Back bacon, fried eggs, pork sausages, mushrooms, baked beans, and fried bread with a large mug of tea is my preference when it comes to a Full English breakfast.
When working in London I would always buy a sausage and egg sandwich from the same cafe on my way to work about 6.30 am. By the second week as I walked past the cafe would have one ready for me as I walked past. Pay on Friday. This is a great example of how you get engaged in a community.
One of the best things about being retired from work is that i can take my time over the first meal of the day - usually mid-morning. No more shoving bits of toast into my mouth as I dash out of the house first thing.
I've got ten more years to do. I can't wait to not have an alarm in a morning, and getting up to do my own thing. 41 years of work makes you dream of retirement lol.
So true. Since covid and working from home (almost) all the time, I have 'breakfast' some time between 9 and 11 and it can be literally anything I fancy, then nothing else until tea time. For me that is usually a pasta dish but it varies. I gave up cereal for breakfast a long time ago because I found it made me ravinously hungry at midday so I would end up eating too much for lunch.
One of my big treats these days in retirement is a monthly visit to a local caff to get a great English Breakfast , fried bread , bacon , eggs , sausages , beans , fried potatoes and loads of toast . Nothing sweet for me please no never not for breakfast . Pancakes with maple syrup great for tea not a breakfast for us in the UK .
I'm going to add kippers with bread and butter to the list of English breakfasts although I'm aware that very few people now eat kippers - I think this is due to the herring fishing ban between 1977 and 1982. Kippers are awesome and cheap!
In my case, brown sugar, raisins, dried cranberries, pecans, and heavy cream or butter. Heavy cream is a game changer of oatmeal...but then I need to take a lactose pill. Sadly became lactose intolerant in my 60's.
I never eat breakfast but I do love most British breakfast foods. I'm not sure I'd be able to stomach many American-style breakfast foods, even if served later in the day - far too sweet! Thanks for the video as always Alanna!
Recce's Puffs cereal is literally my favourite cereal (it isn't sweet and the puffs stay crunchy in milk). Lucky charms is my 2nd favourite cereal (its sweet but its bearable). 3rd favourite is curiously cinnamon from Britain
I don't know how anyone can eat all that sugar. I don't eat breakfast at all, unless it's a special day like Christmas day (smoked salmon and champagne), but if I did it wouldn't be sweet stuff. Probably some oats with milk.
Being Canadian, I would have to say that I have had breakfast both in the U.S. and the U.K. and have to say that the U.K. wins the contest. The full English breakfast has always been a treat for me when I visit, but as you mention, I could not eat that every day (perhaps twice while on a 2 week trip).
Only a maniac eats a full English every day. It's generally a weekend treat, for many only one day, and others even less often. It is a grand breakfast though.
As a British born Canadian I early said apart from my mother and Sunday dinners I miss little about the UK I stand corrected English breakfast is the best
- Good morning, Poirot. - Bonjour, Hastings. - Is that all you're having? - What more is there to have? - A decent English breakfast. - And what is that, Hastings? - Well, porridge, two eggs, sausage, bacon, tomato, toast and marmalade, and a pot of tea. That's what I had, anyway.
In the US the pancakes and waffles and other sugary items on the Denny's menu are only part of the menu. Many of us go to diners and have variations on eggs, bacon/sausage with hash browns or other versions of potatoes with toast/ muffins, etc. Much more toward the savory area and not so much the sweet stuff. In the south the potatoes are often replaced by grits.
100 % agree that hash browns make an excellent addition to a full English!! However you keep missing out fried bread!! The ultimate part of a fry up!! Also bizarrely Americans don't eat boiled eggs and soldiers!
Breakfast priorities - what I most regularly have, starting with most frequent choice: 1 Coffee 2 Coffee 3 one of the following: a) porridge (made with water), chopped fresh fruit to sweeten b) uncooked oats with yoghurt, seeds and lots of chopped fresh fruit b) toast with butter and homemade jam or marmalade and a piece of fresh fruit on the side 4 Far less often (instead of any of the items under 3 above) scrambled egg on toast, poached egg with avocado on toast, mushrooms on toast, or some combination of these. 5 Full english/fry up only on holiday, maybe once or twice a year (simpler version of fry up for lunch at home more often). 6 Far too rarely (because don't have the luxury of domestic staff to make it for me) delicious tasty kedgeree. Will make this for lunch or dinner instead sometimes .
A full English breakfast is a rare treat on the odd weekend. Having them a couple of times a week would give you some problems eventually lol, especially mine as I love fried bread.
I agree with your comment about airport food, and I have often had a cooked breakfast before leaving the UK for a while. However, I've changed my mind (not least because a heavy fry-up is not great to fly on as you are sitting down for so long). So now I recommend Wagamama at the airport, who do a British *kedgeree,* a really traditional cooked British breakfast containing curried rice, fish and an egg. Wagamama's kedgeree has a slight Japanese twist as they use a katsu curry rather than the traditional British curry powder, and a poached egg rather than a hard-boiled egg.
A good friend and his wife just came back from a cruise that was full of people from the eu and the USA plus some from the uk and told me that at breakfast the English breakfast area there was always a very long queque , the same applied to the Full Roast Dinner , whilst food was always left in the other areas .
The other day, I stopped at a roadchef on M5 to have a full English breakfast for lunch. It was amazing. I had to get off the road again half an hour later, though, because I was falling asleep after consuming so many calories.
I’m from the US! We very rarely do anything sweet. Our breakfast usually is comprised of scrambled eggs and oatmeal with fruit and a side of toast:) Oatmeal is the biggest staple in our house!
I've just had a triple decker (3 slices of bread) sandwich with sausage, black pudding and a runny egg! with my dog watching every bite with an intensity that's unnerving and of course he gets the corners lol! Good video Lass really enjoyed it!
