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The Perfect Full English
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The Full English we served at our Phuket guesthouse for many years was 2 bacon, 2 sausage, 2 eggs, beans and fried tomato with toast, coffea/tea and orange juice. Our cheaper American breakfast was more popular, streaky bacon, eggs, home fries. I managed to source some very good ingredients and many people commented on the quality.I had one friend who was a regular visitor who insisted upon black pudding with the Full English. Died quite young. Any coincidence?2
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I like to use a sausage as a breakwater between the egg and the beans.9
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ricky_otto said:
100% no place for chips on a breakfast plate.Big_Bad_World said:Hash browns and beans have no place on any breakfast plate of mine:
Fried sausage
Fried bacon
Fried eggs
Fried black pudding
Fried slice
Fried mushrooms
Fried tomatoes
Bubble and squeak
Anyone that has chips with a breakfast needs to be shot between the eyes.
slightly after topic, I saw this on Instagram earlier…
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May as well swap the beans for smashed avocado too, you heathenGarrymanilow said:It's never in a full English, but a bit of fried halloumi in there goes a long way11 -
More likely caught something terminal from a brass.Bangkokaddick said:The Full English we served at our Phuket guesthouse for many years was 2 bacon, 2 sausage, 2 eggs, beans and fried tomato with toast, coffea/tea and orange juice. Our cheaper American breakfast was more popular, streaky bacon, eggs, home fries. I managed to source some very good ingredients and many people commented on the quality.I had one friend who was a regular visitor who insisted upon black pudding with the Full English. Died quite young. Any coincidence?2 -
Well 9% said chips so they can be removed for lack of common sense anyway.IdleHans said:Only 82% having sausage? (89% if you include the veggies)How can it be a 'full' English with no sausage?Got to be sausage, bacon, eggs (scrambled for preference, but fried is fine), beans, fried tomato, toast or fried slice, mushrooms if properly cooked, hash browns. Brown sauce, orange juice, massive mug of coffee, tea if hungover.1 -
We buy Braughing Sausages from Tesco. They may not be available elsewhere as they are a Hertfordshire sausage, but they are delicious. If you spot them, give them a go.1
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Only a 75% pork content? One step up from RichmondsMuttleyCAFC said:We buy Braughing Sausages from Tesco. They may not be available elsewhere as they are a Hertfordshire sausage, but they are delicious. If you spot them, give them a go.
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Bubble, double egg, double bacon .. that’s all you need, IMO. Although I am partial to a McDonald Hotels full English with melt in the mouth Black Pudding from McLeod and McLeod of Stornaway0
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Agreed. I like hash browns, but they're American. What next, "biscuits and gravy"?SporadicAddick said:Hash browns have no place on a full English breakfast.
Bacon
Sausages
Eggs (I prefer scrambled)
Black Pudding
Mushrooms
Grilled or fried tomato
Beans (though not so bothered)
Toast (to be healthy)0 - Sponsored links:
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Hallelujah!MuttleyCAFC said:We buy Braughing Sausages from Tesco. They may not be available elsewhere as they are a Hertfordshire sausage, but they are delicious. If you spot them, give them a go.
The Braughing is the King of the Sausage World.
We live quite close to the village and discovered them some years ago. The butcher (Doug White) has now moved to Newmarket, but all the local farm shops still stock Braughings. Once you've tried them, there is no turning back.
We actually run an illicit trade with packs traversing the Herts borders on a regular basis. In fact there is a consignment heading to my brother-in-law in Maidstone on Monday.
"You'll never take me alive, Copper!"0 -
Not a fan of mushrooms so personally the breakfast is
Bacon, fried eggs, Sausages, fried tomato, Beans, Black Pudding, Bubble and squeak with a fried slice or eggy bread or potato cakes on the side and a pot of tea.
oh and the condiment has to be brown sauce, none of that tomato ketchup shite.
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I’m exactly the same.cafctom said:Love everything on there, but I’m the only person I know who can’t eat eggs in any form!2 -
2 good quality peppery sausages
2 slices dry cured back bacon
1 medium slice of black pudding, fried crispy outside but crucial internal moisture retained
2 fried or poached eggs, must be properly cooked, runny, never, ever hard or snotty yolks, I call that pinky I think yanks say over easy
1 fried slice OR buttered, toasted Tiger Bread
Mushrooms
Tinned plum tomatoes OR baked beans
To accompany this delight I used to geezer it up and say a steaming hot mug of dark brown monkey tea. Nowadays it must be a decent tea not stewed or bag squeezed. A glorious Earl Grey or Twinings breakfast brewed in a pot or even a green tea.
