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Where is the fried bread ?

Shes like i just make a sausage patty. He's like its the best thing ive eaten. Wow you two are amazing. True genuine love

Full English is very much a saturday morning breakfast. You have it in the morning and can then go out for the day, shopping, doing stuff with the kids etc and not really have to worry about lunch. Aside from snacks it keeps you going till your evening meal. Or, Sunday mornings. If youve been out on the beer saturday night there is no better hangover cure than a full English on the sunday. Midweek people do anything, cereal, bacon sandwich, stop at mcdonalds and grab an egg mcmuffin..

It's quite common to have orange juice with a Full English! It cuts through the fat and savoury a bit! Also, I can confirm what other comments are saying - black pudding is veeeeeery old, definitely pre-war. Black pudding in England goes back at least to the late medieval period, and cooked blood foods have existed in cultures across the world for a long old time! They also really don't taste of blood - the only way I can describe it is that it tastes "meatier than meat itself"! Thanks for the video you two!

Hi guys. Tattie scone (potato cakes )are lovely. I like mine fried till they are crispy. You can make your own and they are so easy to make. We were taught in cooking classes at school. 😋

as a brit i aprove of this breakfast looks like a good representation of a standard full English, though we do have toast, fried bread is almost a must on an English breakfast, it varies between regions, lorn squares, tatty cakes and even haggis in Scotland, could also find hash browns in some places. I love black pudding and i'ts been around for thousands of years, but for the love of god steve don't you dare put fruit on a full English other than tomato, it's supposed to be kinda unhealthy lol

Black Pudding is the oldest pudding going, dating back thousands of years

Full Scottish breakfast has square sausage, tattie scone and sometimes a haggis slice. There are many regional variations of black pudding. Stornoway black pudding has protected status.

English breakfast varies from place to place me fried eggs.... bacon... sausages... black pudding... tinned tomatoes....fried bread.. mushrooms...

The name pudding has been around a long time. In Tudor times they could be sweet or savoury and involved stuffing an intestine with what you cook. Rice pudding, for example, would have been milk, sugar, rice and fruit boiled in a sausage-like skin. In England a haggis would also have been called a pudding. Christmas puddings would have been cooked this way. Over time the foods changed shape but retained the pudding identity. Steak and kidney pudding, for example, migrated from a boiled intestine to a boiled suet pastry. If the dessert (or savoury dish) has the name pudding it probably harkens back to these origins (even if ingredients and style of cooking may have changed).

I have it every Monday evening for my tea (dinner) but with tinned plum tomatoes.

What is classed now as a full English is not actually a full English, but an ALL Day Breakfast. A REAL full English starts with a glass of fruit juice/water, a cereal/Porridge(Rolled Oats),the cooked part = fried eggs, grilled sausages, grilled bacon, baked beans/grilled tomatoes, black pudding, rack of toast, pot of tea. Really designed for Farm workers who start work at 4am. in Norfolk a variation is called "Docky" which is eaten around 11pm after milking & feeding livestock. Prepared while farmer/farm hand is doing the morning chorees on the farm. What you see there is the Townie version.

If you've ever wondered how the British created an Empire from such a small nation it was the Full English breakfast that did it. Apart from when they were eating weevil infested ship's biscuits on long voyages or salty porridge if you were Scottish.

Have you ever heard of fried slice, basically a slice of bread fried in oil until golden brown 😃

I worked in a cafe/deli for a long time and I made a couple of hundred Full English Breakfasts daily . At home I make them on weekends and make them if family are visiting . I can do a full English for 12 people in around 30 minutes , it’s all about getting your timings right.

Busy day breakfast is classically either toast with butter and a topping (jam, marmite, marmalade, peanut butter) or cereal like corn flakes, weetabix, shredded wheat, muesli with milk.

Aussie here - best "Full English" i have had was on a Cruise in 2019. I ordered room Service one morning, Had 2 scrambled eggs, toast on a side plate with spreads eg jam/peanut butter, hash browns, mushrooms, baked beans, sausages, bacon, a small pot of coffee and a glass of apple juice and a container of BBQ sauce. no tomato or black pudding for me as i don't like either. Cost me 28 bucks Au and worth every cent. one of the best breakfasts i ever had.

