According to this survey on reddit, bacon is the most important part of a Full English breakfast. I think the survey is from the US though. I’ve never had a Full English Breakfast, so maybe I’ll learn something about what it means.
Last thread on Full English breakfasts was in 2016. I think a new one is in order.
What’s the most important part of a Full English breakfast?
We’ll do our own poll. I added porridge to the one in the picture.
You can only vote once, I voted bacon but wanted to put eggs as well, I love a full English, the only thing I could omit is the hash browns, but I’ll eat them if it’s served up…
I’m hoping that people will post their other favorites like you did. The poll only shows the one winner, but there’s lots of other good stuff on that plate.
There are not only regional variations but it’s a personal thing too and yet, strangely, every variation is called a “full English” and to make matters worse you can have a full Scottish variant too, and probably Welsh and Northern Irish.
Scottish has tattie scones and haggis too, for example … and now I fancy haggis even though I’ve just had my dinner.
Personally I like my tomatoes grilled and add fried bread too and you can keep the beans and hash browns, especially if there are tattie scones and haggis.
@butterscotch
Looking at all those bits of dead animal makes me feel ill even more so first thing in the morning .
There is nothing like a steaming bowl of porridge made with organic jumbo oats with a little cream or milk on top to put hairs on your chest and start the day
I only ever had hash brows once. It was at McDonalds; I didn’t ask for them, they just came with something else. I couldn’t eat them; they were horrible. Not as horrible as a bacon and egg muffin I once ordered, though. How on earth they manage to do what they do to bacon and egg God only knows.
Having researched extensively (ie watched numerous episodes of 4 In a Bed), I can confirm that a quality sausage and well poached eggs are the key to success.
What’s the essential part of a Full English breakfast?
Why all of it of course, that’s why it’s called ‘Full’ English breakfast!
Not so many years’ ago I could do all that some justice, these days though my appetite is not what it was. I might have to leave something on the plate, like the knife and fork!
Actually saw one bed & breakfast which did serve mushrooms as a thick soup, but intended as a sauce to pour over the rest of the breakfast items. Weird, or what?
Bacon, egg, sausage, tomato, black pudding, and a fried slice. Definitely NO beans. Might stretch to a potato cake or a hash brown too if I’m particularly hungry.
Haha. I’m actually a dietary vegan but I like looking at food. I couldn’t eat most of that stuff. It would literally make me sick. But looking at it oddly makes me hungry.
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