Excellent video. I too usually start the day with a boring cereal (porridge) and tea breakfast, though often accompanied by a cheese toastie. Full English fry ups are an occasional luxury.
I can't remember the last time I had a breakfast. The last thing I think of doing in the first few hours of waking up is eat or drink anything apart from tea or coffee.
I skip breakfast during the week and get something from the van that calls mid morning. One of the weekend days I go for a Toby Carvery breakfast, the other I have American choc chip pancakes :)
I have a overnight refrigerated porridge made with almond milk, 0% greek style yoghurt, clear honey with mixed nuts and mixed berries but once every 4 months, I do have a cooked breakfast at the harvester.
U.S. regional differences challenge these sorts of generalizations, and indicate that this UA-camr may not have travelled extensively there. I notice this habit with another popular UA-camr, Lawrence, a Brit who lives in Chicago. (But I understand the need for simple observations versus depth and nuance for promoting one's social media content). To illustrate, I grew up in Hawai'i where the typical breakfast consists of Portuguese sausage, scrambled eggs, rice, and guava juice. When I lived in Georgia, I grew to love deep fried chicken with waffles and buttery biscuits paired with peach jam. The Upper Midwest is perhaps more standard in its taste preferences, with pancakes, waffles and fried eggs, though Chicago is remarkably global. If there is a noticeable quality in the Bay Area, like many California cities, it's the sheer inventiveness of the cuisine. Quite a lot of fusion breakfasts one doesn't see anywhere else. I now live in Denver, where varieties of breakfast burrito are popular, as are juevos rancheros, which is common given the large Mexican community here. I don't tend to eat pancakes - perhaps once every other year - though it is mistakenly depicted as standard American. My favorite breakfasts are omelettes, eggs benedict (a New York invention, common across the country), and crabcakes (I dated someone from Baltimore, who made this every Saturday morning).
In the winter I like porridge Scottish style. Scottish style means with salt and cream. No sugar. No fruit. Otherwise (or occasionally also) I have buttered toast with marmalade or marmite.
Great vid Alanna.Gotta be Toast and Marj. Fried ? a bit last year. Porridge,? och no.Quite fond of the occasional brunch or as we call it elevenses.Guess what ?GREEN breakfasts work,(a bit of the old chick pea curry)Had a KEBAB delivered at, wait for it, 7am. Sterling !!! Variety,it seems is the spice of breakfast.
The Pancake Cafe in Madison, Wisconsin... OMG they do the best Hash Browns with Scrambled Eggs and Sausage Patties... with of course a side of Pancakes lavished with strawberries and cream! My fave out of the UK breakfast ever!!
Perhaps not popular across North America but here in Nova Scotia you will often find people having fish cakes on their breakfast menu. Served with a side of green tomato chow chow of course and some baked beans.
You forgot the fried bread dear, most have toast but a full English must have fried bread cooked in lard to be called that, black pudding a must as it is the healthiest item, pure protein.
Well my breakfast is usually a large mug of Yorkshire tea & a glass of juice. Sometimes I have porridge or toast. I only time I have a cooked breakfast is when I go drag racing @ Santa Pod raceway for the weekend. Have you tried fried bread with a fried egg?.
Of course there is variation on the full English . There is a full Scottish with square sausage, Haggis and scones and other strange stuff or full Irish with white pudding which i really like
UK person here...most of the time I have Jordans raisin + almond Granola, and fruit juice (orange, tropical etc). Bagels sometimes .. anything with carbohydrates to give u energy. Bacon, eggs, beans and so on sometimes at the weekend
Summer time, that'll be cereal (granola or muesli) with fruit during the working week and maybe bacon and egg at the weekend. Winter, I prefer warm, savoury food, this morning was two poached eggs on buttered toasted crumpets :)
Hi Alanna,on holiday I will start with porridge followed by Bacon, mushrooms and scrambled egg with toast…washed down with coffee. Back at home sometimes I don’t bother,another morning it might be toast..but always coffee.cheers Roly🇬🇧.
I have a pitta bread cut open to make a pouch, then put a soft cheese triangle 🔺️ in the pouche - put it in toaster to heat up to melt the cheese 🧀- extract from toaster carefully reopen pouch with fork and shovel in choice of chutney - I love caramalised onion chutney ( but whichever you prefer). - re- close pitta bread and leave to cool to eat - GORGEOUS 😍 😋 Wonderful morning or bedtime.
I've historically usually had cereal or a pastry but I tried to have fruit on occasion, maybe a yoghurt. Looking to diet soon so the fruit option will probably be the most common.
A great Welsh breakfast is Bara te. Take a bowl, chuck in crusty chopped up bread, a good strong cheese, cut to thumb sized blocks and pour in the tea of choice.
Full English with black pudding, bubble and maybe a cheeky hash brown is my absolute favourite, especially from Pellicci's in Bethnal Green, London. What I actually have every day is Bran Flakes with berries....😂
Okay so for years when I was growing up, my breakfast consisted of tea & toast, but I would fold the toast and dip it in my tea. Now I have a bowl of porridge with blueberries and honey, a banana sandwich on brown or 50/50 and a mug of tea; sometime I’ll add a couple of crumpets with butter (actually Flora spread).
Presumably you have also tried Frosties Alanna - my staple breakfast, with or without some cut fruit on top. I used to do Cornflakes with Agave Nectar on top (plus fruit!) but have moved away from that since with Frosties I have less to do! :-)
Breakfast? Natural yogurt with cinnamon swirled through it. Flax sprinkled over the top, a scattering of dried cranberries, toasted flaked almonds and candid ginger. Topped with 2 types of fruit - whatever I fancy. Grapefruit, apples, orange, blueberries... And most of it is organic. My dream breakfast that I enjoyed as my normal breakfast.
