to think that baked beans are a perfectly normal part of a cooked breakfast?

[bumbleymummy]

We were away for a wedding recently and stayed in a B&B. They asked what we would like for our cooked breakfast the next morning. I don't eat sausages or bacon so I just said I'd like eggs, mushrooms tomatoes and beans. I got a beans??? So what do you think Mners? Weird or a nice addition to a cooked breakfast? :)

No. When I was a student in the UK (I'm American) and they served beans with breakfast on the very first day in my hall of residence, I remember thinking I am not sure I can live in this country. But then the next day I discovered bacon rolls (we don't have back bacon in the US) and then I knew I had found true food love.

I second the idea of beans in a little ramekin, to stop everything getting soggy. Sloppy tomatoes on a breakfast? Yuk.

I can't stand baked beans so always refuse them, but I know a lot of people who do like them with a breakfast. I guess it depends on what you like.

This thread is making me salivate with hunger for a cooked breakfast.

Sausages (must be links, not square), bacon, fried egg, black pudding, haggis, potato scone, possibly a hash brown as well, mushrooms, beans and toast.

Dh and I have big appetites.

I have beans at home, but not in cafes etc as I don't want to chance them being cheap tasteless 5 beans in a pint of bland sauce.
Heinz or Branston beans for me.
Slight tangent but I hate it when a cafe's menu offers bread and butter then gives you bread and >slime< marge.

If you want a good cooked breakfast Morrisons (yes the supermarket) do some really good ones.

They know how to make a mean piece of fried bread.

Yes beans should be on a full English, but as you were in Scotland, maybe it's different.

I think it is a very English thing. I'm N.Irish and we don't have beans with cooked breakfast but we do have potato bread and soda farls and black pudding alongside the usual sausage, bacon, mushrooms and tomatoes (grilled not tinned).

I do like beans but only on toast and not touching the rest of my food so when i moved to England a very long time ago I was a bit pissed off to find beans all over my bloody breakfast. lol.

Baked beans but only Heinz.

Beans yes! And fried bread.
I always have beans on toast for brekkie

Beans are an essential component for me! Otherwise it's all too dry and you have nothing to mop up with your fried bread. I am having beans, toast, bacon and a poached egg for a late breakfast today as I am working from home.

God, now I want a fried breakfast...

Two sausage, two bacon, beans, couple of friend tomatoes, two hash browns or some fried potatoes, lashings of toast dripping in butter, poached eggs to go on the toast, little bit of black pudding on the side

Huge pot of coffee and a massive orange juice

No mushrooms though, as they are the work of the devil.

Best fry up ever has to be the Little Chef Olympic Breakfast

I still hold dear the memory of finally getting my appetite back after months of HG and eating a whole Olympic breakfast and a pancake with black cherries and ice cream. Mmmm...

I love those beans with nasty little sausages in them, but they are only for a treat

Baked beans yes! Yuum

Premier Inn does all you can eat breakfast. I want one now!

I do like beans on a breakfast but it's not essential.

DP hates them and as he always cooks breakfast so we don't have them in this house. I am not going to complain for fear of him getting me to do it instead

Beans are acceptable, chips are not!

We always have beans separately, as beans on toast.

The Sunday brekkie we love is train smash: two poached eggs on toast with tomatoes (must be tinned whole italian tomatoes).
The News Quiz/Dead Ringers/Archers and HP sauce the perfect accompaniment.

Beans are the work of the devil and have no place on a breakfast plate!

Fat maggots in sauce.

A proper cooked breakfast

2 bacon
2 soss
grilled toms
fried bread
beans
poached egg
black pudding
haggis slice
2 hash browns
devilled kidneys
mushrooms

red sauce, mustard

several large pots of tea.

I call it the heart stopper ;-)

I am always amazed by the fascination with tinned beans in England... but i will be alone on this one.

The "english breakfast" needs to catch up with modern food. some places don't serve mushrooms or tomatoes, so then most of it is processed. how about some fruit or veggies?

keepitsimple...

it wouldn't be an English breakfast then would it? (though it applies to a NI, Scots, RoI fry too).

Now a Welsh fry has boiled seaweed - will that count?

I would profer that if at Trafalgar and Waterloo the French had chowed down on a proper brekky instead of croissants and cold cheese the outcome would have been different!!!

Yes, it definitely has to be Heinz!

I don't like fried bread at all. I stick to buttery toast. I love NI breakfasts where you have potato bread AND soda bread. (Although I only like a little bit of soda bread)

Ok - just to mix things up a bit.... :) How do you like your eggs? I don't mind fried but if I have a choice I'll go for poached.

poached always

Beans aren't part of a cooked breakfast in Scotland (or at least they weren't when I was growing up). I remember going on holiday to Torquay when I was 10 and being offered beans for breakfast and thinking it was the most exotic, wonderful thing ever - I ate beans on toast every morning for a week!

Scottish cooked breakfast is more likely to have tattie scone, square sausage, black or white pudding and clootie dumpling in it. In the heart attack stakes, it puts the wimpy English breakfast well in the shade.