Americans Try a Full English Breakfast for the First Time

[@Christographer_UK]

Mushrooms were missing. These can be button mushrooms, served hole, or with the storks snapped off & cooked separately, or finely sliced, alternatively you sometimes see one or even two large flat mushrooms, again with stalks on or snapped off, but still served. You need a large oblong platter if you start adding flat mushrooms. Other alternatives in the potato department are good old British chips or sauteed potatoes. You usually serve a full English Breakfast with toast on the side.

[@jimpaterson9635]

Was going to add this but you beat me too it and spot on! ;)

[@icelara5972]

Mushrooms definitely missing. I also like tomatoes and beens with my fry up mopped up with good splash of Lea & Perrin's.

[@paulbetteridge9455]

@@icelara5972 They had Branston beans I only go for Heinz and add the brown sauce as a big dollop to the middle, then use my bread and butter to dip in the yolk and then the bean/sauce mmmmmm

[@christineharding4190]

@@icelara5972 Ooh yeah. Mushrooms cooked in butter with a little drop of olive oil to prevent the butter burning. Fresh tomatoes not the tinned variety.

[@RollerbazAndCoasterDad]

What @@christineharding4190 said. Mushrooms and fresh tomatoes, grilled or fried.

[@kieranhudson4938]

I'm a backpacker and travel a lot and the thing I miss the most is a real English breakfast. Tired of these countries making dishes and calling it English breakfast and it's not the same, they need to stop because it's hurting me emotionally.

[@srspower]

The worst is in Muslim countries. I was in Borneo recently and they served a 'full english' with sausages made from beef or chicken and bacon made from beef!

[@sophiamonet7350]

😂

[@barryeva8862]

Totally agree

[@dazzab111]

@@Ffinity Men like you? Sat behind a keyboard lol.

[@simonchilli2088]

@@srspower Yuk x 2

[@andybaker2456]

That bread wasn't fried, it was cremated! 🔥😁

[@slwelsby]

I don't know what bugged me more! That fried bread or watching them struggling to use a knife and fork! My 5 Yr old niece is better than most Americans 🤣

[@karenblackadder1183]

@@slwelsby To be fair, they make a better job of it than most Americans. Just need to realise that you hold the fork like a pen with index finger on broadest part just above the tines. Also always keep the tines pointing downwards.

[@FeedbackPete]

I thought the fried bread looked pretty good myself.

[@andrewlaw]

@@slwelsby Never understood why Americans can't use a knife & fork. They look so cack handed and awkward. I suspect that's why they eat so many burgers, hot dogs and ribs...no cutlery required.

[@Garyskinner2422]

To be honest I did bulk a tad at how burnt in places the bread was.

[@denisrobertmay875]

I'm a couple of generations older( in my 10th decade). I still consider the British breakfast dish that is most distinctly "British" is the Kipper (whole smoked Herring dyed or undyed). Unfortunately due to over fishing in the early '70s they disappeared for a while and never regained their popularity. I Haven seen them as an option for a "Scottish Breakfast" with Loch Fyne Kippers. Alternative "Breakfast" fish are Smoked Mackerel or a Kedgeree. Other breakfasts fallen out of favour are Devilled Kidneys. During the War, before my Callup, I worked as Directed Labour on the Railways. My 1st day on the Footplate ( the dark of Winter '44) I was sworn not to use one highly polished shovel for coal. Back in a siding that shovel was heated, wiped with a greasy cloth ( fats and oils were in short supply) and Kippers, Soya links and Bread (all unrationed) were flash fried, and eaten with Fruit/Brown Sauce washed down with tea from the steam bleed valve. When we could we would get Eggs and Piggy bits from Pig clubs (all very controlled).

[@MadnessQuotient]

Kedgeree heck yeah!

[@mescko]

One of the best brekkies I've ever had was in a small hotel outside Dunoon. A pair of smoked Loch Fyne kippers, served with eggs and haggis with the most amazing cracked black pepper cream sauce 😋

[@emilybemily4397]

Ideally, you need toast and jam/marmalade to follow, with a big mug of tea (coffee at a push).

