What do you think of the Continental Breakfast ?

keithclancy

Do you think the full Irish is superior ?

And if so .. whats the difference between and English Breakfast and an Irish one ?

I've never even heard of a Northern Irish, Welsh or Scottish Breakfast (Although the last one might be a can and a punch in the face).

Any Insight ?

Where To

keithclancy wrote: »

Do you think the full Irish is superior ?

And if so .. whats the difference between and English Breakfast and an Irish one ?

I've never even heard of a Northern Irish, Welsh or Scottish Breakfast (Although the last one might be a can and a punch in the face).

Any Insight ?

ULSTER SAYS YES TO THE ULSTER FRY!

We have continental breakfast here too, we just call it tae.

The Continental Breakfast is just a way for cheap hotels to save money on an actual decent breakfast.

Oh, and I don't think the full English has pudding.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Is there a difference between any of them? Irish, English, Continental, Ulster fry.

jd007

its pretty continental...



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senorwipesalot

English has beans.
Irish usually ends in a session.
My experience anyway.

DEFTLEFTHAND

senorwipesalot wrote: »

English has beans.
Irish usually ends in a session.
My experience anyway.

I love your sig, is that the Lee Harvey Oswald Band?

keithclancy

senorwipesalot wrote: »

English has beans.
Irish usually ends in a session.
My experience anyway.

Really .... my nan always puts beans in it ...

You think she's an Intruder ?

Where To

The Kris Kristofferson breakfast is the best.

Well I woke up Sunday morning,
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
So I had one more for dessert.
Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes,
And found my cleanest dirty shirt.
An' I shaved my face and combed my hair,
An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.

I'd smoked my brain the night before,
On cigarettes and songs I'd been pickin'.
But I lit my first and watched a small kid,
Cussin' at a can that he was kicking.
Then I crossed the empty street,
'n caught the Sunday smell of someone fryin' chicken.
And it took me back to somethin',
That I'd lost somehow, somewhere along the way.

senorwipesalot

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I love your sig, is that the Lee Harvey Oswald Band?

Yeah,they had a few sixties hits.

senorwipesalot

keithclancy wrote: »

Really .... my nan always puts beans in it ...

You think she's an Intruder ?

Dunno,next time she offers you brekkie demand to see her papers.

SicklySweet

I hate continental breakfasts -.- Too early in the morning for sweets and pastries tbh.

Difference between English and Irish breakfast, I think Is that they're both the same, but the English breakfast contains hash browns, Irish uses Soda bread, while English has toast.


I think :pac:

jjbrien

SicklySweet wrote: »

I hate continental breakfasts -.- Too early in the morning for sweets and pastries tbh.

Difference between English and Irish breakfast, I think Is that they're both the same, but the English breakfast contains hash browns, Irish uses Soda bread, while English has toast.


I think :pac:

+1 one hating the continental breakfast I always feel cheated if im on holiday and the hotel only does it.

Irish Breakfast does have toast as well. Well almost everywhere I have had it had it. An English one has fried bread was the main difference i seen

Rasheed

The English one has them rotten sausages and no brown bread. How can you eat a fry with no brown bread? It's sacrilege. I'd rather eat porridge.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Rasheed wrote: »

The English one has them rotten sausages and no brown bread. How can you eat a fry with no brown bread? It's sacrilege. I'd rather eat porridge.

I don't think I've ever had a fry with brown bread to be honest. Interesting.

Rasheed

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I don't think I've ever had a fry with brown bread to be honest. Interesting.

Oh you're missing out! If you're going all out, fry the soda bread. Class.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Rasheed wrote: »

Oh you're missing out! If you're going all out, fry the soda bread. Class.

You know, I can actually see this working...!

crockholm

in the Welsh fry-up you get lamb chops, so that makes it the boss of all other fry-ups. German and Dutch brekkies are the worst(no wurst),like something you would eat at a Trappist Monastery as a pennance.

Swampy

It lacks bacon. Need I say more?

BBDBB

Scottish breakfast variously includes lorne sausage (its a slab of sausage meat, very tasty), potato scone, and haggis as well as the usual bacon egg etc




then they dip it in batter and deep fry the lot!

Gummy Panda

I like McDonald's breakfast. Mmmmm... Double sausage and egg muffin

ArthurG

I think the main difference between Irish and continental breakfasts is about 10 years off your life expectancy.

kowloon

Sure nobody wants the last 10 years anyway.

mikemac1

keithclancy wrote: »

I've never even heard of a Northern Irish,

Never heard of the Ulster Fry?

It has soda bread

Fr_Dougal

A croissant and cup of freshly brewed strong coffee on a sunny weekend morning around 8am on the balcony whilst reading the news, heaven.

Oranage2

what exactly is a continental breakfast anyway it seems different every time I have it, usually its a croissant jam coffee though and sometimes its accompanied by cold deli meat, some cheese, fruit and a boiled egg. its not a bad breakfast if it comes with cereal.

Cienciano

English and irish breakfast is the same. I prefer our sausages though. Ulster one usually has potato cakes and soda bread.
Continental breakfast is shiite. If you're lucky your hotel might do eggs benedict

the purple tin

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

A croissant and cup of freshly brewed strong coffee on a sunny weekend morning around 8am on the balcony whilst reading the news, heaven.

Go back to Russia!

cloud493

I can't stand soda bread, or brown bread, or mcdonalds breakfast. A sound english breakfast is

Sausage
Bacon
Egg
Black pudding
Beans
White toast, cut into triangles
And a pot of tea.

