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In this video we react to how to make a full English breakfast. Not only does this British breakfast look delicious, it looks like a great way to start your day. From bacon rashers to baked beans, this seems right up my alley. We're not sure what to think of the black pudding, but we'll definitely give it a go when we get the chance to try a proper full English breakfast. What are your favorite breakfast foods?
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[@AndyKing1963]

Black Pudding is the oldest pudding going, dating back thousands of years

[@britsticher8889]

Yes, it's delicious. And it most definitely is a pudding.

[@ltbot78]

And I'm just about to start cooking some clonakilty right now 🤤🤤 + bacon, sausage, hash browns, soda bread, potato bread, mushrooms, egg (poached)

[@pabmusic1]

Yes. 'Pudding' originally meant meat and grain boiled in something like an intestine. Then it included boiling in a cloth (Xmas pudding).

[@kellineil]

The English word 'pudding' derives from the Old French word boudin meaning...black pudding

[@hardywatkins7737]

It does, it's a very old recipe, i read that the first mention of it in any literature is in Homer's 'Odyssey'.

[@kimtopp5984]

Where is the fried bread ?

[@anglosaxon5874]

That's what I thought! lol I like plum tomatoes and hash browns too.

[@ArsenaISarah]

She did say ‘Toast or fried bread’

[@littlewoodimp]

I gave it to the dog under the table! 😏

[@gtaylor331]

@@anglosaxon5874 You may like Hash browns, but they are bloody American.

[@martinsmith3354]

@@ArsenaISarah Both is the only answer.....

[@madyottoyotto3055]

FRIED BREAD is a must how did she not have it in her video

[@ArsenaISarah]

She did say “Toast or Fried Bread”

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@ArsenaISarah Me: Toast and Fried Bread.

[@mehitabel6564]

Fried bread makes me feel sick. Toast only for me. And/or bubble & squeak.

[@aaronoriain229]

@@mehitabel6564 wtf is bubble and squeak

[@benavery703]

Potato and cabbage mixed together and fried​@@aaronoriain229

[@KingOuf1er]

In my opinion, what is shown in the video is just the third course of a proper four-course Full English Breakfast. First course is a bowl of porridge; second is something fruity - my choice is a grapefruit, or a bowl of tinned grapefruit segments. Then comes the fry-up - fried bread essential, and I like fried AND scrambled egg - accompanied by a nice glass of orange juice. Finally, a nice cup of tea with slices of toast and marmalade. Then off to A&E!

[@iandrew6347]

Eggs and bacon and sausages ,mushrooms,black pudding , tomatoes, beans , fried bread , toast and a cup of tea on the side

[@kimtopp5984]

Two cups of tea ❤️❤️🇬🇧

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

You can have my black pudding and I'll have an extra fried slice.

[@mcshortround]

Spot on. There will always be people that can take or leave the tomatoes, mushrooms, and/or black pudding. I can leave the tomatoes but the rest is essential to me.🤤

[@johnleonard9090]

When Debenhams was still on the high street they offered proper bubble and squeak as an option for their breakfasts in the cafes

[@chriscoughlan5221]

On the side of where ?

[@nowhere982]

When i was a kid (born in 54) when brits could afford a beef joint on Sundays served with mash potatoes, greens, carrots etc., if any mash and veg was left over, mum always made what we call "bubble and squeak " thats just all the mash n veg fried up in bacon fat served with the full English or left over beef.....omg havent had it in decades but am salivating at the memory 😂😂😂

[@Cat-yn6mk]

Love bubble and squeak. ❤️

[@carolineskipper6976]

Mmmmm.....Bubble and Squeak!

[@fleshen]

A beef joint isn't expensive!

[@carolineskipper6976]

@@fleshen Yes it is, by comparison to other options! I've just checked on Sainsbury'd website, and beef joints rnge from £11 - £15 per kg, whereas whole chickens cost between £3- £9 per kg. Now you can certainly argue the higher price for beef is justified, but it is high!

[@littlewoodimp]

Oh the taste of good bubble and squeak!

[@wobaguk]

"Its not really a pudding, its more a type of sausage": The word pudding comes from the word boudin, which means.... sausage.

[@nealgrimes4382]

Boudin actually means Black pudding. and a Pudding can be anything boiled or steamed in a cloth or casing or even in a pudding bowl.

[@nealgrimes4382]

Looking at it a little further, though the literal translation of boudin is Black Pudding it comes from the latin, Botellus and that means small sausage, to be fair it's hard to distinguish between the 2, i think it could be argued it's both. If you are from the US you may think of it as Dessert, but in the UK we have a lot of savoury Puddings, such as Steak and Kidney Pudding.

[@andrewpinks3678]

Puddings like Black pudding, haggis, white pudding and lost of other variants come from long long ago. Past ancestors never wasted any part of an animal after slaughter but some parts would be either tough or very wet so needed to be combined with grains and slow cooked. However, cooking for a long period was very time consuming and required a lot of attention if you were to ensure it isn’t overcooked in parts etc. Consequently, encasing the ingredients in a sealed tube (usually a natural casing from the body of the animal such as stomach or intestine etc.) and then cooking in a pot of gently boiling water would keep all the ingredients (wet stuff) together and allow the tougher bits to cook long and slow without drying out. Additionally, keeping the pudding casing sealed would also keep the food from going off so could be stored (by hanging). The term pudding originally related to anything that was cooked encased and with wet heat (immersed in water or over steam). The idea developed to using other encasings like suet pastry and cloth. In Scotland they have a steamed fruit pudding (I like it with a full Scottish) that is called a clootie dumpling (clootie is Scot’s for ‘cloth’ because the dumpling is wrapped in a muslin cloth or tea towel these days and them steamed/boiled).

