Essential Components for a FULL ENGLISH

Danish bacon?

Sizzling start

A cup of tea.
It used to be the case that tea (or for the metros3xuals - coffee) came as standard. More and more these days you're asked to fork out another couple of quid on top.
It's not a facking full English without a brew, is it? What is the world coming to?

Used to have one every day, long ago. First one for about a year this AM. It was hash brown or black pudding. It had to be the hash brown, black pudding touching owt else on the plate would put me off. Really enjoyed it.

Gotta be
eggs
bacon
sausage
mushrooms
beans
tomatos
toast/fried bread +tea

imho.

eggs,bacon,sausage,beans,tomatoes,mushrooms and toast or fried bread and a brew...end of......hash browns,black pudding and chips are all add ons imho

black pudding can be horrible if you get a bad brand.
mushrooms patchy? i like mine well cooked.
duck eggs are better than standard eggs, taste like eggs used to in the seventies.

Overlap, desmond. It cannot be a full English without tea included imo.

Fried bread great when fat came out of the bacon instead of water. Dry cured for me, I'm a tight @rse that don't like paying for water injected shoite.

If only we agreed on the black pudding, we would be in perfect accord Saddo.
There's an irish bar near Covent Garden called Philomena's that does a cracking Full Belfast breakfast. If I'm ever in't'smoke, I make it my business to pay at least one visit - tea (in a proper pot) is included.

Fried Bread is essential - You'll need lard as you wont get enough fat out of proper dry cured bacon - nothing wrong with adding it to the bacon pan mind while the bacon is resting.

Black Pudding also essential imo - Irish (Clonakilty or Sneem) or Stornoway are each very good.

i'd rather have a spin off breakfast.

french toast(eggy bread) and crispy bacon with sauce. cup o tea.

the idea of everything on a plate as soon as you wake up? ffs.

it is usually beans or tomatoes

fried slice is now generally an extra

tea or coffe is usually included but some sharp practice has come in recently as Desmond has said but I don't think it is metro sexual to have coffee! I like coffee, real coffee, strong coffee and I don't like PG Tips or Tetley ( Gold Label excepted! ).

The Captain Kirk's seem to have taken over the Cafe's. I don't have a problem with that. They try to keep things traditional in London at least. We don't have too much Black Pudding on offer but it is available. The rest of the country may be different.

It's a taste thing for me. I drink more coffee than most men alive and tea very rarely, but has to be tea with an English. Always beans and tomatoes up here.

We get Set 1,2,3,4 and quite often 5.

The main constituents are eggs, sausage, bacon, beans and/or tomato, toast and tea or coffee. Mushrooms, bubble and squeak, fried bread and black pudding are usually extra's

The food is usually clean as are the cafe's

I don't think baked beans belong in a full English cooked breakfast

shame on you and may a pox ne upon your house!

Blasphemer!

Hash browns are American and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a FULL ENGLISH. If you must have spuds, potato cakes are an acceptable alternative.

I agree with Whisperingdeath.

I agree Cooperman re hash browns but if you must have potatoes with your full english, I can recommend frying halved baby new potatoes; These can easily be done alongside your fried tomatoes or black pudding.

A mug of strong tea.
Unsmoked bacon, on the crispy side.
2 good quality sausages.
2 poached eggs, on the runny side.
Baked beans, preferable Branston's.
Mushrooms.
Two thick slices of white crusty bread, well toasted.
Finally plenty of HP sauce all over and that's me nicely sorted.

Brown Sauce a shocking omission

Is HP Sauce not brown enough for you, Brendan?

Houses of Parliament sauce,

ooh suit's you Sir!

mmm what an ommission but nearly all of us!

3-4 pints of cider/lager and an all day brunch if the local 'spoons is anything to go by...!!!

Bury black pudding
Flat mushrooms
Saute potatoes
pan fried tomato
Fried slice
Smoked bacon thick cut
Butchers pork sausages
Poached egg

Tickle of Hp
Pot of Rosie

Most Eggscellent

Bacon, well cooked/borderline burnt.
Good quality sausages.
Eggs either fried or scrabmled. If fried, yolks to be firm.
Mushrooms, fried.
A fried slice of bread.
Black pudding.

Strong black coffee.
English mustard for the sausages.

And a hash brown tucked away out of sight somewhere.

black pudding is essential

white pudding when in Ireland

i mentioned sauce further down... left it to discretion of tomato or HP?

who are the mutants out there that call tomato sauce.. red sauce ?
on apar with teh Americans that call Autumn ... Fall ? coz the leaves fall?

It's a dumbing down of the sauce protocol - i therefore now declare that we
make it more complicated to weed out the brain impaired.
you'll now say... can I have essence of tomato sauce 57th variety please.

red sauce - gtf.

Never had one in over 10 years but always included.

