Full English Breakfast VS Welsh Breakfast 

I am a Yorkshireman, so it kills me to say this, but THE BEST black pudding is to be found in Bury, Lancashire.

I’m from North Wales and didn’t come across laver bread until I went toSouth Wales. Our B&B in Cardiff offered us a Welsh breakfast that included laver bread.

You should have tried Cardiff or Swansea (Especially around Penclawdd) for a Welsh Breakfast. They are harder to get across Wales these days due to the young generation being too picky with their food. Hope this helps.

Cockles and laverbread are mostly found in the Swansea and Gower areas of South Wales. Penclawdd on the Gower peninsula is historically the centre of Cockle production.

Heinz baked beans are made in Wigan, England. 2.5 million tins per day.

1st rule.. pour those beans onto plate right away let the food infuse with each other. 2nd rule Fried bread a must over toast. 3rd rule.. meant to make a mess when you eat bit of beans and tomato on shirt is normal.

Always fried mushrooms but you have no fried bread???? fried bread is a must have

If you think about it logically, the jam goes on first, so that you can dollop the cream on, you can't spread jam onto a big dollop of cream. Butter goes before jam (say on toast), because it's a small amount of butter that you spread, and the jam after.

English breakfast has fried bread too

Just ambled into my kitchen ... looked at a tin of Heinz Beans. Says "Made in England".

HP is the ONLY brown sauce worth the name.

Anyplace that serves you beans in a little bowl of their own.....so wrong. Black pudding needs to be dunked in the egg yolk

Those mushrooms looked sooo good! Weird thing to crave but something about them... 😄 Also I like your new thumbnail style! Really stands out!

A definate yes to mushrooms on a full English! Lovely stuff.

Had english breakfast once and liked it. But as you said, typical breakfast you really like is probably the one you grew up with as a child - so for me this is a typical german breakfast, which basically consist of bread roll with butter, jam or honey, sometimes ham. In Germany you typically don't cook for breakfast, only perhaps on sundays a boiled or scrambled egg (also regionally differences).

I'm Welsh, we just call this a fry up, 😁, I enjoyed your video,

Dont forget the bubble and squeak

Another vote for fried bread - a must have

I’m English and I’m addicted to watching you guys while you’re in the UK. You’re both so happy. Love it.

HP sauce is available in canada. It is my fav sauce of all the time

An additional aside comment: In addition to some of the US stores I saw mentioned for getting HP Sauce, you can also find it at Cost Plus World Market in their British Foods section. They have all sorts of great British food products there (both sweet and savory), including Heinz Baked Beans and one of my addictions, Salad Cream! And I've been able to find Heinz Baked Beans at almost any grocery store in my area, although it sounds like the recipes are slightly different between US and British made versions, so I may try buying both to do a comparison test...

I would say Gower peninsula and South Carmarthenshire areas is where you would get a so called "Welsh" breakfast. Most parts of the country have pickled cockles in jars with vinegar but I think thats disgusting. Much nicer having fresh ones in their shells from Llanelli or Carmarthen market or even getting them yourself from the beaches. I have them with butter but you have to boil them in their shells to get them to open up. For this reason us south Carmarthenshire people never have them for breakfast as it is too much work - we have them for supper or tea with bread and butter. I think the "Welsh Breakfast" thing is something some hotels/B & B's here on the Gower/Carmarthenshire just made up

I am Welsh-and I have never heard of a Welsh breakfast

Yum!!! Im off to cook my full English now😋 Ps...pour your beans on your plate👌

Glad you got outside of London! Subscribed :)

The beans thing is a bit multinational. Heinz is an American company, baked beans is a British adaptation of an American recipe, but many producers outsource now so the beans may well be manufactured and packaged in Germany, and while we're still in the EU that can be considered pretty local. So nope, nothing to do with WW2, just modern business practices. You would use brown sauce just the same way you'd use ketchup, on whatever food you want. A similar brand to HP is called Daddies, which I think is actually American. It might just not be that popular there.

