The full British isles breakfast

[Mad Cyril]

I have just had an argument with a colleague at work. Basically I don't think chips have any business being part of a full English but he does. I also feel the same way about baked beans.

The only players in town should be:

Bacon
Eggs
Sausage
Fried Bread
Mushrooms
Grilled tomato
Black pudding

Am I right?

[blues_r_best]

You forgot hash browns but apart from that you are correct.

[McScriven]

Nah I like beans with my fried breakie. What about bubble? Surely that's part of a decent fry up as well.

[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (blues_r_best @ Nov. 07 2003,08:18)]You forgot hash browns but apart from that you are correct.
Hash browns are American and therefore have no part in a full English.

Did you know Americans put powdered sugar on bacon and syrup on sausage?

Is that what you want? Is it?

[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (McScriven @ Nov. 07 2003,08:20)]Nah I like beans with my fried breakie. What about bubble? Surely that's part of a decent fry up as well.
Bubble and squeak is a grey area.

Personally I like it but few places do it well.

[McScriven]

Big crusty bread as well is a must and a lovely cup of tea.

[new bloke]

Big crusty bread mmmmmmmmm

[blues_r_best]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Nov. 07 2003,08:21)]
Quote[/b] (blues_r_best @ Nov. 07 2003,08:18)]You forgot hash browns but apart from that you are correct.
Hash browns are American and therefore have no part of the full English.

Did you know Americans put powdered sugar on bacon and syrup on sausage?

Is that what you want? Is it?
Sorry

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[Andu]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Nov. 07 2003,08:10)]I have just had an argument with a colleague at work. Basically I don't think chips have any business being part of a full English but he does. I also feel the same way about baked beans.

The only players in town should be:

Bacon
Eggs
Sausage
Fried Bread
Mushrooms
Grilled tomato
Black pudding

Am I right?
I agree chips are a no, but I think baked beans are a yes.

Egg and chips make a good breakfast with a big mug of tea.

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Nov. 07 2003,08:10)]I have just had an argument with a colleague at work. Basically I don't think chips have any business being part of a full English but he does. I also feel the same way about baked beans.

The only players in town should be:

Bacon
Eggs
Sausage
Fried Bread
Mushrooms
Grilled tomato
Black pudding

Am I right?
Well, you need the mug of tea. And you've missed haggis.

[Westcliff Shrimper]

How can haggis be in a full ENGLISH, Naps?!

WS

[Mad Cyril]

I did use the term full British Isles breakfast (after Alan Partridge) but I have never heard of haggis being part of a breakfast.

I do like it though. Very tasty.

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (Westcliff Shrimper @ Nov. 07 2003,09:44)]How can haggis be in a full ENGLISH, Naps?!

WS
As Junior Reid said, it's a Full British Isles...

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[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (Napster @ Nov. 07 2003,09:54)]
Quote[/b] (Westcliff Shrimper @ Nov. 07 2003,09:44)]How can haggis be in a full ENGLISH, Naps?!

WS
As Junior Reid said, it's a Full British Isles...

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When was the last time you saw haggis as part of a fry up though?

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Nov. 07 2003,10:07)]
Quote[/b] (Napster @ Nov. 07 2003,09:54)]
Quote[/b] (Westcliff Shrimper @ Nov. 07 2003,09:44)]How can haggis be in a full ENGLISH, Naps?!

WS
As Junior Reid said, it's a Full British Isles...

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When was the last time you saw haggis as part of a fry up though?
Every morning whilst at uni in Edinburgh...

[new bloke]

But Naps not all of us can just pop up to Jocko land for a quick fry up.... No haggis in a fry up

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (new bloke @ Nov. 07 2003,10:12)]But Naps not all of us can just pop up to Jocko land for a quick fry up.... No haggis in a fry up
Well, maybe not. But you can easily get it from a supermarket- and indeed Salisbury Cafe do it as part of a brekkie as well... And I can attest to its magical powers as a soaker-upper of alcohol...

[Matt the Shrimp]

I would agree that chips probably don't have a place on the Full English plate; but then, surely, the beauty of such a breakfast is its versatility!

For example, I'm (unfortunately) a bit picky when it comes to bacon... basically, I don't like it fried (since it concentrates the saltiness, which is a pet hate of mine). *So, I tend not to have it when I'm out at a "greasy spoon".

