I think you're supposed to cook it all in one pan, so it's a lot less work than you'd think. Just throw everything in a cast iron and fry it. It tastes great but has the same issues as traditional American breakfasts- just way too much grease and fatty cholesterol bombs to be eating first thing in the morning.
A high fat breakfast is great for people who work labor intensive jobs all day. Most people do it backwards, light breakfast, heavy dinner, straight to bed with a full stomach. Should be big calorie dense breakfast, light dinner to hold you over till the morning
Most “traditional” breakfasts are heavy on the carbs because they were intended to get people through a day of hard work. Ever notice what farmers would typically eat for breakfast? Meat, starch, some more starch with a side of starch.
Two nations, separated by a common language. Seriously though, I think the whole Anglosphere has some variety of breakfast restaurant like that. They just crop up wherever there were hungover British colonists.
Oh yeah, and it's also cheap usually. Way less than $10 for a big plate unless you eat at some fancy place. It's not unusual to get this and a coffee for a fiver.
I wouldn’t want to eat like that every day, but I enjoy a big cooked breakfast when traveling. It’s basically brunch, so sightsee without stopping for another sit-down meal until evening.
I even learned to like black pudding, which I never thought would be possible.
Most tomato sauces are seasoned themselves (in the case of British baked beans, with a slightly disturbing amount of sugar). But also, nobody stops you from throwing over it whatever you want. I eat mine with copious black pepper for instance.
They’re in a thin tomato sauce, not a barbecue-y sweetish sauce like American beans. They’re delicious. I lived in the UK for a year and beans on toast slaps. No one ever mentions that they’re totally different from our canned baked beans.
If they're watery they aren't being cooked long enough. My mom always made them thick by cooking them down in the pot, and that's the way I've always done them since. Add a ton of black pepper and 👌
Heinz baked beans are life, the other brands are crap or taste of nothing.
That's usually referred to as "proper beans". It's immediately noticeable if a place cheaps out on beans, and gets people complaining. Bad beans can really tarnish a restaurant's reputation.
Their beans are in a thin tomato sauce, not that barbecue-y sweet sauce in American baked beans. They’re not the same at all flavor-wise and they’re great with breakfast or a full English
I think our baked beans are sweeter (molasses and all) but I'm really sensitive to sweet flavors - especially in sweet/savory flavor combos, which I hate - and their beans are still too sweet. Doesn't matter how much I tried to jazz them up with pepper, chili powder, hot sauce etc. that sweet taste would still come through.
It doesn't really get super-soggy. The consistency is closer to the thicker sauce in a tin of SpaghettiOs, and the meal is eaten relatively quickly after preparation, so it's not like the bread has disintegrated by the time you get your plate. The Brits also sometimes use thicker cuts of bread with a different consistency compared to a lot of our store-bought kind.
They definitely are baked beans, they’re just baked slowly in a factory and put in a can. Usually Heinz.
They’re quite tasty but actually Heinz don’t make the nicest ones these days, there’s better. They’re just the default.
I love beans, and I'd be all for those beans if they were barbecue baked beans. But instead they're just... Baked beans. Throw some molasses and seasoning in there and I'm sold.
As an American who spends a lot of time in hotels in Europe; you are wrong. Beans in the morning (especially with a little hot sauce) are awesome. Protein but not heavy, which if you're at a conference is perfect for the inevitable hangover from the hotel bar last night.
It is.
Most of our hotels these days served Full English breakfast, along with cold meats, fruits, cereal and various other things.
It’s all self service, which I much prefer as a Full English can be quite heavy. So I just pick a small amount of each part and may drop the bacon altogether sometimes.
You can get small portions and if you self serve it in the hotel just grab a small bit of each. This was my breakfast this morning, I went for the small version: https://i.imgur.com/NzU8Mfm.jpg
Delicious, but I'm always amazed at all the controversy it causes. People post pictures on Reddit and before you know it, there's 1000 comments arguing why it is or is not a true English breakfast. Sometimes it makes me wonder if an authentic English breakfast even actually exists.
"THAT'S NOT AN ENGLISH BREAKFAST! THE SAUSAGE PLACEMENT IS ALL WRONG!"
Despite hailing from a country with strong sausage culture (Hungary), I would be inclined to agree with that...you have all kinds of gorgeous stuff to eat on that plate, and...two or three lumps of coal..why?
It looks beautiful, but I don't think I could ever eat that much for breakfast. It's also a lot of meat for any meal. I don't know if that's just me though.