Bless you. I love how you try to experience authenticity. It doesn’t always be. Beleivable

What you have there is an "English Breakfast" but it shouldn't be sold as a "Full English Breakfast" . For a true authentic "Full" , you need 10 items. Opinions vary as to what these 10 items should be, as well as regional variations, but to my mind a Full English should be : Egg Bacon Sausage Beans Tomato Mushrooms Black Pudding Hash browns Fried Bread Toast

“Heinz beans imported from Germany” - quite funny. No, the haricot beans come in from the USA, but are processed in the UK. 2 hour turn round from arrival at the factory to leaving as canned baked beans.

Avoid places which serve beans in a separate bowl /jug - inevitably it's a marker of over charging . Stick with a cafe that serves it all up together and probably pay less

Heinz beans are manufactured just down the road from Chester in Wigan, the BBC recently broadcast a programme from the factory showing how they are manufactured.

An English is best when made by someone else :) I'm with Vicky Taylor in that you must have fried bread as well

... when are people going to stop this ludicrous comparison of English, Scottish, Irish or Welsh breakfasts ... there never were four different breakfasts ... the term "full english breakfast" was used to differentiate between British and Continental breakfasts in international hotels ...

I have watched quite a few videos of Americans trying English food and I am always amazed at how much they put in their mouths at once.

Very well played you guys. Thanks for being informed...

Great video, the only time I eat a cooked breakfast is in a hotel when I'm on holiday. My breakfast consists of toast and sometimes cereal or porridge (oatmeal). I don't actually know anyone who eats a full English in the week mostly it's toast, often eaten on the way to the train. I've never tried black pudding the thought makes me ill. Really enjoy your videos, they are very Good.

Come to Henllan, Denbighshire. We don’t do the cockles but we do laverbread and our local butchers does a unique black pud. Do let us know if you’re coming it’s The Old Bakery, Henllan.

The cafe in Wales where I often had a full breakfast, there was a choice of beans or tomatoes. They also served it with hash browns and toast.

Haha it depends where in the UK where you come from what order you put it in haha so funny. Oooh the drama hahaha xx

HP sauce is used on steaks here in US and Canada. To get in US buy on Amazon and it comes from Canada. My daughter did say she saw some at Safeway here though I am not sure.

Baked beans have been sold in the UK since 1886 and manufacture in the UK since 1905. Unsure if they are still manufactured here. A full English needs bubble with it or a suitable replacement, hash browns for example.

Oh thats a shame. I dont know if they still do it, but Watkins Restaurant in the Empire Hotel in Llandudno (which is just a short distance from Conwy) certainly used to do a Welsh Breakfast. Both the hotel and the restaurant are still there. If you ever go back to North Wales maybe check it out and see if they still do it

The baked beans will have been made in the UK, we have factories here(imports to a number of countries). Heinz is actually an american company not german. I think you can get UK heinz baked beans in the US but they changed the label to just heinz beans or something. UK recipe of the beans are different to US made beans.

Beans traditionally are served on the same plate, all the flavours of the other ingredients mix together, lovely.. Its a recent trent to have them in pots..

I love the full English Breakfast, but only ever had the FULL version (as described by many people on here already) while in the UK. But, even though I also grew up eating and loving pancakes and bacon, I've become a convert to English Breakfast and will often make a pseudo scaled down version with egg, (American) bacon, cooked tomato, mushrooms, beans, and toast. Although I can't stand black pudding, so when I was in UK I would substitute white pudding (which is pretty much black pudding without the blood). Regarding cream or jam first, I always liked spreading the cream on the entire scone and then adding the jam on top.

The best black pudding is from Chadwicks black pudding stall on Bury market. They steam them, so much nicer than fried.

The best bit of the full English is eating various combinations of each of the ingredients, washed down with piping hot tea.

Mushrooms are a must for the full English, but I do not include the black pudding. Did you try the kippers for breakfast in Scotland? And yes, a banger is a banger whenever you eat them, but especially around Nov 5th.