My perfect hangover breakfast was at a cafe in Pimlico near where I used to live (sadly, it has now closed) which consisted of a huge plate of:

Sausage
Egg
Chips
Beans
Mushrooms
Two Toast

This was definitely a breakfast "in the English style"; but was it a "Full English"? *Undoubtedly not.

Still, if your mate wants to have chips with his breakfast and still call it a Full English, is that a crime?

However, I'd agree with the basic premise that a Full English does not contain chips. *Indeed, does it contain any form of potato? *Other than, perhaps, Bubble & Squeak, that's debatable. *Certainly never agreed with the Little Chef habit of popping sauteed potatoes on the side...

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Matt

[Shagster69]

Haggis for Breakfast - Whenever you stay at a hotel in Scotland or a B&B you get it. Also missing is Square Sausage and Tattie Scones (not that you get them in Cafes down here but both can be bought at Tesco. Therefor my ultimate fry up would consist of (Quantity of each not included):

Sausage
Square Sausage
Bacon
Fried Egg
Tattie Scone
Blackpudding
Haggis
Beans
Fried Slice
Bread & Butter
Mug of Tea

This would go some way to explaing why i'm not on the small side!!

[Durera]

<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'>For me, it&#39;s gotta be (NO chips, that&#39;s sacrilaige&#33;)

Scrambled Egg
2 x Fried Eggs
Fried Slice
Bubble
Hash browns
Toast

(I can&#39;t eat pork)

So, finish it off with a nice Kipper....</span>

[new bloke]

Shags, you forgot the Marsbar in Batter

[Spaceman Spiff]

Quote[/b] (new bloke @ Nov. 07 2003,11:54)]Shags, you forgot the Marsbar in Batter
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[Napster]

Quote[/b] (Shagster69 @ Nov. 07 2003,11:48)]. Also missing is Square Sausage and Tattie Scones
Good point. And white pudding.

[Wessex Blue]

Quote[/b] (Napster @ Nov. 07 2003,09:38)]
Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Nov. 07 2003,08:10)]I have just had an argument with a colleague at work. Basically I don&#39;t think chips have any business being part of a full English but he does. I also feel the same way about baked beans.

The only players in town should be:

Bacon
Eggs
Sausage
Fried Bread
Mushrooms
Grilled tomato
Black pudding

Am I right?
Well, you need the mug of tea. And you&#39;ve missed haggis.
I&#39;m with Napster on the haggis, Full scottish with Haggis is the proverbial dogs b******s&#33; Naps what about tattie scones &amp; sliced sausage as well?

[Surrey Blue]

Gotta say a big NO to the black pudding business, I refuse to eat any blood even the missuses http://www2.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Now my ultimate breaky would be:

2 x fried Eggs (Not Scrambled, Poached or Boiled)
2 x Sausages
Bacon
2 x Waffles to go nicely under above eggs
Mushrooms
Baked Beans
Chunky Doorstep bread and Butter
Steaming cup of Tea (No Sugar)

right now ive ordered how long will it take for someone to russle that up for me&#33;&#33;&#33;

[Sebastian Weetabix]

Quote[/b] (Durera @ Nov. 07 2003,11:52)](I can&#39;t eat pork)

So, finish it off with a nice Kipper
That must be a typo. Just because you can&#39;t eat pork surely that doesn&#39;t stop you from having a nice cuppa. http://www2.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www2.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (Wessex Blue @ Nov. 07 2003,14:59)]
Quote[/b] (Napster @ Nov. 07 2003,09:38)]
Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Nov. 07 2003,08:10)]I have just had an argument with a colleague at work. Basically I don&#39;t think chips have any business being part of a full English but he does. I also feel the same way about baked beans.

The only players in town should be:

Bacon
Eggs
Sausage
Fried Bread
Mushrooms
Grilled tomato
Black pudding

Am I right?
Well, you need the mug of tea. And you&#39;ve missed haggis.
I&#39;m with Napster on the haggis, Full scottish with Haggis is the proverbial dogs b******s&#33; Naps what about tattie scones &amp; sliced sausage as well?
Absolutely.