I love a fry up: bacon, eggs, beans (mikeed til there soft-hate hard beans, oh and not heinz, thy are too liquidy, wernt always), mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding and for ease (hate frying chips, for the mess), hash browns. Tip: 3 0r 4 cycles in the toaster does them !
If you are ever up there, you should try a traditional "Potteries" breakfast. My mother's side of the family all lived in the Potteries and as kids, we were there all the time. My granddad would be gone by the time we got up, makings pilgrimage to "his" oatcake shop. Everyone in the Potteries used to have "their" oatcake shop, almost always the one closest to where they were born - or here the parents had been born. I think the last of them has gone now, but the original oatcake shops were "hole in the wall" operations, where a family on a street had converted their downstairs into a kitchen and served fresh oatcakes out of their front window, straight onto the street. These places provided an early version of the "take away" breakfast and workers would grab a few on their way to work - they would buy theirs filled, with things like bacon and cheese, but you could also buy them plain to take home and fill yourself. My grandparents - like most families had several favourite ways of serving them, savoury and sweet and they were an absolute staple in every home there - they still are, but nowadays they are made by one or two large companies. When we left my grandparents, we'd always bring a few dozen home with us, they are the Staffordshire version of a tortilla or wrap - but so much tastier
Daily breakfast, bowl of porridge and cup of fresh coffee. I will occasionally do bacon, fried egg and slice of lorne sausage in a bread roll or as a toastie. Can't stand too much sweet for breakfast and tend to have hot buttery toast as a late night snack, especially in winter when a fires going.
Since I retired, breakfast is my favourite meal because I no longer have to rush. However, what I eat is not exactly exciting. Crunchy Nut Cornflakes with blueberries or porridge and blueberries when it is cold, followed by brown bread toast with a spread (Bertolli (because I don't like butter), chocolate and Hazelnut Spread, cheese spread, peanut butter, or peanut butter and jam), and always a glass of juice, usually Clementine, or maybe Orange. Sometimes, I might have crumpets, bagels, or croissants on rare occasions. I always take my time eating breakfast, having previously taken it on the go (a couple of pieces of toast to eat in the car). To me, it's not what I eat that is important, but that it is a calm and relaxing start to my day.
I'm from Burnaby, BC, Canada (next to Vancouver) and I've had plenty of savoury breakfasts. When I was in Scouting our go-to breakfasts on weekend camps were bacon, scrambled eggs, and hash browns on Saturday morning; and gruel/oatmeal made with water on Sunday morning (we wanted an easy cleanup on leaving day). I've had both of these breakfasts at home, though I put milk in my oatmeal (our milk has added sugar).
As a Brit, I do enjoy a Denny’s breakfast when over in the US. I particularly like their hash browns, not the factory formed versions common here in the UK.
I rarely eat breakfast buy my mum has either fruits with Greek yogurt for her breakfast OR porridge & my dad has either wheetabix or porridge. If I do have breakfast I have crunchy nut cornflakes OR if I’m on holiday/at a hotel I’ll have a full English.
Sausage, back bacon, fried toast, mushrooms, fried egg, and tinned toms are my choice, but grilled toms if no tinned available. Tinned tom juice on the toast is a must. Either OJ or tea to wash it down.
As a Canadian, I'm curious as to why you framed it as a US vs UK breakfast, rather than a North American vs UK breskfast, since Canadians also eat the same kinds of food fir breakfasts as Americans?
Often had to start working at stupid O clock, one factory I used to travel to offered a spectacular breakfast in their canteen, to get there for a 6am start meant leaving home at 2am. Breakfast was at 8am, a slice of toast, a slice of Spam, cheese, a fried egg, all on top of each other and a large mug of tea. Almost made up for the early start.
Full English, sausage, bacon, egg, beans, mushrooms, toast, buttered bread, HP sauce & pepper, I can forgo the black pudding & grilled tomato. I don’t mind a hash brown too.
I’m from Texas and a go to dream of a breakfast are breakfast tacos! They are literal heaven. Here common go to’s are - cereal - eggs - bagels - donuts (a lot of people get donuts and kolaches (kind of like sausage rolls here) on a Friday) - biscuit rolls and sausage gravy are a sometimes - oatmeal - yogurt with granola and fruit - and of course it is true Americans love pancakes, waffles, and French toast but people aren’t eating that on the regular. More weekend treats
Great rule of thumb , go to your nearest building site and ask any scaffolder where the best cafe / greasy spoon is . You will not be disappointed, most of them have a fry up before they start work most days I have Scots Poridge Oats with honey in it , hotel breakfast on the first and last day , definitely a full English with everything apart from the hash browns
My usual is some brioche as easy to eat driving to work. On days off, i love an eggs benedict, kippers are good and if only i could find somewhere that serves kedgeree. So savoury for the win.
Toast with Marmite, Tea. Sometimes bacon and fried tomato in a section of baguette on a Sunday. Holidays or time away are when I have a full English or fruit juice with cereal or fresh fruit. Sometimes Crumpets at home or croissants once a month. If you don't have time get up earlier 🤣🤣
Essential video - thanks! Main points: 1. USA coffee creamer plastic pots everywhere - ugh! Show me a jug of fresh milk! 2. IHOP tasted plastic to me, start with Denny's and go up from there, such as Cracker Barrel for better breakfast experience stateside. 3. Yes instead of asking you what you want for breakfast, an American host will ask you "how do you want your eggs?" - Do I want eggs? I didn't know this. 4. Most cereals are extended forms of consuming milk and sugar. These days I find my brain works better in the morning if I do have some protein first thing - plus coffee. The most carbs I have is porridge like a Scotsman.
My breakfast most mornings is a homemade smoothie with a little OJ, banana, frozen fruit, yogurt, and a scoop of colagen peptides. Sometimes oatmeal. English breakfast sometimes on the weekend. I sometimes find Heinz beans at Whole Foods (I'm in the US) to make it more authentic!