More of a SUNDAY breakfast for us!! 😂❤

If there is a choice between fried bread or toast it's always fried bread for me and tinned tomatoes.

You definitely should try Black Pudding, it's amazing, my kids love it too. It's one of those things that you tell them what's in it once they know they like it.

"Something sweet" is what the toast and marmalade is for. And you get fruit in the marmalade too!

I had friends over from USA and they wanted to try the traditional Fish N Chips. So while there I bought black pudding and chips. They tried it without knowing what it was, loved it and then made the mistake of googling the ingredients lmao

The 2 main sausages- Cumberland and Lincolnshire. Cumberland is mainly seasoned with black pepper and Lincolnshire is a more herby sausage

Thank goodness! A proper British breakfast! None of that disgusting hash brown nonsense. ❤

A good full English is from a cafe in U.K.

The Full Welsh traditionally also includes Cockles (Like Scallops, a shelled sea mollusc, IDK if you eat them there) in addition to Laverbread. Sometimes the Sausages will be Glamorgan Sausages (A type of vegetarian sausage made of cheese, spices, leeks, and breadcrumbs) while the Bacon will be thicker and have more fat on it. The fat from the bacon is used to fry the Laverbread. You'll find a Full English everywhere in the UK. A Full Welsh, Full Scottish etc is usually a speciality item from certain restaurants, or home cooked.

Hi guys , black pudding actually goes back to Roman times but later produced up in the North of England . I love it its not what you think it's going to taste like . Yummy 😋

I don't eat a full English at home, however, when I am on holiday I love a Full English Breakfast.

Beans on toast... It's amazing.

british baked beans are softer and smaller and the tomatoe sauce has a slight sweetness xx

Boiled Black Pudding, with vinegar and English mustard is great too. Preferably Black Pudding from Bury market.

When I was in my early 20s I used to meet up with friends every Sunday for an early morning swim followed by a Full English at a very cheap cafe. These days (now in my late 40s) I only have them a handful of times a year, but usually on holiday or for treat at a nice cafe or pub, somewhere with good quality ingredients! I can't even remember the last time we actually cooked up our own tbh, I have eggs every morning without fail, and hubby has a flapjack (the US equivalent is kind of a chewy granola bar) and/or banana.

My family run one of the biggest black pudding companies in the U.K. We have over 200 awards for our products. It used to be a way to use all of an animal but us Brits love it so much that our factory alone produces tonnes of it a week. Absolute must on a Full English.

Weekday breakfast at home is often toast, porridge or other cereal, however it is also common to grab a sausage or bacon roll, perhaps with fried or scramled egg added, and a cuppa on the commute to work. Some people might also have a croissant or other pastry with a coffee, at home or on their commute.

I am salivating at the thought of LIndsey's pork patties at the moment. 😋 Guess I need to get my pan warmed up.

We don't count carbs we just eat what we like

I basically have a full english everyday (sausages, bacon, toast and occasionally beans) I' m autistic so it is a very hard thing to find what I like so I just stick to this cause I know I'll enjoy it even if it ain't healthy.

im eating black pudding for lunch right now - weekday breakfast is marmite on toast and a mug of Yorkshire tea

Bacon Sarnie is quite popular throughout the week for breakfast

Here in Scotland we have bacon, eggs beans,haggis,black pudding, tattie scones, tomatoes and toast , yummmmy x

Tinned tomatoes were the traditional thing rather than fresh cooked tomatoes although the posh would expect a fresh tomato grilled so now most places now do grilled unless you go to a greasy spoon café (cheaper café). Also black pudding can be eaten fresh rather than grilled but most places say it should be cooked because of the ingredients in it but it's actually steamed when it's made

I'm 73 this month and I had the full monty every single day of my working life. Now I'm retired, I still have a fried brekkie but toned down a bit as I no longer need the calories. For the record, I'm still fit as a butcher's dog.

I think you two should do a video on cooking a Full English breakfast that would be ace to see your reaction but please please please use HEINZ baked beans 😂

On an average day I just cook a mini breakfast. Single sausage, egg, rasher of bacon along with a fried tomato. (Followed by toast & marmalade and a pot of tea while I catch up on all the news.)