[Durera]

Quote[/b] (Sebastian Weetabix @ Nov. 07 2003,15:26)]
Quote[/b] (Durera @ Nov. 07 2003,11:52)](I can&#39;t eat pork)

So, finish it off with a nice Kipper
That must be a typo. Just because you can&#39;t eat pork surely that doesn&#39;t stop you from having a nice cuppa. http://www2.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www2.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'>Can&#39;t stand tea&#33; Would have to be having Coffee...

And you&#39;ve got to have Kipper for brekkie?&#33; If I could only have the one thing on the list it would be the Kipper...

Although, I remember B-B-Qing some at Reading 97. It didn&#39;t go down too well with the &#39;neighbours&#39;&#33;</span>

[Surrey Blue]

Quote[/b] (Durera @ Nov. 07 2003,15:59)]And you&#39;ve got to have Kipper for brekkie?&#33; If I could only have the one thing on the list it would be the Kipper...

Although, I remember B-B-Qing some at Reading 97. It didn&#39;t go down too well with the &#39;neighbours&#39;&#33;[/font]
Funny That, I wonder Why http://www2.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[carter_true_blue]

fry ups lovely sure put a bit of weight on ya http://www2.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[Napster]

I think this needs re-opening. What's the ideal breakfast.

[Uncle Leo]

Sausages
Bacon
Black pudding
White pudding
Baked beans
Fried egg
Fried tomato
Mushrooms
Hash brown
HP brown sauce
Big mug of tea. Two sugars love.

[Pubey]

Lucky Charms cereal

[South Bank Hank]

This morning I polished off the leftovers of last night's Vindaloo.
Now you can't get more British than that!

[Uncle Leo]

This morning I polished off the leftovers of last night's Vindaloo.


You're a disgrace.

[South Bank Hank]

You're a disgrace.

I know.

:'(

[Napster]

Sausages
Bacon
Black pudding
White pudding
Baked beans
Fried egg
Fried tomato
Mushrooms
Hash brown
HP brown sauce
Big mug of tea. Two sugars love.

Add some haggis a can of full-fat coke and take away the mushrooms and that's my brekkie.

[GBJ]

3 sausages
3 rashers of bacon
2 Hashbrowns
1 slice of fried bread
2 Fried eggs
plum tomatoes
Baked beans
Bit of toast
Spicy curly fries

Lovely bit of grub

[Napster]

Spicy curly fries

Lovely bit of grub

heathen!............

[Uncle Leo]

Add some haggis a can of full-fat coke and take away the mushrooms and that's my brekkie.

never tried haggis for breakfast but I do like it and am open to the idea. Not a fan of fizzy drinks at breakfast though.

[Cricko]

3 boiled eggs and soldiers..+ a bath size mug of tea..:)

[The Flying Scotsman]

Haggis for Breakfast - Whenever you stay at a hotel in Scotland or a B&amp;B you get it. Also missing is Square Sausage and Tattie Scones (not that you get them in Cafes down here but both can be bought at Tesco. Therefor my ultimate fry up would consist of (Quantity of each not included):

Sausage
Square Sausage
Bacon
Fried Egg
Tattie Scone
Blackpudding
Haggis
Beans
Fried Slice
Bread &amp; Butter
Mug of Tea

This would go some way to explaing why i'm not on the small side!!

Jesus, this bloke can put some grub away the big fat *******!

[GBJ]

heathen!............

LOL, got to be done!!

[davewebbsbrain]

3 sausages
3 rashers of bacon
2 Hashbrowns
1 slice of fried bread
2 Fried eggs
plum tomatoes
Baked beans
Bit of toast
Spicy curly fries

Lovely bit of grub

Have you checked your Cholestrol level recently :)

[Mad Cyril]

It's all about quality and attention to detail.

I get fed up with the following.

1. Poor quality bacon - especially if grilled.
2. Over/under cooked fried eggs.

I can recommend the following establishments:

Strand cafe - old Leigh.
Sue's cafe - Canvey seafront.
Labworth - Canvey seafront.

Anyone else got a winner?

[canveyshrimper]

It's all about quality and attention to detail.

I get fed up with the following.

1. Poor quality bacon - especially if grilled.
2. Over/under cooked fried eggs.

I can recommend the following establishments:

Strand cafe - old Leigh.
Sue's cafe - Canvey seafront.
Labworth - Canvey seafront.