[@baronmeduse]

'Pudding' is actually from an old Celtic word 'put' meaning 'bag' and an inflated skin used as a buoy. The word in this form is found all around northern Europe. A derivation is 'puddle' as in short and fat. Like Welsh 'pwtyn' a short and fat body.

[@KingDomsKingdom85]

There's no better hangover cure than a full english. A good one will change your life 😂

[@leeburwood3073]

Black pudding has been around for centuries. The version you see now stems from 600 years ago

[@emmsue1053]

We do Bury Market every so often ( about 45mins away) specially for black pud.. Freeze it & it keeps well. Sains does the Bury one but its sliced.

[@johncobourne361]

The Spanish love a blood sausage. Not sure if they're related?

[@reactingtomyroots]

That's pretty cool!

[@BlackLiger788]

@@emmsue1053 I'm lucky, I'm about that far if I take the tram. if I were to drive I'm about 20 mins away.

[@hazelASFC]

I am in accrington

[@grendel1960a]

a good full english breakfast will set you up for the day, lasting all the way through to an evening meal, I will always have a full english while staying at a hotel as it means I can work through the day without having to stop for a snack at lunch time.

[@tljones_books]

It's the best Hangover Cure too! Always settled my husband's stomach and got him back in the land of the living! 🤭

[@reactingtomyroots]

I would imagine so!

[@grahamtravers4522]

Yep ! I recall a colleague of mine saying that he couldn't manage breakfast. By seven o'clock that night he was famished. The words "Told you so." may have passed my lips ...

[@MiningForPies]

It will set you up for the day but take years off your life.

[@jacqueline8559]

​@@MiningForPies Not if you enjoy it occasionally. Don't have to eat it daily, do you?

[@Cattabushi]

as a brit i aprove of this breakfast looks like a good representation of a standard full English, though we do have toast, fried bread is almost a must on an English breakfast, it varies between regions, lorn squares, tatty cakes and even haggis in Scotland, could also find hash browns in some places. I love black pudding and i'ts been around for thousands of years, but for the love of god steve don't you dare put fruit on a full English other than tomato, it's supposed to be kinda unhealthy lol

[@jaysmith8199]

As a young girl, I would go horse riding on a Sunday. Dad and I would be up early, he would cook toast, fried eggs and mushrooms. Our special time and a yummy brekky 😊

[@keithstevenson6892]

Black Pudding is amazing..

[@blackbob3358]

Not if ya get from a bleeding "big chain" supermarket, 6892 !

[@kevingrant7098]

Black pudding , definitely not full English definitely Yes

[@zeeblats]

To make you feel full longer, protein is the way to go. Black pudding goes back thousands of years, nothing from a 'kill' should go to waste. Skins for clothing, sinew for stitching etc etc.

[@roddavis2876]

Only thing not used from a pig is it's squeal.

[@alicetwain]

Proteins work for some people, don't work for others. If I need to be going for a long time, I need to stay away from proteins, because with most proteins I am famished an hour later, but with meat (especially with beef) I get literally ill. I need carbs and lots of vegetables. Carbs give you calories, the fibers in vegetables slow the carbs down and keep you going for much longer.

[@WookieWarriorz]

​Utterly utterly full of shit mate, you're a human animal you need protein to live ​@@alicetwain

[@zeeblats]

@@alicetwain I find this very interesting, most meats travel slowly through the stomach and gut due to the increase in time that it takes to digest. Carbs are processed more quickly, thus triggering the brain to request more food.This is why eating a Chinese meal leaves you wanting more after an hour or so. Perhaps pulses are the way to go?

[@tonys1636]

@@zeeblats Hence the beanz. I just have 600ml of an home made Kefir vegetable smoothie, containing Banana, Carrot, Broccoli, Spinach, Tomato, Scallions and Sprouts all raw and defrosted if frozen overnight in the fridge, the thawed water included. Keeps me going until dinner in the evening. Only 250ml of Kefir needed and some low fat milk to make pourable.

[@anglosaxon5874]

Fried bread is best. You can also have 'hash browns' and plum tomatoes [instead of the grilled/fried ones]. Yes very nice. My German relatives love it and always want it when they visit! lol

[@TheNoobilator]

It's quite common to have orange juice with a Full English! It cuts through the fat and savoury a bit! Also, I can confirm what other comments are saying - black pudding is veeeeeery old, definitely pre-war. Black pudding in England goes back at least to the late medieval period, and cooked blood foods have existed in cultures across the world for a long old time! They also really don't taste of blood - the only way I can describe it is that it tastes "meatier than meat itself"! Thanks for the video you two!

[@davem12dim17]

Full English is very much a saturday morning breakfast. You have it in the morning and can then go out for the day, shopping, doing stuff with the kids etc and not really have to worry about lunch. Aside from snacks it keeps you going till your evening meal. Or, Sunday mornings. If youve been out on the beer saturday night there is no better hangover cure than a full English on the sunday. Midweek people do anything, cereal, bacon sandwich, stop at mcdonalds and grab an egg mcmuffin..

[@reactingtomyroots]

That makes sense! :)

[@GA-lf2uh]

Per the Encyclopaedia Britannica: "Black pudding has been a recorded item of British cuisine since at least the 1400s, although it is certainly far older. The Odyssey of Homer mentions a sausage 'filled with fat and blood.'"

