Difference between English fry and Irish fry?

Lingua Franca · 11-10-2014 11:30am

The major difference between the English fry up and everyone elses (including the Scottish and Welsh) is that everyone else uses specialised regional bread products in their frys and the English only offer fried white pan or toast.

Omackeral · 11-10-2014 11:49am

Can I ask what Boxty is? I think it's a potato type thing from the West of Ireland, I know a Roscommon lad who used to mention it. What exactly is it and how good is it?

Tarzana · 11-10-2014 1:40pm

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

The other items have been found on both English and Irish breakfasts.

Not really.

White pud is an Irish thing, fried bread is an English, for example. Beans are far more common in the English fry, mushrooms and fried tomatoes in the Irish. If you occasionally see these things served in either country, it's likely there's some influence from the other country there.

Sclosages · 13-10-2014 9:13pm

Omackeral wrote: »

Can I ask what Boxty is? I think it's a potato type thing from the West of Ireland, I know a Roscommon lad who used to mention it. What exactly is it and how good is it?

It's gorgeous!
It's made with flour, uncooked potatoes and maybe butter or egg I think?
My Granny makes it.

voz es · 13-10-2014 9:17pm

I love the fact that there is 9 pages on this!

gerrybbadd · 13-10-2014 9:22pm

Omackeral wrote: »

Can I ask what Boxty is? I think it's a potato type thing from the West of Ireland, I know a Roscommon lad who used to mention it. What exactly is it and how good is it?

The way I make it, it's a mix of pre cooked mash and grated Raw potato, with flour and seasoning. Mixed with butter and fried. Savage stuff

DenMan · 13-10-2014 10:28pm

The English uses beans instead of the vile mushrooms we use and their breakfast is better than ours! I'm happy to say I was in Bewley's in Dublin Airport a few months ago and had beans with my breakfast! None of that mushroom nonsense! Mushrooms are only good for Super Mario games! Oh and I hate hash browns! Horrible vile things! :P

Ally Dick · 14-10-2014 12:43am

English think bacon should be salted to sh!t and their grandiose sausage types like cumberland are horrible. Galtee and Denny beat any British brands hands down

nxbyveromdwjpg · 14-10-2014 12:47am

DenMan wrote: »

The English uses beans instead of the vile mushrooms we use and their breakfast is better than ours! I'm happy to say I was in Bewley's in Dublin Airport a few months ago and had beans with my breakfast! None of that mushroom nonsense! Mushrooms are only good for Super Mario games! Oh and I hate hash browns! Horrible vile things! :P

Their sausages aren't anywhere near as good though

Cant bate the aul superquinn sausies

ps: beans have no place in breakfast

fryup · 14-10-2014 10:44am

nm wrote: »

ps: beans have no place in breakfast

agree, fried tomato suffices

don't agree with previous poster..mushrooms are a fine addition to a breakfast

Yawlboy · 14-10-2014 10:49am

Tuathanach wrote: »

Black pudding in Ireland is from pig but in Scotland it's also popular from cow's blood.

Not so - was listening to Newstalk at the Ploughing and they had a guy from Clonakilty puddings on - he said their Black pudding is and always has been made with Cows blood not Pigs.

Alun · 14-10-2014 11:00am

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

No, going by this thread the standard items on both an Irish fry and an English fry are the same - sausage egg and bacon. The other items have been found on both English and Irish breakfasts.

This x100000. I regularly go on walking holidays in England, Scotland and Wales staying in B&B's and so have some experience of the diversity of fried breakfasts over there rather than relying on just one or two isolated experiences.

Egg, sausage and bacon really are the only things 100% guaranteed to be in there, everything else really is optional. Some regions will have their own peculiar variations too, such as laverbread in Wales (seaweed!), something very similar to white pudding in Cornwall (hog's pudding), and Scottish square (or Lorne) sausage.

FTA69 · 14-10-2014 11:04am

nm wrote: »

Their sausages aren't anywhere near as good though

Cant bate the aul superquinn sausies

If you get Cumberlands or Lincolnshire sausages from a decent English butcher they put Superquinn sausages to absolute shame. Tesco Finest sausages are nicer than Superquinn sausages for that matter.

allibastor · 14-10-2014 11:06am

With the Irish fry you get a healthy dose of guilt from the Church about the poor starving people.

With the English fry you get the typical "tis not how te make it back home"

RollieFingers · 14-10-2014 11:08am

FTA69 wrote: »

If you get Cumberlands or Lincolnshire sausages from a decent English butcher they put Superquinn sausages to absolute shame. Tesco Finest sausages are nicer than Superquinn sausages for that matter.