Anyone else got a winner?

Raspberry Ripples on Furtherwick Road is very good, and I can also recommend Cafe Noir (I think) in Weston Road Southend, next to the Last Post. It's run by an Italian bloke, their Mega English is a sight to behold as wee as eat.

[davewebbsbrain]

It's all about quality and attention to detail.

I get fed up with the following.

1. Poor quality bacon - especially if grilled.
2. Over/under cooked fried eggs.

I can recommend the following establishments:

Strand cafe - old Leigh.
Sue's cafe - Canvey seafront.
Labworth - Canvey seafront.

Anyone else got a winner?

Has to be Smoked bacon and fried, not grilled.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Four slices of doorstep sized marmite toast.

Or a bacon sandwich using the same bread with copious amounts of HP.

And coffee that's strong enough to require a spoon to eat it.

[Gremlin]

Four slices of doorstep sized marmite toast.

Or a bacon sandwich using the same bread with copious amounts of HP.

And coffee that's strong enough to require a spoon to eat it.

Important point about the relish there. Always HP with a breakfast, none of this red American nonsense.

[Drastic™]

Four slices of doorstep sized marmite toast.
:slurp:

This is was pretty damn good though...

http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t324/Jonny_O_photos/breakfast.jpg

from the West Egg Cafe in Chicago.

[BrettieAngell]

Ideal breakfast -

Bacon
Eggs
Sausages
Mushrooms
Hash browns
Beans
Fried Slice

The Family Cafe opposite The Last post does a mint breakfast for about £4, you get all the above (miuns the has browns) plus a couple of slices of bread anf butter to mop it all up with!

[OldBlueLady]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again now, but Marmite toast with baked beans and/or scrambled or poached egg on top is pretty darned good!

[The Flying Scotsman]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again now, but Marmite toast with baked beans and/or scrambled or poached egg on top is pretty darned good!

That sounds bloody awful!

[OldBlueLady]

That sounds bloody awful!

Honest, don't knock it till you've tried it - but only if you like Marmite anyway!

[BrettieAngell]

Marmite is disgusting!

[The Flying Scotsman]

Honest, don't knock it till you've tried it - but only if you like Marmite anyway!

I don't like Marmite. Equally I'm not to keen on mixing yolk with bean juice.

[Mad Cyril]

Equally I'm not to keen on mixing yolk with bean juice.

I use the sausage in a similar fashion to those inflatable booms used to control oil spillages on water.

Obviously this dictates the order you can eat you can eat your breakfast items which some people may be uncomfortable with.

[BrettieAngell]

I don't like Marmite. Equally I'm not to keen on mixing yolk with bean juice.

Ah man thats the one!!

[OldBlueLady]

I don't like Marmite. Equally I'm not to keen on mixing yolk with bean juice.

As I said, if you don't like Marmite then it won't appeal regardless - it's best with scrambled egg anyway......nice and softly scrambled, not the spongey stuff!

[Swiss Tony]

It's all about quality and attention to detail.

I get fed up with the following.

1. Poor quality bacon - especially if grilled.
2. Over/under cooked fried eggs.

I can recommend the following establishments:

Strand cafe - old Leigh.
Sue's cafe - Canvey seafront.
Labworth - Canvey seafront.

Anyone else got a winner?

Yes i have,if you ever in London,try Franks on Bankside,sausages to die for,would go 10 miles out of my way for his fry up,the dogs.

[The Flying Scotsman]

I use the sausage in a similar fashion to those inflatable booms used to control oils spillages on water.

Obviously this dictates the order you can eat you can eat your breakfast items which some people may be uncomfortable with.

See I like to dip my sausage in the yolk, so I will put my egg(s) on top of a slice of toast/fried slice to keep the bean juice away.

I like to keep the bean juice for the end when mopping up with my second slice of toast.

It's a milatary operation I tell you.

[Cricko]

See I like to dip my sausage in the yolk, so I will put my egg(s) on top of a slice of toast/fried slice to keep the bean juice away.

I like to keep the bean juice for the end when mopping up with my second slice of toast.

It's a milatary operation I tell you.



Don't we all..:)

[Swiss Tony]

See I like to dip my sausage in the yolk, so I will put my egg(s) on top of a slice of toast/fried slice to keep the bean juice away.