[@jasonwall5012]

Thats strange, as its from great Britain and Ireland. But of course yous brits alwasy try to claim everything as yours

[@painreliever83]

That's a pretty good representation of an English breakfast... the thing about it is, you can customise it to your liking. Don't like black pudding? Don't have it. Scrambled eggs instead of fried? Fine. Some people prefer tinned tomatoes instead of the beans or the fresh tomato. Best served the morning after a heavy night at the pub. You could probably come up with a good approximation of it over there with some 'canadian bacon' and Lindsay's home-made sausage recipe sounds good, especially with the sage she mentioned.

[@tmac160]

Weetabix with eggs? Fry-up with fruit? Whatever next?

[@sharonmartin4036]

Yuck! I could still understand a fruit juice, or maybe I'd go as far as having fried bananas, but eggs with Weetabix? NOooooo!

[@oliviadavies2674]

Yeah, utterly rank

[@tmac160]

Perhaps scones called biscuits and biscuits called cookies. Funny old world.

[@JohnDuffy-bq8wg]

I agree that way leads too anarchy

[@Nordboy27]

Heres a thought guys...maybe he meant alongside...like for breakfast...not actually on the same plate.....🤔 duh

[@annskelly7535]

Hi guys. Tattie scone (potato cakes )are lovely. I like mine fried till they are crispy. You can make your own and they are so easy to make. We were taught in cooking classes at school. 😋

[@mariejoyce5150]

I worked in a cafe/deli for a long time and I made a couple of hundred Full English Breakfasts daily . At home I make them on weekends and make them if family are visiting . I can do a full English for 12 people in around 30 minutes , it’s all about getting your timings right.

[@garyskinner2422]

Send me an invite I'll be your friend lol

[@mariejoyce5150]

@@garyskinner2422 Lol

[@tmac160]

What time do you open? On me way.

[@mariejoyce5150]

@@tmac160 I still remember the best seller …. The Belly Buster 2 eggs, 2 bacon, 2 Sausage, 2 toast , tomatoes , mushrooms , baked beans, black pudding, cup of tea, red/brown sauce . Queue up nicely Lol 😂

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@mariejoyce5150 I just call that a Normal Breakfast.

[@narabdela]

Thank goodness! A proper British breakfast! None of that disgusting hash brown nonsense. ❤

[@Nutrient-Gold]

Nothing wrong with hash browns. Each to their own but people move with the times.

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

​@@Nutrient-Golddoesn't mean you have to put something in the breakfast just because faddies say so!

[@Nutrient-Gold]

@@CarolWoosey-ck2rg you clearly know nothing about the History of the breakfast and how things have been added and changed over time. For example in Victorian times they would have cold meats. Eggs weren't part of it until later. Tomatoes were foreign. Move with the times. Things evolve unlike your thinking. If it was up to you we'd still be having oats/porridge as the defacto English breakfast as per the Medieval times ‐ "what is this faddy nonsense about bacon, black pudding and sausage?" 🤦

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

​@@Nutrient-GoldInnovations are supposed to be an improvement, not make it worse!!!

[@mehitabel6564]

bubble & squeak.

[@user-gv9kc7il3m]

never had a full English served with toast in 74 years, always fried bread. Toast is served separate for after you have finished to eat with marmalade/jam.

[@geoffbeattie3160]

Just made one in Rotterdam. Fried eggsx2 ,fried bread, 3sausages, beans, 2 rashers of bacon, and mushrooms. No food now until 5-6 pm I've had a good meal

[@_Hollie_]

Exactly, i always have it before a hike because it means that i dont have to carry snacks around with me or make stops.

[@martinwebb1681]

@geoffbeattie ... You're like me, no black pudding 😂... I never have black pudding, it's usually 2 eggs, 2 or 3 sausages, 3 rashers of bacon, beans, mushrooms and two halves of fresh tomato, and either fried bread or toast.

[@Rocky19577]

I have it every Monday evening for my tea (dinner) but with tinned plum tomatoes.

[@helenag.9386]

Plum tomatoes are very english! I love them on cheese on toast.

[@sashacottier9581]

Plum tomatoes and real tomatos 😋 oh yep.

[@farmaccount1653]

I served in the British Army for 10 years. I can honestly say I had a Full English every day (unless I was away on holiday or 'other things') Puts hairs on your chest lol

[@petersmithm9]

Met plenty of WRACs like that!

[@mickg8306]

@@petersmithm9 Nothing wrong with a full English on a Sunday morning after a Saturday night with a WRAC girl......

[@johnsimmons5951]

@@mickg8306what about breakfast with a WRAF, there’s nothing like the smell of kerosene at an airfield first thing in the morning!

[@SlowmovingGiant]

Aussie here - best "Full English" i have had was on a Cruise in 2019. I ordered room Service one morning, Had 2 scrambled eggs, toast on a side plate with spreads eg jam/peanut butter, hash browns, mushrooms, baked beans, sausages, bacon, a small pot of coffee and a glass of apple juice and a container of BBQ sauce. no tomato or black pudding for me as i don't like either. Cost me 28 bucks Au and worth every cent. one of the best breakfasts i ever had.

[@williamdom3814]

That wasn't a Full English breakfast though.

[@SlowmovingGiant]

@@williamdom3814 that is how it was listed on the menu, also why i used the quotation marks. Consider it a regional variant for the Australian cruise sector.

