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

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    #422
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    YFlyer wrote: »
    Eating significant amount of fried food negatively affects heart health.

    Everyone that has caught this that hasn’t optimal heart health has died. There are also numerous other factors that can contribute or detract from ones health.


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    #423
    YFlyer
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Everyone that has caught this that hasn’t optimal heart health has died. There are also numerous other factors that can contribute or detract from ones health.

    That's true.

    I'm sure the occasional fry be grand. The daily consumption not so much.


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    #424
    Carnmore
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    Giraffe Box wrote: »
    Agree with the above.
    Or why not use some type of 'dripping' or 'lard', I'd recommend 'Frytex'.
    Treat yourself every morning for months on end, but do make sure to stay close to a hospital, or at least someplace that you know for sure, has a working defibrillator.
    Enjoy!

    I recently purchased a block of Frytex Pure Beef Dripping for the first time.

    Upon reading the ingredient list, it reads beef dripping and rapeseed oil.

    I do not understand how "pure" beef dripping can contain any other ingredient, especially rapeseed oil


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    #425
    completedit
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    It's very hard to know what an optimum health is. I see some IG fitness pages and their diets are absolutely woeful. Just from a health standpoint, lashing pizzas into me because "it fits your macros" doesn't sit well with me.

    With a fry. It's not terrible but psychologically, that would make me feel like a lump and in turn, I'd feel sluggish. But depends. If I was working in a steel factory in Stalin's Soviet Union nd I needed sustinence, then maybe such a feed before the day starts would be needed.

    The spread mentioned in the OP sounds like some hipster new age Irish fry. Perfectly acceptable as part of a diet.

    I always feel better eating minimally but well. Putting effort into my dinners and coming up with nice recipes. I never feel well when I get too bogged down in nutrition. Just eat well, don't eat ****e and don't overeat.


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    #426
    JohnnyFlash
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    The fry is Ireland’s great contribution to world cuisine. Absolutely delicious. Especially our good black puddings.


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    #427
    Thelonious Monk
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    I think fry ups are pretty gross and don’t get the Irish obsession with this British national dish. Pity we can’t send back frys and coronation st. Scrambled eggs with some tomato if I’m treating myself at the weekends.


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    #428
    blade1
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    I think fry ups are pretty gross and don’t get the Irish obsession with this British national dish. Pity we can’t send back frys and coronation st. Scrambled eggs with some tomato if I’m treating myself at the weekends.

    Do refuse all other countries food or just the ones that colonised Ireland?


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    #429
    Thelonious Monk
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    blade1 wrote: »
    Do refuse all other countries food or just the ones that colonised Ireland?

    Just the porky ones


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    #430
    Coillte_Bhoy
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    I think fry ups are pretty gross and don’t get the Irish obsession with this British national dish. Pity we can’t send back frys and coronation st. Scrambled eggs with some tomato if I’m treating myself at the weekends.

    Ive read and and re read this four times and am still none the wiser :confused:


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    blade1
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    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    Ive read and and re read this four times and am still none the wiser :confused:
    He is Thelonious Monk and likes scrambled eggs so he treats himself by tinkling the ovaries! :D


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    #432
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    I think fry ups are pretty gross and don’t get the Irish obsession with this British national dish. Pity we can’t send back frys and coronation st. Scrambled eggs with some tomato if I’m treating myself at the weekends.

    Scrambled eggs and tomato. Sadness on a plate.


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    #433
    Thelonious Monk
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    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    Ive read and and re read this four times and am still none the wiser :confused:

    I normally just have porridge and fruit so eggs are a treat!


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    #434
    John.G
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    The only fry ups I got as a youngster in the 50s was after mass on a Sunday morning, seems to have been the custom in rural areas in those times.


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    #435
    whisky_galore
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    Used like them but find them stodgy now and I don't like tasting them repeatedly long after I've eaten them.


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    #436
    Potential-Monke
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    blade1 wrote: »
    Do refuse all other countries food or just the ones that colonised Ireland?

    Seems to be just ones that colonised Ireland. Tomatoes originated in South America. Also, they're fecking rank, and are only good in sauce form, ie: probably doesn't actually contain tomatoes.


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    Deebles McBeebles
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    blade1 wrote: »
    He is Thelonious Monk and likes scrambled eggs so he treats himself by tinkling the ovaries! :D

    Took me a second, very good!
    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Scrambled eggs and tomato. Sadness on a plate.