The best English breakfast places are served at greasy spoons. Were they have fried bread and hash browns, and the tomato is actually tinned chopped tomato that you just mix with the whole plate and everything tastes amazing. And literally, a full English will cost no more than 5 pounds at those places.

Not just liked but also subscribed, I love your positive reviews of British food and find you both very likeable and down to earth. As has already been pointed out, Heinz baked beans are (still) made in the UK. Over to HP, this was made in the UK for at least a century, although HP stands for Houses of Parliament in London, as per the illustration on the label, in a factory in Aston, Birmingham, which controversially was closed in 2007 when production was relocated to the Netherlands. HP, or brown sauce (there are many brands of brown sauce like Daddies and store's own brands but it is generally viewed as a distinct species from HP) isn't really an equivalent to ketchup but more an alternative or extra condiment. In many cafes, as well as on many British breakfast or even lunch/dinner tables, both are a standard condiment, just as salt and pepper are. In fact it's quite common to add both to an English breakfast. HP or brown sauce is quite commonly also mixed into baked beans to spice them up, but never ketchup. As to mixing components of an English breakfast, you came to the right conclusion, pairings of 2 components are fine but any more than that and it just gets confusing. There are no hard and fast rules! I personally like to put bacon and egg together on a forkfull, and also a piece of sausage topped with beans works well. I think that egg and beans is a bit of a no-no though. As to the lack of pancakes, well if I make a cooked breakfast at home I don't limit myself to just one or two slices of buttered toast, whereas in a cafe you may well only have one or two. Also, as has been pointed out in other comments below, many people prefer fried bread over toast. A shame you couldn't find a Welsh breakfast. I think the description of seafood being involved is a bit vague and possibly misleading though, as far as I am aware the difference is the inclusion of laverbread, which isn't really a bread but cooked seaweed. Seaweed is very healthy and can be very tasty, as anyone who has eaten Japanese food - not just sushi - will testify. Also I just read on the wiki article about laverbread that in fact cockles are also very popular with a Welsh breakfast so I stand corrected on my above observation, you live and learn!

I’m English from Yorkshire as a child in the fifties in fact as an adult we’ve never had baked beans with a full English breakfast when at home. We would have both sides fried bread sprinkled with white pepper with the fry up, definitely not black pepper. The toast would be after the breakfast. I don’t know when or where the beans became a standard for cafe breakfasts, most likely at greasy spoon trucking cafes, to fill up the drivers. Love your videos. Cream before the jam is our preference

I got to 5 mins 50 secs then you lost me, temporarily, while I went away for second breakfast. Back at 9.35 a.m. to watch the rest. My first breakfast piece of toast turned out to be inadequate when I saw you tucking in to that loaded fork.

The best black pudding originates from Bury in the north of England

The breakfast does not need heinz to be an english breakfast but most british people woud swear heinz was the best brand. A few years ago the recipe was changed with tomato sauce weakened. Branston beans are now actually better and more like the original heinz. I usually see tomato and heinz beans as interchangeable. The 'banger' is often used to describe any sausages but is usually sold as such when it fails to have the meat content to be legally described as a sausage. Mushrooms seem to have so many ways of being cooked or presented in a breakfast and can make or break the meal. I prefer breakfasts with fried bread to have with the tomato that again can be presented in different forms. Don't worry so much what the rules are all the time, you do fine to do what works for you.

I don't think I could do the black pudding. Plus baked beans are just not my thing but it looks delicious. How odd that it was that hard to find a traditional Welsh breakfast! I grew up with crepes or potato pancakes for a fancier breakfast and I still prefer potato pancakes and eggs w/ a lil bacon as my favorite indulgent breakfast.

Oh, it is most def considered A BANGER especially early in the morning! ;D You should know this Mr. Saugage Banger Brown XD XP (This whole sausage banging stuff went weird really fast XDDDD LMAO)

Definitely should have gone to South Wales for Welsh breakfasts. Swansea/ Gower is best as cockles and lavabread are produced there. There's a place called The Cwtch in Swansea that serves a good breakfast.