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We may profoundly disagree on pie and mash but 100% agreement on this.Big_Bad_World said:Hash browns and beans have no place on any breakfast plate of mine:
Fried sausage
Fried bacon
Fried eggs
Fried black pudding
Fried slice
Fried mushrooms
Fried tomatoes
Bubble and squeak
Anyone that has chips with a breakfast needs to be shot between the eyes.
That said, if I leave anything on the plate when I’m finished it would be the tomato.2 -
I know how it sounds, but it's amazing. It's greasy cheese with your greasy food but it doesn't melt. Get it to a good crunch and it's a game changer. Avocado is for psychopaths though, tastes like bad grass. I'll never understand that oneCroydon said:
May as well swap the beans for smashed avocado too, you heathenGarrymanilow said:It's never in a full English, but a bit of fried halloumi in there goes a long way
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Richmonds have the same pork content as the value sausages that are not allowed to call themselves pork sausages (about 42% I believe). It is a massive marketing achievement selling value sausages and making people think they are something better.Big_Bad_World said:
Only a 75% pork content? One step up from RichmondsMuttleyCAFC said:We buy Braughing Sausages from Tesco. They may not be available elsewhere as they are a Hertfordshire sausage, but they are delicious. If you spot them, give them a go.1 -
Love a bit of halloumi but it's got no place on a breakfast, sorry.Garrymanilow said:
I know how it sounds, but it's amazing. It's greasy cheese with your greasy food but it doesn't melt. Get it to a good crunch and it's a game changer. Avocado is for psychopaths though, tastes like bad grass. I'll never understand that oneCroydon said:
May as well swap the beans for smashed avocado too, you heathenGarrymanilow said:It's never in a full English, but a bit of fried halloumi in there goes a long way3 -
Good quality sausages with very high meat content and proper seasoning are a fine thing indeed, but there is also a place for the bland pink rusk based tubes of dubious origin in a cheap greasy spoon cooked breakfast0
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Away weekends always started at 10.00am at a Little Chef somewhere in the Country and an Olympic Breakfast with bacon well done.
Set you up for the day and the pub B&B about noonish. We did them for years and were a pre match ritual for several of us.
I miss those Little Chefs.1 - Sponsored links:
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Not had the full breakfast for many years but was on offer at a London hotel I stayed at recently.Went for fried eggs, bacon, toast and marmalade, and green tea ... far cry from what I used to have but it was wonderful... must admit I was very tempted by the black pudding.0
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The missus often gets 82% sausage in the mornings.3
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I'm trying to cut down on the pork I eat, but this thread has made me hungry. Been ages since I had one of these
For me, bacon, fried egg, beans, toast, mushrooms, sausages, tomatoes in that order. Most sausages I find are a disappointment (the ones in Youth Hostels when we stayed there when the kids were younger were terrible). Happy to have black pudding. Other options of egg are acceptable once in a while. Fried potatoes are better than hash browns, though neither are essential in a Full English.
(edited to add) When I was a kid, it would have included fried slice and spam fritters. I've had neither in donkeys years and don't miss them.0 -
the one i never understood is a hot dog which is usually a bland wiener or a frankfurter in a bun with american tasteless mustard squirted all over it.IdleHans said:Good quality sausages with very high meat content and proper seasoning are a fine thing indeed, but there is also a place for the bland pink rusk based tubes of dubious origin in a cheap greasy spoon cooked breakfast
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Don’t the Stokies put melted cheese on their plates with a fry up?bobmunro said:
We may profoundly disagree on pie and mash but 100% agreement on this.Big_Bad_World said:Hash browns and beans have no place on any breakfast plate of mine:
Fried sausage
Fried bacon
Fried eggs
Fried black pudding
Fried slice
Fried mushrooms
Fried tomatoes
Bubble and squeak
Anyone that has chips with a breakfast needs to be shot between the eyes.
That said, if I leave anything on the plate when I’m finished it would be the tomato.0 -
Black pudding CAN be delicious, but so often its like fag ash mixed with lard. It's a lottery.0
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I used to pass through Geneva airport a lot and one of the restaurants there served "Full English Breakfast" with a portion of salad on the side of the plate!
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bye bye hash browns, hello chips1
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One must never compromise on the majesty of a sausage.Big_Bad_World said:
Only a 75% pork content? One step up from RichmondsMuttleyCAFC said:We buy Braughing Sausages from Tesco. They may not be available elsewhere as they are a Hertfordshire sausage, but they are delicious. If you spot them, give them a go.
Only these for me https://www.clewlows.co.uk/sausage-varietys/1