I prefer tinned plum Tom's more bacon than normal, the rest the same as in vid

Being Scottish I've always known this as a fried breakfast. This throughout childhood we would have a fried breakfast. Daily breakfast would be cereal in summer. Porridge in a cold winter. A Scottish fried breakfast my mum would have bacon, beans,sausages 2 types links and square sausage it comes in long squares,black pudding (Something useful from our southern neighbours, fried eggs,potato scones. Beans and boiled Italian peeled tomatoes. The last two would be boiled the rest was fried. Originally in the 70's it would be fried in animal fat today it's usually sunflower oil. Miss this but not as much as mum who cooked it. Beans can be boiled and or fried great on a piece (Scottish word for buttie or sandwich. We had this every Sunday growing up. Then Sunday dinner would be a fancy meal to. The Sunday roast as it was called.

An hour , 20 min job that 🤣

During the week, its usually Sultana bran, some muesli, half a banana and some Greek yoghurt. Occasionally some baked beans on toast or fried garlic mushrooms on toast. Black pudding - one slice is enough and for me it has to be fried. A bacon (and egg and/or sausage link) with tomato or HP sauce is a more on the go combination.

Looks pretty good 😋, can also include bubble n squeak, and personally would swap the fresh tomatoes for canned Italian plum tomatoes, they seem to be perfect on a breakfast plate. With the baked beans we also have bbq beans which are delicious plus can get cheesy, curry and chilli varieties all of which are great on baked potatoes, i was always wary of trying black Pudding but absolutely love it now especially with a touch of hp sauce 😋

In Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 one might find square sausagemeat patties instead of links, and fried potato cakes as well. In Wales, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 some differences might include adding lavabread, or possibly mussels. A Sunday breakfast option popular at my London school, in place of the fry-up, was Finnan haddock with poached eggs and thick-cut toast. 😋

my breakfast is 3 slices streaky bacon, 2 eggs, 1 sausage, black and white pudding, mushrooms, spud bread, half a soda farl, beans and a mug of strong tae once a week

Black pudding along with sausages can be very regional, a good butcher will make their own sausages and black pudding. Here in Cumbria where the Cumberland Sausage comes from, our local butcher has one of the best Cumberland sausages going, either in a breakfast sausage or a thicker long version.

The tattie scone is also an irish thing, we call it potato bread and soda bread also.

I remember a "Full English" as a feature of a hotel stay. When travelling on business, or on holiday. Usually hotels prepare cook their full English in the oven. A tray of sausages, a tray of tomato halves etc.

Both my parents were from Ireland so we had white pudding which was nice with a fry up ❤

for about a year, i ate nothing but full english breakfasts at home, but, because of time, i had them for dinner each day or even lunch on weekends. i just bought endless meat and fried everyday. also, black pudding is not 'made of blood' as everyone says and thinks, its beef suet, the pigs blood is to add meat flavour. cheap way to use every part of the animal, even the blood but only used for taste and having the suet for the fill. everyone likes the black pudding differently. there are so many styles, even down to how cooked/overcooked, thick slice thin slice, all changes the experience tremendously. my personal favourite, is thin and well cooked black pudding. also, that plate looks so sad, colourless, all produce looks small and sad, small portions.

This morning I had fried eggs on toast, somtimes I have scrambled eggs or an omelette I love eggs. Somtimes I have wheatabix with fruit & yogurt, somtimes I have porridge with honey & berries or beans on toast.

Morning guys…..I’ve just had my breakfast…Fruit and Fibre flakes and 2 coffees lol…..Full English is a treat! 😊

You might find this interesting... Lorne/Square Sausage recipe. 750g steak mince, 200g of breadcrumbs or pinhead rusk, 1 tbsp salt, 120g water, 2g ground nutmeg, 2g coriander, 2g paprika, 5g ground black pepper. METHOD Line a loaf tin with wax paper, set it aside. Mix all the spices and salt in a large bowl. Add and mix in steak mince. Make sure all ingredients are mixed thoroughly. If available, combine ingredients in a food processor and mix for 30 seconds or until well combined. Slowly add the water and mix into sticky consistency. Add the rusk/breadcrumbs and stir in evenly. Pack mixture into a loaf tin (approx 23cm x 8cm in size) lined with wax paper or clingy. Cover with film or foil and place in fridge to set for 24 hours. When the sausage has set, remove from fridge and slice into 1cm slices. To achieve the perfect slice, heat your knife in boiling water for an easier cut. Grill or fry for 4-6 minutes.

