty

[Elwood Blues]

When I worked for the Civil Service and BT I occasionally had to go to London on courses and business trips and had to stay overnight.

I never had a full English during the working week at home but always had one at the various hotels or B and B' I stayed in as it was always included in the price.

My breakfast was invariably

A bowl of cornflakes

2 rashers of bacon, 2 sausages, baked beans, 2 fried eggs (or 1 fried egg and some scrambled) fried bread, hash browns (or a few chips or some other fried potatoes)

I was never offered bubble and squeak, didn't like fried tomatoes or black pudding (though in later years I have got to like black pudding and don't mind tomatoes).

I then had a slice or two of toast with marmalade.

Washed down with orange juice and tea or coffee.

And there Ladies and Gentlemen is my idea of a full English breakfast.

[jon1959]

When I worked for the Civil Service and BT I occasionally had to go to London on courses and business trips and had to stay overnight.

I never had a full English during the working week at home but always had one at the various hotels or B and B' I stayed in as it was always included in the price.

My breakfast was invariably

A bowl of cornflakes

2 rashers of bacon, 2 sausages, baked beans, 2 fried eggs (or 1 fried egg and some scrambled) fried bread, hash browns (or a few chips or some other fried potatoes)

I was never offered bubble and squeak, didn't like fried tomatoes or black pudding (though in later years I have got to like black pudding and don't mind tomatoes).

I then had a slice or two of toast with marmalade.

Washed down with orange juice and tea or coffee.

And there Ladies and Gentlemen is my idea of a full English breakfast.

Fried and scrambled eggs?

You have just taken this thread to a whole new level!

[Taunton Blue Genie]

I will say this

If black pudding is well done , it's a gastronomic pleasure

If it raw and rubbery its a trip to casualty

A veritable metaphor for life, methinks.