[@williamdom3814]

@SlowmovingGiant What you describe in the full English you got on your cruise ship actually to me, sounds quite passable. The trouble is, whenever anyone brings up the topic of what a Full English breakfast consists of it's enough to start a war! 🙂 It's a very personal thing like 'brown' sauce or 'red' sauce. Personally I would have sausage, bacon, fried eggs, fried bread and baked beans as the 5 basic ingredients. I don't like tomatoes (except in a salad) but can take or leave mushrooms. As for black pudding I have never tried it, just the thought puts me off though I've got a mate who couldn't have a full English without it. I don't consider hash browns as part of a full English though I have enjoyed them when there has been no fried bread available. Unfortunately, since being diagnosed with diabetes and having suffered strokes I am unable to have a full English. I sadly miss them. At the end of the day it's what ever you personally like in a full English that should go in the full English. 🙂

[@hellsbells8689]

May I have one sausage done until it's blackened. Bacon, tomato, could you please splash my eggs? Can I have double that amount of beans and mushrooms. No black pudding. Oh and can I have two pieces of fried bread? Thank-you. This used to be our Christmas morning breakfast. We didn't do breakfast until I had my sons and they had porridge before school. We will sometimes have this now as an evening meal because I'm disabled and my son, who is my carer does all the cooking now. We both get bored of food so I have asked for this once a week for the last month or so. He just doesn't give me the two fried bread I dream of lol

[@jerry2357]

Personally, I only have a full English if I'm staying at a hotel (although another favourite when someone else is cooking is kippers). At home, it's muesli, orange juice and coffee.

[@mydigicraftscrafts8649]

What would you have with Kippers? Iv'e never had them.

[@jerry2357]

@@mydigicraftscrafts8649 Personally, I have them with brown toast. If they're cooked in butter they should be quite moist.

[@jacqueline8559]

​​@@mydigicraftscrafts8649 God, I love kippers.I just have them with good, brown bread. Sadly, they're one of the few foods we can't get , since emigrating from the UK. The other things I miss are crumpets, pork pies and pasties 😢😢 I've learnt how to make a good pasty, though

[@matthew4107]

for about a year, i ate nothing but full english breakfasts at home, but, because of time, i had them for dinner each day or even lunch on weekends. i just bought endless meat and fried everyday. also, black pudding is not 'made of blood' as everyone says and thinks, its beef suet, the pigs blood is to add meat flavour. cheap way to use every part of the animal, even the blood but only used for taste and having the suet for the fill. everyone likes the black pudding differently. there are so many styles, even down to how cooked/overcooked, thick slice thin slice, all changes the experience tremendously. my personal favourite, is thin and well cooked black pudding. also, that plate looks so sad, colourless, all produce looks small and sad, small portions.

[@Glenn1892]

All cooked within 15mins. I eat it Daily in the Cafe before I start my working day.

[@kimbeeau]

You can't beat a good full English breakfast😊

[@reactingtomyroots]

We'll definitely have to try it when we make it across the pond! :)

[@grahamtravers4522]

Well, you could beat the eggs ...

[@cherylmatthews4066]

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[@sophiabee8924]

A full Scottish beats it, hands down!

[@jasonwall5012]

Full Irish beats it in its sleep.

[@LeslieGallier-pe2jj]

English breakfast varies from place to place me fried eggs.... bacon... sausages... black pudding... tinned tomatoes....fried bread.. mushrooms...

[@PLuMUK54]

It sounds heretical, but I prefer the tomatoes tinned...I'll make my own way to the Tower of London!

[@katiperry8533]

Gotta be tinned tomatoes and fried bread for me too!

[@artasium1]

OMG That's ateast a 20 year lock up in that tower

[@carolineskipper6976]

Fried bread certainly, but tinned tomatoes? Just No! 😁

[@RockinDave1]

Tinned tomatoes are good for one thing only, making sauce!

[@DavidJohnson-rj8zu]

I have never as an adult been a fan of breakfast, so when I was at work my morning trip on the London Underground to the City was Newspaper or Library Book and a Mars Bar, but since retirement I have changed my ways it's Porridge Oats every morning and I find it sticks with me to around 3 PM.🧐

[@alfiekelly5914]

Full Scottish breakfast has square sausage, tattie scone and sometimes a haggis slice. There are many regional variations of black pudding. Stornoway black pudding has protected status.

[@pynchon63]

Stornoway black pudding is a work of art

[@jpatpat9360]

We still have a full English breakfast here in South Africa (our British roots) over weekends when there's time to cook. But black pudding never caught on here as the thought of eating blood is disgusting and there are biblical prohibitions about eating blood (we're traditionally a Calvinist Christian country....). Our full English consists of usually: crispy fried bacon, sausages, grilled tomato and mushrooms, toast and eggs - either fried or scrambled eggs. Sometimes fried potatoes too if its late in the morning i.e. brunch

[@nilopnkontrak8210]

With Mrs Balls on the side....or tomato sauce.

[@hardywatkins7737]

Fried potato is an excellent addition which you used to see more often in England but not so much now due to hash browns becoming popular, and easy.

[@martinwebb1681]

@@hardywatkins7737 ... Hash browns on a full English is criminal, I'd rather have chips or sauteed potatoes if I was having a potato option with it, but never hash browns.

[@UnknownUser-rb9pd]

If you've ever wondered how the British created an Empire from such a small nation it was the Full English breakfast that did it. Apart from when they were eating weevil infested ship's biscuits on long voyages or salty porridge if you were Scottish.

[@Nutrient-Gold]

I think you need to revist History. How deluded.

[@UnknownUser-rb9pd]

@@Nutrient-Gold Which bit,, the salty porridge or the weevily biscuits ?