My personal standard breakfast is a mug of Tea and a couple of croissants. Though if I am away from home at breakfast time I would probably choose a full English as a treat.

I remember my Gran telling me when i was about 8 yrs old the only part of a pig you can't eat is the squeak, i'm 74 now. lol

Hi guys I used to be a manager for a restaurant chain in the UK called Little Chef. One of our popular meals was the all day breakfast. The basic meal was the Early Starter - A fried egg, sausage, bacon, baked beans , tomato and finally fried bread. For those who had a bigger appetite we had the Olympic Breakfast - all of the above plus sauted fried potatoes, mushrooms and black pudding. We also did smaller breakfasts such as scrambled eggs and potato with bacon, and we did an American Breakfast with scrambled eggs bacon and pancakes) served with maple syrup. Unfortunately the chain was sold to a Kuwaiti company who then sold out to a chain of service stations who didn’t want the brand any longer and they turned into Greggs or Starbucks. The Little Chef brand and logo might be going in Kuwait but I don’t know.

I’m British and I have never had black pudding the full English breakfast I have had consisted of Baked Beans, egg, sausage, bacon, fried bread and toast. Fried bread is bread with butter on both sides then fried in a frying pan until crispy on both sides.

Cooked breakfast doesn't take an hour to make! Everything is fried or grilled (apart from the baked beans) so it is very quick to cook. I went on holiday years ago touring round Somerset and Devon staying in B&Bs. We had a full English breakfast each morning. It really filled us up until an early evening meal, so very cost effective. Apart from the full English, there was fruit juice to start, and you could also have toast afterwards with jam or marmalade, and plenty of tea or coffee. With regard to black pudding, some European countries do their own versions of blood sausage.

The one missing ingredient from that was Colman's English Mustard on the sausages and black pudding. Also Brown Sauce goes well with all these things, especially bacon, as any bacon butty eater will attest to

i replace the bacon with hash brown and the tomato with fried bread / eggy bread, and have 2 sausage, 2 eggs (fried / scrambled / omelette) , beans , regular toast and mushrooms

Something interesting about the way Steve says breakfast 😂 sounds like you're saying "bret-fuss" mate 😂

Steve, Lyndsey, I’m glad to hear you both say that you are both looking forward to trying your first full English breakfast, or depending on where you first sit down to breakfast in the UK this might better be named as a Scottish breakfast, or an Ulster fry or a Cardiff breakfast, they are all delicious as they all have many items in common. The most common things, are the usual basic foods which include bacon, sausage, eggs , beans, toast or fried bread or both and tomato. That is a British breakfast at its most basic form but all of that can be embellished with many other items, such as the regional variations for example, in the north of England it’s particularly black pudding, whereas in Scotland they specialise in making a form of skinless sausage called Lorne sausage which is made in a loaf tin and served by the slice, and the ever popular tattie scone, made by mixing mashed potato with plain flour and rolling the resulting dough into a slab that is then cut into squares about 1/4inch thick and fried in lard to give a skin on both sides. The Welsh speciality is laverbread made from a variety of seaweed and oat’s that is pressed into small pancakes and fried and served with cooked cockles, a small variety of shellfish that has been boiled and shelled and served in a pickling vinegar. The Irish breakfast has a large reliance upon the products of the pig with things such as white pudding in addition to the more usual sausages and a simple bread leavened with baking soda instead of yeast baked into a loaf that doesn’t require a lot of kneading and is simply formed into a roughly circular lump of dough that has a deep cross formed in the top. Once it has been cooked in the oven it is usually broken or sliced through the cross then split open across the h 15:42 orizontal plane and toasted under the grill (broiler) served with plenty of salty butter it’s a heart attack in itself. Other dishes that are typically served for breakfast in various locations but are not very common would be kippers and bloaters, Kedegeree ( dish of fried curry powder mixed with fried onions and white rice mixed with smoked fish flakes and pieces of boiled and chopped eggs, with triangles of buttered toast, or Hog’s pudding , a variation on white pudding that uses the chopped up leaves of the leek. An other breakfast dish is halved and skinned kidneys with the internal gristle sniped out and the meat fried and served on toast a particular favourite in the Royal Navy and known by the nickname sh1t on a raft, not a very appealing name, even if it is accurate.

