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To think beans are a staple ingredient of a fry up?

206 replies

JustStirItUna · 31/12/2014 10:03

DH thinks a traditional fry up should be served without beans. I think it's not a proper fry up without some kind of moisture.

Who's right?

OP posts:
GretnaGreen · 31/12/2014 20:23

Beans are necessary to eat with sausage and toast, but MUST be kept away from a fried egg lest the delicious yolk gets lost in the beans.

I also like a hash brown that I can put said fried egg on to eat. But I accept that's non-canon.

GretnaGreen · 31/12/2014 20:26

Also, tinned tomatoes make me want to cry. Just barging in and swimming around in their horrible thin red juice. The bastards.

MorvahRising · 31/12/2014 20:27

Fried egg, bacon, sausage, tomato, fried bread (must be fried bread, not toast) fried potato, mushrooms.

But no beans. Beans are the work of the devil and must be avoided at all costs, at breakfast or at any other time of the day . . .

Siarie · 31/12/2014 20:49

And now I want a fry up, this thread is a craving pregnant ladies hell. I tend to have a veggie version which consists of any of the following depending what I buy:

Egg (scrambled or fried I wish I could poach them as well as restaurants!)
Toast or fried bread
Veggie Sausages
Veggie bacon (haven't had this in a while though)
Grilled tomato
Baked beans
Mushrooms
Fried cubed potatoes or hash browns
Bubble and squeak (if I'm out the local place does this yum yum)

Any of the above is my normal although I mix and match, probably wouldn't have all of them on the plate at one time. Oh and brown sauce!

Breadandwine · 31/12/2014 20:59

YANBU! Beans are an essential component of the perfect breakfast - either a full English, or a vegan (which I am Grin) breakfast.

However, I much prefer spicy home-made beans (using r-k-beans) - tinned baked beans are far too bland and tasteless for me.

So, my vegan breakfast:
2 sausages (one Fry's, the other Linda McCartney's)
1 or two slices of Fry's polony
Tomatoes (never tinned - ugh!)
Mushrooms (always sliced no matter how large or small)
Spicy beans (as above)
Potato in some form or another - leftover boiled potatoes sliced and fried would be my favourite, but I've been known to add a few oven chips
Fried bread (home-made, wholemeal), lightly fried in olive oil.

Actually, I'm lying! I almost never have breakfast since I've been practicing intermittent fasting - so this makes a lovely evening meal, which I have perhaps once a month.

cruikshank · 31/12/2014 21:01

Definitely an essential. Cooked in bacon fat. Lovely.

hooker29 · 31/12/2014 21:06

Bacon,egg,sausage,black pudding,beans and tinned chopped tomatoes,fried mushrooms,fruity brown sauce and a huge mug of tea.Oh and not forgetting the fried bread that's been cooked in the fat from the sausage,bacon and egg..........just what I'm having for brunch tomorrow!!

MrsLindor · 31/12/2014 21:22

Beans for me, or tinned tomatoes only if they've been reduced in a pan, can't stand them watery.

Blu · 31/12/2014 21:32

No beans, no tinned toms, no ketchup.

cruikshank · 31/12/2014 21:37

GretnaGreen, re hash browns, I am with you all the way but have you ever tried mini bacon hash browns? You will never look back, I promise you. They are filthy.

PigletJohn · 31/12/2014 21:39

yum yum, fried bread. I never get it Sad

To think beans are a staple ingredient of a fry up?
PigletJohn · 31/12/2014 21:40

bubble and squeak? Not for years Sad

To think beans are a staple ingredient of a fry up?
PigletJohn · 31/12/2014 21:42

and a man-size mug of PG tips Grin

To think beans are a staple ingredient of a fry up?
Scrumbled · 31/12/2014 21:42

I love beans but they need to be very hot. I can cope with a meat free fry up with or without beans but with most the beans are lukewarm warm before it gets eaten. That's why I don't tend to go from them. I'd I'm in control of a lunch time beans on toast I know that the toast and beans will be steaming.

hagarthorne · 31/12/2014 23:41

None of this compares with poached eggs and smokies.

Thumbnutstwitchingonanopenfire · 31/12/2014 23:43

YABU, you don't fry baked beans, therefore they're not a part of a traditional "fry up" - and they're revolting.

lem73 · 31/12/2014 23:44

Your dh is right.

Allalonenow · 01/01/2015 00:06

No baked beans, no tinned tomatoes.

A fried halved fresh tomato possibly, but better still large fried field mushrooms.

Potatoe cakes or hash browns or fried potatoes are a must, as are
Sausages, bacon, black pudding, white pudding.

Runny yolked fried eggs of course, and probably fried bread too!!

zukiecat · 01/01/2015 00:32

Beans are the work of the devil, vile evil things.

A good cooked breakfast consists of, sausages (or Lorne) eggs, fried bread and cold tomatoes.

Bacon is also horrible!

Jellyrollgumdrop · 01/01/2015 00:33

FWIW an Ulster fry consists of soda bread, Wheaten farl, potato bread/slim, bacon, sausages, egg& fryed mushrooms..... well that's what we have always had....

Jellyrollgumdrop · 01/01/2015 00:41

*fried

HollyBdenum · 01/01/2015 08:20

I would never have wheaten farl, might have tomatoes and would regard sausages as purely optional in an Ulster fry.

sanityisamyth · 01/01/2015 08:24

I'm catastrophically allergic to tomatoes. Beans would destroy a fry-up, and me!

ShinyToyBuns · 01/01/2015 10:18

Tomatoes (tinned) and fried mushrooms - beans are just plain wrong!

skylark2 · 01/01/2015 10:22

A fry up is fried. Anything which isn't fried (toast, tinned tomatoes, baked beans) is an extra.

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