# Full Irish breakfast **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [September 4, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609 "2023-09-04T20:15:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/21 "2023-09-04T23:47:02Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Of course you can get delicious regional sausages, but I would save them for making dishes like Lancashire hotpot. One of the best sausage meals I’ve ever had was in Northumbria. It was a local sausage, not a banger, and it was delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/22 "2023-09-04T23:48:40Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Is there a law where you’re at or just no demand for it? Funny. 😀 Where I grew up, there was a high concentration of English, Scots and Irish, so pretty strong British food choices. The British connection in my province has gradually weakened since I was a wee lad, and food options have shifted accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/23 "2023-09-04T23:49:53Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Last year I went to an Irish pub on the Strip in Vegas that had a pretty solid Irish breakfast; I can get access to all of those locally, except the two puddings. 😐 ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/24 "2023-09-05T00:16:22Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > What’s for tea, Mum? What’s for tea, daughter? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/25 "2023-09-05T00:23:35Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > What’s for tea, Mum? > [@Jaycat.again](#): > > What’s for tea, daughter? 🙂 Darling, I said what’s for tea? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/26 "2023-09-05T00:25:50Z")
Beans on toast! I’ll put the kettle on. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/27 "2023-09-05T00:35:21Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > I was at PJ McIntyre’s Irish Pub on the west side of Cleveland and they offer a full Irish breakfast among other Irish foods. I now live 1.5 miles from the place. Alas their earliest opening hours are 11 am. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/28 "2023-09-05T01:36:47Z")
That looks like it might be eggs and bacon. Or eggs, sausage and bacon. Maybe egg and Spam. Um, egg, bacon, sausage and Spam? At least the baked beans weren’t off. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/29 "2023-09-05T01:41:36Z")
No spam - bangers, Irish bacon, eggs, black pudding, white pudding, tomatoes, mushrooms, beans, and toast, with HP sauce and a pint of Kilkenny cream ale. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/30 "2023-09-05T01:46:43Z")
🎵 Toast, toast, toast, toast Toast, toast, toast, toast Lovely toooooooast, wunnerful tooooast. 🎶 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/31 "2023-09-05T10:19:28Z")
Yeah, it basically means anything except what the USA calls ‘pudding’ (that’s ‘custard’ here) ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/32 "2023-09-05T13:00:41Z")
I didn’t realize there was really a difference between bangers and those fat link-type sausages but the two times I spent in the UK , we stayed at B & Bs and had either a full Scottish, English or Welsh breakfast each morning and the sausages were always different. The Leeds version of this breakfast sausage and/or banger was amazing, I still wish I could find that sage-y nice fat sausage. It does get overwhelming to eat daily but we foundered ourselves anyways. I also didn’t like the blood pudding additions though I did like haggis in Scotland in various versions, only once at breakfast I think. Also just the different breads ranging from potato cakes, to welsh seaweed cakes (not great tbh) and different toasts, scones, breads, etc. I did like any of the potato cakes or scones but especially enjoy just a good toast with the tomato & mushroom on top. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/33 "2023-09-05T14:50:48Z")
I suppose it’s worth mentioning that, aside from the things that are so poorly made they can only be legally called ‘bangers’, not sausages, the term ‘bangers’ is also used as a piece of more generic slang for any other kind of sausage, especially if it is being served with mashed potatoes. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/34 "2023-09-05T15:02:08Z")
So your custard can be solely starch-thickened? For me, custard is egg-thickened, while American pudding is starch or flour-thickened. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/35 "2023-09-05T15:03:16Z")
Yes, most custard in England is made from cornstarch, thanks to [this guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Bird) People make and eat egg custards, but it’s less common than the cornstarch version. ---
**Author:** ![Yosh99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ccd318/32.png) [@Yosh99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yosh99)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/36 "2023-09-05T15:13:06Z")
Brown bread is easy to make yourself if you can get very coarse flour. Dry Ingredients 1 C Flahavan’s Progress Oatlest 4 C Odlums Wholemeal Extra Coarse Flour 1 C all purpose flour ½ t salt 2 ½ t baking soda Wet Ingredients 1 ½ C buttermilk 1 ½ C milk 1 t honey Directions Mix dry ingredients Add wet ingredients to dry Put in one greased 2” bread pan or two 1# pans. Bake at 350F for about an hour. ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/37 "2023-09-05T17:31:14Z")
That’s not Irish, is it? ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/38 "2023-09-05T17:56:09Z")
Yes I am aware haggis is not considered stereotypically Irish, nor is Penclawdd cockle… or Spam Now in _Ulysses_ Bloom eats for breakfast a pork kidney pan-fried in butter, so as far I am concerned that makes it super Irish. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/39 "2023-09-05T18:23:28Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > We took a two-week vacation in Ireland, about 30 years ago, and we stayed exclusively in bed-and-breakfasts. With one exception, every place served us the full Irish breakfast, and after a week or so, it got a little repetitive… When we did 12 days at a different B&B each night, every breakfast was a little different each time. Never had the same bread recipe at two places. It became a humorous game, which ~7 ingredients out of the possible 10-12 options will _this_ place include? Sometime baked beans, sometimes tomatoes, always black pudding but not always white too, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609/40 "2023-09-05T19:22:49Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Nowadays, often if you see sausage-like things labelled ‘bangers’, it means they are below the level of meat content to legally be called ‘sausages’ (and that standard doesn’t exactly set a high bar - 32% meat for just ‘sausage’, 42% pork if you want to call it a ‘pork sausage’) TIL. I always thought “bangers” was British for large sausage. Kind of like taking the pram in the lift from your flat to the lorry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-irish-breakfast/989609.md?page=3)