Square sausage
fried egg
crispy bacon
black pudding
fried dumpling
toast

and accompanied with fresh orange juice

Fruit sauce a must as well.

fried potato bread
soda farls fried
sometimes small pancakes fried

without these its not a fry.

fried dumpling is just weird - raisins? or currents? that's what you want a fruit that tastes rancid with a fry up?

Same contents in fruit pudding.
How do you know what it tastes like Zorro if you've never tried it?

pancakes are sweet and are nice with a fry.

i tried it in the seventies. they sell blister packs of two sausages, two fruit puddings and two black puddings. It's obscene. who thought that up?

That was the breakfast that Jesus used to eat.
And you call yourself a Christian.
Shame on you you Philistine.

jesus ate kippers and deviled eggs.
with homemade bread. manna.
with wine. vimto for the apostles.

the big gap in the bible is that butter is not mentioned once?
bread gets a big mention, where's the butter?

it always surprised me a little that Christians were not required to be vegatarian.

Well if he truly did turn water into wine the mind boggles as to where where the butter came from.

Anyone mentioned kidney yet?

Field mushrooms, sliced and fried in butter. Buttons don't cut it.

Barton Bank    31 Jul 17 19:48 
Bacon, well cooked/borderline burnt.
Good quality sausages.
Eggs either fried or scrabmled. If fried, yolks to be firm. wtf?

FRESH,,,   H  A  G  G  I  S  ,,,SHOT EARLY THE SAME MORNING

I have to say that the best breakfast I ever had was in Jamaica

Akee and salt fish, dumplings, plantain and god knows what else. Filled me up all day. Without doubt more stodge than a full monty and you could probably cut cane all day in the hot sun without needing to stop at 11 for a full monty! of course drinking red stripe helps.

Greek breakfast...

20 B&H and a Frappe.

Black pudding... varies greatly. Best for me atm is M&S black pudding, 4 slices around £1.25

Anyone like daddies sauce? That's my brown sauce choice. I will add, baked beans (which I like, Branston only for me) have no place on a full English because I hate the mix with beans and a runny egg...even if poshly served in a separate bowl.

This thread appears to be about "Essential Components for a FULL ENGLISH"

So What possesses folks to post stuff about Greek or Jamaican breakfasts is beyond me. Is this an attempt to show off, pretend to be rich or posh or merely a wish to appear superior to other posters. I know not

What I do know is that these posts have no place, and little to add to a fred about a FULL ENGLISH Breakfast.

I tried the Sausage Patties recently ... far superior to actual Sausages though cost a bit more & only 6 in a pack .

so for me:

2 x SAUSAGE PATTIES
3 x smoked back bacon
egg (can't cook a breakfast without one)
Beans (are a Must)
Mushrooms (cover with bit of butter)
Fried Tomato (never forget the sizzling tomato)
Hash Browns (just bought some actually McCann are the best but far overpriced for small bag)
Fried bread (do it last to get all the juice out of the pan)
Brown sauce (prefer HP it's stronger)
MILK (to swig it all down with)

followed by a nice Cup of Tea !

Beans have no place on the plate.  There is a danger of egg contamination.  They are acceptable only in a small ramekin.

Two fried eggs.

Similarly tinned tomatoes should remain in the tin.  Fresh toms only please.

Soda farls is a good call.  Must remember that one.

Sausage and bacon only from a good local butcher - otherwise you will be eating carp.

Mushrooms should be sliced and cooked in fat from sausage and bacon.

Hash browns have no place in an ENGLISH breakfast.  The frozen ones are ****.  I don't mind proper ones (cubed or grated potatoes) but only ever had them in the U.S. (not bragging blackbarn!)

Plenty of freshly toasted (ideally low GI) bread with proper butter.

i worked alongside some Polish people, they thought we were mad
when they saw the full english breakfast. especially when brown
sauce was produced. got them laughing at it?

Irish potato bread is pretty good with a fried breakfast. Surprised it isn't more popular outside Ireland. I'm also partial to fried salami with my 'English' breakfast.

And for those who want to explore new breakfast meats, liverwurst on rye toast is good.

Barton Bank    31 Jul 17 19:48 

Eggs either fried or scrambled. If fried, yolks to be firm.

He may as well of said Halibut, or is it Jehovah. Whichever, Stone Him.

4 x smoked bacon, streaky.
1 x quality sausage, pre poached (8 mins for a fat one) then fried to char.
2 x fried eggs, RUNNY yolks.
2 x flat mushrooms
1 x portion of beans, as mentioned Branston (with additional tabasco sauce) - Toms fully acceptable for others but I'm allergic to the seeds and skins (love the taste though).
1 x fried white slice
2 x toast and proper butter
1, 2 or occasionally 3 sploshes of rosie.