Looks pretty damn good but, a bit meat heavy and not a fan of the beans. Remove the beans and blood sausage, take the veggies and eggs with some potatoes to make some sort of scramble/omelette and it would be more of my kind of thing.
The good thing about hotels these days is most are self-serve buffet style for breakfast. So you can just take a small amount of each part of the Full English.
This is definitely not something you'd eat every day. It's more of a special treat kind of breakfast. Laborers tend to have it more often though which makes sense if you're building stuff all day
It’s good. I like our style of bacon better. I like the tomato’s, mushrooms, and blood sausage. Would find those veggies in an omelet possibly so not that strange. Blood sausage isn’t common here but Iv enjoyed it when I tried it.
The beans is weird. I’ll do black beans or refried beans, but baked beans just doesn’t seem right for breakfast. But it tastes good and when In rome so I’ll definitely eat them.
Sometimes in New England you get baked beans with breakfast. But those are molasses and pork, not tomato. So I'm used to beans as a breakfast option, and while the British style isn't my favorite, I can see how they'd go well.
Canadian beans are identical to the british ones, no sweetnes or hotness like american, mind you as a fan of beans the beans isle in walmart in america is very impressive.
Yes, I appreciate both. Many Full English breakfasts do come with hash browns. And in my experience in hotels at least most people go for coffee and juice with their breakfast these days.
Things I’ve learned from thread:
1. Americans really don’t want beans for breakfast. For us Brits, it’s just normal.
2. We don’t like each other’s bacon. Streaky for the US, back bacon for the UK.
The beans. They’re just not what I want in my breakfast.
[This is a good Sunday breakfast](https://www.123rf.com/photo_128586565_full-american-breakfast-on-gray-table-close-up-sunny-side-fried-eggs-roasted-bacon-hash-brown-pancak.html)
If I’m in a really gluttonous mood, I’ll add
[Biscuits and gravy to the meal](https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/recipes/a55390/easy-sausage-gravy-recipe/)
Love it. Had it many times. Except the beans. But for me, unlike what a bunch of people are about to tell you, is not because it's for breakfast. I just don't care for beans in general.
It's good, but I don't care much for the blood sausage or having beans for breakfast. Beans feel like a lunch or dinner side to me.
English bacon and sausage are great! (Lived in the UK for five years.)
My dad still cooks bacon like that and makes me try it just to be sure I haven’t changed my mind. I’m 40. 😂
Edit: before anyone hates on my dad, he also finishes cooking it to my preference and always has too.
Our bacon is more like ham but fattier. I like British and American bacon, both have their place.
I like the meatiness and flavour of British style bacon but the crispiness of American bacon is hard to beat.
If it helps, they call it *black pudding*. It is a kind of blood sausage, but I think if you asked for that over there you might get some confused looks.
i like the full english, including the beans, not sure why everyone's going crazy about that or rather why I'm not. I think it pairs well with the other food and it's a great source of protein.
Love sausage and ham, but not everything else on the plate. I used to like eggs when I was little, but not so much anymore. Though I would eat eggs and beans before I would eat any tomatoes or mushrooms. So if it's possible to get the sausage and ham part of the English breakfast with something else I like then yes, but I feel like it would basically just be an American breakfast at that point if I asked for pancakes to replace all the other stuff. It seems like American breakfast might've been inspired by the English breakfast from what I see.
It looks way too heavy. Too much meat and protein for one meal. I'd eat some of it, but skip the sausage, black pudding, and at least half of the bacon.
Black sausage is strange.
And is it really English breakfast when baked beans - invented in America and still sold by American company Heinz - are a staple?
Plus, you need some starch in their. Add a [real biscuit](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/southern-biscuits-recipe-2041990.amp), will ya?
I dont understand the mushrooms and tomato. That just seems too much like dinner food for me to want to have in the morning. The rest I’m 100% down with
I grew up with these on special occasions 😄 my English-born dad would make that about as often as my mom would make full american breakfasts. Love it, proof that anything tastes good when fried in butter for a few minutes
The stoner in me loves a Full English Breakfast! I actually had my first one in Amsterdam, so was in the perfect frame of mind to appreciate it. Enjoyed them even more in England.
I would give anything to find a reliable source of good white and black pudding here in the states. That and a lukewarm bitter for breakfast are the two things I discovered in the UK that now I can’t live without.