Great video! As a kid I was partial to bacon egg and cheese biscuits from McDonalds, as an adult I'm fond of home fries. I'm having breakfast for dinner tonight!
My Normal Breakfast is - Cornflakes (no sugar) and semi skimmed milk, Marmite toast with a cut of Mature Cathedral City Cheese and Bean to Cup Coffee. My Dream Breakfast would be - English Fried (2 Bacon Slices, Cold Beans, Mushrooms, Tomato, Fried Toast (bread) Hash Brown but no sausages) and a Filtered Coffee. What is it with syrup in the USA?
Airport pint at breakfast seems to be such a British thing, I tend to do it just to signal the start of a holiday and maybe just to calm the anxiety of travelling with a group of people, probably wouldn't do it alone.
We are British ( and Canadian citizens) we lived in Ontario for 12 years and moved back home in 2021. We go out for a fry up once a week. We did the same in Canada usually on Saturday morning.Sometimes on Sunday as did everyone else as we normally had to queue for a table. The Grille on Queensway, Etobicoke, On. was a particular favourite.
I would usually order the Hungry Man , "4 large eggs prepared your way served with bacon, ham and sausages and our famous home fries and 3 pieces of Texas toast". If I was particularly peckish I would order the Hungry Mo Fo, " A breakfast for those of you with an itch that you just can't scratch.This bad boy has all the traditional heart clogging goodness of the Hungry Man with a side of pancakes of French toast. Perfection at its finest ". I just read online that The Grille closed permanently in July last year they obviously struggled to survive after we moved back to Blighty in 2021 !!
I worked in Construction in the 80's/90/s We had a big fry up every morning .. But not until around 09.30/10.00 .. this is the right time for it.. not too early
At one time I was just having cornflakes with sultanas every day but it was pretty boring. Here in Croatia I can't get Shreddies or Rice Krispies and a lot of the cereals are the very sugary ones. I do buy some things called honey hoops and sometimes I have 6 digestive biscuits soaked in yogurt. They have yogurt in 1 kg cartons here and I've taken to having some yogurt with the milk when serving cereals, it makes it more creamy. I could not eat the sweet and savoury stuff on the same plate like some of the American options.
Ex Pat of UK now Canadian , 2 eggs for me please & 3 for hubby, if I have toast then only 1 egg. I do enjoy oatmeal/porridge with fruit and a spoonful of plain yogurt occasionally & summer , homemade granola, 😊
A typical CANADIAN Breakfast in most places is coffee, fried eggs(sunnyside up or turned), hash browns, bacon, or sausage with two toast (Rye or white)...yes sweet stuff is OK but the eggs and bacon is typical. Sometimes I have whatever was left over from previous days dinner for breakfast.
Back bacon, fried eggs, pork sausages, mushrooms, baked beans, and fried bread with a large mug of tea is my preference when it comes to a Full English breakfast.
Forget the fried bread and substitute hash browns. Then add an apple at the end.
you forgot the black pudding. :)
@@andyszlamp2212 Can't stand the stuff lol.
Hash browns were never originally considered part of a full English breakfast.
I do love them and I know consider them an essential ingredient
@@stevenclarke5606 It is all down to personal choice.
When working in London I would always buy a sausage and egg sandwich from the same cafe on my way to work about 6.30 am. By the second week as I walked past the cafe would have one ready for me as I walked past. Pay on Friday. This is a great example of how you get engaged in a community.
One of the best things about being retired from work is that i can take my time over the first meal of the day - usually mid-morning. No more shoving bits of toast into my mouth as I dash out of the house first thing.
I've got ten more years to do. I can't wait to not have an alarm in a morning, and getting up to do my own thing. 41 years of work makes you dream of retirement lol.
So true. Since covid and working from home (almost) all the time, I have 'breakfast' some time between 9 and 11 and it can be literally anything I fancy, then nothing else until tea time. For me that is usually a pasta dish but it varies. I gave up cereal for breakfast a long time ago because I found it made me ravinously hungry at midday so I would end up eating too much for lunch.
One of my big treats these days in retirement is a monthly visit to a local caff to get a great English Breakfast , fried bread , bacon , eggs , sausages , beans , fried potatoes and loads of toast . Nothing sweet for me please no never not for breakfast . Pancakes with maple syrup great for tea not a breakfast for us in the UK .
I'm going to add kippers with bread and butter to the list of English breakfasts although I'm aware that very few people now eat kippers - I think this is due to the herring fishing ban between 1977 and 1982. Kippers are awesome and cheap!
Kippers are yum, plenty of butter, + some peas
Kippers for breakfast, yes please.
@@davidrenton Peas? Are you mad?
Did we have an embargo on Denmark at the time?
Smoke me a kipper, skipper, I'll be back for breakfast!
As a retired Brit, during the winter months my go to breakfast is porridge oats with blueberries and banana or strawberry, sweetened with clear honey
In my case, brown sugar, raisins, dried cranberries, pecans, and heavy cream or butter. Heavy cream is a game changer of oatmeal...but then I need to take a lactose pill. Sadly became lactose intolerant in my 60's.
"When I'm at Gatwick I always have a full English and a pint." You may be the perfect woman ;-)
A fry up isn’t a blow out without fried bread.
During the week toast and honey or marmalade and coffee
I never eat breakfast but I do love most British breakfast foods. I'm not sure I'd be able to stomach many American-style breakfast foods, even if served later in the day - far too sweet!
Thanks for the video as always Alanna!
Thanks for watching! ☺️
Recce's Puffs cereal is literally my favourite cereal (it isn't sweet and the puffs stay crunchy in milk). Lucky charms is my 2nd favourite cereal (its sweet but its bearable). 3rd favourite is curiously cinnamon from Britain
Porridge!