Anyone

English sausage and pudding is rank. Also their rashers aint up to much either. Then again, I hate hotel rashers...never cooked enough, and they stew in those containers.

As for a continental breakfast, not for me I'm afraid.

Clareman

The Ulster fry is a thing of beauty, it has to have a soda farl in it, really not healthy but delicious.

A pub in Ennis used to do a Banner Breakfast, full Irish with loads of toast and chips along with a pint, wonderful on a Sunday morning.

mikemac1

31 posts and no love for mushrooms on the thread, not even a mention

Shame on you all, a top breakfast requires mushrooms

Mint Sauce

Call it ulster, english, irish, but as long as it contains almost all of the following, egg, sausage, bacon, hash browns, fried potato, beans, white pudding, soda bread, potato bread, toast, tea, and OJ, then I'm happy.

The Green

The Soda bread has to be fried in the bacon fat, yum yum.

im invisible

I was up North for a night out a while ago, next morning we decided to go to a wee café for a bit of brekfast, couple of the lads order the full english, waitress turns to me and i say 'can I have the half English, half Irish, please...'

Mr. CooL ICE

I've had it a few times. As tastey as it is, it leaves me feeling empty.

Nothing can beat bacon and eggs for breakfast.

flanders1979

I had a slice of reheated apache pizza for breakfast. Always nicer in the morning.
When i think of a continental breakfast I just think of crap B&Bs.

BBDBB

had cold leftover pizza(chilled in the fridge overnight) for breakfast and coffee


lush

paulieeye

As someone else said the difference between irish and English breakfasts is something to do with beans. One has them the other doesn't...but can't remember which is which

Aidric

Continental breakfast getting a bad rep on this thread. I prefer it to a plate of grease. Cold meat, cheese, bread, croissant, yogurt, oj and tea. Yes please.

mikemac1

mikemac1 wrote: »

31 posts and no love for mushrooms on the thread, not even a mention

Shame on you all, a top breakfast requires mushrooms

I love going for Full Irishes(?) with people that don't like mushrooms, as I usually end up with a few servings all to myself. Love 'em!

MurdyWurdy

The difference I've noticed between the Irish and English fry is that in England they automatically give you a big bottle of brown sauce. Take that muck away from me!

mathproblem

continental people are generally in better shape than UK & Irl, or seem it anyway. I always feel well set up for a healthy day having a breakfast at a european hotel.

doesn't seem to be any difference between Irish & English generally, maybe the odd ingredient here & there, black pudding or something. To me they both mean put on as many of the following as you have available to you; sausages, rashers, fried eggs, beans, mushrooms, fried tomato, black pudding, white pudding, hash browns, with toast for mini sambos, farmhouse brown bread for posh people & all washed down with gallons of tea

you need to be always aware of your journey time to the nearest toilet after having full irish/english

Shenshen

The main difference to me is that I can have a "continental" breakfast in the morning.
I cannot face an English/Irish/whatever fry up befor lunchtime.

So I'll go for continental during the week, and have a fry up maybe once every other week on a Saturday or Sunday.

mathproblem

Aidric wrote: »

Continental breakfast getting a bad rep on this thread. I prefer it to a plate of grease. Cold meat, cheese, bread, croissant, yogurt, oj and tea. Yes please.

no, no.. if you're gonna go all out continental you gotta sip a gourmet coffee to go with it. preferably a double espresso. When in Rome...

Darkglasses

Does anyone actually like the tomato in their fry? Or is it on hotel buffets just because they're cheap and easy...

mathproblem

Darkglasses wrote: »

Does anyone actually like the tomato in their fry? Or is it on hotel buffets just because they're cheap and easy...

ya, i love it. Makes the difference. One little piece on each bite. Like a healthy alternative to ketchup. Has to be heated enough to be proper soft though. The tomato & mushrooms are the difference to me. The hash brown pushes it off into greasytown territory though, just one step too far.

Cienciano

Clareman wrote: »

The Ulster fry is a thing of beauty, it has to have a soda farl in it, really not healthy but delicious.

A pub in Ennis used to do a Banner Breakfast, full Irish with loads of toast and chips along with a pint, wonderful on a Sunday morning.

Chips shouldn't be anywhere near a breakfast

crockholm

Cienciano wrote: »

Chips shouldn't be anywhere near a breakfast

That sounds like something a skinny jeans man would say:D pile 'em in.
Also,is there a lingustic barrier in the country whereby on one side of the fence they're called "rashers" and on the other side "bacon", im a rashers man myself ,as bacon is what you have with cabbage and a pint of milk

Agricola

Any time Im abroad, a continental breakfast involves a bowl of those bland Aldi style cornflakes, a plate of various types of bread with cheeses to be followed by jams, then washed down with OJ and yogurt. Great way to start the day in a warm climate. Who could sit down to eat a fryup in Spain or Italy at 7am in 30c heat, I dont know.

LiamMc

All you can eat buffet breakfasts works everywhere.

The best for me Nordic breakfast of an assortment of smoked fish. Slid down easy.

For cold mornings Irish/British/Ulster Fry. I don't mind the German/Dutch em and eggs. If I'm feeling Traditionally Continental Hot Chocolate, Chocolate Croissant, Pain au Chocolate rinsed through with black coffee.

Take a few extra yogurt pots for the road.

Haven't had much of the egg dishes from the States.