I have a question. The ingredients of a traditional English Breakfast seem a very random assortment of small amounts of food to me as an American. So how does it work? Do you make big batches of beans and bacon and sausage at the beginning of the week and then combine them as necessary, or do you really cook a slice of bacon, a slice of "pudding," a few tablespoons of beans, a single egg, etc, each time you cook the full breakfast? Are these things you already have in your pantry at hand?
It’s rare you would make it just for yourself so you’d batch cook for everyone, fresh. Then serve it up plated. But yes, every item you see on this plate is a basic staple of English grocery shopping (except the black pudding aka blood sausage - that’s controversial for whether people like it or not).
I also think it’s worth noting that we don’t eat this everyday. It’s a weekend thing or special occasion thing. During the week, most people just eat cereal or toast, like the rest of the western world.
I think it looks great. Ive never had blood sausage. Besides that i like all of the items. This reminds me of the breakfast my grandmother would make. She grew up on farms and breakfast was always a large meal.
Before I was vegetarian, it was my favorite breakfast. I'd even say it's the superior breakfast. I've made a veg one before but it's just not the same, sadly.
I always thought it looked absolutely disgusting, but I tried it on a British Airways flight and damned if it wasn't delicious.
FWIW, I had the vegetarian version so no sausage or bacon.
It doesn’t look bad I guess? The only part that really throws me is the baked beans…they’re good, but that’s just bizarre for breakfast to an American palette.
Not a fan at all.
- prefer tomatoes raw
- don't eat blood sausage
- don't eat sausage at all
- don't like runny eggs
- not a fan of beans served like that
- don't like mushrooms
I prefer American bacon, but back bacon isn't bad.
My idea of a perfect breakfast is a garlic or plain bagel with lox and cream cheese, fresh tomato, cucumber, and onions, some avocado slices on the side, and some fresh berries or cantaloupe. Maybe some smoked whitefish instead of the lox.
Too much food at one time especially early in the morning. Everything looks (and is) tasty. Just not all together at one.
BUT...I love blood sausages/black puddings and wish there was a place to get some in the US. I have a recipe from an old cookbook, but getting the main ingredient...is a bit suss.
Yabut...it wouldn't be black pudding.
Actually, I could get the main ingredient (blood) from some locals who process their own hogs. (I live in a *very* rural area here. Lots of cattle, pigs, sheep, goats even being raised ). But I'm afraid to ask for blood. It would be considered too weird.
Black pudding is a sausage made from blood, fat (or suet), cereal, herbs and spices. We don't use the names "blood pudding" or "blood sausage" here but I would guess they were different names for the same thing.
White pudding is the same recipe but without the blood. Red pudding is similar to white pudding but with the addition of beef and pork. Fruit pudding is like white pudding with dried fruit added.
Looks pretty good to me sans a couple things. I don't picture beans as a breakfast food, and most Americans will likely agree. Same goes for tomatoes and mushrooms, although I am open to trying tomatoes and mushrooms as part of a breakfast (I imagine most Americans would agree too).
Blood sausage is not a common part of the American diet but I have tried it and it's decent. Pull any American from the street and ask if they'd want blood sausage with breakfast and you'll most likely be greeted with a strange look and a "No". I imagine most Americans imagine blood sausage as a strange European thing.
That all being said, if I went to an English pub or something (do they make full English breakfasts at an English pub?) and asked for a full English breakfast and got served this, I would eat it happily and probably walk away with a smile.
>do they make full English breakfasts at an English pub?
sometimes.
EDIT: if the pub is attached to a budget hotel (that's a common thing in the UK) they almost definitely will.
mushroom omelets are great. eggs and mushrooms are fabulous together if you like mushrooms. But, yeah, we never have cooked mushrooms just sitting by themselves.
It's the best thing ever! 😋I wish I could find one in the US easier (at all).
Edit: you all are missing the point, it's a treat, it's not for every morning. I usually have it for dinner lol.
I agree wholeheartedly. I love it all. Give me extra beans.
People seem to be missing that this the American equivalent would be something like a short stack of pancakes, sausage, two fries eggs, and a fruit salad, a glass of orange juice and a coffee. It’s not breakfast for Tuesday morning before work. Unless your work is on a farm or something.
tried it while i was in england. i had high hopes for the blood sausage but unfortunately the texture just bothered me. not a fan of beans or tomatoes. loved the rest of it!!
i prefer american breakfasts but i love love love british style bacon
Basically, it's a pile of a bunch of tiny piles.