I don't know how anyone can eat all that sugar. I don't eat breakfast at all, unless it's a special day like Christmas day (smoked salmon and champagne), but if I did it wouldn't be sweet stuff. Probably some oats with milk.
An Adventures and Naps video about breakfast? Yes, please!
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Being Canadian, I would have to say that I have had breakfast both in the U.S. and the U.K. and have to say that the U.K. wins the contest. The full English breakfast has always been a treat for me when I visit, but as you mention, I could not eat that every day (perhaps twice while on a 2 week trip).
We normally have the full English on a Saturday or Sunday morning - not every day mate.
Only a maniac eats a full English every day. It's generally a weekend treat, for many only one day, and others even less often. It is a grand breakfast though.
Gross
@@randorama1588 Some people who do hard physical work do.
As a British born Canadian I early said apart from my mother and Sunday dinners I miss little about the UK I stand corrected English breakfast is the best
- Good morning, Poirot.
- Bonjour, Hastings.
- Is that all you're having?
- What more is there to have?
- A decent English breakfast.
- And what is that, Hastings?
- Well, porridge, two eggs, sausage, bacon, tomato, toast and marmalade,
and a pot of tea. That's what I had, anyway.
In the US the pancakes and waffles and other sugary items on the Denny's menu are only part of the menu. Many of us go to diners and have variations on eggs, bacon/sausage with hash browns or other versions of potatoes with toast/ muffins, etc. Much more toward the savory area and not so much the sweet stuff. In the south the potatoes are often replaced by grits.
100 % agree that hash browns make an excellent addition to a full English!! However you keep missing out fried bread!! The ultimate part of a fry up!! Also bizarrely Americans don't eat boiled eggs and soldiers!
Not for me but I agree fried bread every time
We eat boiled eggs, just not for breakfast, scrambled usually
Not for me either, it's just too much.
As far as I'm concerned, a full English isn't "full" unless it includes fried bread...
@@stevemoss7793 key to good fried bread is to butter both sides before frying!!
Breakfast priorities - what I most regularly have, starting with most frequent choice:
1 Coffee
2 Coffee
3 one of the following:
a) porridge (made with water), chopped fresh fruit to sweeten
b) uncooked oats with yoghurt, seeds and lots of chopped fresh fruit
b) toast with butter and homemade jam or marmalade and a piece of fresh fruit on the side
4 Far less often (instead of any of the items under 3 above) scrambled egg on toast, poached egg with avocado on toast, mushrooms on toast, or some combination of these.
5 Full english/fry up only on holiday, maybe once or twice a year (simpler version of fry up for lunch at home more often).
6 Far too rarely (because don't have the luxury of domestic staff to make it for me) delicious tasty kedgeree. Will make this for lunch or dinner instead sometimes .
Kedgeree is nice, not had it for years
A full English breakfast is a rare treat on the odd weekend. Having them a couple of times a week would give you some problems eventually lol, especially mine as I love fried bread.
I totally agree, full English breakfast are amazing and delicious, but obviously very high in calories and fats
In no universe, anywhere, ever, are chips a legitimate UK breakfast food. I WILL die on this hill! 😂
100% right, chips have NO place on the breakfast plate. I'll join you on that hill.
I will be the next to fall on this hill.
I'll make chips but won't add them to bacon, egg, sausage and a fried slice.
@@mewsli For breakfast? No thanks!
Indeed!
Off topic question: Wendy's has the baconator. A double cheeseburger with 6 slices of (streaky) bacon. Does the UK Wendy's have the baconator?
God haven't' had a Baconator in years 😅 I'm not sure, I don't think I've been to the UK Wendys before! and THANK YOU for the donation! 🙏
I agree with your comment about airport food, and I have often had a cooked breakfast before leaving the UK for a while. However, I've changed my mind (not least because a heavy fry-up is not great to fly on as you are sitting down for so long). So now I recommend Wagamama at the airport, who do a British *kedgeree,* a really traditional cooked British breakfast containing curried rice, fish and an egg. Wagamama's kedgeree has a slight Japanese twist as they use a katsu curry rather than the traditional British curry powder, and a poached egg rather than a hard-boiled egg.
A good friend and his wife just came back from a cruise that was full of people from the eu and the USA plus some from the uk and told me that at breakfast the English breakfast area there was always a very long queque , the same applied to the Full Roast Dinner , whilst food was always left in the other areas .
Thanks!
The other day, I stopped at a roadchef on M5 to have a full English breakfast for lunch. It was amazing. I had to get off the road again half an hour later, though, because I was falling asleep after consuming so many calories.
I’m from the US! We very rarely do anything sweet. Our breakfast usually is comprised of scrambled eggs and oatmeal with fruit and a side of toast:) Oatmeal is the biggest staple in our house!
Oatmeal ? its called Porridge.....
@@mikepxg6406did you literally say that to a American 🤣🤣🤣.
It would be one thing if it was a fellow Brit but a American 🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣
Scottish pancakes are the same as American pancakes
It was a shock to the system to this Brit to be served savoury food for breakfast in the US, dusted in icing sugar and with strawberries on the side.
Same!
Toast and marmalade and coffee is the way to start the day. Cheers Alana for a great video.😊
Thanks for watching!
I've just had a triple decker (3 slices of bread) sandwich with sausage, black pudding and a runny egg! with my dog watching every bite with an intensity that's unnerving and of course he gets the corners lol! Good video Lass really enjoyed it!
Great video Alanna. Have you considered doing a full English vs full Scottish breakfast comparison (and indeed Welsh and Irish variants)?
Great idea!
Was just thinking this ! Nice bit of haggis, potato cake, Lorne sausage or even a buttery !
The Welsh breakfast would have to be skipped, or only feed to the butler, as it contains cockles, a shellfish, and Alanna's allergic.
@@Dionysos640 fried Soda bread beats the others just on it's own.
err. Most English are Celts as well. @@Dionysos640
Excellent video. I too usually start the day with a boring cereal (porridge) and tea breakfast, though often accompanied by a cheese toastie. Full English fry ups are an occasional luxury.
I love cornflakes with a sliced banana on top.
My nana used to say it doesn't matter what you have for breakfast, as long as you have breakfast
I can't remember the last time I had a breakfast. The last thing I think of doing in the first few hours of waking up is eat or drink anything apart from tea or coffee.
I skip breakfast during the week and get something from the van that calls mid morning. One of the weekend days I go for a Toby Carvery breakfast, the other I have American choc chip pancakes :)
I have a overnight refrigerated porridge made with almond milk, 0% greek style yoghurt, clear honey with mixed nuts and mixed berries but once every 4 months, I do have a cooked breakfast at the harvester.
U.S. regional differences challenge these sorts of generalizations, and indicate that this UA-camr may not have travelled extensively there. I notice this habit with another popular UA-camr, Lawrence, a Brit who lives in Chicago. (But I understand the need for simple observations versus depth and nuance for promoting one's social media content).
To illustrate, I grew up in Hawai'i where the typical breakfast consists of Portuguese sausage, scrambled eggs, rice, and guava juice. When I lived in Georgia, I grew to love deep fried chicken with waffles and buttery biscuits paired with peach jam. The Upper Midwest is perhaps more standard in its taste preferences, with pancakes, waffles and fried eggs, though Chicago is remarkably global. If there is a noticeable quality in the Bay Area, like many California cities, it's the sheer inventiveness of the cuisine. Quite a lot of fusion breakfasts one doesn't see anywhere else. I now live in Denver, where varieties of breakfast burrito are popular, as are juevos rancheros, which is common given the large Mexican community here.
I don't tend to eat pancakes - perhaps once every other year - though it is mistakenly depicted as standard American. My favorite breakfasts are omelettes, eggs benedict (a New York invention, common across the country), and crabcakes (I dated someone from Baltimore, who made this every Saturday morning).
In the winter I like porridge Scottish style. Scottish style means with salt and cream. No sugar. No fruit. Otherwise (or occasionally also) I have buttered toast with marmalade or marmite.
Great vid Alanna.Gotta be Toast and Marj. Fried ? a bit last year. Porridge,? och no.Quite fond of the occasional brunch or as we call it elevenses.Guess what ?GREEN breakfasts work,(a bit of the old chick pea curry)Had a KEBAB delivered at, wait for it, 7am. Sterling !!! Variety,it seems is the spice of breakfast.
The Pancake Cafe in Madison, Wisconsin... OMG they do the best Hash Browns with Scrambled Eggs and Sausage Patties... with of course a side of Pancakes lavished with strawberries and cream! My fave out of the UK breakfast ever!!
Perhaps not popular across North America but here in Nova Scotia you will often find people having fish cakes on their breakfast menu. Served with a side of green tomato chow chow of course and some baked beans.
I always thought crumpets were the equivalent of our English muffins in America. Boy was i wrong! Crumpets are divine though. ❤
You forgot the fried bread dear, most have toast but a full English must have fried bread cooked in lard to be called that, black pudding a must as it is the healthiest item, pure protein.
Well my breakfast is usually a large mug of Yorkshire tea & a glass of juice.
Sometimes I have porridge or toast.
I only time I have a cooked breakfast is when I go drag racing @ Santa Pod raceway for the weekend.
Have you tried fried bread with a fried egg?.
It's nearly 9:30PM and I've eaten a decent tea, but somehow I now want breakfast....
Love a good A&N food video!
Have you tried the American breakfast at 'spoons yet Alanna? I tried it recently. Well, my son ordered it so I joined in!
Of course there is variation on the full English . There is a full Scottish with square sausage, Haggis and scones and other strange stuff or full Irish with white pudding which i really like
Weetabix w/fill fat milk and sliced bananas. Can of Beans with grated cheddar cheese on top - then under the grill to melt the cheese. Yum
UK person here...most of the time I have Jordans raisin + almond Granola, and fruit juice (orange, tropical etc). Bagels sometimes .. anything with carbohydrates to give u energy. Bacon, eggs, beans and so on sometimes at the weekend
A bowl of hot porridge and a pint mug of Yorkshire Tea (lose leaf) gets the day started for me. Perfect on a winters morning but good all year round.
Not to mention regional delicacies - Arbroath Smokies, decent Kippers, Hog's Pudding from Cornwall and Devon potato hash.
As a afterthought, I call French toast, bread dipped in beaten egg and shallow fried or grilled, which may differ from what you call it xx
Summer time, that'll be cereal (granola or muesli) with fruit during the working week and maybe bacon and egg at the weekend. Winter, I prefer warm, savoury food, this morning was two poached eggs on buttered toasted crumpets :)
UK here. Porridge for weekday breakfast. Fruit and/or golden syrup optional.
Hi Alanna,on holiday I will start with porridge followed by Bacon, mushrooms and scrambled egg with toast…washed down with coffee.
Back at home sometimes I don’t bother,another morning it might be toast..but always coffee.cheers Roly🇬🇧.
I have a pitta bread cut open to make a pouch, then put a soft cheese triangle 🔺️ in the pouche - put it in toaster to heat up to melt the cheese 🧀- extract from toaster carefully reopen pouch with fork and shovel in choice of chutney - I love caramalised onion chutney ( but whichever you prefer).
- re- close pitta bread and leave to cool to eat - GORGEOUS 😍 😋
Wonderful morning or bedtime.
I've historically usually had cereal or a pastry but I tried to have fruit on occasion, maybe a yoghurt. Looking to diet soon so the fruit option will probably be the most common.