    I'm sure vegetarians would say the same about a fry. Wouldn't be mad into them myself these days but I wouldn't touch an egg either so, its all relative!


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    #438
    jackboy
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Scrambled eggs and tomato. Sadness on a plate.

    Scrambled eggs lovely, but not with tomato. Buttery toast goes far better with scrambled eggs.


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    #439
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    jackboy wrote: »
    Scrambled eggs lovely, but not with tomato. Buttery toast goes far better with scrambled eggs.

    Rashers, sausages, pudding, fried bread, and more sausages goes far better.


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    #440
    jackboy
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Rashers, sausages, pudding, fried bread, and more sausages goes far better.

    Yes that is true,

    I find if I have a good fry up i can skip lunch and snacks all day with ease. Then a light dinner in the evening is sufficient. I reckon in the day I am not even consuming a huge amount of calories.


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    #441
    Thelonious Monk
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    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    Took me a second, very good!



    I'm sure vegetarians would say the same about a fry. Wouldn't be mad into them myself these days but I wouldn't touch an egg either so, its all relative!

    I just got that too. Ha. That’s brilliant.


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    #442
    Gael23
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I made myself a bit of a fry earlier and can't see how it was that unhealthy.. Half a teaspoon of olive oil. Onions. Garlic. Mushrooms. Cherry tomatoes. Slice of bacon. Scrambled eggs. Slice of brown bread toast. All cooked on a low to medium heat with a dash of fish sauce.

    You always hear that fries are terrible but I'm not seeing it. I'm not overweight so don't care about some bacon, and the rest could be put into any "healthy" meal. The fish sauce has sodium but I only used a tiny bit.

    Does the mantra that they're a heart attack on a plate come from them being cooked in loads of crappy oil or lard? I definitely made some very unhealthy ones in the past with tonnes of oil.
    Should keep you nice and regular 💩


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    #443
    Feisar
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    Try cherry tomatoes on the vine roasted, little sweet bursts of awesome. Way better than half a "tomato" sort of fried.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #444
    Hamsterchops
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    Love a fry-up once in a blue moon, but not too often as I like to keep the old waistline under control :)


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    #445
    Aglomerado
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    I love a fry up when I stay in a hotel. I rarely do one for myself unless I have guests.

    I'm absolutely rubbish at frying eggs, so I usually scramble them.

    My dad and one of my friends have "never heard" of scrambled eggs with a fryup. :confused: Is it the extra washing up maybe? Not that they would be doing it anyway!

    So if I'm doing breakfast for either of them, I just do a mountain of scrambled eggs and buttery toast rather than do a full fry up and take the criticism on yet another mangled yolk.


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    #446
    McGinniesta
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    A fry up and a ****.

    How winners start the day.


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    #447
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    Aglomerado wrote: »
    I love a fry up when I stay in a hotel. I rarely do one for myself unless I have guests.

    I'm absolutely rubbish at frying eggs, so I usually scramble them.

    My dad and one of my friends have "never heard" of scrambled eggs with a fryup. :confused: Is it the extra washing up maybe? Not that they would be doing it anyway!

    So if I'm doing breakfast for either of them, I just do a mountain of scrambled eggs and buttery toast rather than do a full fry up and take the criticism on yet another mangled yolk.

    After the first bout of criticism they’d be making their own.


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    #448
    Brian?
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    After the first bout of criticism they’d be making their own.

    No, they're right. My 9 year old son can fry a perfect egg. My 7 year old is getting there, if he doesn't have it right in 6 months he'll be disowned.

    There is no excuse for not being able to fry an egg.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #449
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    Brian? wrote: »
    No, they're right. My 9 year old son can fry a perfect egg. My 7 year old is getting there, if he doesn't have it right in 6 months he'll be disowned.

    There is no excuse for not being able to fry an egg.

    Nah, slide it straight into the bin and tell them to do whatever the **** they like.

    Anyway, I’d say your 9 year old can only fry a perfect egg for you. There is no “the” perfect egg.


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    #450
    Wanderer78
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    Brian? wrote: »
    No, they're right. My 9 year old son can fry a perfect egg. My 7 year old is getting there, if he doesn't have it right in 6 months he'll be disowned.

    There is no excuse for not being able to fry an egg.

    any chance you d sell him?


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    #451
    tayto lover
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    Why are fry-ups considered unhealthy?
    They’re my favourite meal and if cooked properly I don’t believe that type of food is unhealthy at all. It sustains me for most of the day and I don’t need to be snacking.


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