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A fry-up in the morning. Is it unhealthy?

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    #62
    Shefwedfan
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    Everything in moderation. If you have a fry up everyday of the week expect at some stage for it to catch up on you.

    I maybe have a proper fry up once a month. What was in the OP was a salad.

    Also for all you people who have never lived in North, I cannot have a proper fry up now without Soda bread and potato bread.....need to mix the best of South with best of North.


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    #63
    Seamai
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    My every day breakfasts are disgustingly healthy but when I'm away somewhere here I'll always have the full fry up with bells on and as it's infrequent I really enjoy it. Oh yeah, with me it has to be tea with it, coffee doesn't work.


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    #64
    Giraffe Box
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    2 sausages
    2 bacon
    A fried egg (major fail if it busts)
    Beans
    Mushrooms (optional)
    Fried tomato
    Tea
    Toast

    Not into the hash browns (heartburn)

    Though as someone mentioned earlier, the fried tomato must never be consumed, it has to be left intact on the plate after everything else is devoured.
    Believe it or not, I have seen English people literally eating the fried tomato, hilarious really.


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    #65
    Shefwedfan
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    My breakfast this morning, a 1-hour jog and then some museli

    Come weekend I have to get the big plate to put my fry on it!!!


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    #66
    Church on Tuesday
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    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    Everything in moderation. If you have a fry up everyday of the week expect at some stage for it to catch up on you.

    I maybe have a proper fry up once a month. What was in the OP was a salad.

    Also for all you people who have never lived in North, I cannot have a proper fry up now without Soda bread and potato bread.....need to mix the best of South with best of North.

    Yeah had an Ulster fry in Belfast last summer and good God, it was a feast.


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    #67
    Shefwedfan
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    2 sausages
    2 bacon
    A fried egg (major fail if it busts)
    Beans
    Mushrooms (optional)
    Fried tomato
    Tea
    Toast

    Not into the hash browns (heartburn)


    Not to be sexist but that's the wifes fry :P


    Mine
    2 sausages
    2 bacon
    2 fried egg(runny)
    Beans
    Mushrooms
    Fried tomato(for the dog)
    Soda bread(covered in runny eggs)
    Potato Bread
    Hash brown
    Pint of water with ice
    Toast(mix of brown and white, all white gets eaten first)


    Then 1 hour nap


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    #68
    Brock Turnpike
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    Seamai wrote: »
    My every day breakfasts are disgustingly healthy but when I'm away somewhere here I'll always have the full fry up with bells on and as it's infrequent I really enjoy it. Oh yeah, with me it has to be tea with it, coffee doesn't work.

    Absolutely this. Right down to the tea with it.

    And I say that as a coffee lover.


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    #69
    corner of hells
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    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    My breakfast this morning, a 1-hour jog and then some museli

    Come weekend I have to get the big plate to put my fry on it!!!

    A decent fry should cancel out all that muesli and jogging ****e, good man, carry on.


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    #70
    ChikiChiki
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    corks finest wrote: »
    Worked in Germany in the late 70s didn't find any of their sausages appealing TBH,
    Spent over 12 years (5 plus times a year) in Transylvania,
    All their sausages are of german ( Saxon) origin,and again not great,now the German bread is tops, liked their beer when o used take alcohol, but Irish sausage for me I'd number 1, alongside Clonakilty white pudding

    German cuisine is absolute scutter. I just don't get it. Sauerkraut and Currywurst. Yuck.


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    #71
    Brock Turnpike
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    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    Not to be sexist but that's the wifes fry :P


    Mine
    2 sausages
    2 bacon
    2 fried egg(runny)
    Beans
    Mushrooms
    Fried tomato(for the dog)
    Soda bread(covered in runny eggs)
    Potato Bread
    Hash brown
    Pint of water with ice
    Toast(mix of brown and white, all white gets eaten first)


    Then 1 hour nap

    Bingo!


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    #72
    Giraffe Box
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    Homelander wrote: »
    The typical Irish fry probably has about 2,000 calories and 500% of the daily recommended intake of saturated fat and salt. Which is what makes them so good.

    What's described in the OP is a light salad.

    Or the OP's 'dish' could be eaten as a starter before a proper fry-up.


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    #73
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Corona20 wrote: »
    Fish sauce. No one has mentioned the fish sauce. Vomit!

    It does smell vile but it changes completely when cooked, a friend of mine threw out a newly bought bottle of it out once as he thought it had gone off. I had to explain to him that it always smells like that.

    Can't see what place it has in a discussion about an Irish fry up.


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    #74
    Cienciano
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    Frying a salad isn't a fry.

    I hate those "posh" places that advertise a fry and then try and make it fancy by giving you garlic and herb sausages and a side salad.