Love your videos! Im British (but half welsh) and ive never heard of a welsh breakfast hahaa! Love a good english breakfast though!

There’s not much difference between English, Scottish and Welsh breakfast in my experience. When I’ve stayed in Welsh Youth hostels I’ve had lovely Welsh breakfasts. I recommend YHA Pen Y Pass very beautiful and the perfect location to take the Pyg/Miners track to trek or hike Snowdon. I love Welsh Glamorgan sausages (I don’t eat meat), also Daddies sauce is the best. Scones are eaten in the afternoon after sandwiches, not for breakfast. Where were the hash browns?

all sausages are bangers!!.. Beans are the juice that binds it altogether and makes the tea taste sooo good after! and im 60 and beans have always been a part of it..

You need to try a full Scottish breakfast with white or fruit pudding , flat sausage , yummy !

But Mark Weins (a food vloger) found it in Wales..... The seafood you are talking about..... They also had a vegetarian sausage in their platter which was made of cheese......

Great combinations - black pudding and egg, sausage, beans and mushroom with HP sauce, bacon and tomato with toast...

Kinging it 😍😍 xx

Thanks guys, looks very nice. I think full English and Welsh breakfast is usually the same thing. You can get some cafes in South Wales where I live that serve cockles and lavabread as a Welsh breakfast, but seems not so common. Expecting to see a few comments about the beans in a ramekin: Brits seems to get unfathomably triggered by such things! If you don't like that, tip them on the plate.

Putting the cream on the scone before the jam is known as a Devonshire cream tea. Jam first then cream is known as a Cornish cream tea I believe.

HP (brown) sauce is brilliant (HP stands - in this instance - for Houses of Parliament although it is also the Manufacturer).

They're not into cockles and laverbread in North Wales - indeed, I'm not sure they even "grow" them there. You'll find cockles and laverbread aplenty in South Wales - especially Swansea Market - so you need to go there if you want to taste these delicacies.

Absolutely love black pudding with my English breakfast.

marmite Have u tried it It’s on of my favs Way to have it is toast buttered light layer on top for ur first time but make it look like u have it on all over

I always have mushrooms. Fried bread is nice. Sometimes tinned tomatoes. bacon, egg, sausage, beans, black pudding, toast, hash browns sometimes. Ketchup or Daddies brown sauce. Ermm...

One of my besties is from London and they always eat mushrooms with their full english. And she slices the tomatoes as opposed to a half.

My family went to a cheap steakhouse buffet place in Kissimee, FL right next to Disney World and they had HP sauce. Also had British newspapers, and most people there seemed to be speaking with British accents. It was very odd.

HP (which stands for Houses of Parliament) sauce is also made by Heinz.

If you like HP sauce, I found it in Publix in Florida once!

Baked beans used to be pork and beans but around WW2 (I think) there was rationing and meat was scarce so they took out the meat and it stayed like that.

could have tried craw folks , boiled sheep brain, normally free in old pubs down there! (craw or brawn ) i can't remember which one----

English breakfasts are the best in the world. When I travel it's what I crave and it's the first thing I make when I get home, well that and a roast dinner. Great video guys

English breakfasts can be any combination(with tomatoes or without same as mushrooms). The standard is basically sausage,bacon and eggs with anything else added ie blackpudding,toast,fried bread,mushrooms etc. The choice is yours.I personally don't do beans! Everything is a personal choice and put any combination on your fork. No right or wrong. Enjoy!!!!!

Nice video Josh and Ashley

You were in Conwy? You could have gotten a full Welsh breakfast at most of the hotels... if you stayed in that hotel. The hotels in Conwy are more like a BnB. They've got like 10 rooms max each.

Had French black pudding (boudin noir) but it had a crumbly texture while Dutch black pudding (bloedworst) has a sausage texture and prefer over the French example I had..