No they're not, stop that!

fryup · 14-10-2014 11:15am

allibastor wrote: »

With the Irish fry you get a healthy dose of guilt from the Church about the poor starving people.

wha

there's no priest about when i'm eating a fry

pwurple · 14-10-2014 11:19am

See now the
Full Irish
Proteins: Sausages, Eggs, Rashers, B&W pudding.
Optional Extras: Fried Liver (out of fashion now), Mushrooms, Grilled tomato, beans, boxty, potato farl, or sometimes the american hash brown
Toast, Brown soda bread, Tea, and orange juice
Marmalade/jam for your bread/toast

Full English
Proteins: Sausages, Eggs, Rashers,
Optional Extras: Black Pudding, Mushrooms, tomato, beans, peas, fried mashed potato.
Fried bread, toast, Tea

There are also
ulster variations (like irish but with potato bread)
Welsh, with laverbread (made from seaweed)
and scottish.. oatcakes, a scone and sometimes fried haggis

Fratton Fred · 14-10-2014 11:20am

Ally Dick wrote: »

English think bacon should be salted to sh!t and their grandiose sausage types like cumberland are horrible. Galtee and Denny beat any British brands hands down

Galtee and Denny sausages are cheap muck.

If you said Olhausen or superquinn then fair enough, but those two?

No. Just no.

FTA69 · 14-10-2014 11:31am

I know an Irish one over here that will only eat Galtee and Denny etc she gets from the Irish shops and refuses to drink the milk "cos it's pure muck compared to Avonmore." As if she could taste the difference. It's ridiculous, some people get these ridiculous attachments to brands simply 'cos they're Irish' or some other nonsense. Sure at one stage Lidl and Aldi were apparently sourcing more local goods than Dunnes were.

Local milk brands are another one; most of the branded milks are owned by Glanbia and are the exact same product simply packaged differently yet people will go apesh*t over whether CMP, Avonmore or Snocream is the best when they're all the bloody same at the end of the day.

Sclosages · 14-10-2014 1:01pm

Well, I saw a fry here in London. NO FEICIN RASHERS!!!!! 2 eggs, 2 sausages, etc. etc. But NO RASHERS.

Sclosages · 14-10-2014 1:04pm

I feel the need to post the following:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIIWKA_h12Q

force eleven · 14-10-2014 1:14pm

Fried bread no? Must be dripping in fat afterward mind.

Pretzill · 14-10-2014 1:32pm

force eleven wrote: »

Fried bread no? Must be dripping in fat afterward mind.

Ah yeah nothing like a nice piece of fried bread - I don't eat sausages now but I've been told the Truly Irish brand are very good. And what about Hicks? I really like their white pudding tastes like no other - I find Clonakilty heavy with seasoning - and Superquinn sausages were lovely bought fresh but I believe the packaged ones aren't as nice.

parc · 14-10-2014 1:38pm

Elmo wrote: »

Canned products tend to be part of the English Fry. Tomatoes, Beans and Peas all from a can. Irish fry won't have peas or beans general, fresh grilled/fried tomatoes.

That's about it.

Where are you getting your fry-ups in the UK?

Egginacup · 14-10-2014 1:42pm

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Galtee and Denny sausages are cheap muck.

If you said Olhausen or superquinn then fair enough, but those two?

No. Just no.

Kearn's sausages are the best. No discussion.

Egginacup · 14-10-2014 1:48pm

I saw this abomination in a supermarket in the UK and just had to buy it and try it out of sheer masochistic curiosity:

all-day-breakfast.jpg

It was FUCKING dire :pac:

OldNotWIse · 14-10-2014 1:48pm

Their sausages are shíte and they use vile, tinned plum tomatoes.

FTA69 · 14-10-2014 1:52pm

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Their sausages are shíte and they use vile, tinned plum tomatoes.

In fairness most places nowadays use fresh tomato as they're cheaper to get in the market than tinned ones.

Fratton Fred · 14-10-2014 2:10pm

Egginacup wrote: »

I saw this abomination in a supermarket in the UK and just had to buy it and try it out of sheer masochistic curiosity:

all-day-breakfast.jpg

It was FUCKING dire :pac:

Bachelor's dream come true.

Beefy78 · 14-10-2014 2:31pm

I had one or two of those canned fry-ups when I was at uni.

They are not good. Even when hungover.

Difference between English fry and Irish fry?

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