English breakfasts-what is appealing about them.

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Not judging! I do like them occasionally myself (especially if eating out, almost got one the other day but I'm vegan so slightly different) just pondering what exactly it is that makes so many people love them so much?
They even have their own subreddit. Is it the mixture of carbs/protein/sloppy things (beans/tomatoes)?
Is it (as a friend of mine says!) That they're the only thing that 'cures' a hangover?
Tradition?
Just curious. I can see the appeal with some other commonly eaten meals but can't put my finger on this one ?

For me it’s the mix of salty (bacon, sausage) sweet (beans, tomatoes. Ketchup, black pudding), crunchy (toast, fried bread), creamy (egg), juicy (tomatoes), fragrant (herby mushrooms, herby sausages, spiced black pudding) Just all the things all together. Yum.

I find them a perfect mixture of indulgent and nutritious. Plus delicious.

I'm vegetarian and the only stuff I would eat from that list is toast (if heavily buttered) and reluctantly a small bit of avocado (bland) and beans to combat the dryness.
Nothing from your list is a full english.

& hash brown! Knew I'd missed something!
I had hot sauce rather than ketchup.

'Creamy' and 'egg' in the same sentence sounds odd to me! Is that a normal verb for them?

You're vegan so I can understand why you are baffled, but bacon, sausage, egg and a combination of any or all of fried bread, hash browns, potato waffles, baked beans, tomatoes, mushrooms and toast is too delicious for words.

They can keep their black pudding though.

Eggs would need to be scrambled to be creamy I’d say.

I love a cooked brekkie but the best elements (potato scone and mushrooms aside) are distinctly unvegan

It's pretty indulgent, isn't it? Large, for a start - far more that youd usually eat at breakfast time and full of things that aren't healthy but are delicious.

I feel the same way about roasts. People go wild over them and I don't get it. I don't mind a decent one once in a while with all the extra works like cauliflower cheese, red cabbage etc but even then I get a bit bored halfway through. Can't imagine having one every Sunday without fail.

I do like a good English breakfast but I usually prefer other eggy breakfasts like eggs benedict or avocado on toast with eggs and a sausage.

When we are having a cooked full plate of breakfast, at home or out, it means it's a lazy-ish, slower start to the day.

It's been a meal which everyone has enjoyed, at least most of it, since as far back as you can remember.

I don't eat meat, so apart from the eggs my version is vegan, but I live with carnivores!

For us, it's a meal we read papers, chat, do crosswords, debate the problem page. We introduced the kids to newspapers over the cooked breakfast.

So yes, we all enjoy it.

And yes meat, salt, fat, sugar, carbs, it's got the lot, add in a bloody mary and a couple of strong coffees and it's amazing anyone gets out alive!

Red pudding is not to my knowledge a thing. Black pudding, white pudding and fruit pudding. All oatmeal based. Ready to be corrected? Never had an ulster breakfast but in Scotland we have tattie (potato) scones which are cooked mashed potato mixed with flour rolled out and cut into thin wedge shapes and fried. Personally prefer hash browns which is. Terrible admission. Baked beans I always thought were more common on an English breakfast. However now days anything and everything goes. Haggis is added to Scottish breakfast but I don’t think it should be there! I doubt it was ever traditionally a breakfast food.

Its the combination of it all but it has to be a good one. Good bacon, eggs done just right etc. I hardly ever do the full works at home because I just can't be bothered. However there is a fab cafe locally that does the best breakfasts. I love to go there, as an occasional treat (about half a dozen times a year). It's the best😋

Full-English + chips + share a bottle of red wine - obviously after 12 noon otherwise that would be uncivilised.

Every few weeks we have one for supper and always enjoy it but usually stick to a bacon butty if having that sort of thing for breakfast unless we are on holiday or in a hotel then it becomes essential

Looking at all the “no beans” people on this thread like 👀👀

the beans are the best bit, the bring the whole unhealthy mess together. The longer they’ve been booking the better too… mushier the better.

savoury carby goodness, what’s not to love! And yes I’d describe eggs, especially scrambled as creamy.

Love a good Ulster Fry. The boys in the house like vegetable roll with it. Me not so much. I do like a hash brown even if it's not traditional. Can't.be doing with fried pancakes though my son always eats mine if we go out.

For me there's nothing appealing about them.

Although egg on toast is much healthier than sugary cereals.

But the rest, ugh.

You must live a very sheltered life if you think that's what a vegan breakfast consists of🤣

You are wrong. The beans ruin a good cooked breakfast.

Well, no. I am intrigued as to why you'd think that?

In restaurants and pubs that have them, they'll have alternatives to bacon and sausages. Non-dairy butter substitutes too. I'd not order a plate of beans and tomatoes in a restaurant, that'd be a bit odd!

I've seen one menu that had tofu scramble on but mostly they'll do smashed avocado ( as a substitute for the egg).

This is a description from a menu of a chain near me (I'd not want the falafel, mind!).
'Veggie sausage, falafel, greens & peppers, hash browns, baked beans, roasted tomatoes, mushroom, vegan bacon and two slices of white or brown toast'.

https://thepeskyvegan.com/recipes/vegan-haggis/
Vegan haggis is a thing! Albeit probably not to those dealing with copyright. I am not sure I've seen an alternative to black pudding however but I'll bet one exists. They used to do a 'vegan haggis' at my local market which was to die for albeit very bad for you!

Sorry just realised you'd beaten me to it! I was aghast at that response-do people really think that way...

It all depends on the quality of the individual ingredients and on how well they are cooked.

Scrambled makes a bit more sense! I was thinking 'How is a fried egg 'creamy'?!' but then I've not eaten one since about 1992 so what do I know.

But vegan fake sausages and vegan fake bacon don't taste anything like as awesome as the real thing. You are eating a pale imitation and wondering why it isn't great.