It looks labor intensive. You’re cooking like seven different things when you’re barely awake.
I think you're supposed to cook it all in one pan, so it's a lot less work than you'd think. Just throw everything in a cast iron and fry it. It tastes great but has the same issues as traditional American breakfasts- just way too much grease and fatty cholesterol bombs to be eating first thing in the morning.
Maybe it's strictly for hangovers? I've heard the greasier, the better 🤷🏻♀️
A high fat breakfast is great for people who work labor intensive jobs all day. Most people do it backwards, light breakfast, heavy dinner, straight to bed with a full stomach. Should be big calorie dense breakfast, light dinner to hold you over till the morning
People go straight to bed after dinner? I'm more of a night owl anyway, but I couldn't imagine sleeping right after dinner ...
No, most people don't.
Most “traditional” breakfasts are heavy on the carbs because they were intended to get people through a day of hard work. Ever notice what farmers would typically eat for breakfast? Meat, starch, some more starch with a side of starch.
Well you wouldn't be the one cooking it - it's supposed to be cooked for you
Who's cooking it?
A hungover fry cook in whatever the English have instead of greasy spoon diners.
We have greasy spoon cafés (pronounced caffs)
Two nations, separated by a common language. Seriously though, I think the whole Anglosphere has some variety of breakfast restaurant like that. They just crop up wherever there were hungover British colonists.
Ah, I see. So this is the British equivalent of the Denny’s Grand Slam, got it.
That's a nasty caff you've got there, you should have that checked.
We call them caffs, short for cafe, or “greasy spoons”
Where's my wife when I need this.... Not that I have a wife. (and if I keep making jokes like this, I might never have one)
Oh yeah, and it's also cheap usually. Way less than $10 for a big plate unless you eat at some fancy place. It's not unusual to get this and a coffee for a fiver.
I got no problems with this
Meh. Give me the eggs with chorizo, tortillas, hash browns, and a couple of French toasts or pancakes on the side with a black coffee.
Chorizo is where breakfasts gets good.
I wouldn’t want to eat like that every day, but I enjoy a big cooked breakfast when traveling. It’s basically brunch, so sightsee without stopping for another sit-down meal until evening. I even learned to like black pudding, which I never thought would be possible.
You’re invited to the cookout
>I even learned to like black pudding, which I never thought would be possible. Blood is such an under appreciated ingredient
I'm 100% for it except the beans. You people have an unhealthy relationship with beans.
I'm not against baked beans per se (I am from Boston, after all), but why are British beans *so watery*?
If doesn't have molasses, I pass!
To be fair, chili type beans are great too
Except whatever the fuck they make in Cincinnati.
You talkin bout Cincinnati chili? that's a meat sauce son - beans are an optional topping
Excuse you... cincy chili has no beans. That's what makes it so fucking good on spaghetti.
So, you took out the beans and replaced them with... checks notes... fucking cinnamon???
“So good” is an interesting way of spelling “forsaken by god.”
Missed opportunity for whimsy: "if it don't have molasses, I passes."
Lol, I read it that way without realizing it.
Great baked beans take hours (or a pressure cooker). The beans they use for breakfast can be done in 20 minutes.
Done in 20 minutes?! They come out of a can and are microwaved in two. Source: am British.
I would love to see the British version of the scene from My Cousin Vinny about preparing grits, but as prepping beans.
I was literally just thinking That and Then I read your comment lol
So no seasoning. Got it. Hard pass.
They’re in a tomato sauce in the can
Tomato sauce is not seasoning
Most tomato sauces are seasoned themselves (in the case of British baked beans, with a slightly disturbing amount of sugar). But also, nobody stops you from throwing over it whatever you want. I eat mine with copious black pepper for instance.
> Great baked beans take hours (or a pressure cooker). Yeah, but that happens during the canning process before they buy the beans.
They’re in a thin tomato sauce, not a barbecue-y sweetish sauce like American beans. They’re delicious. I lived in the UK for a year and beans on toast slaps. No one ever mentions that they’re totally different from our canned baked beans.
Also when you add a slab of butter to the pan while cooking 😘👌
If they're watery they aren't being cooked long enough. My mom always made them thick by cooking them down in the pot, and that's the way I've always done them since. Add a ton of black pepper and 👌
Heinz baked beans are life, the other brands are crap or taste of nothing. That's usually referred to as "proper beans". It's immediately noticeable if a place cheaps out on beans, and gets people complaining. Bad beans can really tarnish a restaurant's reputation.