[@newkoncept5350]

An hour , 20 min job that 🤣

[@Kotch111]

The name pudding has been around a long time. In Tudor times they could be sweet or savoury and involved stuffing an intestine with what you cook. Rice pudding, for example, would have been milk, sugar, rice and fruit boiled in a sausage-like skin. In England a haggis would also have been called a pudding. Christmas puddings would have been cooked this way. Over time the foods changed shape but retained the pudding identity. Steak and kidney pudding, for example, migrated from a boiled intestine to a boiled suet pastry. If the dessert (or savoury dish) has the name pudding it probably harkens back to these origins (even if ingredients and style of cooking may have changed).

[@Cat-yn6mk]

When I was a child. A full proper breakfast consisted of first half a grapefruit, then the fry up.(full English breakfast) and you would finish with a toast and marmalade. 😮

[@Bonzman]

Unfortunately as much as I love grapefruit I can't have it because it affects my blood pressure tables, but the full English doesn't 😂😂😂

[@amylee349]

In some cafes and restaurants near me they add a few hash browns, which isn't traditional but i like them, i don't bother with them or black pudding if i'm making it at home though. Yes you are right, a full English keeps you going all day! i usually have it if i have a long day ahead and going out somewhere, then have a snack in the evening.

[@reactingtomyroots]

We love hashbrowns!

[@nicksykes4575]

As an Englishman I will shout out for my favourite sausage, the Scottish square sausage, absolutely delicious.

[@petergordon4525]

Lorne sausage

[@nicksykes4575]

@@petergordon4525 Thank you, I didn't know that was what they are called. I was introduced to them at countless truck stops and cafes across Scotland. Only once found them in local supermarkets.

[@mikehanson7328]

Actually Larne sausage

[@johnbowman7389]

I dont do grilled tomatoes, i love tinned plum tomatoes with some juice to mop up with your bread and toast. Im partial to some fried potatoes on my breakfast, no chips or fries.!! Cook a few baby potatoes extra with your lunch, let them go cold and slice them into coin sized pieces and simply fry in your bacco fat until they start to go golden and crisp up slightly. Wonderful.!!

[@davidoakley2722]

If there is a choice between fried bread or toast it's always fried bread for me and tinned tomatoes.

[@nealgrimes4382]

I choose both.

[@markdevonshire6052]

Looks pretty good 😋, can also include bubble n squeak, and personally would swap the fresh tomatoes for canned Italian plum tomatoes, they seem to be perfect on a breakfast plate. With the baked beans we also have bbq beans which are delicious plus can get cheesy, curry and chilli varieties all of which are great on baked potatoes, i was always wary of trying black Pudding but absolutely love it now especially with a touch of hp sauce 😋

[@reactingtomyroots]

That sounds good! I had no idea there were so many different bean varieties but I guess that makes sense. haha What is bubble n squeak?? Haven't heard that one I don't think.

[@christinedugmore]

@@reactingtomyrootsbubble & squeak is basically all your left overs fried up with an egg to make something similar to a fratata

[@MostlyPennyCat]

​@@reactingtomyroots Bubble & Squeak is what you make with the leftovers from Sunday roast. You take the veg and potato, chop it up fine, firm it into patties, flour them and fry them. While being cooked, it bubbles and squeaks. We always cook far too much veg just to make it on a Monday.

[@markdevonshire6052]

@reactingtomyroots bubble n squeak is basically left over potatoes and veg, mainly cabbage, carrots etc, mashed up together and reheated in frying pan with little oil or butter, is delicious especially with bacon and sausages, still a few good transport cafe's about that serve a good breakfast 😋, also some chain restaurant/pubs like toby carvery and Stonehouse carverys serve a pretty nice all can eat buffet breakfast, I'm sure there's a good few followers myself included that would happily treat you and your lovely family to that breakfast

[@7bookem]

Either is good but agreed, tinned is better IMO, slightly sweeter

[@YellowFraggle]

On a regular day I usually eat eggs on toast, or beans on toast. Alternatively other popular breakfast items are a combination of cereals, fruits, yoghurt, pastry, toast

[@daveturnbull7221]

My mum (I was born in 1957) told me about when she was a little kid growing up in a small village near Dublin that all the kids looked forward to a pig getting killed. It would be hung to let the blood drain into a big bucket and the kids had the job of stirring the blood as it drained to stop it coagulating. It would then be made into black pudding. As a reward the kids would get the bladder to play football with.

[@iandrew6347]

A good full English is from a cafe in U.K.

[@wessexdruid7598]

Making your own is always better.

[@WinstonSmith19847]

There's a cafe literally a few minutes down the road from me that does a full English if you don't fancy making yourself.

[@martinwebb1681]

@iandrew6347 ... Agreed, but some cafe's are far better than others, so choose wisely I say.

[@wildwine6400]

The 2 main sausages- Cumberland and Lincolnshire. Cumberland is mainly seasoned with black pepper and Lincolnshire is a more herby sausage

[@johnstrac]

And they're both c**p.

[@martinwebb1681]

I like the Lincolnshire sausages personally, but not on a full English, just plain pork sausages for me, but for any other meal I have the Lincolnshire sausages.

[@davidthrower1553]

What about pork and leek sausages….or from our local butcher cracked black pepper pork sausage….it really livens up the breakfast!!! …and don’t forget the brown sauce!!!!

