I still wonder about baked beans for breakfast.
Hash browns are common in the American South, and fruit supposedly is. I asked at breakfast in the student union one morning why there was cantaloupe.
For what it’s worth, my understanding is that English baked beans (such as the picture below, from the Wikipedia entry for Heinz Beanz) are in a tomato sauce (probably not dissimilar to the sauce used in canned pasta here in the U.S.), not the molasses-based or brown sugar-based sauce that’s typical for baked beans here in the U.S.
That is correct Totally different from 'Merkin baked beans. Essential for a good fry-up.
Is the OP thinking of hotel breakfast offerings covering all options? I’d never think of the “Full English” as including fruit or potatoes or cereals - but it could be an option in a range. Or an all-day fry-up option might include hash browns.
For myself, it’d be porridge with some dried fruit in the winter, cereals with fresh berries in the warmer months.
Honestly, I quite liked it. As said, it’s not quite the same as American baked beans. (I actually do not like baked beans, except I feel compelled to make some as a side to barbecue, but I do quite like the more neutrally flavored Heinz beans.) If you have a CostPlus World Market where you live, you can usually find them there. Also, I’ve seen them at a number of regular grocery stores around here (Chicago) especially if they have an international section (like Meijer.) They are not smokey, no meat products in them, and are less sweet (though they do have some sugar in them.) I think I know what I need to pick up or order on Amazon in the next week or so …
I always have Heinz Beanz in the pantry. You never know when the urge for beans on toast will strike!
I agree with this but I’ve gone upmarket. I do a 13-bean soup on toast with those lovely bits of ham and chunks of tomato. Yum. I wish I was having that for dinner tonight.
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Full English saved my life.
Traveling to London by myself back in the day, it took me so long to get there (cheapest Priceline flight, with many layovers and cancellations), and I was so dehydrated and hungry… but I didn’t know it. I’d taken the train from Gatwick to Victoria Station, then walked with a full pack to my hotel in South Kensington. By that time, I was starting to get dizzy, and even saw stars at the edges of my vision.
I can still see the hand-drawn sign BIG English Breakfast Piled High With Chips! So I stumbled into the little mon ‘n’ pop place and was soon revived by eggs, sausage links, blood sausage, a ton of baked beans, rashers of two kinds of bacon and grilled to-mah’-toes, all obscured by a mound of potatoes.
That and a tall cappuccino revived me.
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[tl/dr: big breakfast good]
I spent three years in Scotland, and the place my flatmates and I went always included chips with breakfast.
Talk about old. I saw them in 1973.
Potatoes are part of many cultures’ breakfasts.
“Bauernfrühstück (literally farmer’s breakfast) is a warm German dish made from fried potatoes, eggs, ham and vegetables.”
Maybe that inspired the American Farmer’s Breakfast–“A hearty breakfast of eggs, bacon and potatoes.”
And a full Irish breakfast is “A large cooked breakfast of meat (bacon, sausages and black and white puddings), eggs, vegetables and potato all fried in creamery butter.”
Were the English deliberately differentiating themselves from the Irish or did the potato just not grow well on the larger island?
I was working at a fancy pants inn, so perhaps they were too posh for chips. 
They did include kippers, though. (But that wasn’t the only place I ate. Somehow, I missed all the places with chips or potatoes, but all the better, as I probably took a year or two off my life as it is with those breakfasts. At one point, I had 12 full Scottish breakfasts in a row before realizing, you know, maybe this isn’t a good idea. Then again, a 20-year-old’s metabolism can deal with it. Today, I can feel the blood pressure rising just thinking about it.)
They look like USA baked beans.
We usually add brown sugar, bacon and mustard. Perhaps onion and catsup.
Oh! American cans of baked beans include a tiny piece of pork and fat. Do British baked beans?
The Heinz Beanz are vegetarian:
Ingredients: Beans (50%), Tomatoes (36%), Water, Sugar, Sprit Vinegar, Modified Cornflour, Salt, Spice Extracts, Herb Extract.
When I was a kid those were called Potatoes O’Brien. I love 'em. I also love hash browns.
The full English breakfast always sounds so greasy to me.
Not to me, so much. The U.S. baked beans I’ve seen over the years are in a medium to dark brown sauce (see pictures below), likely due to the brown sugar and/or molasses, not that bright orangey-red of the tomato sauce in the picture I shared of Heinz Beanz.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/IMAGERENDERING_521856-T1/images/I/81jSxkIyr+L.jpg
You can’t have Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, Spam, and Spam without them, that’s for sure.
That’s a feature, not a bug. It’s an absurdly knowing celebration of fat, carbohydrates and animal protein
A description I’ve used is “Just imagine it’s 1870, half past four in the morning, and this is your only chance to eat before you head off for a seven-mile walk to a 14-hour shift at the orphan factory with no breaks and no safety gear”.
Hash browns started appearing in UK full English breakfasts a few decades ago, but I find them indispensable now. They seem more civilised than fries at that time in the morning. I prefer tomatoes to beans - beans can give me gyp.
They do have that reputation