[@gkkes]

Consistently our US visitors who blog their first British breakfast all taste the items individually. Most of us would use the fried bread as a platform on the fork to aid in loading a mouthful of numerous tastes, egg, sausage, black pud, beans, mushroom all with a smear of brown sauce. It's the combinations of flavours that makes it great...

[@jamielyons4961]

Potato Cakes or Tattie Scones (Scottish way of saying it) are one of my favourite things to have in a full english.

[@srspower]

The trick is to cut a square of fried bread and stack it with a slice/section of each thing on your plate. Then put your fork through and and put it all in your mouth at once.

[@SeeShaunVlog]

Sorry I forgot the mushrooms and grilled tomatoes guys. There's just never mush room on my plate for them 😂 I did say the hash brown potato waffles weren't traditional but I'm glad you enjoyed. You'll get no English breakfast the same from house to house or cafe to cafe but they'll all be similar. Can't wait to see you again 😊

[@robthornton6288]

For me, mushrooms are the devil's food 🤬 - but that's just me 😂

[@Foogle..]

Unnacceptable! XD

[@PeterChelmsford]

My Full English Breakfast would consist of pork sausages/fried eggs/mushrooms/fried bread/baked beans/back bacon(never streaky) all washed down with a large mug of hot tea. Take care and I look forward to more vlogs. 😁

[@TheTwoFingeredBullDog]

I would add black pudding and hash browns with brown sauce.

[@andrewlaw]

Two slices bread and butter to mop up the plate at the end.

[@BrapMan]

@@TheTwoFingeredBullDog Definitely! Oh, and either white pudding, or just plain liver sausage ;)

[@paulelliott2564]

Your English breakfast is the one I expect each time I return to England.

[@groovedwareman]

I would add buttered toast and marmalade

[@ulyssesthirteen7031]

Has to be brown sauce. Been a vegetarian for over 40 years so can't really remember a meaty full English, but fried mushrooms were a particularly egregious missed item on your plate. I tend to have egg, fried bread, fried mushrooms, veggie sausages, piece of toast, beans.

[@chrisy8989]

In this part of Scotland, square sausage (or Lorne) is called slice (sliced sausage). You can get it with or without onion.

[@malcdaley5267]

We do square sausage in the North East of England

[@danielgriffin9986]

What part of Scotland is that because here in Glasgow it's just called a square sausage

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

SO.MUCH.MEAT! That looks great! I can’t believe the amount of variety you had in all the breakfast components! It’s great to have friends to make food for you ❤️❤️

[@jimpaterson9635]

Brown sauce all the way but it has to be HP sauce! fried mushrooms in butter, grilled tomatoes and thick cut crusty fresh bread to dip in the egg and bean juice ;)

[@frankwales]

Daddies brown sauce beats HP IMHO, although HP is acceptable enough

[@alland1241]

@@frankwales Shame on you

[@AlastairjCarruthers]

Stokes > HP > Daddies

[@pollyduron674]

Sauteed tomatoes and mushrooms were SO good. You didn't have the mushrooms. I loved everything about an English breakfast and Scottish breakfast.

[@FraserAtSea]

Ha, glad you got square sausage - that’s our proud Scottish export, haha!

[@slayerrocks2]

I had leftovers in a restaurant, as a starter, and it was one of the nicest dishes I've eaten. It was black pudding, with bubble and squeak on top. Then a layer of mash potato, topped with finely chopped bacon. I highly recommend it.

[@andrewcoates6641]

Try adding eggs either fried or poached and arranged so the runny yolk will ooze down and across the black pudding when you first cut into the eggs (poached give the best results) and sliced woodland or wild mushrooms as a side dish.

[@mikeriordan6940]

You should try some white pudding, usually on an Irish breakfast which is quite similar to the full English breakfast

[@michaelveras9859]

You guys are awesome. We are planning a trip to the UK in 2023 and your videos have been so helpful. Its a joy to watch your adventures and you are such a nice couple. God bless and have a great holiday and happt new year.