I like to keep the bean juice for the end when mopping up with my second slice of toast.

It's a milatary operation I tell you.

Agreed,my pet hate is if someone cuts right through their egg,and the yolk spills out all over the plate,utte madness,the yellow bit is king,and must be treated with total respect.

[Dave of the Match]

Add some haggis a can of full-fat coke and take away the mushrooms and that's my brekkie.

How can you possibly drink coke at breakfast!?

[davewebbsbrain]

How can you possibly drink coke at breakfast!?

Easy, you too will be able to do so when you are a man!

[Dave of the Match]

Easy, you too will be able to do so when you are a man!

It tastes rank in the morning though.. Stick to OJ :)

[BrettieAngell]

Easy, you too will be able to do so when you are a man!

Thats drinking beer with breakfast surely?

[MK Shrimper]

Thats drinking beer with breakfast surely?

That's not being a man, that's being an alcoholic on the way to liver failure!

[canveyshrimper]

Thats drinking beer for breakfast surely?

Edited. :)

[OldBlueLady]

That's not being a man, that's being an alcoholic on the way to liver failure!

Meh. Hair of the dog.

[EastStandBlue]

That's not being a man, that's being an alcoholic on the way to liver failure!

Rather that than being a Women on the way to Menopause...

[BrettieAngell]

Rather that than being a Women on the way to Menopause...

chortle. :)

[OldBlueLady]

Rather that than being a Women on the way to Menopause...

Are you insinuating something there? :unsure:


chortle. :)

And don't encourage him!!!

[EastStandBlue]

I was merely mocking MK and his lack of maculinity by avoiding a Pint for breakfast.

[MK Shrimper]

I was merely mocking MK and his lack of maculinity by avoiding a Pint for breakfast.

Yes I am a big gay girl indeed.

[Wessex]

Haggis for Breakfast - Whenever you stay at a hotel in Scotland or a B&amp;B you get it. Also missing is Square Sausage and Tattie Scones (not that you get them in Cafes down here but both can be bought at Tesco. Therefor my ultimate fry up would consist of (Quantity of each not included):

Sausage
Square Sausage
Bacon
Fried Egg
Tattie Scone
Blackpudding
Haggis
Beans
Fried Slice
Bread &amp; Butter
Mug of Tea

This would go some way to explaing why i'm not on the small side!!

That is a boss breakfast, you'd be ****ting bricks after it but it has to be said that it'd be worth it

[jassyfa1]

My ideal breakfast
2x sausages
1x bacon (none of that salty bacon crap)
2 x fried eggs (runny)
2 x hash browns
2 x toast (white bread)
grilled mushrooms
baked beans with bean juice
bread and butter
cup of tea with 2 sugars

you can keep your black pudding and your plum tomatoes

[Mad Cyril]

Fried kidney is also a top addition but you only really see it in expensive hotels which is odd.

[Gremlin]

I'd agree with Cyril's initial post. Baked beans have no place on the British breakfast plate.

[Shrimpero]

I used to enjoy a super little 'almost vegetarian' cooked breakfast at Maggie's Cafe - just underneath Lewisham station -many a year ago. It consisted of:- bubble & squeak, fried egg, beans, mushrooms and two lots of white toast with the essential extras of brown sauce and black pudding, which made it the full 'almost vegetarian.' Maggie was a lovely Irish woman who used to look after all the vagrants...happy days!

[Gremlin]

I used to enjoy a super little 'almost vegetarian' cooked breakfast at Maggie's Cafe - just underneath Lewisham station -many a year ago. It consisted of:- bubble & squeak, fried egg, beans, mushrooms and two lots of white toast with the essential extras of brown sauce and black pudding, which made it the full 'almost vegetarian.' Maggie was a lovely Irish woman who used to look after all the vagrants...happy days!

Maggie's very well known! She was still going strong when I last visited, but that's at least five years ago. Cracking cafe.

[Shrimpero]

Maggie's very well known! She was still going strong when I last visited, but that's at least five years ago. Cracking cafe.

Ah, that's good to hear and hope that's still the case. She was like a mother to some of those guys. I heard that she used to serve green tea on Paddy's Day - a real star of SE13! :clap: