irish or english fry up?

Silenceisbliss · 19-08-2008 08:09AM #1

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 · 19-08-2008 08:11AM

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 · 19-08-2008 08:14AM

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 · 19-08-2008 08:15AM

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 · 19-08-2008 08:17AM

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

Go-Go-Gadget · 19-08-2008 08:19AM

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 · 19-08-2008 08:19AM

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

pickarooney · 19-08-2008 08:23AM

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 · 19-08-2008 08:25AM

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 · 19-08-2008 08:27AM

mmmmmmmmmm

Silenceisbliss · 19-08-2008 08:29AM

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

Sherifu · 19-08-2008 08:35AM

Black pudding is enough to push it over the top.

chin_grin · 19-08-2008 08:37AM

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

Xavi6 · 19-08-2008 08:39AM

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 · 19-08-2008 08:39AM

weirdos.

pudding rocks.

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

chin_grin · 19-08-2008 08:42AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

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

MIN2511 · 19-08-2008 08:55AM

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

minxie · 19-08-2008 08:58AM

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

Fratton Fred · 19-08-2008 09:06AM

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 · 19-08-2008 09:19AM

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 · 19-08-2008 09:21AM

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 · 19-08-2008 09:43AM

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 · 19-08-2008 09:48AM

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 · 19-08-2008 09:49AM

lynchie wrote: »

Square sausage

This is madness.

Alun · 19-08-2008 09:51AM

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 · 19-08-2008 09:59AM

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 · 19-08-2008 10:00AM

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 · 19-08-2008 10:04AM

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 · 19-08-2008 10:04AM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

A well knwon cure for heart disease :eek:

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

r3nu4l · 19-08-2008 10:21AM

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 · 19-08-2008 10:25AM

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....

irish or english fry up?

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