[@debbee0867]

You've just gone higher up in my estimation... Mando t-shirt 😍 my favourite show

[@lindylou7853]

The square sausage is also known as Ulster slices! I remember them as being the colour of children’s sandals. Bright red! You have them with potato farls (aka potato cakes). Maybe that’s a tattie scone? You can buy potato farls in Sainsbury’s, Tesco and M&S. You can fry them in the pan to soak up the mushroom and fried tomato flavours but you can also cook them in the toaster, add a teeny bit of butter and top them with a poached or fried egg. If you make them yourself, they won’t fit in the toaster! Some people fry sliced, cold potatoes left over from the day before. Irish soda bread - with butter and Dundee marmalade. (Dundee - famous for jute, jam and journalism (particularly comics) … Seville oranges came over as ballast in a ship from Spain and the lady who owned the ship supposedly made jam out of them so as not to waste them. The rest is history!) M&S used to sell Canadian bacon years ago. It was terrific. Sweet and smokey and stripey. Brown sauce - only with a hot bacon sarnie on plastic white bread. But ketchup is nice with that too. Maybe brown sauce also with Cornish pasties. Or a hot sausage roll. And football stadium pies. Branston pickle always with cheese. There’s been a shortage of Heinz baked beans as the makers put the price up by a > third for Tesco and Tesco wouldn’t buy them for a fortnight.

[@fionagregory9376]

Ulster Fry is great.

[@lindylou7853]

@@fionagregory9376 always in the breakfast straight off the ferry to Ireland at a ridiculous hour in the morning. Good job none of us was ever sea sick!

[@williammcmullan3651]

I remember the Canadian bacon. It actually was Ulster bacon done with a maple syrup cure. Why the hell did M&S stop selling it, was the best ever.

[@inthekitchenwithpenn1]

Sausage ,bacon- smoked and thick cut, egg cooked anyway ,fried bread that doesn't shatter as you bite into it ,black pudding , beans .But there must be some HP sauce and maybe a slice of bread and butter

[@ftumschk]

Hashbrowns and baked beans were American inventions, and only became part of the British breakfast fairly late in the day. When I grew up in the 1960s and 70s, I never associated them with a "Full English", and I saw my first hashbrown in a London branch of Macdonalds in the mid/late 1980s. When I was young, the closest thing to baked beans were fried tomatoes, and we had, not hashbrowns, but "bubble and squeak". This is basically a mixture of boiled/mashed potatoes, cabbage and other cooked vegetables typically left over from a roast dinner, fried until the inside is piping hot and the outside is crisp, crunchy and golden brown. Delicious with HP Sauce!

[@martinwyke]

Breakfast sausages vary a lot on region, Cumbrian (spiced/peppered), Lincolnshire (herbs, sage, parsley), Yorkshire (spiced with mace and nutmeg), west country (apple), etc. Hash browns are more of an Irish Breakfast item traditionally cooked in beef dripping.

[@AlastairjCarruthers]

*Cumberland

[@mgthestrange9098]

I love tattie scones, I have them on a buttered roll. I you’re heading to Scotland, try a roll with square sausage.

[@khajiitofthehiddenleafvill4302]

Have you guys tried a British Sunday roast dinner yet? They’re so good :) Also mushrooms are good with a full English breakfast too

[@warrenjones376]

Where's the butter broiled mushrooms?

[@davidw6102]

Grilled black pudding with a runny fried egg and brown sauce = taste sensation. Kudos for learning how to use the silverware in the UK though. Americans are usually easy to spot in UK restaurants when they don't use a knife (and the baseball cap obvs). Although I have no excuse for the Brits travelling in the US eating a burger with a knife and fork. Equally strange!

[@gillianhynes7120]

Grilled black pudding layers with mash and bacon with Stilton sauce over it the perfect starter or snack

[@FionaMacdonald-p9p]

That's a Scottish breakfast on account of the square sausage.

[@misolgit69]

Technically speaking, hash browns and waffles of any kind are an American interloper You should have Bubble and Squeek, and with a Scottish influence you were allowed Haggis and White Sausage (no blood) and I know you haven't got them here but if a restaurant's menu serves chips/fries with theirs leave 😇

[@TheMagicGeekdom]

We missed bubble and squeak on this trip, but hopefully next time. Thanks for the suggestions

[@misolgit69]

@@TheMagicGeekdom there is a chance you may find it ready made in the freezer section of a decent supermarket

[@paulwood5803]

There is absolutely notrhing wrong with chips with a full fried breakfast. It's not traditional I'll grant you but it IS good.

[@fionamcgregor4268]

Also fruit pudding is usual in the north.

[@jamespasifull]

@@TheMagicGeekdom When you get round to bubble & squeek, pop a fried egg on top, just before you tuck in, it adds a little touch of..........egg!! 🤣🤣🤣 (Joking aside, a fried egg on top is pretty traditional......& tasty!) 😋😋😋

[@FeedbackPete]

I remember getting some sort of Square sausage in a Cracker Barrel in Buford Georgia and was surprised to see it.

[@the_yorkshire_pudding]

A Full English tends to be something that people have in cafes (often for lunch) to save the time and hassle of cooking it and washing up. A lot of places will put on grilled tomatoes (of which I am not normally a fan and tend to ask them to leave off), mushrooms and toast and butter. Hash browns are a relative newcomer to the UK. Sometimes the baked beans are served in a separate ramekin which I prefer (I hate it when they soak into the toast). Usually cafes will have a core breakfast then additional extras you cab add on for an extra cost. I am a brown sauce person as well. I tend to put the fried egg(s) (with brown sauce) on top of the buttered toast to have something to soak up the yolk after the egg is cut and then load my fork with some of that with a piece of sausage (also with brown sauce), bacon and mushroom, then follow up with beans (also with brown sauce). Best eaten with a strong cup of tea. Increasing you see many of the ingredients in breakfast sandwiches from cafes and sandwich shops (my usual take out on this theme being a bacon, sausage, ,egg and mushroom 'mega sandwich' with brown sauce, which is generously filled and at £6 (~$7.50) pretty good value, I feel). Hope that you enjoy you trips to the UK, guys. Here in Yorkshire we're not really as grumpy and taciturn as we often like to pretend (well some of us are, but in general). 🙂

[@debsidoo1008]

We always have sliced mushrooms as well and instead of waffles bubble & squeak

[@weedle30]

Never had waffles or hash browns on ‘MY’ brekkie! - they are lunch or teatime things! Perfect Full English for me… a runny yolk fried egg, chunky back bacon rashers, big field mushrooms (fried in butter), tinned tomatoes, fried bread, pork sausage, brown sauce and a ton of fresh crusty bread, buttered (none of that “butter like” spread stuff! 😩🙄) to within an inch of its life…to dip into the brown sauce and runny egg .. then the tinned tomatoes juice…washed down with a big mug of hot tea (milk no sugar)

[@karenblackadder1183]

@mary carver Fresh only when in season. Otherwise use tinned. So called 'fresh' tomatoes and things like strawberries in January have travelled hundreds of miles and have absolutely no taste. The sooner people get back to eating seasonally the better we and the planet will be.

[@Garyskinner2422]

I agree with most of what you said apart from just 1 sugar. Pls get it right haha.

[@Arcadia61]

@@karenblackadder1183 Better do without when not in season. Tinned tomatoes are totally different - great for sauces but no substitute for grilled of fried.

[@millbank]

Fine description there sir, I'm salivating at the thought. 1 sugar for me and my eggs served as an omelete. yum.

[@emac8381]

Salt on the eggs, black pepper on everything else with two slices of bread and butter rounded off by slurping a cup of tea throughout.

[@kencraig8715]

Fried mushrooms, and fried tomatoes are common also, but you hit a lot of the top favourites. Being Scottish I LOVE the Lorne Sausage, and I especially LOVE Potato Scones - one of my most favourite things. Whenever I return to Scotland, one of my first stops is at a brekkie place for a Scottish morning roll, filled with Lorne Sausage, Black Pudding, Potato Scone, fried egg, and slathered in HP Brown Sause. HP Brown Sauce is definitely the best in my humble opinion. So glad you enjoyed your trip "over the pond" to the UK, and that you got outside of London. Well Done guys !!

[@hayleywatson5777]

We always have a couple spoons of chopped tomatoes on ours with black pepper. And fried mushrooms x

[@iceetmarne3571]

Grilled tomatoes are pretty good. And yes you are both very sensible, brown sauce (HP) is the best with a cooked breakfast!