[@turmoilshadow]

My dad was English but lived in Ecclefechan, Scotland for many years and when me and my brother visited he used to make us his famous FSB! (Full Scottish Breakfast). For starters it was porridge with a shot of whisky, some honey and cream in, for main it was fried eggs, scrambled eggs, sausages, square sausage, bacon, haggis, black pudding, white pudding, fried tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans, potato croquets, waffles, fried bread and toast with butter, all on a massive oval plate. Then for afters it was oat cakes with clotted cream and jam. Dunno how I stayed skinny as a kid 😂 (made up for it now! Lol)

[@alisonwhyte8885]

An old saying in Britain is eat like a king st breakfast, a prince at lunch, and a pauper in the evening.

[@jessieb7290]

That apparently works if you’re looking to loose weight.

[@TheCaffeineKid]

Beans on toast... It's amazing.

[@Rocky19577]

We don't count carbs we just eat what we like

[@blackbob3358]

That's him, Rocky. Too much bollocks on here.

[@wonhung]

What is classed now as a full English is not actually a full English, but an ALL Day Breakfast. A REAL full English starts with a glass of fruit juice/water, a cereal/Porridge(Rolled Oats),the cooked part = fried eggs, grilled sausages, grilled bacon, baked beans/grilled tomatoes, black pudding, rack of toast, pot of tea. Really designed for Farm workers who start work at 4am. in Norfolk a variation is called "Docky" which is eaten around 11pm after milking & feeding livestock. Prepared while farmer/farm hand is doing the morning chorees on the farm. What you see there is the Townie version.

[@ajayjackson7727]

Hi Lynsey, I think you might be thinking of the short story Vendetta by Guy De Maupassant, about the widow Saverini who lives in Sicily, Italy, and who seeks revenge on Nicholas Ravolati after he murders her son. The widow makes a scarecrow and stuffs it with black blood sausage (black pudding) and trains her dog to attack it in her plan for revenge. We also covered this short story at school in Scotland. In Scotland we have bacon, egg, sausage, mushrooms, tomato, fruit pudding, black pudding and fried potato scone in our breakfasts and you can buy an all day breakfast at any time of the day here, it's good.

[@Sharpey187]

An All Day Breakfast is the same as a full English, can be eaten at anytime of the day.. Usually gets served with hash browns now & can ask for chips at most cafes/pubs aswell, especially on a All Day 👌🏻

[@garyskinner2422]

I prefer tinned plum Tom's more bacon than normal, the rest the same as in vid

[@nealgrimes4382]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

[@erikdalna211]

Monstrous! My sister in law would include the sauce from the tin in a big sloppy mess.

[@martinwebb1681]

No, fresh Toms every time.

[@caros4734]

Good black pudding is a joy. A full English is only eaten now and then. Its too much all the time but is a great hangover cure.

[@robetprice4759]

Most manual workers still have a full English every morning...she has made a posh version

[@michellekennedy4426]

Hey Steve and Lindsey,i promise black pudding does not taste as bad as it sounds,it's not like you can taste the blood or anything,its really yummy but if you truly can't get use to the blood factor,you could try white pudding,it's made the same way as black pudding but no blood also very yummy.

[@reactingtomyroots]

Thanks for the tip!

[@vaudevillian7]

Seconded

[@claregale9011]

Hi guys , black pudding actually goes back to Roman times but later produced up in the North of England . I love it its not what you think it's going to taste like . Yummy 😋

[@williamronneywilliams2639]

The Bury Black Pudding (I'm lucky I don't live far from Bury) is my favorite pudding the others just don't taste as nice

[@claregale9011]

@@williamronneywilliams2639 proper authentic black pudding .I'm in Kent and love the stuff .

[@hardywatkins7737]

Not just in the North of England, ... lots of places, and worldwide.

[@claregale9011]

@@hardywatkins7737 that's true . But if we are talking in terms of the uk it's the north that popularised it . 🙂

[@hardywatkins7737]

@@claregale9011 Perhaps popularised or just made particularly good ones, but black pudding has always been made in other parts of England too. White or 'hogs' pudding too.

[@julierowles6429]

We used to have what we call a fry up on a Sunday morning growing up,I now eat cereal or porridge for breakfast.

[@LilMonkeyFella87]

I would say most people get them from cafes instead of make them at home. Lot of elements and if you get everything, it is expensive to put together a quality one Some places sell small breakfasts which can be simply 1 sausage, 1 bacon, 1 egg, beans and piece of toast. Compared to the giant breakfasts with like 10 items, with multiple of each Sausage, bacon,egg,black pudding,beans,fried mushrooms, grilled/chopped/plum tomatoes, toast and or fried bread, hash browns and sometimes but not common -spam. Some cafes will often include a cup of tea with the really big breakfasts aswell

[@jana7514]

LOVE Spam!! 😋

[@stuartfitch7093]

There are a few different things in British cuisine that come from times of hardship. In times of war especially when food was severely rationed in the UK, as you correctly say, everything had to be used. You couldn't waste anything. A good example of this was during WW2 Hitler knew the UK could not support it's food needs by itself and needed food imports to survive. This is primarily the reason why the battle of the Atlantic occurred whereby Nazi Germany used it's U boats to sink as many British cargo/transport ships as possible that were bringing such as wheat over from Canada. In essence the Nazis were trying to starve Britain into surrendering. This led to things like the dig for victory campaign where any and every spare plot of land, however tiny here in the UK was dug over and used for growing vegetables. The vegetables you grew yourself were "off" ration so it was a good way to provide yourself with extra food. People like my grandparents never saw such as a banana in five or six years because you just couldn't get them here during WW2. A legacy of that is that even today, some people like my parents still have a vegetable garden/plot or allotment. I remember growing up as a child and we were more or less self sufficient in terms of vegetables.