A full Scottish breakfast also features fried tattie scones, the thin pancake like variety. Edit: Wheetabix can be mashed up and microwaved with milk as a breakfast alternative to porridge. Edit 1: How Black Pudding tastes varies depending on who made it, I've some which have been bowfing (just bad) and other which are stonking (amazing). Edit 2: Tattie Scone recipe. (sorry about the text spam). We also use left over boiled potatoes for this. Ingredients 500g/1lb 2oz floury potatoes (such as Maris Piper), unpeeled, cut into large chunks 150-175g/5½-6oz plain flour, plus extra for dusting 1 tsp baking powder 1 free-range egg, beaten 50g/1¾oz butter, plus extra for frying and to serve sea salt and freshly ground black pepper Method Steam the potatoes in a steamer basket over a pan of boiling water for about 20 minutes or until completely tender. While the potatoes are still hot, peel off the skins - wear rubber gloves or spear each piece of potato with a fork and peel the skin off with a sharp knife - they should slide off easily. Put 150g/5½oz of the flour and the baking powder into a bowl, with plenty of salt and pepper. If you have a potato ricer, mash the still-hot potatoes straight into the flour. Alternatively, mash the potatoes until smooth and add to the flour. Add the egg and butter - the butter should melt into the potato. Mix until you have a soft dough. If it seems too soft and doesn’t hold together, add a little more flour. Knead the mixture briefly until smooth, then turn out onto a well-floured surface. Cut the dough into six equal pieces, then roll out to form rounds of about 12-15cm/4½-6in in diameter and 5mm/¼in thick. Heat a little butter in a frying pan over a medium heat - not too hot or the butter will burn and the potato scones will brown too quickly. Fry one round at a time, flipping it over when the underside is brown. It should take 2-3 minutes on each side. When all the rounds are cooked, cut each round into four pieces. Eat hot from the pan or reheat by toasting. Serve with butter. Edit 3: I hope you try this, personally I love them with golden syrup (light molassis) while still warm.

We... our family doesn't really cook this ourselves for breakfast. We would go to a local cafe/greasy spoon. But really nowadays I'd have this for a dinner or have it cooked on holiday

Use to cook double egg two rashes and two sausages for my kids every morning before they went to school. Would take around 20mins

The only part of a pig that doesn't get used for food is its squeak. My Nan used to say.

Full English varies obviously for everyone, but if you just go for the most popular , 1 fried Eggs, 2 Sausages, 2 Bacon , Baked Beans, Black Pudding , then there's either or of Beans/Tomatoes, Fried bread/Sliced Bread, Chips/Beans, Black Pudding/Tomatoes (Black Pudding) is like Sausage patties , Full English Breakfast can definitely vary 👍

I grab a egg and bacon sandwich at work for my breakfast

Personally, cereal or toast for breakfast. Egg and bacon on a Sunday occasionally but I never cook a full English at home, that's for when I'm on holiday. This looked great and fresh tomatoes, never tinned.

3 eggs, 4 bacons, 3 sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans, black pudding, white/hogs pudding, 3 slices of buttered toast, a couple glasses of pure orange juice and a pot of tea to help wash it down. Fry up Friday and the rest of the day questioning why I wanted to eat so much.

Toast and pate on a weekday morning, fry up at least 1 morning at the weekend.

I rarely ever have a full english for breakfast. But i will have it for lunch or dinner!

I've never seen black pudding included in a Full English. It's normally included in a Full Scottish, along with tatty scones and lorne (square) sausages.