[@andydeakin7914]

Brown every day! Great video. I will never ever get used to how Americans hold their cutlery, it’s just so wrong! But nevertheless keep up the great videos, you’re both great to watch.👍

[@Xenachyna]

I’m so glad some one mentioned how the cutlery was held it is SO wrong 😂

[@songsmith31a]

When i was a boy in 1950s post-wear Eng;and, a breakfast meal (a fry-up) consisted of fried bread, fried egg (that soaked deliciiusly into the bread), fried tomatoes, sausages, bacon - with mushrooms added to taste. Lard was the cooking fat in those poorer rationed days, just as margarine took the place of butter. I can still smell the inviting aroma and hear the call "Breakfast is rady"!.

[@songsmith31a]

N.B. Apologies - "post-war" should be read for "post-wear" in line one of my previous comment. MN

[@joecitizen5185]

Looks good to me. So many variants on Full English breakfast. Not too mention Irish and Scottish fry ups. When we will be in London I look forward to bubble and squeak added on.

[@alandillon968]

Best way to ear Black Pudding is fry sausages, then smoked bacon in fat or oil once they have been cooked then, fry the black pudding in the fat for it to absorb the flavour of the sausages and bacon. Also fry the black pudding long enough for it to be crispy around the edges. When this has been done fry the mushrooms and potatoes of choice. I Originally it was not beans and did not Inclued hash-browns, these are a much later addition. Originally it was a tin of tomatoes cooked last, reduce the fat out of the frying pan to about one or two table spoons full and fry the tomatoes in it...again adds flavour. Add salt and pepper to taste and serve. The fried bread or toast was there to absorb the tomato sauce with the meal. The potatoes where sometimes added and would be onions cooked slowly to make them sweeter boil some potatoes then pour out some of the fat or oil friy both together in the fat again absorbing the flavours. The sequence would be pre pair the potatoes and onion and boil the potatoes while fry the meats add to plate and put somewhere to keep worm. Then do the egg, do the black pudding, drain much if the fat off and fry the bread bread letting it absorbed the flavours,. Sometimes you can cook to together other times separate and if too much fat drain off into a container to add to the pan when needed. Now add the onions and empty the water from the potatoes and add to the frying pan and onions and fry breaking the potatoes and allow to become cirsp and brown around the edges and turning. Finally you add the tin of tomatoes which ducks up all the flavours and wny potato helps thicken the juices. Pubs and cafes brought in hash browns in the late 70s or 80s when they became common I'm the UK and caught on quickly because they were quicker and easier, as where baked beans cooked in a separate pan. .

[@mallaka8]

How can you leave out mushrooms?

[@racheltaylor6578]

I like an Arbroath Smokie for breakfast which is smoked fish.People have Kippers as well which is similar.

[@Sarah_270]

I'm really enjoying your videos, it gives me a new viewpoint! You're both so cute! Thanks 😊

[@pureb7235]

You'll have to try white pudding next time. It's got no blood. And add some Worcestershire sauce or tabasco to the beans. A lot of English brekkies have fried mushrooms also.

[@DH.2016]

My wife is not a fan of black pudding at all but when I included Stornoway black pudding in our fry up breakfast, she loved it.

[@kamsb]

Fried mushrooms (white button or closed cup) cut small like in quarters

[@GaryHayward]

You can get white pudding, which is black pudding but without blood in it.

[@cheekymonkey666]

button mushrooms goes with full english for me, but i think black pudding is best with a tiny dab of brown sauce after its fried in the juices of a pan of bacon, but potato scallops i sometimes have, if we make too many boiled potato's for dinner, we slice them up and fry them with the bacon and eggs in the morning.

[@paulleach3612]

I was stationed with a lot of Scottish chaps many years ago; the argument in our mess hall wasn't about red or brown sauce but rather brown or salad cream...

[@leighcowen5870]

That breakfast is quite a long way from full English 😃😀

[@lillou6509]

missing mushrooms and the best way to eat a full english is take a bit of everything on the fork and dip it in the egg yolk then try and fit it all in at once :)

[@russcattell955i]

My wife is a Northerner (Liverpool) she is a black pudding fan. I am a Southerner (Plymouth), I love white or hogs pudding. Although she likes white pudding too, Especially as she spent much of her 18 years in the Army in Germany where weisswurst is so popular.

