irish or english fry up?

Silenceisbliss

im confused now, the lads in the office were asking me what an irish breakfast was, so. i tell them, i google image it. the whole shabang comes up. they say thats a typical BRITISH breakfast, I say NO, STFU and GTFO! but then i google "typical british breakfast" and get the same thing...

so.... ya, back me up here. did those limeies steal our breakfast or what?

hussey

same thing but we have black pudding ... according to my local cafe that does Irish and english breakfast

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast#Full_English_breakfast

Silenceisbliss

hussey wrote: »

same thing but we have black pudding ... according to my local cafe that does Irish and english breakfast

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast#Full_English_breakfast

THATS IT...ALL WE HAVE EXTRA IS BLACK PUDDING!!!!...ARE YOU SERIOUS???

c - 13

Doesnt the English have fried bread/french toast but the Irish doesn't. That plus the pudding thing mentioned above.

Guess not according to the link.

Its all going to vary depending on where you go for one in both countries though.

Xavi6

Feckin hate black pudding. If that's the difference then English breakfast ftw.

Go-Go-Gadget

Black pudding is taken from the scottish fry up, irish fry up is usually unique in being accompanied by white pudding and traditionally soda bread. English breakfast has baked beans and fried bread.

captainzapp

I'm so hungry now. Damnit. I'd go for the black pudding over fried bread.

pickarooney

They both contain those inedible excuses for sausages and thereby fail. Irish black pudding is fairly poor too, but dammit I'd love a feed of rashers right about now.

Tar.Aldarion

Go-Go-Gadget wrote: »

Black pudding is taken from the scottish fry up, irish fry up is usually unique in being accompanied by white pudding and traditionally soda bread. English breakfast has baked beans and fried bread.

Damn, they've won this war too. The hashbrown rising had them worried for a while, but damn.

Silenceisbliss

mmmmmmmmmm

Silenceisbliss

so wait now.... an irish, a british, and a scotish fry up are BASICALLY the same..... fail

Sherifu

Black pudding is enough to push it over the top.

chin_grin

Doesn't beat an Ulster Fry................mmmmmm fried potato bread. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Xavi6

chin_grin wrote: »

Doesn't beat an Ulster Fry................mmmmmm fried potato bread. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

But isn't the Ulster fry just part of the English fry?

kaimera

weirdos.

pudding rocks.

wonder will I get a fry in the canteen this morning...

chin_grin

Xavi6 wrote: »

But isn't the Ulster fry just part of the English fry?

<drops 9 foot pole and just walks out of the room, taking the last bit of potato bread with me>

MIN2511

I thought we have small sausages and the british ones are bigger... I dont care, its Irish and thats all that matters...

minxie

yeah "irish breakfast"" all the way...:p

Fratton Fred

White Pudding and Soda bread aside, the difference between an Irish breakfast and an English breakfast is the same as teh difference between Irish Tea and English tea.

Basically it's English ok, but if it was called an Englsih breakfast (or English Tea) no one in Ireland would eat it.

Simple as.

Also known as the "Glasgow Salad" I love that one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_breakfast

thelordofcheese

you havn't lived until you've seen a lorne sausage and gone "What the fuck"?

Scotland is in a universe all it's own where nothing makes sense.

Fratton Fred

thelordofcheese wrote: »

you havn't lived until you've seen a lorne sausage and gone "What the fuck"?

Scotland is in a universe all it's own where nothing makes sense.

particularly the people {inserts picture of Rab C. Nesbit}

lynchie

thelordofcheese wrote: »

you havn't lived until you've seen a lorne sausage and gone "What the fuck"?

Scotland is in a universe all it's own where nothing makes sense.

Square sausage

Ponster

The wiki link has all the answers you need. In Ireland we get black & white pudding, in England you can get black or sometimes none. Baked beans are almost always included in an English breakfast and while available in Ireland, wouldn't have been included in the traditional Irish fry.

Silenceisbliss, have you really never had a fry-up in England ?

thelordofcheese

lynchie wrote: »

Square sausage

This is madness.

Alun

You'll often find black pudding in breakfasts in the North of England too, except up there it's better (not so much cereal crap as you get in it here and more blood .

That scottish "square sausage" stuff is rank

Kablam

Try this one on for size "milkygravy", you basically pour a drop of milk into the pan when you're finished all the frying, heat it, lash in load's of salt and pepper then pour it over your full irish. Not a big fan myself but the father swears by it.