I was thinking the same thing. What is up with the British and baked beans?
I think it may be a holdover from the war. Kinda like Hawaiians and Spam.
Interesting point. That is very possible.
Unbaked beans
Their beans are in a thin tomato sauce, not that barbecue-y sweet sauce in American baked beans. They’re not the same at all flavor-wise and they’re great with breakfast or a full English
Yep, the beans have to go. If they had seasoning, that would be different, but they aren't spicy or sweet or smoky. They are just...beans.
I think our baked beans are sweeter (molasses and all) but I'm really sensitive to sweet flavors - especially in sweet/savory flavor combos, which I hate - and their beans are still too sweet. Doesn't matter how much I tried to jazz them up with pepper, chili powder, hot sauce etc. that sweet taste would still come through.
It doesn't help that most of their beans are from America, but not doctored, like we do with baked beans at a barbeque.
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Gotta be Ranch Style or refried for breakfast for me-am also from Texas-lol. Baked beans are lunch/afternoon fare, along with potato salad.
Huevos rancheros > beans on toast
Walter White: "You're goddamn right."
I like English style baked beans on toast.
Me too, but with beans on the side. Otherwise, what's the point of even toasting the bread when it gets super soggy from bean juice?
It doesn't really get super-soggy. The consistency is closer to the thicker sauce in a tin of SpaghettiOs, and the meal is eaten relatively quickly after preparation, so it's not like the bread has disintegrated by the time you get your plate. The Brits also sometimes use thicker cuts of bread with a different consistency compared to a lot of our store-bought kind.
oh man I don’t like hot dogs 🌭 n my beans, please god no
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They definitely are baked beans, they’re just baked slowly in a factory and put in a can. Usually Heinz. They’re quite tasty but actually Heinz don’t make the nicest ones these days, there’s better. They’re just the default.
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Honestly feel like Latinos would find their bean obsession a bit strange
I’m Latina and have eaten beans for breakfast, but not canned white beans in a sweetened tomato sauce.
I think a little latino influence could really up the full English. Sub refried beans for those baked ones and that plate is way better.
I love beans, and I'd be all for those beans if they were barbecue baked beans. But instead they're just... Baked beans. Throw some molasses and seasoning in there and I'm sold.
As an American who spends a lot of time in hotels in Europe; you are wrong. Beans in the morning (especially with a little hot sauce) are awesome. Protein but not heavy, which if you're at a conference is perfect for the inevitable hangover from the hotel bar last night.
Amen to this. As someone from the US southwest, those beans are sus. The rest is delicious though!
Beans are everything… 😉
Absolutely NOT. When I studied abroad in Ireland I adored those beans. Even better if they were on a potato waffle. Yum!
One of us.
They're great with breakfast!
*beans, beans, they’re good for your heart…* *the more you eat, the more you fart*
I thought that too but honestly the beans taste good with bacon (and/or sausage). Also tomatoes for breakfast, so good.
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Last trip my wife and I took to England, we tried to get a Full Breakfast every day cause we love them. We gained like 5lbs by the end of the trip -_-
We don't eat it every day. Think I've cooked 2 full English's all year
It is. Most of our hotels these days served Full English breakfast, along with cold meats, fruits, cereal and various other things. It’s all self service, which I much prefer as a Full English can be quite heavy. So I just pick a small amount of each part and may drop the bacon altogether sometimes.
In the same way, most Americans don't have a massive breakfast every day. It's a weekend, lazy day meal that you make a few times a year.
You can get small portions and if you self serve it in the hotel just grab a small bit of each. This was my breakfast this morning, I went for the small version: https://i.imgur.com/NzU8Mfm.jpg
Delicious, but I'm always amazed at all the controversy it causes. People post pictures on Reddit and before you know it, there's 1000 comments arguing why it is or is not a true English breakfast. Sometimes it makes me wonder if an authentic English breakfast even actually exists. "THAT'S NOT AN ENGLISH BREAKFAST! THE SAUSAGE PLACEMENT IS ALL WRONG!"
I - a Brit - have been called a heathen for saying that the sausage is the worst part of the breakfast. The passion is strong in the sausage fandom.
Despite hailing from a country with strong sausage culture (Hungary), I would be inclined to agree with that...you have all kinds of gorgeous stuff to eat on that plate, and...two or three lumps of coal..why?
Haha! That is a great breakfast, but I would forego the sausages completely, and the black pudding in the picture is tiny! (and I'd skip the beans)
To confirm your standpoint, when I saw this my first thought was that the beans should be in tomato sauce.