[@TheMagicGeekdom]

What are your go-to items in a Full English (or full Scottish?). Let us know! Check out this video where we try English fish and chips for the first time: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZu3p56uptF4a7M&t

[@bear6845]

Quick go for an edit! You forgot Irish (add some white pudding) and Welsh (not had one yet, not sure what they add!).

[@lovelifeandcrafts5003]

I eat all of it. Lived both in Scotland and England 😍☕🍳🥩🥓🍞🥔. Only thing I don't like is mushrooms n tinned tomatoes Xx

[@Christographer_UK]

@@lovelifeandcrafts5003 I agree about the tinned tomatoes. Not for me.

[@barriehull7076]

Black pudding is a distinct regional type of blood sausage originating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is made from pork or beef blood, with pork fat or beef suet, and a cereal, usually oatmeal, oat groats, or barley groats. The high proportion of cereal, along with the use of certain herbs such as pennyroyal, serves to distinguish black pudding from blood sausages eaten in other parts of the world.[1] Well that's what Wikipedia says, right or wrong.

[@Rach0308]

Eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, Beans with buttered toast washed down with a latte 😋 Good old Wetherspoons breakfast 👌

[@romz1]

Looked good guys, potato waffles are always an added bonus! Ps, do t worry about 'you missed this, you missed that', when cooked at home everyone has different versions.

[@deeanderson1558]

U guys are pleasant to watch.

[@laurabailey1054]

Back bacon and what you call Canadian bacon is made from pork loin. In Canada were call Canadian bacon peameal bacon. There may be a difference in the smoking

[@paultimson6674]

potato scones are probably imported from Poland? they seem to be experts in that fare. my dad would only eat porridgeoats in the morning. i don't eat breakfast. i might buy a tuna roll for my first meal if i'm working. I've rarely sat down to a meal like that in the morning. once a year? would be the outlier.

[@nebulacoffee]

If you liked the black pudding I think you'd like haggis. When I moved from Canada to the UK (almost a decade ago now) I thought they'd both make me gag but haggis is especially delicious! You just have to try not to think about what they are made from. 🙈 I agree, brown sauce is better with breakfast, especially on a sausage bap!

[@peakadventures_]

Depends what part of UK you live is as to what you think a full English consists of.. for where i am up North (Sheffield) Minimum 2 Sausage (doesn't matter that type so long as it's pork), beans,fried egg or poached, plum tomatoes, 2 hash browns, fried mushrooms (again personal pref on which mushrooms), either bread or fried bread (fried bread is disgusting,basically eating grease), and two slices of black pudding. wash it down with coffee or tea , also can have a side drink of orange juice.. should be ready for bursting after that and not need anything else to eat until around 4/5pm

[@melissamurray1712]

When are your Scotland videos going to be released?

[@craig5066]

That tatty scone would be called a potato cake around some of northern England and they can vary in shape,they’re made with flour and some mash potato then flattened and shaped into a circle and slowly fried in a frying pan until they become slightly crispy and browned on both sides. You tend to eat them warm and spread loads of butter on them they’re well tasty as a bit of a snack.You’re right about the bacon being the same taste the difference being streaky bacon has more fat and tends to crisp up a lot more and back bacon has more meat on it but can become a bit dry and tough if overcooked also they both come smoked or unsmoked but both are nice either way.

[@mubbles1066]

Looks a good,tasty selection,though I’d have the traditional bubble and squeak (instead of hash browns),and mushrooms and fried tomatoes on mine😋

[@hildajenkins9497]

You have the toast after the full English, spread with butter and marmalade or honey or jam whichever is your preference.

[@davidbutler7602]

I am sure others have said you need to try Irish, Cumberland and Lincolnshire sausages to get a variety of sausage flavours! They are all not just pork flavours. Also where were the mushrooms 😃👍

[@foodandstuff2724]

You can also get white pudding

[@MrDavidraybould]

You need to try Irish white pudding and/or the Welsh Laverbread to experience the full UK wide breakfast experience

[@smasheduppumpkinette]

I’m vegetarian and the only food I really miss is black pudding. They do a veggie version but it’s just not the same.