Jobs a goodun.
1 x fried slice

What a delight to read - a 'proper' Chit Chat thread, like the old days!

Absolutely bostin' fun seeing people getting so irked by the yays and nays of what's acceptable practice to put on  breakfast plate!

Crackin' stuff!

Egg yolks should be liquid, if they happen to run into the baked bean sauce then its no big deal.

Important for me though is that toast should not be cut into fcking triangles. How am i meant to make a spur of the moment sausage sandwich out of triangular toast? Its not mathematically possible.

Yeah I don't like bullit eggs!

So What possesses folks to post stuff about Greek or Jamaican breakfasts is beyond me. Is this an attempt to show off, pretend to be rich or posh or merely a wish to appear superior to other posters. I know not

certainly there is something very unbritish about an obsession with food.
I first stated to notice this perhaps in the 80s when in work people started to talk about what they had to eat the previous day.
There was something odd about that.

My cafe of choice does a brilliant breakfast.

I have it in 3 stages - a three course breakfast.

Bacon and Egg with toast and butter
Sausage, black pud, mushroom and tomato with toast and butter
Backed beans (from the ramekin) on toast.

£7.95 including pot of tea.  All top quality ingredients.

remember going to hotel with my brother

waiter asked which breakfast - english or continental

I said continental sounds good

watch my brother eat English breakfast all the trimmings

I had two slices of toast , jam an coffee

Can all you 'continentals' respectfully start your own thread. As far as I'm concerned a FULL ENGLISH is known, and indeed available, all over the world. So please take your croissants, plantains, liverwurst and haggis to where they belong!

Full English is the finest hangover cure on earth, I have been known to eat two of em when feeling particularly grim, back in the day.

A full English is not available all over the world.

In Scotland its a full Scottish.

Pedants are also freely available, as 'lovegod' has proven.

We were up in Edinburgh a few years ago and asked for a full English only to be corrected very promptly that is was a full Scottish breakfast they served.

I've never had black pudding or fried bread but am willing to give it a go. Never heard of a square sausage either.

A fry up is great after a big night.

The best place for me to get a breakfast is in fact a Portuguese cafe/restaurant in West Norwood. This morning I had two runny poached eggs on granary toast, 3 rashers of crispy streaky bacon, mushrooms, beans and a mug of strong tea all for £4.95. I'd give it a very solid 9/10 with the thumb.

I'd give it a very solid 9/10 with the thumb.

Jeez, those Portuguese will eat anything! Shirley knot an essential component of a FE

4.95 sounds good.

Had a slice of liver with mine today. Not essential but nice all the same.

Well I had kwality bread, chesse, salami's and olives for my breakfast at the weekend with fresh coffee. I have yet to hear from Immigration but I don't care it was bloody good! ( English cheddar of course! ).

black pudding
mushrooms
tomatoes
fried eggs
scrambled eggs
bacon
sausages
fried toast

cuppa tea
you're welcome

70 odd replies and no one has mentioned a main ingredient to go with beans, sausages, eggs , black pudd, mushrooms, fried bread and that is.........spam( fried)

Spam...good bait for carp.

A few extras served in country pile & 5 star london hotels for your  breakfast pleasure......

Saute kidneys served on croute
Lamb cutlet french trimmed
White pudding
Bubble & squeak
Duck eggs - scrambled
Vension sausage
blood sausage
Saute potatoes from peeled jacket potato
lava bread from sunny wales

None of these of course are worthy of a good English breakfast .. sounds more like part of the elite's Population reduction plan & i'd personally blow a guys head off that puts Liver anywhere near my plate!

Meant to be kidley isn't it?

cooperman  04 Aug 17 10:09 

"Can all you 'continentals' respectfully start your own thread. As far as I'm concerned a FULL ENGLISH is known, and indeed available, all over the world. So please take your croissants, plantains, liverwurst and haggis to where they belong! Wink"

Excellent, Cooperman!


For fried bread aficionados:

You can buy pork dripping to fry your fried bread in, seeing as there's rarely enough fat that comes off grilled/fried bacon to make fried bread these days.

Well, in Stoke you can.

There's an excellent local pork butchers - Brown's (est. 1875) - who trade in Hanley Market.

They sell tubs of pork dripping (with the pork jelly underneath the fat), which is perfect for multiple fried bread scoffings.

Although it's not listed on their price list, if you give them a ring I'm sure they'd tell you how much it costs plus p+p.

http://www.brownsofhanley.co.uk/pricing.html

It's grey, overcast and I'm developing a cold so there's no other option. It's a FULL ENGLISH for me this morning.

I'm with you Coops.

Irish and Scottish breakfasts. Had Irish in Limerick and would have fed four. Missus Scottish. Lorne sausage and fruit pudding with egg (fried dumpling with raisins) cant be beaten, she says

Is that spotted dick?!