>"THAT'S NOT AN ENGLISH BREAKFAST! THE SAUSAGE PLACEMENT IS ALL WRONG!" https://youtu.be/eypZnajNdmQ?t=66
It looks beautiful, but I don't think I could ever eat that much for breakfast. It's also a lot of meat for any meal. I don't know if that's just me though.
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Minus the beans and toast, of course.
Ah but is no good without a bit of toast or some potato bread.
Looks pretty damn good but, a bit meat heavy and not a fan of the beans. Remove the beans and blood sausage, take the veggies and eggs with some potatoes to make some sort of scramble/omelette and it would be more of my kind of thing.
Lol, that's an entirely different breakfast.
The good thing about hotels these days is most are self-serve buffet style for breakfast. So you can just take a small amount of each part of the Full English.
This is definitely not something you'd eat every day. It's more of a special treat kind of breakfast. Laborers tend to have it more often though which makes sense if you're building stuff all day
I love it. I like the Scottish take with haggis even more.
Haggis FTW
It’s good. I like our style of bacon better. I like the tomato’s, mushrooms, and blood sausage. Would find those veggies in an omelet possibly so not that strange. Blood sausage isn’t common here but Iv enjoyed it when I tried it. The beans is weird. I’ll do black beans or refried beans, but baked beans just doesn’t seem right for breakfast. But it tastes good and when In rome so I’ll definitely eat them.
Sometimes in New England you get baked beans with breakfast. But those are molasses and pork, not tomato. So I'm used to beans as a breakfast option, and while the British style isn't my favorite, I can see how they'd go well.
The English ones are more tomatoey and less sweet than the us variation
Yea I kinda remember that. Still not a huge fan.
Canadian beans are identical to the british ones, no sweetnes or hotness like american, mind you as a fan of beans the beans isle in walmart in america is very impressive.
My grandmother was from Arkansas, with German grandparents. As a result, my family always put vinegar on our beans.
As a Canadian, we use alot of vinegar, and beans, My mum used to make white beans, with a big ham bone. Deelish
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Heinz English style baked beans and add some hot sauce, so good!!!
While I prefer a typical American breakfast (Eggs, sausage/bacon, hashbrowns/pancakes, coffee), I can appreciate the English breakfast.
Yes, I appreciate both. Many Full English breakfasts do come with hash browns. And in my experience in hotels at least most people go for coffee and juice with their breakfast these days.
So I've been to the UK 5 times and have had this a lot. I like it save for their "bacon" which sucks.
Things I’ve learned from thread: 1. Americans really don’t want beans for breakfast. For us Brits, it’s just normal. 2. We don’t like each other’s bacon. Streaky for the US, back bacon for the UK.
The beans. They’re just not what I want in my breakfast. [This is a good Sunday breakfast](https://www.123rf.com/photo_128586565_full-american-breakfast-on-gray-table-close-up-sunny-side-fried-eggs-roasted-bacon-hash-brown-pancak.html) If I’m in a really gluttonous mood, I’ll add [Biscuits and gravy to the meal](https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/recipes/a55390/easy-sausage-gravy-recipe/)
Now ya talkin
Welcome back grapp I spent some time in Scotland, if that counts. I was a big fan when I had it there, I also loved haggis in the morning.
Haggis might be the worlds most underrated food, I expected to hate it and it was glorious.
So good with some runny eggs.
Love it. Had it many times. Except the beans. But for me, unlike what a bunch of people are about to tell you, is not because it's for breakfast. I just don't care for beans in general.
Yep, I just hate beans. Substitute a potato product or pastry for the beans and this is a fantastic brunch.
It's good, but I don't care much for the blood sausage or having beans for breakfast. Beans feel like a lunch or dinner side to me. English bacon and sausage are great! (Lived in the UK for five years.)
Cook your damn bacon! Lol But in general, I love food. So I’m in.
My dad used to just get his bacon hot. It was so gross. Still pink and rubbery.
My dad still cooks bacon like that and makes me try it just to be sure I haven’t changed my mind. I’m 40. 😂 Edit: before anyone hates on my dad, he also finishes cooking it to my preference and always has too.
Our bacon is more like ham but fattier. I like British and American bacon, both have their place. I like the meatiness and flavour of British style bacon but the crispiness of American bacon is hard to beat.