[@Webby304]

You need to try White pudding ( know as Hogs by some ) it’s what I prefer being from Devon to the northern Black. It is harder to find but when you find a good one it is superb SouthWest England food. You could also try wetting the bread before frying.

[@peterlock5770]

In Scotland as well as black pudding , ( Stornoway black pudding is the best ,white pudding and fruit fruit pudding is also available

[@grumarnold9706]

That's a snide brekky that 🤦kip of the "fried bread"! And what's with the potato waffles?? Proper school dinner capers them

[@williebauld1007]

I absolutely love sliced sausage 👌🏻👍🏻 It’s not a proper Scottish breakfast as there isn’t any haggis For me it HAS to be brown sauce

[@RollerbazAndCoasterDad]

This is correct.

[@scotland638]

I've had many a Scottish breakfast without haggis, even though I like it.

[@bethenecampbell6463]

I love a little broiled tomato with my full English. And a swirl of brown sauce really perks up the beans. I can live without black pudding, but it's not horrible. I skip waffles and hash browns in UK. But I've embraced a bit of yogurt or porridge as a breakfast appetizer. You have to pace yourself, but it's a great start before an early whisky tour with tasting! And it'll keep you going until afternoon tea time!

[@shropshirelass264]

I have just been to London and had a few English breakfasts. Always had to ask for the brown sauce.

[@vickytaylor9155]

Black pudding is huge in France too.

[@CPDutch]

Waffles have never been part of any Full English I’ve had, & mum always made a potato/onion type patty, her mum used to make her. Occasionally, you’ll see bubble n squeak, but I think that’s a London thing. Brown sauce & Black pudding always.

[@ianmelonie6440]

I love full English/Scottish but down here square sausage is hard to get

[@missmerrily4830]

Hash browns and any kind of waffle aren't a part of a true English breakfast for a traditionalist, but of course there's nothing wrong with including those if you like them. Why not? We only ever got potatoes included when they were left over from the previous day and fried up, sometimes with leftover vegetables, (especially cabbage) when it becomes bubble and squeak. (And that's absolutely delicious). I'd never serve tinned chopped tomatoes. It's a halved, fried tomato for me or not at all, but again a matter of choice. If you get your fried breakfast in Northern Ireland it'll be an Ulster Fry and if you go south of the border of course it's always a full Irish. As always I admire you guys for your 'go ahead and try it all' attitude. Not everyone can do that!

[@davebirch1976]

In Ireland they do black pudding and white pudding, it's slightly different to the English/Scottish version but tastes just as nice

[@TheMagicGeekdom]

Good to know. Thanks!

[@PatrickRyan147]

The white pudding is white because there's no blood in it, apparently..

[@patriciaburke6639]

For people watching who haven’t tried Black Pudding. The knowledge that it’s made with blood as a component, often provokes a negative reaction to even trying it, never mind eating it. Commercially produced Black Pudding, uses dried blood, in powder form, although I appreciate there may be Artisan Producers who might retain ‘old school’ methods, whatever they were. For those possibly still feeling queasy at the thought of having to eat something containing real blood. Just think of a juicy steak cooked rare, or medium rare, that will definitely leave blood drips on your plate, although I’m sure that won’t detract from your enjoyment of the meal, or the thought of eating it. With regard to this video, once again another lovely segment of your U.K. trip - more to come, I hope! 😀

[@shreem6913]

Except the red juicy stuff from a perfectly cooked steak isn't blood, it's myoglobin. The stuff in black pudding is quite literally blood

[@patriciaburke6639]

@@shreem6913 I stand corrected by your superior knowledge in this regard and I concede it’s not what I thought it was. I’ve Googled it and you are quite correct. But, visually, I suppose it looks a little like blood to those of us, including me, who didn’t know its actual consistency, not that I eat rare steaks. More a case of I rarely eat steak. As for Black Pudding, it’s a long time since I’ve had some, but I look forward to the next time I do. 🍽 😊

[@robertgrimsted877]

Loved the vid as always 👍

[@draoi99]

In Ireland we have white pudding as well as black pudding.

