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Difference between English fry and Irish fry?

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    #92
    C.K Dexter Haven
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    Irish have rashers; English have bacon.

    You'd sell your granny for an Irish breakfast but sell your Gran for an English one.


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    #93
    Fratton Fred
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    I had relatives telling me how much better Irish sausages were, then when I first started coming over, they kept giving me those Denny skinless things.

    I'd rather eat a cotton bud.


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    #94
    Fratton Fred
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    Heroditas wrote: »
    This brand of sausage can't be emphasised enough.
    By far the best brand. Superquinn/Super Valu ones pale in comparison and are disgracefully overrated.

    I'll give you three guesses as to who make the superquinn ones....


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    #95
    Heroditas
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    I'll give you three guesses as to who make the superquinn ones....

    No way!!!!
    Who made them when Olhausen went into liquidation for a while?


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    #96
    C.K Dexter Haven
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    I'll give you three guesses as to who make the superquinn ones....


    Quickimart Overlord?
    Really?
    You?


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    #97
    Fratton Fred
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    Heroditas wrote: »
    No way!!!!
    Who made them when Olhausen went into liquidation for a while?

    I'm not sure. They may change the manufacturer around, but I know Olhausen were making them.


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    #98
    Capt'n Midnight
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    The spelling.

    There's no difference between a fried banana and a fried cucumber
    Oddly enough fired bananas taste like floury potatoes.

    Well the kind of bananas you cook anyway


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    #99
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Tarzana wrote: »
    All sausages contain rusk.
    Blame it on the recession.


    It's hard to make both ends meat.


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    #100
    onlyrocknroll
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    Sclosages wrote: »
    Fada doesn't need a fada. Confused?
    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    It does when you're writing it in English, to denote it is Irish. When you write it in Irish it doesn't.
    Vanessa Beautiful Pain wrote: »
    That's nonsense.

    When it's written by someone who doesn't recognise sarcasm it apparently takes an 'r'


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    #101
    Tarzana
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    oppenheimer1 wrote: »
    There is no difference between an English fried breakfast and an Irish one apart from the name.

    Going by this thread, clearly there is. Even if the Irish version is newer, it's still different.


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    #102
    Tarzana
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    Pretzill wrote: »
    2 Cumberland Sausages (herby breadcrumy things)

    Seriously, once again, ALL sausages contain breadcrumbs!


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    #103
    Hoop66
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Oddly enough fired bananas taste like floury potatoes.

    Well the kind of bananas you cook anyway

    Plantains! Love them. But not for breakfast, Christ no...


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    #104
    Egginacup
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    FTA69 wrote: »
    Most greasy spoons over here do utterly sh*te quality sausages and rashers, real bottom-of-the-bin, out-of-the-freezer type stuff; probably why the breakfasts only cost around £4.

    Dunno mate, I've had excellent bangers in that cafe on the same street as that Walthamstow market


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    #105
    topper75
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    recylingbin wrote: »
    English one has bubble & squeak. I have no idea what abomination this contains, but it hits the spot in multiple ways.

    Bubble and squeek! :D
    http://britishfood.about.com/od/easybritishrecipes/r/bubblesqueak.htm
    Doesn't belong in any fry in my book. Certainly not breakfast food.

    I've eaten plenty in both countries and never paid a blind bit of notice to any 'difference'. The lady in the caf in Slough Trading Estate used to load on the hash browns too. They may have come from America but are very much part of any fry now for me.


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    #106
    Egginacup
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    fryup wrote: »
    hash browns have no place in an english or irish fry

    its sacrilege to have it on the plate

    You always had fried potatoes on your tea-time fry, did you not?
    Many's the time I had a fry at my granny's house in the evening after the cows were milked and it was a fusion of the breakfast fryup and a dinner in that it sometimes had a mound of bubble-n-squeek style stodge as well.....and mighty damn delicious that spuddy mess was too.

    A mouthful of the steaming fried potato, a good cut of the sausage and then a slug of boiling tea .....hot enough to make your head sweat and your gums smart but not so hot as to burn you.

    RESPECT!