My favourite non traditional addition for a special treat is fried mashed potato. It's a special treat as there is never any left over mash from the sunday dinner! Love a good full english but I find myself often now going for the 'full english' omlette. Basically an omlette with the ingredients from a full english (well maybe not the baked beans!). Uses much fewer ingredients and still get all the good flavours. Can pretend that it's the more healthy alternative...

I wonder how many Brits actually have this on a regular basis? I doubt it's a high percentage. I can't even remember the last time I had a full English! Usually buttered toast or crumpets with a mug of tea!

I tend to just have a high fibre granola , half a grapefruit for breakfast , if I am going to the gym or for a run I will have a healthy smoothie. A cooked British breakfast is a treat for when I stay in a hotel in the UK with my partner .

Full English at weekend, is mainly due to Saturday morning hangover...

You usually get the best full English breakfast in what we call a “working man’s cafe”. I’m a labourer so will quite often go to one in the morning before work or at lunchtime. We all know it’s not good for you but at least you work it off if you’re doing manual type work.

Many cafes will serve a full English breakfast all day. I only eat it as a treat, and normally eat porridge with honey and fruit.

Delicious! I had this for my dinner yesterday

There does seem to be regional variation to the the full English. Not just variation to which country that makes up the uk, but even down to which county you’re in too. There used to be a little cafe in the small East of England town I lived in and they did four different ones and even had veggie or vegan versions… and this was almost 20 yrs ago! You could choose the items you wanted and make your own or choose from the menu versions.

Bara Llaw, Laver Bread is Welsh Caviar - and I love it

Who remembers the Olympic Breakfast at Little Chef?

Stuff that could also go with this: Plum tomatoes Chopped tinned tomatoes Hash browns Fried bread Eggy bread HP or Daddy’s brown sauce Tomato ketchup

I'm UK born and bred, and as great as a Full English is, very few of us (certainly on a daily basis) would actually eat one in it's "Full" form (lorry drivers being the odd exception) I can't remember the last time I had one (to be honest I don't eat breakfast in any form) but would gladly consume a Full English for any other meal of the day (providing I'm not cooking it)

The ultimate full English has to have - smoked danish back bacon, Cumberland sausage, black pudding, baked beans, grilled beef tomatoes, fried and scrambled eggs, mushrooms, fried bread, toast and a jam or marmalade, bubble and squeak and either a tea or coffee.

What I put in my fry: 2x sausage, 2x bacon, 2x tomato quarter, 2x white pudding, 2x black pudding, potato bread, fried egg, and beans. (I've noticed a lot of English people don't have white pudding which is strange)

Black pudding or blood pudding goes back to the Middle Ages. It is also popular in France and called boudin noir. Americans can get it from some English stores.

Weekdays we tend to stick with cereal or toast. Sometimes yogurt and fruit

Everytime I see her face it's just makes me so happy.😂

originally it was supposed to keep you going all day! eat this then go work a 12 hour shift... as such it was not as unhealthy as it may seem. big love to all people :)

My mothers fav full breakfast was weetabix served with tinned peaches, milk...then a 2 egg fluffy omelette and toast with a cup of tea

You'll find various recipes for black pudding / blood sausage all across Europe. It goes back at least to medieval times, if not earlier, and was a way for peasants to capture every last bit of nutrition from a slaughtered pig. Essentially the fresh blood is mixed with oats and fat to form a thick mass that's used as a sausage filling in exactly the same way as minced meat would be used to make sausages. It's most commonly found in the north of Britain, and there are several local variations depending on where you find it. I wouldn't call it an essential part of a full English breakfast, more like a common add-on. The taste is somewhat salty and very rich, thanks to all the protein and fat -- one slice is plenty. "Pudding" is a very ancient word and originally meant a sausage. Its use in the name "black pudding" is one of the last remnants of this original meaning. Over the centuries the word evolved to refer to other kinds of foods that were made as a soft mass wrapped in cloth and boiled (Christmas pudding) or grains boiled in milk (rice pudding), and then soft cake-like foods cooked by boiling in a basin (sponge pudding). The usual American meaning of "pudding" seems to be a development of this "soft mass" meaning. It continued to develop in Britain into a second meaning of any sweet course at the end of a meal. separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2008/08/pudding.html

Allday English Breakfast to be eaten anytime of the day 👌🏻✌🏻😂