    Matt the Rashers in Kimmage is the best fry imho. Comes with liver, but you can swap it out for anything else.

    https://goo.gl/maps/uUNJsJPJP84YiiXq6


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    #75
    o1s1n
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    Brian? wrote: »
    Worst fry up ever.

    It's akin to stating;

    'I don't know why everyone keeps saying that drinking is bad for you, I have three bottles of Amstel Radler after work on a Friday night and am absolutely fine'


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    #76
    jam_mac_jam
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    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    German cuisine is absolute scutter. I just don't get it. Sauerkraut and Currywurst. Yuck.

    I agree. The sausages in particular. Tasteless fatty meat with no seasoning, they are also huge which is really offputting.


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    #77
    Seamai
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    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    German cuisine is absolute scutter. I just don't get it. Sauerkraut and Currywurst. Yuck.

    Sauerkraut is definitely an acquired taste, while I wouldn't go as far as to say that I love it, in the right setting with sausages and beer I enjoy it and as it's fermented it's good for you.


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    #78
    Feisar
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    Sex is well-and-fine, but I notice a good rasher is getting harder to find lately. Hitherto God-fearing brands such as Herlihy's are becoming miserated, stringy, water-filled affairs and joyless to cook and even less so to eat. I am however, liking Oliver Carty organic dry-cure.

    A place called Belly in Mullingar use Crowe's bacon, it's the real deal.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #79
    Shefwedfan
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    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    German cuisine is absolute scutter. I just don't get it. Sauerkraut and Currywurst. Yuck.


    Like any food, if you eat it in Germany it is differnet to what you get served up here


    The german sausages in Berlin are lovely, especially in winter when you can buy them walking around the streets.....tasty


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    #80
    Cienciano
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    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    German cuisine is absolute scutter. I just don't get it. Sauerkraut and Currywurst. Yuck.
    I'm not a fan of sauerkraut, but how anyone doesn't like currywurst is beyond me. It's amazing. So is Schweinshaxe and schnitzel. Kebabs in germany are on another level too.


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    #81
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    Have a cooked breakfast every Saturday and Sunday, have been doing this since I could eat sausages etc as it’s tradition at home to do it. My usual is 3 sausages, 2 rashers, 3 pieces of black pudding and two fried eggs with 3 slices of batch toast and multiple mugs of tea.

    I say cooked breakfast as we only fry the eggs everything else is grilled or more recently cooked in the air fryer.


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    #82
    Feisar
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    I don't believe it's the fat that is bad, it's the processed meat. What the hell is rusk anyway!?!

    Regarding a poached egg, which is a beautiful thing in itself, if one is being health conscious there is no point in ordering a poached egg and then slathering yer toast in butter.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #83
    Seamai
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    Cienciano wrote: »
    I'm not a fan of sauerkraut, but how anyone doesn't like currywurst is beyond me. It's amazing. So is Schweinshaxe and schnitzel. Kebabs in germany are on another level too.

    I love currywurst, I even found a recipe to make my own at home for when we feel like a bit of comfort food.


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    #84
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Not frying them in olive oil either. Use a proper oil that gives some taste.
    And clean the frying pan every 25 fries


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    #85
    Edgware
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    It's akin to stating;

    'I don't know why everyone keeps saying that drinking is bad for you, I have three bottles of Amstel Radler after work on a Friday night and am absolutely fine'
    Correct. After 8 pints I can make that 747 hum like a mockingbird


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    #86
    harry Bailey esq
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    That’s not even close to resembling a fry so it’s probably ok.

    The fish sauce threw me. Fish sauce. For breakfast. Fish sauce. A rasher with fish sauce. I have a sneaking suspicion the op may be posting in the pregnancy forum in the near future..


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    #87
    s1ippy
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    All the puddings mentioned here are for the bin, unless somebody mentioned Roscarberry.

    I haven't had a fry with all the bells and whistles in ages. I might throw on a bit of pudding to have with whatever I'm making or a sausage sambo or BLT of a morning, but fry-ups are for a day when you've got a big long journey ahead of you and I haven't had one of those in three months.

    512769.jpg

    Fresh-baked bread this morning with two bits of pudding, scrambled egg and avocado. It's a puddin McMuffin.


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    #88
    Bullocks
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    Edgware wrote: »
    And clean the frying pan every 25 fries

    Whether it needs it or not


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    #89
    harry Bailey esq
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    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    German cuisine is absolute scutter. I just don't get it. Sauerkraut and Currywurst. Yuck.

    Currywurst is a pretty tasty after pub munch. Not the morning after mind.


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    #90
    Flaccus
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    Just had an unhealthy fry for lunch. Full now for a few hours.


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    #91
    [Deleted User]
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    I read this thread earlier, before the weekly shop, and I've since come home with denny veggie sausages and clonakilty veggie white pudding for the weekend, as recommended on here - thanks - looking forward to trying it.

    ....sorry, back to the proper fry up chat with ye....


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