We had Pop Tarts in England when I was young - so why did they disappear?
A great Welsh breakfast is Bara te. Take a bowl, chuck in crusty chopped up bread, a good strong cheese, cut to thumb sized blocks and pour in the tea of choice.
Full English with black pudding, bubble and maybe a cheeky hash brown is my absolute favourite, especially from Pellicci's in Bethnal Green, London. What I actually have every day is Bran Flakes with berries....😂
Okay so for years when I was growing up, my breakfast consisted of tea & toast, but I would fold the toast and dip it in my tea.
Now I have a bowl of porridge with blueberries and honey, a banana sandwich on brown or 50/50 and a mug of tea; sometime I’ll add a couple of crumpets with butter (actually Flora spread).
Look up an Ulster Fry. Local, Northern Ireland version of full English. More breads with the meats.
Presumably you have also tried Frosties Alanna - my staple breakfast, with or without some cut fruit on top. I used to do Cornflakes with Agave Nectar on top (plus fruit!) but have moved away from that since with Frosties I have less to do! :-)
Breakfast? Natural yogurt with cinnamon swirled through it. Flax sprinkled over the top, a scattering of dried cranberries, toasted flaked almonds and candid ginger. Topped with 2 types of fruit - whatever I fancy. Grapefruit, apples, orange, blueberries...
And most of it is organic. My dream breakfast that I enjoyed as my normal breakfast.
I love a fry up: bacon, eggs, beans (mikeed til there soft-hate hard beans, oh and not heinz, thy are too liquidy, wernt always), mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding and for ease (hate frying chips, for the mess), hash browns. Tip: 3 0r 4 cycles in the toaster does them !
If you are ever up there, you should try a traditional "Potteries" breakfast. My mother's side of the family all lived in the Potteries and as kids, we were there all the time. My granddad would be gone by the time we got up, makings pilgrimage to "his" oatcake shop. Everyone in the Potteries used to have "their" oatcake shop, almost always the one closest to where they were born - or here the parents had been born.
I think the last of them has gone now, but the original oatcake shops were "hole in the wall" operations, where a family on a street had converted their downstairs into a kitchen and served fresh oatcakes out of their front window, straight onto the street. These places provided an early version of the "take away" breakfast and workers would grab a few on their way to work - they would buy theirs filled, with things like bacon and cheese, but you could also buy them plain to take home and fill yourself. My grandparents - like most families had several favourite ways of serving them, savoury and sweet and they were an absolute staple in every home there - they still are, but nowadays they are made by one or two large companies.
When we left my grandparents, we'd always bring a few dozen home with us, they are the Staffordshire version of a tortilla or wrap - but so much tastier
Great video 👍🏻Here goes, bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, mushroom, tomato and black pudding. Never have beans. Normal day, toast.
My usual breakfast is two fried eggs on buttered toast - but I add chilli flakes to the vegetable oil that I fry the eggs in. :)
1:10 Coming from the East, I can't understand why the first meal of the day has to be about indulgence instead of nourishment.
Daily breakfast, bowl of porridge and cup of fresh coffee.
I will occasionally do bacon, fried egg and slice of lorne sausage in a bread roll or as a toastie.
Can't stand too much sweet for breakfast and tend to have hot buttery toast as a late night snack, especially in winter when a fires going.
Alanna check out the 8 course Edwardian breakfasts, for real ! Washed down with red wine 😋
Since I retired, breakfast is my favourite meal because I no longer have to rush. However, what I eat is not exactly exciting. Crunchy Nut Cornflakes with blueberries or porridge and blueberries when it is cold, followed by brown bread toast with a spread (Bertolli (because I don't like butter), chocolate and Hazelnut Spread, cheese spread, peanut butter, or peanut butter and jam), and always a glass of juice, usually Clementine, or maybe Orange. Sometimes, I might have crumpets, bagels, or croissants on rare occasions. I always take my time eating breakfast, having previously taken it on the go (a couple of pieces of toast to eat in the car). To me, it's not what I eat that is important, but that it is a calm and relaxing start to my day.
English fry ups are a treat - generally we eat low sugar cereals, low calorie smoothies, yogurt with fruit, toast for breakfast
I tend to eat streaky bacon but to help my arteries I buy the very thin pancetta style and cook them until crispy in my air fryer..
I'm from Burnaby, BC, Canada (next to Vancouver) and I've had plenty of savoury breakfasts. When I was in Scouting our go-to breakfasts on weekend camps were bacon, scrambled eggs, and hash browns on Saturday morning; and gruel/oatmeal made with water on Sunday morning (we wanted an easy cleanup on leaving day). I've had both of these breakfasts at home, though I put milk in my oatmeal (our milk has added sugar).
As a Brit, I do enjoy a Denny’s breakfast when over in the US. I particularly like their hash browns, not the factory formed versions common here in the UK.
I rarely eat breakfast buy my mum has either fruits with Greek yogurt for her breakfast OR porridge & my dad has either wheetabix or porridge. If I do have breakfast I have crunchy nut cornflakes OR if I’m on holiday/at a hotel I’ll have a full English.
Sausage, back bacon, fried toast, mushrooms, fried egg, and tinned toms are my choice, but grilled toms if no tinned available. Tinned tom juice on the toast is a must. Either OJ or tea to wash it down.
As a Canadian, I'm curious as to why you framed it as a US vs UK breakfast, rather than a North American vs UK breskfast, since Canadians also eat the same kinds of food fir breakfasts as Americans?
Often had to start working at stupid O clock, one factory I used to travel to offered a spectacular breakfast in their canteen, to get there for a 6am start meant leaving home at 2am. Breakfast was at 8am, a slice of toast, a slice of Spam, cheese, a fried egg, all on top of each other and a large mug of tea. Almost made up for the early start.