Fratton Fred

Kablam wrote: »

Try this one on for size "milkygravy", you basically pour a drop of milk into the pan when you're finished all the frying, heat it, lash in load's of salt and pepper then pour it over your full irish. Not a big fan myself but the father swears by it.

A well knwon cure for heart disease :eek:

Ponster

Milkgravey sounds like something worth trying

Oh, and mushrooms, I forgot mushrooms in the Full English.


The first time I had an English breakfast was in 1988 when my dad took me to London for an Amiga computer show in Crystal Palace. It was my first time having beans and mushrooms with my fry (eggs/sausage/bacon) and when I asked for sauce they gave me BROWN sauce (Daddies) which until then I had never imagined was possible to put on a sausage.

Kablam

Fratton Fred wrote: »

A well knwon cure for heart disease :eek:

put's hairs on the soles of your feet:eek:

r3nu4l

Go-Go-Gadget wrote: »

Black pudding is taken from the scottish fry up, irish fry up is usually unique in being accompanied by white pudding and traditionally soda bread. English breakfast has baked beans and fried bread.

Yup! I can't stand getting baked beans with my fry up - that's when it becomes a dinner rather than a breakfast!

Also, English sausages are rank, even the tesco finest one with Apple in them, Irish sausages ftw!

Black and White pudding ftw, Irish breakfast ftw.

FTW I say, FTW!!

Steve_o

Its only a "proper" fry as long as it has the core ingredients... Sausages, Rashers, Black & White pudding, Eggs, Mushrooms, fried tomato, hashbrowns, toast and a roastin hot mug of tea!

oh and a slice of soda bread with jam afterward....

Ponster

r3nu4l, get yourself down to London for the finest sausages in the world at Biggles (by Bond street). http://www.ebiggles.co.uk/range.asp

Irish sausages taste different to English 'cos they are both made from different crap.

Saying that Irish sausages are tasty can get you a ban in the Cooking forum

Fratton Fred

r3nu4l wrote: »

Also, English sausages are rank, even the tesco finest one with Apple in them, Irish sausages ftw!

How can you say that. Irish sausages are awful things. I regularly bring sausages over and freeze then because the ones the supermarkets sell here are so bad. Dunnes finest ones aren't too bad but the Tesco finest ones are nothinglike the sausages you would get in Tescos in England.

As for Denny gold label sausages, my arse :mad:

missmatty

Had square sausage in Edinburgh a few months ago. It is indeed very odd :pac:

brianthebard

Fratton Fred wrote: »

How can you say that. Irish sausages are awful things. I regularly bring sausages over and freeze then because the ones the supermarkets sell here are so bad. Dunnes finest ones aren't too bad but the Tesco finest ones are nothinglike the sausages you would get in Tescos in England.

As for Denny gold label sausages, my arse :mad:

well your first problem is buying them in the supermarket,support your local butcher and shop there.Oh and fried soda bread with the brekkie is teh best thing evor.

jimi_t

In terms of supermarket sausages, Superquinn are actually very decent - as well as their burgers which are dirt cheap. If you live outside of Dublin/Cork/Limerick/Galway city anyway you should be able to track down 'proper' sausages.

Also, did no one pick up on the 'Welsh' Breakfast? Poor bastids...

The traditional Welsh breakfast include laverbread, a seaweed purée which is mixed with oatmeal, which is formed into patties and fried in bacon fat. Cockles are also often eaten

5starpool

Rashers, sausages, eggs, black and white pudding, tea and toast, maybe with a few beans. That is the finest breakfast. Mushrooms are evil, and tomatoes have no business near a fryup. Fruit on a breakfast, why the hell would you?

Fratton Fred

brianthebard wrote: »

well your first problem is buying them in the supermarket,support your local butcher and shop there.Oh and fried soda bread with the brekkie is teh best thing evor.

I totally agree, unfortunately i tend to shop on sundays or late at night though. mind you, I do get a few sausages from Hicks in Dun Laogahire whenever I can. They do some great stuff in there.

Tak3n

Full English has everything the irish has with the addition of baked beans and chips and possibly fried bread although u rarely get it


English breakfast > irish breakfast

Silenceisbliss

no, ya need beans in a fry-up IMO.

my fry consists of:
eggs, rashers, sausages, hashbrowns, tomatoes, muchrooms, beans, one of each pudding, toast, and a glass of OJ. YUMMERS!!!!

