Brixton news, rumour and general chat - April 2014

[editor]

Let this settle the argument, once and for all.

The Full English Breakfast
Known colloquially as a fry up, the traditional English breakfast is called a full breakfast for good reason, although you do not absolutely have to eat two sausages, three slices of bacon and two fried eggs in order for it to still be traditional.

But whichever way you look at it, he full English breakfast is a substantial meal consisting of back bacon, eggs, British sausage, beans, tomato, mushrooms, black pudding and toast. These ingredients may vary depending on the specific region of the British isles you happen to be in and a subject that is still open to (sometimes quite fierce) debate.

For example, the Southern English generally would argue that black pudding is something that the English breakfast inherited from the Scottish, but in the North of the country, black pudding is widely consumed and viewed as an essential part of the traditional full breakfast. We side with the Northerners here, there is nothing wrong with black pudding and it has been produced in the North of England for longer than we have been eating traditional English breakfasts.

Hash browns however is a controversial ingredient that many believe does not belong in a traditional English breakfast and we agree, hash browns are for Americans and if we want potato in our breakfast, we will have chips (quite common).

Then there exist the regional variants like the Scottish/Irish full breakfast, usually exactly the same dish, but with slight changes in the ingredients depending on the region and preference of the locals.

The full Irish breakfast usually contains Irish bacon and sausage, but also traditional regional ingredients such as white pudding, Irish soda bread and Irish potato cake, whereas the full Scottish breakfast usually contains local ingredients as black pudding or a slice of haggis.

http://englishbreakfastsociety.com/full-english-breakfast.html

 

[colacubes]

Hash brown racists

 

[Orang Utan]

Fine breakfasts, but not Full.

I disagree, but i think we can agree that bacon sausage and egg are the core components

 

[Orang Utan]

I agree with you on chips but beans are what make an English breakfast English.
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I quite like them but they should serve them in a separate bowl. Only once has this happened. I think it was the Duck's Egg. I applaud them for it.

 

[peterkro]

I quite like them but they should serve them in a separate bowl. Only once has this happened. I think it was the Duck's Egg. I applaud them for it.

Lounge as well .

 

[Badgers]

 

[shifting gears]

I do not require a separate bowl, and insist on beans as part of my breakfast, but they must be kept well apart from the egg, preferably by some kind of toast-based annexation wall.

 

[Crispy]

While we're on it, why does the toast come on a separate plate? At home, the egg goes on the toast. At a cafe, I have to lift the egg onto the toast. It frustrates me.

 

[colacubes]

Toast should be separate so it can act as a mopping up agent towards the end of the FEB.

 

[Onket]

While we're on it, why does the toast come on a separate plate? At home, the egg goes on the toast. At a cafe, I have to lift the egg onto the toast. It frustrates me.

I enjoy the lift as part of the 'experience'.

 

[Onket]

I do not require a separate bowl, and insist on beans as part of my breakfast, but they must be kept well apart from the egg, preferably by some kind of toast-based annexation wall.

Alan Partridge.

 

[Crispy]

Toast should be separate so it can act as a mopping up agent towards the end of the FEB.

If you need an entire slice of toast to mop up after your breakfast, then you need to work on your eating technique.

 

[Chilavert]

Using a sausage as a breakwater iirc.

Black pudding is essential imo and agreed that potato products have no place to be included in a full English.

 

[Orang Utan]

I often don't bother with the bread as I'm too full from the more interesting components

 

[Chilavert]

Not even a fried slice?

 

[Orang Utan]

Not even a fried slice?

I love a fried slice

 

[Onket]

I prefer toast.

 

[Orang Utan]

The horror!

 

[Crispy]

I prefer toast.

Yep. Fried bread is nice, but only in small doses. A whole slice is a bit much, especially with a load of bean juice and egg yolk in it too. CLANG.

 

[editor]

Who indulges in a "dry slice"? © clandestino

 

[ffsear]

Using a sausage as a breakwater iirc.

Black pudding is essential imo and agreed that potato products have no place to be included in a full English.

 

[superfly101]

Sam's cafe on Acre Lane has opened again. It's now on the Lidl side in between the bus stop and that Opus coffee place.

I always use to pop in there for 2x egg n bacon rolls on my cycle to work.

They got displaced a few years ago when the pub/builder yard (was it?) got demolished/redeveloped and is now some flats with a Waitrose underneath.

 

[isvicthere?]

Let this settle the argument, once and for all.

The full Scottish surely should have tatty scones.

 

[Chilavert]

And square sausage I'd think...

 

[teuchter]

At least we can all agree that the Scottish Breakfast is clearly superior to the English imitation.

 

[isvicthere?]

At least we can all agree that the Scottish Breakfast is clearly superior to the English imitation.

When you say, "At least we can all agree", I believe you mean, "I think".

 

[teuchter]

When you say, "At least we can all agree", I believe you mean, "I think".

"All reasonable people can agree"

 

[ViolentPanda]

When you say, "At least we can all agree", I believe you mean, "I think".

Up until recently, wasn't the FSB a slice of day-old porridge, fried and served with a fried egg on top?

 

[teuchter]

A Scottish breakfast can include the fruit pudding - an ingenious way to provide much needed large quantities of almost pure fat and sugar.

http://www.pollokwilliamson.co.uk/i... Pudding&prt=Frui Pudding &xm=1&d=7&mid=&tp=1

 

[teuchter]

Up until recently, wasn't the FSB a slice of day-old porridge, fried and served with a fried egg on top?

No, that's just what they gave you.