[@MiningForPies]

The UK hasn’t been self sufficient food wise since before Victoria was on the throne. It was made harder in the war because they targeted the shipping that was keeping us going.

[@carriedudley8593]

Some of the cheapest, survival food is still some of the tastiest. The best example is Yorkshire puddings and our version of pancakes. There is no reason why Britain couldn't sustain itself, if it had been managed properly. We have an abundance of fruit, vegetables, meat and fish. Of course, these days, people want oranges, pineapple and melon and other fruit and veg that can't be grown in our climate.

[@MiningForPies]

@@carriedudley8593 well we haven’t produced enough food to feed ourselves for nearly 200 years. That’s a scientific fact based on the amount of calorific content needed per head of population. That’s why we went empire mode.

[@carriedudley8593]

@@MiningForPies I never said we have sustained ourselves, I said we should be able to with the right management.

[@Otacatapetl]

I'm 73 this month and I had the full monty every single day of my working life. Now I'm retired, I still have a fried brekkie but toned down a bit as I no longer need the calories. For the record, I'm still fit as a butcher's dog.

[@kevingrant7098]

Wow, I can’t believe you had a fried breakfast every single day of your working life. I have never met anybody that has done that. Congratulations that is some record.

[@brigoose7945]

Full english- egg,bacon,sausage,black pudding,fried bread, hashbrown,mushrooms,tomatoes,beans,toast,buttered bread,some have fried pepper, and some fish 😋

[@bblair2627]

im eating black pudding for lunch right now - weekday breakfast is marmite on toast and a mug of Yorkshire tea

[@martinwebb1681]

Ah, so you're the one.

[@juliedowning7782]

Morning guys…..I’ve just had my breakfast…Fruit and Fibre flakes and 2 coffees lol…..Full English is a treat! 😊

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

Your arteries are thankful.

[@mikeoxlong4110]

Hopefully unvaxxed.

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

@@mikeoxlong4110 I like what you did there.

[@KathyBarnett-mv5vg]

Brit here too, I've just had Fruit and Fibre flakes, a round of wholemeal roast with Olive spread and a cup of tea. Full English is very rare in my house, but I do love them! 😃😃

[@SilverWolvesScarletForestSnow]

Should have fed that to a pig you're going to eat.

[@matty506]

bacon sausage and black pudding with brown sauce in a bap is pure heaven

[@brianhalse4120]

Workday breakfast typically:- Poached eggs on toast. Scrambled eggs on toast. Baked Beans on toast. Sardines on toast.

[@jess1310]

My family run one of the biggest black pudding companies in the U.K. We have over 200 awards for our products. It used to be a way to use all of an animal but us Brits love it so much that our factory alone produces tonnes of it a week. Absolute must on a Full English.

[@99fruitbat94]

I absolutely love black pudding ❤ And it's very good for you

[@MiningForPies]

@@99fruitbat94no, it isn’t. Black pudding is about 80% fat based. In moderation it isn’t bad, but too much is really, really bad for you.

[@martinwebb1681]

Black pudding is something I would never put on a full English breakfast, in fact I wouldn't put it on anything, the bin is about the only thing it's fit for.

[@jess1310]

@martinwebb1681 I would agree with you, but then we would both be wrong 🤣

[@99fruitbat94]

@@MiningForPies well it's not like I eat it everyday 😅 I'm iron deficient and black pudding along with leafy greens helps with that . Best regards to you 👍❤️

[@rogoth01themasterwizard11]

the easiest way to describe the origins of black pudding, is basically it's the worlds oldest form of 'leftovers' as you Americans would say, it was originally taking every last piece of a kill and making something out of the scraps and iron rich blood, instead of letting it go to waste, obviously over time it has become a lot more refined and the risk of getting an illness from it has declined to almost zero as a result of proper food hygiene standards.

[@reactingtomyroots]

They look really good!

[@margaretnicol3423]

Cooking it is easy. The skill comes in the timing. Everything needs to be ready at the same time. Looking forward to seeing you make one.

[@laserman9566]

I normally have a cooked breakfast on a Sunday as I have time to prepare it. During the week its porridge with a mixture of chia, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, golden linseed, brown linseed, and protien powder. I use unsweetened almond milk this breakfast is low in carbs but high on the GI scale so it is a slow release meal

[@madcyclist58]

The Full English is a variation on a theme and people will have their own preferences as to what to include and what to leave out.

[@wessexdruid7598]

Full English; Full Irish, Ulster Fry, Full Welsh or Full Scottish... They are all variations on a similar theme, and they are all choose from a list anyway.

[@BigMadMonster]

I think you two should do a video on cooking a Full English breakfast that would be ace to see your reaction but please please please use HEINZ baked beans 😂

[@juggler57]

Nah.....Branston baked beans are better

[@reactingtomyroots]

We've definitely thought about it! Just wouldn't have the black pudding.

[@BigMadMonster]

@@reactingtomyroots Branston baked beans are a very good alternative, can't you guys get black pudding from your local butchers? Or is it banned in the USA?

[@flo6956]

Heinz are too runny, Branston are better

[@Kaethena]

I normally don't do breakfast at all, unless coffee counts as a meal. But on a Sunday, yeah... it's a treat for getting through another week, lol.