Now thats a mighty HORSE of a feed!

here.from.day.1

captainzapp wrote: »

I'm so hungry now. Damnit. I'd go for the black pudding over fried bread.

Me too . Wish I hadnt read this, its 3 hours to lunch and I was to late to get ANY breakfast.

Silenceisbliss

5starpool wrote: »

tomatoes have no business near a fryup. Fruit on a breakfast, why the hell would you?

YES THEY DO!!! tomatoes give that nice succulence to the whole thing, else the plate is a bit too dry. TOMATOES FTW

CtrlSource

Tak3n wrote: »

Full English has everything the irish has with the addition of baked beans and chips and possibly fried bread although u rarely get it


English breakfast > irish breakfast

That's my impression of the difference too. In England i remember you'd often get a second egg as standard. Here you have to ask for it. But chips?

Remember the all day breakfasts in Bewleys (when Bewleys was Bewleys)? Those sausages were terrible, but i always had at least 3 of them!

i love some black puddings, the ones with plenty of stuff in them and not just the blood sausage type. Clonakilty or Shaws FTW!

5starpool

Silenceisbliss wrote: »

YES THEY DO!!! tomatoes give that nice succulence to the whole thing, else the plate is a bit too dry. TOMATOES FTW

You have been brainwashed by the tomato munching brigade. I'll pray to the god of breakfast (Pigthor is his name) for you to see the light.

Help him Pigthor!!!! Banish the evil tomaotes. He will be putting garnish on the fryup next.

meditraitor

Proper fry

Sausages(Cumberland for english)

Eggs (fried/scrambled/poached)

Rashers

Toast

Tea

after that its up to you

Beans,pudding,fried potatoes,waffles,chips,fried tomato,mushrooms,spice burger and pancakes for our american cousins.

Im starving now:D

ScumLord

You can't get a good breakfast in England that's the difference. They have horrible grey sausages, and black pud that looks and tastes like fried play do. You can't get good rashers anywhere any more (eating out I mean) and their tea is piss poor.

The best way to enjoy a fry is at home where you can get proper ingredients.

Sausages, Black & White pud (that's crumbles apart), big thick rashers, shrooms, fried onion, hash browns (or some form of potato) maybe a little beans, NO CHICKEN PERIODS!

B00MSTICK

Now look what you made me do! *puts sausages on*

Ideal fry:
Eggs (whatever way you fancy, but it is a fry, so fried is the obvious choice)
Sausages (Rudds if you can get them)
B&W Pudding (Clonakilty)
Rashers (Hickory smoked a fave atm)
Tomato, if you're making a sambo or for mopping up with toast purpose
Hash browns/fried potato
Scoop of beans
Toast with lashings of butter

Steve_o

B00MSTICK wrote: »

Now look what you made me do! *puts sausages on*

Ideal fry:
Eggs (whatever way you fancy, but it is a fry, so fried is the obvious choice)
Sausages (Rudds if you can get them)
B&W Pudding (Clonakilty)
Rashers (Hickory smoked a fave atm)
Tomato, if you're making a sambo or for mopping up with toast purpose
Hash browns/fried potato
Scoop of beans
Toast with lashings of butter

And a mug of tea of course!

Silenceisbliss

5starpool wrote: »

Help him Pigthor!!!! Banish the evil tomaotes. He will be putting garnish on the fryup next.

whats this "garnish" you speak of?.....*consults wiki*....mmmmmmmmm

MIN2511

All this talk about brekkie makes me hungry!

Ah is it just me or is breakfast cheaper in the UK than in Ireland? Like Irish brekkie all the way but they set you back 14.50 :O

Silenceisbliss

B00MSTICK wrote: »

Now look what you made me do! *puts sausages on*


Toast with lashings of butter

ha ha, this thread is driving everyoone to the fridge! lol

and yes, LASHINGS of butter, very important IMO

MIN2511 wrote: »

All this talk about brekkie makes me hungry!

Ah is it just me or is breakfast cheaper in the UK than in Ireland? Like Irish brekkie all the way but they set you back 14.50 :O

ITS THE RECESSION I TELLS YA! gotta be careful with me "LASHINGS of butter" should i be subject to the butter tax.

but, ya...ireland is just more expensive for everything....didnt you realise that!