[@vicleitch]

Should have tried haggis slices look just like the black pudding and are lovely

[@redf7209]

Scottish potato bread -not potato scones is a firm favourite with me but hard to find in England

[@TruthRDare]

Fried onions are a must for me. Brown sauce every time its the best 😊😊 I`m hungry now though.

[@stuartduncan2772]

Mushrooms and grilled tomato (tom ah toe) :-) You also missed the dumpling from the Scottish bit.

[@timothyp8947]

Just watching this has made me long for a full English - even though it’s dinner time. Sadly, I don’t have the ingredients right now lol Will usually have mushrooms with mine - and fresh tomatoes in half. Personal preference is scrambled eggs (preferably ultra naughty by making with butter & double cream). Haven’t had fried bread in a long time. Before 'hash browns' were common, often had potato left over from the day before fried up. Once stayed in a b&b in the Lake District that must’ve done their fried bread in a deep fat fryer - very golden and crunchy and probably a heart attack on its own!

[@karenblackadder1183]

It was probably done in dripping, the way it used to be. If it's fried in oil it tastes foul. When you bite into it all you get is a mouthful of oil.

[@MrSinclairn]

Obviously,you know,given its name,you can have a full English/Scottish 'breakfast',at any time of the day,although outside the usual morning hours,it is known as a '(simple) fry-up'! 😉

[@timothyp8947]

Yes - occasionally have an 'all day breakfast' for lunch or dinner… but this week's task will be to top up the fridge so I have more than just the tomato and mushroom parts 😜

[@QueenBoudiicca]

I'll let you in on a little secret.....sometimes I have a full English for my dinner. 🤫

[@scotland638]

@@QueenBoudiicca Yep it's called a 'fry up' 😃

[@Grumpy-Goblin]

Mushrooms and white pudding were missing and yes brown sauce all the way on a full English.

[@davidday6838]

I take it you have been told the ingredients of black pudding? I love it!!

[@goat-shaw]

interesting vid Not sure on the fried bread looked a bitt too cremated BUT the thing that bugged me was how you hold the cutlery.

[@vickytaylor9155]

For an English breakfast pork sausage, no birds eye potato waffles(American invention) we do either fried slices of leftover over potatoes or bubble and squeak. Scones at breakfast of any type NO.

[@SimonSideburns]

My mouth was watering as the breakfast looked so delicious, apart from the potato waffles, which I've never seen before on a full English breakfast, but as someone said below, there are many varieties of items that go into or onto a plate of full English breakfast, so I guess they may be considered a staple of the dish in some parts of the UK. One thing you should look out for, especially in the north of England on your travels is Faggots. They are seasoned meat balls, and they are delicious. Usually served with mashed potato, peas, and gravy. You might have to do your research and find out where to buy them. I don't meant the Brain's Faggots that you buy ready cooked in a freezer shop such as Iceland, but you should be able to get hold of them fresh and cook them yourselves, or go out to eat somewhere that has them on the menu. No idea where, exactly, as I don't believe they're common all over the UK.

[@miniroll32]

The 'Full English' (as we often shorten it to) generally has staple ingredients that you'll find on every dish, which include sausage, (toast) bread, bacon, hash browns and tomatoes. Anything is normally by way of choice, and if you order one when you're out then again generally you're given lots of choice 😃 It's considered a tradition rather than, say, a well-planned/sophisticated meal. A full English can be a very personal thing by way of ingredients and, if well prepared, is often a 'treat' purely because it is dripping in fat! For the less health conscious, it can be a weekly ritual.

[@lauram5943]

That fried bread was overcooked, it should be light-coloured and better just shallow fried on one side only. White bread only ofc!

[@martinevans4688]

Missing mushroom's, fried tomatoes or plum tin tomato on toast, brown sauce HP and plenty to drink with all the salty food. Note the best black pudding is from Stornoway Scotland but in England Bury bkackpuding. All looked good well done

[@racheltaylor6578]

You get white pudding as well which is nice.

[@chrisgraham5186]

Where's the bubble?

[@TheClairem75]

I have both sauces! Red with egg & sausages then brown with bacon & sausages.