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    #107
    Rubberlegs
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    I had a fry in a cafe in Kent, earlier this year. Was starving with the hunger, the place looked like a real greasy spoon, so I was a bit sceptical. Jesus, it was amazing:). Rasher, sausages, mushrooms, egg, beans, and bubble and squeak. Sliced white batch loaf on the side, rather than toast.
    On the other hand I had an Irish breakfast in Bewleys on Grafton St, and it was manky. Some weird relish ****e on the side, and this doughy yoke that I assume was a farl/ potato cake . So horrible:'(
    At home it has to be sausage, rashers, black/white pudding, egg, beans, mushrooms , tomato and toast, leftover baby potatoes fried up is a nice addition too. Rudd's sausages are lovely, discovered them in Super Valu, nice big uns, great on the BBQ too.


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    #108
    Hoop66
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    I can't stand idly by and let people badmouth bubble n squeak.

    It's great stuff - all you need is some leftover cabbage/brussel sprouts and potato. Chop the greens, mash the spuds, mix with salt n pepper. Form into patties and fry, completely delicious.

    Try it...try it now...


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    #109
    Beefy78
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    I remember the one time my Dad ever cooked dinner for my sister and I (my Mum was ill) he made bubble & squeak. It was revolting and Mum had to get off her sick bed to cook something else.

    That put me off for life.


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    #110
    Pretzill
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    Tarzana wrote: »
    Seriously, once again, ALL sausages contain breadcrumbs!

    Seriously, there's no need to be so serious - I merely meant they contain more.

    Edit to add ;)


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    #111
    FTA69
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    Superquinn sausages are dogsh*t and are typical generic, overly-processed crap. Butcher's sausages for the win.


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    #112
    Harry Palmr
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    Which is the bubble and which is the squeak?


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    #113
    Pretzill
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Which is the bubble and which is the squeak?

    I think the bubble refers to the sound your stomach makes after eating - and the squeak after digesting! Horrible stuff.

    Boxty, or a simple potato cake is far nicer.


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    #114
    Sclosages
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    Boxty is the business.


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    #115
    Harry Palmr
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    Pretzill wrote: »
    I think the bubble refers to the sound your stomach makes after eating - and the squeak after digesting! Horrible stuff.

    Boxty, or a simple potato cake is far nicer.

    Horses for courses, I love bubble and squeak - just have to do it properly - burnt bits!


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    #116
    fryup
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    fryup wrote: »
    hash browns have no place in an english or irish fry

    its sacrilege to have it on the plate
    Egginacup wrote: »
    You always had fried potatoes on your tea-time fry, did you not?

    yes, but hash browns and fried potatoes are worlds apart


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    #117
    Cienciano
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    Hoop66 wrote: »
    I can't stand idly by and let people badmouth bubble n squeak.

    It's great stuff - all you need is some leftover cabbage/brussel sprouts and potato. Chop the greens, mash the spuds, mix with salt n pepper. Form into patties and fry, completely delicious.

    Try it...try it now...
    Listen, no green vegetable has any place on the plate of a fry. Even if it's fried with potato. The potato on it's own, maybe. But leave any sort of brussel sprout out of it.


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    #118
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
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    This is a very regionalistic view but I think a fry-up needs Boxty to be complete.


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    #119
    GinnyR
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    Cienciano wrote: »
    Listen, no green vegetable has any place on the plate of a fry. Even if it's fried with potato. The potato on it's own, maybe. But leave any sort of brussel sprout out of it.

    Bubble & squeak is lovely stuff, but not as part of any class of a fry.


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    #120
    Fallschirmjager
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    FTA69 wrote: »
    Superquinn sausages are dogsh*t and are typical generic, overly-processed crap. Butcher's sausages for the win.

    The problem with that is availability. Having been involved in the art of sausage making for 1 summer (so therefore obviously now an expert!!!!) the issue you can get is, like black and white pudding, the butcher is free to roam with ingredients. Now I don't mean you can add anything, but they a re filled with a lot of scraps left over. So any off cuts of pork are ground up for example. So you could get differences from week to week.

    Ye olde super quin sausages is a favourite in our house...


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    #121
    oppenheimer1
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    Tarzana wrote: »
    Going by this thread, clearly there is. Even if the Irish version is newer, it's still different.

    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.


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