I am pretty sure that baked beans are not part of a 'traditional' full english. (Neither are hash browns), but are a more recent addition. But i guess like everything... things evolve... sometimes for the better and sometimes...not...And as the comments below say, fried bread would definitely qualify as one of the original 'ingredients'. I'm a new subscriber guys, really enjoying your videos and vlogs.. definitely feel the good time you are having. :)

You are such a happy couple; I really enjoy your videos. Your breakfast looked delicious, apart from the tomato, which didn't look very cooked. Though I'm British I quite approve of the American pronunciation of the word tomato (to-mayto). As you are in Chester you might be interested to know that there's an ancient law that apparently has never been repealed making it legal to kill a Welshman if he is found within the City Walls after dark.

black pudding with a big amount of the egg yolk is my fave .

Jam, then clotted cream on a scone but never for breakfast. Always mushrooms with a full English and try a full English from a proper greasy spoon. Baked beans are generic, not necessarily Heinz. Other items can include hash browns or bubble and squeak, scrambled or poached eggs. Some people even like a bit of kidney

Love it! If you are in London go to Hawksmoor. Better known as a steak place but they serve the best English breakfast I have ever had. The tomatoes should have been roasted or at least seared and you should have had white pudding as well with it, which is my preference. Great video don't sweat the Welsh breakfast but the Scots do add a seafood twist to their breakfast if you are on the coast.

Being welsh and Having lived in wales all my life - 36yrs, I have never ate a welsh breakfast, it’s always english style lol, I live in south wales, there possibly are some places that may add laver bread and cockles to basically an english breakfast, & on the menu call it a “Welsh” breakfast, it would usually be in the gower/swansea area here in south wales where you’d get them, but only when they are in season, I also I don’t even think that cockles and laverbread are that popular of a dish any more though, especially not with the youngsters, but you can buy them from the market separately to make your own breakfast I think thats still a thing 🤔 and if they do a nearby cafe would probably be serving a welsh breakfast, I don’t know I Typically I try to avoid them as best I can as I am not partial to seafood & have tried Cockles, but never again 😐 lol.

Missing hash browns, fried bread, whole plum tomatoes cooked, scrambled egg (yes, it comes with both scrambled and fried) and ideally lincoln or Cumberland sausages

1:09 I get it now! The correct pronunciation of "tomato" varies by ACCENT! Unlike in the American accent, where it is correct to pronounce the "a" as a long "a," in the English accent, it is correct to pronounce it is a short "o"! Having been born and raised in the Missouri Ozarks, I've heard that word pronounced both ways before!

Welsh Breakfast with cockles and Lava bread is more typically in the South of Wales, the best being in Swansey and around the Gowa Peninsula. They don'd have it typically in the north.

Scones - jam then cream the jam insulates the cream from the warm scone and stops it melting....

You need to get to Swansea Market in South Wales to get the ingredients to make a Welsh breakfast. I don’t think there are any places in Wales that actually serve a Welsh breakfast.

I prefer either grilled tomatoes or plum tomatoes. And they never cook the bacon enough for me, I prefer it crispy.

Cream on first is a Cornish Cream tea and strawberry jam first is a Devon cream tea.

As someone English that place is definitely not a locals place and seeing beans in a bowl means it’s definitely not to an Englishman’s taste plus a sign of overcharging. What you want is a cafe that is not all fancied up outside and looks a little more like a canteen inside that’s where locals go. Also a place where breakfast is all the same taste no matter where in the UK is Wetherspoons and it’s cheap too.

Great video glad you liked the full English not Manny new people to england do like it.

They are very hard to come by I'm 26 and have lived in south wales all my life and I've never had a welsh breakfast or at least not a proper one and I'm sure I've seen it somewhere but only a handful of times :/

I always used to have the ‘olympic’ full English breakfast from the ‘little chef’ restaurant. Largest FEB you could get.

had cockles on the seaside in Brighton; good, but served with more than a little sand ...