English breakfast 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (flag edited by MNHQ)

[Wishitwouldsnowsomuch]

I live abroad and make an English breakfast about twice a year 😂
I have fond memories of being a child and coming downstairs to the smell of bacon and cracking of eggs.
I fancy doing one this Sunday, what are the ideal things to have?
We had the full things as kids (no beans though! 🤮) but we had fried bread etc, I’ll likely just do toast, but it will be white and it will be Warburtons. Love mushrooms too, tomatoes I’m not sure as I’d do normal, proper tomatoes fried, but we had plum tomatoes as a kid? Which is best?

Tinned toms
Mushrooms
Sausage
Bacon
Beans
Black pudding

Loads of toast and butter
Yorkshire tea.

Never ever solid yoke.

I honestly struggle with the fact anyone puts tinned tomatoes on a full English, bleugh. Why would you when you can have fresh.

for me

black pudding,
mushrooms
eggs
bacon
fresh tomatoes grilled
toast

and beans as well for my family.

Oh yes the mushrooms…do they have to be button or just sliced?

That's not an English flag.

Round here is bubble and squeak. I don't like huge amounts of it, I make a b&s potato cake and fry that.

I know and it's really bugging me!

W**rong flag for an English breakfast op.
No prizes for guessing where you are from!

However you prefer them really. Not tinned ones though. Fresh white mushrooms - button or sliced or even whole ones brushed with oil and done in the oven

Funny how hearing what other people want in their English breakfast really makes me question their sanity 😂

For me, in an ideal world, it would consist of:

• A sausage
• Streaky bacon
• Fried eggs (over easy)
• Hash brown
• Sautéed or grilled tomatoes and mushrooms
• Baked beans
• One half slice of fried bread or a good slice of white bread/sourdough with butter

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 anyone had a Welsh breakfast? What does that involve?

Cockles and laverbread 😋

Absolutely no.

Sausages
Bacon
Hash browns
Fried/poached or scrambled eggs
Plum tomatoes
Baked beans
Mushrooms
Toast/fried bread

2 fried eggs
2 sausages
2 bacon
Fresh tomatoes fried
2 white toast
Beans with Tabasco in
Tea

Lorne not Lorna and it's a square of sausage meat usually about 3 x 3 inches.

Never hash browns because they are rotten little things

This - without the beans.

Beans OR tomato 🤣

Tinned Plum tomatoes.

Buttered white sliced bread too for mopping up.

Just C&P this from my instructions to American relatives 😀

Our full English:
bacon (proper back bacon, never streaky)
sausage (Cumberland or Lincolnshire)
fried egg (runny yolk)
chestnut mushrooms fried with garlic, parsley and pepper
baked beans
thick sliced white toast with butter
brown sauce
strong tea

optional:
grilled tomato half for pushing around plate
fried potatoes / hash if any cooked leftovers in fridge

Bacon, Egg, mushroom, tomato, and Derbyshire or Staffordshire oatcake.

Sausage, and black pudding are optional.

Beans are awful.

Hash brown is ok if you can't get oatcakes. Toast is a poor substitute for an oatcake or fried bread

White pudding!!! that is it, never see it anywhere, love it

In our 'usual' Sunday breakfast - it's a treat that we love

• A sausage (two for DH)
• Smoked back bacon
• Egg/s (poached for me, scrambled for DH)
• Toast

PLUS Freshly squeezed OJ for DH and V8/spice tomato juice for me

In my ideal Sunday breakfast

• A sausage
• Smoked back bacon
• Slice of very good black pudding
• Poached egg (runny in the middle) or fried (sunny side up I think they call it)
• Grilled mushrooms
• Baked beans (in a boat) with HP JUST for the beans
• Slice of fried bread
• Proper toast with butter

Juice as above, but, if we are talking ideal, I could stretch to a Bloody Mary!

Morrisons have it

Bacon
Butcher's sausage
Fried egg
Tinned plum tomatoes or a grilled fresh one
Sautéed mushrooms (in butter)
Beans
White toast with proper butter

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As a former B&B owner (SE England so no Scottish accompaniments, (more's the pity), my "full English" consisted as a minimum:

Choice of eggs
2 x bacon
2 x sausage
Mushrooms (cooked in butter)
Choice of beans or grilled/fried tomato
Choice of toast

I would offer fried bread if I was in the mood and very occasionally black pudding if I had it in.

According to the "Pink Book" 4 star accommodation should offer a minimum of four cooked elements. We didn't just throw the show together 😄