[@122442]

Have you ever heard of fried slice, basically a slice of bread fried in oil until golden brown 😃

[@kellg1980]

Tinned tomatoes were the traditional thing rather than fresh cooked tomatoes although the posh would expect a fresh tomato grilled so now most places now do grilled unless you go to a greasy spoon café (cheaper café). Also black pudding can be eaten fresh rather than grilled but most places say it should be cooked because of the ingredients in it but it's actually steamed when it's made

[@nealgrimes4382]

I am a working class Northerner and we always had fresh when i was growing up in the 70s and as the Full English has it's origins in the 14th century, way before canned Toms existed.

[@martinwebb1681]

@@nealgrimes4382 ... I agree, it has always been fresh tomatoes every place I've been, and that's since the 1970s, although I did get served a full English breakfast once many years ago in a café in Essex that had tinned tomatoes on it, and what a mess that was, literally a plate swimming in watery tomato juice and a single soggy plum tomato, a simply revolting mess.

[@gazbradster]

Black pudding is very popular in France, Germany, Spain and Portugal, Ireland have the white pudding which is my favourite, the French has plenty of garlic in theirs. Ive just finished 2 Bury black pud on toast

[@iainmorrison7501]

Scotland also have white pudding lots of crossover between Scottish and Irish we also do a fruit pudding do they do that in Ireland?

[@melaniestewart9821]

Potatoe scones is mash Potatoes and flour seasoned into a dough rolled flat and fried dry it a griddle or frying pan

[@themoderntemplar1567]

Every country within the UK has their own take on this and different names. In Scotland it's called simply a try and has potato scones, tried tomatoes and Lorne sausage, which we call square slice(our sausages really are more of a rectangle) and a lot of us try the beans. The beans are more like a barbecue bean after trying and the sauce thickens. Absolutely delicious on sausages and tottie scones. Northern Ireland has its Ulster try and is served with tried or grilled soda bread and like all varieties of our fry-ups which can differ even by region, are all utterly delicious. Black pudding is a must to try it you guys visit, don't be put off by what's in it but I'm betting it'll surprise you by how good it is.👍

[@PorridgeDrawers]

'Blood sausage' is what Norwegians and such call Black pudding. You should check out a full Scottish breakfast as we use slice square sausage as well as links. We also use tattie scones, fried bread, and white pudding.

[@andrew-ih8sw]

You forgot haggis

[@PorridgeDrawers]

@@andrew-ih8sw I did. I'm ashamed that I did. I've even got some ready for my breakfast in the morning 🙈

[@joyelmes7814]

Is that Lorne sausage ? I used to get that from a Scottish butcher north of Durban, SA. Delicious.

[@PorridgeDrawers]

@joyelmes7814 It is. It's lorne, slice or butchers slice, depending on where you come from.

[@jacqueline8559]

What's white pudding made from.? I've never come across that.

[@corringhamdepot4434]

I remember a "Full English" as a feature of a hotel stay. When travelling on business, or on holiday. Usually hotels prepare cook their full English in the oven. A tray of sausages, a tray of tomato halves etc.

[@ianprince1698]

its name depends on the country you are in, only a full English in England the local cook names it! but the ingredients change too more local items

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

I changed over from hob to oven years ago because it makes cooking volume and timing easier when doing it for more people. It's generally only the eggs and fried bread I do on the hob, but you need a bit of the bacon fat to flavour up the pan so that the fried bread is optimal. I dont do fried bread every time though. I love it though!

[@raymondhill8973]

saturday morning break at work was a fry up there was 8 of us and each person would bring a breakfast item enough to feed 8 .. we used to feel well full when it was time to go back to work...

[@EnigmaStar153]

Full Scottish Breakfast. Fried eggs, bacon, sausages. Tattie scone, black pudding. Toast and a cup of tea ❤

[@iandrew6347]

I grab a egg and bacon sandwich at work for my breakfast

[@chriscoughlan5221]

Coyb

[@glenmartin7978]

Large Bowl of Traditional Porridge Oats as it is a slow release breakfast and gives me energy for longer periods of time, I hardly have a Full English, only have one when Im on Holiday mostly lol

[@iddjutt]

I am retired now, and yep about one a week, but when i was working had one practically every work day, but as lunch, sp most days i have porridge as breakfast

[@SP-ru3rs]

That breakfast looked a bit grey to me.

[@doubleumyers]

I’m starving!

[@redpill1063]

2 sausages, 2 smoked back bacon rashers, 2 fried eggs, Baked beans, Fried mushrooms, Grilled tomatoes, 1 fried slice of bread, 2 slices of toast, And a very large mug of tea to wash it down. Optional extras: Black pudding, Hash browns, Etc.

[@neilgriffiths6427]

I only eat this on holiday - oh, wait, it's a bank holiday weekend! - I'm off to the shop to buy the ingredients!!!

[@lisanelson9979]

Also, here in Belfast, we generally get soda bread and potato bread in our frys.

[@catharbinson]

I tend to have pancakes instead of sodabread (not my favorite) in my fry up

[@bargoed3]

I remember my Gran telling me when i was about 8 yrs old the only part of a pig you can't eat is the squeak, i'm 74 now. lol

[@england902]

I have a full English breakfast every Saturday morning just before fishing. In the week I don’t eat breakfast as i start work at 5,00 am and finish at 17,00 pm.

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

Everybody makes it how they like and swears that's the correct way 😅 I prefer tinned tomatoes over grilled and no black pudding 🤢 and more bacon and sausage than she used.

[@wolverine9787]

Have you ever heard the story of the British legend of "Obi-Wan Nairobi"?

[@nealgrimes4382]

Eh ?

[@angelahawman4263]

If you book in to any Bed & Breakfast in any of the countries in the UK, you will get an authentic cooked breakfast in with the price. 🍳