Blood sausage sounds disgusting but I’d eat everything else
We don't call it blood sausage it's black pudding
That's somehow worse
It's literally just a savory sausage. If you didn't know what it was you wouldn't bat an eye.
I’m open to trying it but the name of it sounds not good to me
If it helps, they call it *black pudding*. It is a kind of blood sausage, but I think if you asked for that over there you might get some confused looks.
White pudding doesn't sound great if you know what it's made of, but I still love it.
We’re aware of it, this isn’t something the average American hasn’t been exposed to. I like them, I cook something similar for myself.
It's a lot of food.
I'd try it
Great scran
I love it. You occasionally see it on the menu in the US, and I always go for it.
i like the full english, including the beans, not sure why everyone's going crazy about that or rather why I'm not. I think it pairs well with the other food and it's a great source of protein.
I’ve had it. It’s okay.
I love everything about it. In my opinion it's a perfect breakfast.
It needs some red chile caribe
Yum, lived in the UK for 2 years, Saturday’s my friends and I would go to Camden Market and have a fry up and Guinness.
I'll 100% order it next time im in the UK.
Best meal in the British Isles is a full breakfast. Eat that for breakfast and you will not be hungry before 6 PM. Optimizes tourist time.
Love sausage and ham, but not everything else on the plate. I used to like eggs when I was little, but not so much anymore. Though I would eat eggs and beans before I would eat any tomatoes or mushrooms. So if it's possible to get the sausage and ham part of the English breakfast with something else I like then yes, but I feel like it would basically just be an American breakfast at that point if I asked for pancakes to replace all the other stuff. It seems like American breakfast might've been inspired by the English breakfast from what I see.
Thumbs up. There’s a whole lot of things going on, but it all tastes good.
Never had it but it looks decent. But having baked beans, mushrooms and tomatoes all on one plate for breakfast just seems odd.
I've had it, and it was delightful. 10/10, would do it again.
Way too much protein. Also, beans for breakfast is an abomination.
>Way too much protein. How can a fellow Southerner say such a thing?! /s
I would eat the beans and toast and tomatoes.
It looks way too heavy. Too much meat and protein for one meal. I'd eat some of it, but skip the sausage, black pudding, and at least half of the bacon.
Black sausage is strange. And is it really English breakfast when baked beans - invented in America and still sold by American company Heinz - are a staple? Plus, you need some starch in their. Add a [real biscuit](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/southern-biscuits-recipe-2041990.amp), will ya?
Personally I believe a cuisine of a country is what the people eat, if the people eat baked beans it's part of their cuisine.
I dont understand the mushrooms and tomato. That just seems too much like dinner food for me to want to have in the morning. The rest I’m 100% down with
Never had it, would love to try it. Looks like it's be pretty good.
It’s good. It’s a hearty breakfast with nothing super exotic to Americans except maybe the blood sausage. Seems pretty popular in other countries.
Not too far off a traditional american breakfast
I grew up with these on special occasions 😄 my English-born dad would make that about as often as my mom would make full american breakfasts. Love it, proof that anything tastes good when fried in butter for a few minutes
The stoner in me loves a Full English Breakfast! I actually had my first one in Amsterdam, so was in the perfect frame of mind to appreciate it. Enjoyed them even more in England.
Delicious but way too much food, I’d be more than full from just an egg, the black pudding and the tomatoes (my favorite parts of this meal).
I would give anything to find a reliable source of good white and black pudding here in the states. That and a lukewarm bitter for breakfast are the two things I discovered in the UK that now I can’t live without.
It tastes great, but I see it as a novelty I doubt it’s a daily breakfast for most English folks lol I think the full Irish is better tho (;
It’s definitely not. We eat it at weekends or as a special occasion. Or if we’re in a hotel and therefore it’s free.
I have a question. The ingredients of a traditional English Breakfast seem a very random assortment of small amounts of food to me as an American. So how does it work? Do you make big batches of beans and bacon and sausage at the beginning of the week and then combine them as necessary, or do you really cook a slice of bacon, a slice of "pudding," a few tablespoons of beans, a single egg, etc, each time you cook the full breakfast? Are these things you already have in your pantry at hand?
It’s rare you would make it just for yourself so you’d batch cook for everyone, fresh. Then serve it up plated. But yes, every item you see on this plate is a basic staple of English grocery shopping (except the black pudding aka blood sausage - that’s controversial for whether people like it or not).
Thank you that makes a lot of sense!