Dream breakfast... freshly squeezed orange juice, kedgeree, toast, and excellent tea!
Full English, sausage, bacon, egg, beans, mushrooms, toast, buttered bread, HP sauce & pepper, I can forgo the black pudding & grilled tomato. I don’t mind a hash brown too.
I’m from Texas and a go to dream of a breakfast are breakfast tacos! They are literal heaven.
Here common go to’s are
- cereal
- eggs
- bagels
- donuts (a lot of people get donuts and kolaches (kind of like sausage rolls here) on a Friday)
- biscuit rolls and sausage gravy are a sometimes
- oatmeal
- yogurt with granola and fruit
- and of course it is true Americans love pancakes, waffles, and French toast but people aren’t eating that on the regular. More weekend treats
Great rule of thumb , go to your nearest building site and ask any scaffolder where the best cafe / greasy spoon is . You will not be disappointed, most of them have a fry up before they start work most days
I have Scots Poridge Oats with honey in it , hotel breakfast on the first and last day , definitely a full English with everything apart from the hash browns
You have forgotten porridge (or ready brek for the children).... I would say that is quite a popular UK breakfast... Maybe even kippers
Porridge with blueberries and raspberries. Rolled Oates and Irish Oates with unsweetened almond milk to be pre-diabetic compliant.
My usual is some brioche as easy to eat driving to work.
On days off, i love an eggs benedict, kippers are good and if only i could find somewhere that serves kedgeree.
So savoury for the win.
Toast with Marmite, Tea. Sometimes bacon and fried tomato in a section of baguette on a Sunday. Holidays or time away are when I have a full English or fruit juice with cereal or fresh fruit. Sometimes Crumpets at home or croissants once a month. If you don't have time get up earlier 🤣🤣
Essential video - thanks! Main points: 1. USA coffee creamer plastic pots everywhere - ugh! Show me a jug of fresh milk! 2. IHOP tasted plastic to me, start with Denny's and go up from there, such as Cracker Barrel for better breakfast experience stateside. 3. Yes instead of asking you what you want for breakfast, an American host will ask you "how do you want your eggs?" - Do I want eggs? I didn't know this. 4. Most cereals are extended forms of consuming milk and sugar. These days I find my brain works better in the morning if I do have some protein first thing - plus coffee. The most carbs I have is porridge like a Scotsman.
Sunday morning is full breakfast for me , no beans .Interesting video Thank you😁
in scotland we have a sliced sausage on a roll with sauce
My breakfast most mornings is a homemade smoothie with a little OJ, banana, frozen fruit, yogurt, and a scoop of colagen peptides. Sometimes oatmeal. English breakfast sometimes on the weekend. I sometimes find Heinz beans at Whole Foods (I'm in the US) to make it more authentic!
Great video! As a kid I was partial to bacon egg and cheese biscuits from McDonalds, as an adult I'm fond of home fries. I'm having breakfast for dinner tonight!
French Toast is called Eggy Bread or Gypsy Toast in the UK.
2:30 We had pop-tarts in UK. We called them the Spice Girls.
My Normal Breakfast is - Cornflakes (no sugar) and semi skimmed milk, Marmite toast with a cut of Mature Cathedral City Cheese and Bean to Cup Coffee.
My Dream Breakfast would be - English Fried (2 Bacon Slices, Cold Beans, Mushrooms, Tomato, Fried Toast (bread) Hash Brown but no sausages) and a Filtered Coffee.
What is it with syrup in the USA?
Airport pint at breakfast seems to be such a British thing, I tend to do it just to signal the start of a holiday and maybe just to calm the anxiety of travelling with a group of people, probably wouldn't do it alone.
We are British ( and Canadian citizens) we lived in Ontario for 12 years and moved back home in 2021. We go out for a fry up once a week. We did the same in Canada usually on Saturday morning.Sometimes on Sunday as did everyone else as we normally had to queue for a table. The Grille on Queensway, Etobicoke, On. was a particular favourite.
I would usually order the Hungry Man , "4 large eggs prepared your way served with bacon, ham and sausages and our famous home fries and 3 pieces of Texas toast". If I was particularly peckish I would order the Hungry Mo Fo, " A breakfast for those of you with an itch that you just can't scratch.This bad boy has all the traditional heart clogging goodness of the Hungry Man with a side of pancakes of French toast. Perfection at its finest ". I just read online that The Grille closed permanently in July last year they obviously struggled to survive after we moved back to Blighty in 2021 !!
Great vid this week Alanna ..Great snacks..👍👍
I just have a couple of pieces of brown toast with butter most mornings but on Saturdays I tend to treat myself to a warmed up Pain Au Chocolat.
I worked in Construction in the 80's/90/s We had a big fry up every morning .. But not until around 09.30/10.00 .. this is the right time for it.. not too early
Coffee until 6.30pm, meal, work & bed.
At one time I was just having cornflakes with sultanas every day but it was pretty boring. Here in Croatia I can't get Shreddies or Rice Krispies and a lot of the cereals are the very sugary ones. I do buy some things called honey hoops and sometimes I have 6 digestive biscuits soaked in yogurt. They have yogurt in 1 kg cartons here and I've taken to having some yogurt with the milk when serving cereals, it makes it more creamy. I could not eat the sweet and savoury stuff on the same plate like some of the American options.
Ex Pat of UK now Canadian , 2 eggs for me please & 3 for hubby, if I have toast then only 1 egg. I do enjoy oatmeal/porridge with fruit and a spoonful of plain yogurt occasionally & summer , homemade granola, 😊
A typical CANADIAN Breakfast in most places is coffee, fried eggs(sunnyside up or turned), hash browns, bacon, or sausage with two toast (Rye or white)...yes sweet stuff is OK but the eggs and bacon is typical. Sometimes I have whatever was left over from previous days dinner for breakfast.