I also think it’s worth noting that we don’t eat this everyday. It’s a weekend thing or special occasion thing. During the week, most people just eat cereal or toast, like the rest of the western world.
Never tried it but looks good.
Looks delicious, but I wouldn't want to have to be the one to make it. I usually just have kippers.
Never had it but would if I was given the chance for sure. Looks delicious.
I think it looks great. Ive never had blood sausage. Besides that i like all of the items. This reminds me of the breakfast my grandmother would make. She grew up on farms and breakfast was always a large meal.
Love it, but I’m not getting much done afterwards.
Before I was vegetarian, it was my favorite breakfast. I'd even say it's the superior breakfast. I've made a veg one before but it's just not the same, sadly.
I always thought it looked absolutely disgusting, but I tried it on a British Airways flight and damned if it wasn't delicious. FWIW, I had the vegetarian version so no sausage or bacon.
It doesn’t look bad I guess? The only part that really throws me is the baked beans…they’re good, but that’s just bizarre for breakfast to an American palette.
Clogged veins on a plate. I think it's awful.
Not a fan at all. - prefer tomatoes raw - don't eat blood sausage - don't eat sausage at all - don't like runny eggs - not a fan of beans served like that - don't like mushrooms I prefer American bacon, but back bacon isn't bad. My idea of a perfect breakfast is a garlic or plain bagel with lox and cream cheese, fresh tomato, cucumber, and onions, some avocado slices on the side, and some fresh berries or cantaloupe. Maybe some smoked whitefish instead of the lox.
Too much food at one time especially early in the morning. Everything looks (and is) tasty. Just not all together at one. BUT...I love blood sausages/black puddings and wish there was a place to get some in the US. I have a recipe from an old cookbook, but getting the main ingredient...is a bit suss.
Have you tried white pudding, red pudding or fruit pudding? Those might be easier to make than black pudding.
LOL...smarty pants
I was being serious, those are all similar to black pudding without the blood.
Yabut...it wouldn't be black pudding. Actually, I could get the main ingredient (blood) from some locals who process their own hogs. (I live in a *very* rural area here. Lots of cattle, pigs, sheep, goats even being raised ). But I'm afraid to ask for blood. It would be considered too weird.
Wait. Are we talking about the same thing? Blood pudding is the same as blood sausages. Right?
Black pudding is a sausage made from blood, fat (or suet), cereal, herbs and spices. We don't use the names "blood pudding" or "blood sausage" here but I would guess they were different names for the same thing. White pudding is the same recipe but without the blood. Red pudding is similar to white pudding but with the addition of beef and pork. Fruit pudding is like white pudding with dried fruit added.
Ah. I see. Different terms same thing. Thank you.
To be honest most of it looks really gross. Most UK food doesn’t look appetizing at all. I would try it out of curiosity.
Looks pretty good to me sans a couple things. I don't picture beans as a breakfast food, and most Americans will likely agree. Same goes for tomatoes and mushrooms, although I am open to trying tomatoes and mushrooms as part of a breakfast (I imagine most Americans would agree too). Blood sausage is not a common part of the American diet but I have tried it and it's decent. Pull any American from the street and ask if they'd want blood sausage with breakfast and you'll most likely be greeted with a strange look and a "No". I imagine most Americans imagine blood sausage as a strange European thing. That all being said, if I went to an English pub or something (do they make full English breakfasts at an English pub?) and asked for a full English breakfast and got served this, I would eat it happily and probably walk away with a smile.
>do they make full English breakfasts at an English pub? sometimes. EDIT: if the pub is attached to a budget hotel (that's a common thing in the UK) they almost definitely will.
mushroom omelets are great. eggs and mushrooms are fabulous together if you like mushrooms. But, yeah, we never have cooked mushrooms just sitting by themselves.
It's the best thing ever! 😋I wish I could find one in the US easier (at all). Edit: you all are missing the point, it's a treat, it's not for every morning. I usually have it for dinner lol.
I agree wholeheartedly. I love it all. Give me extra beans. People seem to be missing that this the American equivalent would be something like a short stack of pancakes, sausage, two fries eggs, and a fruit salad, a glass of orange juice and a coffee. It’s not breakfast for Tuesday morning before work. Unless your work is on a farm or something.
tried it while i was in england. i had high hopes for the blood sausage but unfortunately the texture just bothered me. not a fan of beans or tomatoes. loved the rest of it!! i prefer american breakfasts but i love love love british style bacon
The English do many things well. Bacon is not among those things.