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.
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!
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.
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.
- 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.
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!
The Dream Breakfast - 2 sausages, 3 bacon, 2 eggs, beans, mushrooms, black pudding, white pudding, tinned toms, 2 hash browns, fried bread and about a pint of coffee along with some juice. REALITY Breakfast - 3 cigarettes and a kit-kat.
@mikepxg6406 I wish Mike! It's the stress of having a small company that means I need to generate the income to pay 4 people every month. We are profitable, but it still gives me anxiety!
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!
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.
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.
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.
For the last 4 years I have consumed the same breakfast every morning. Two hard cooked eggs, sliced and heated in butter, salt, and pepper. Two slices of bacon, One sausage patty. Two sausage links. 3 oz of SPAM. And a coffee. I guess I'm a Texan who eats like a Brit.
Well I doubt I could eat that much but it sounds great, I sometimes have canned corned beef and poached eggs, kind of like a corned beef hash without the potatoes, not that I have anything against potatoes but they are too high in carbs for my keto diet.
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.
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.
U.S. regional differences challenge these sorts of generalizations, and indicate that this RUclipsr may not have travelled extensively there. I notice this habit with another popular RUclipsr, 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).
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.
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.
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 .
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!
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).
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.
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
Porridge (oatmeal for the foreigners). Add some dried fruit (not too much) and quarter teaspoon of mixed spice. made with milk. That’s if I want anything more than a glass of water.
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.
It's funny, I never used to bother with breakfast but as I've gotten older I much prefer a decent sized breakfast, a light lunch and a proper evening meal. A personal favourite? Some bacon or a few slices of smoked sausage fried up until crispy, whisk up two or three eggs before chucking them into the pan as well, scramble up until fluffy and then serve on a couple of rounds of thick sourdough toast (with plenty of salt and pepper). Takes only a few minutes, delicious!
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.
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 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 :)
The full English breakfast is a wonderful thing. Being from the Southeastern US my preferred breakfast would be eggs with sausage or bacon grits and toast (with hot sauce on the side). The grits served farther north that are sweetened are heresy! They should be served with salt, pepper and butter . More often I get a McDonalds sausage biscuit. This is making me hungry.
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.
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.
My ultimate, once or twice a month, would be: corned beef hash, 2 eggs (over easy), hash browns, and either sourdough or rye toast. Then at home Breakfast varies between cereal, toast, scrambled egg sandwich with cheese, and then anything left over from the night before or whatever tickles my fancy that morning.
The best is a British breakfast, it starts with Porage Oats served with Jersey Breakfast milk for the starter, Then we have Fried Egg with a pink yolk on Fried Bread (Which has been cooked last to absorb the bacon and tomato juice left in the frying pan smoked back bacon, beef sausage Fried tomatoes, baked beans with a sprinkle of chilli powder stirred in. Some people have black pudding and or hash browns. This followed by Dundee Marmalade on toast. This is all washed down with down with Yorkshire Tea and Jersey Breakfast Milk.
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!!
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🇬🇧.
if you try wheetabix again, enough milk with a sprinkling of sugar, eat it quick before the milk makes it go soggy. Marmite on toast, peanut butter on toast
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.
An Ulster Fry with all the meats, mushrooms and tomatoes with no beans. That means, both potato and soda farls, pork sausage, steak sausage, veggie roll, both black and white pudding and a fried egg on my soda Normally I have two slices of toast, one with marmite one with marmalade and two cups of tea.
Bacon...Egg...Fried Bread...tomatoes...the staple ingredients of an English breakfast....trouble is when I wake up I hardly have an appetite which is really frustrating.😊
Hi Alanna, I'm boringly British but and while my favourite quick breakfast is a croissant with bacon & cheese (yes, I like American-style crispy bacon, and it has to be be a non-pasteurised-milk French or Swiss cheese such as Comte or Gruyere) I think probably the greatest breakfast which I will make on a weekend is eggs Benedict. Thus the Americans win!
British. Usually (50% of the time) real Greek yogurt with blueberries, raspberries and honey. Runner up, bite size shredded wheat with blueberries, raspberries and honey. Weetabix with (specifically with cold milk) chopped banana or again blueberries and raspberries and always with honey. Sourdough toast, smashed avocado, fried egg (sunny side up, never poached as don’t like em) and sometimes with smoked salmon if I have any and with a bit of Sriracha. Streaky bacon (hate back bacon), eggs on toast. If I can’t bothered at all then a Greggs sausage roll or a Greggs sandwich and drink meal deal or a McDonald’s sausage McMuffin.
Breakfast mostly depends on your job in the UK, I'm a builder, usally I don't have time for breakfast first thing in the morning, maybe just a bit of toast (with real butter) and marmalade or marmite with a coffee to wake me up, but when at work, around 10,15am I would normally go to a cafe or canteen for a full English, very rarely in London have I seen an office worker sitting down in a cafe at that time, they tend to go for a takeaway coffee plus a sandwich or Croissant, I believe most offices have kitchen facilities these days, where the microwave gets a good bashing, tea/coffee also made on site.
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?
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 favourite weekend breakfast is Eggs Benedict. Two poached eggs on a toasted muffin, homemade Hollandaise sauce, and one or more of bacon, sausage, fried mushrooms and grilled tomatoes.
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 :)
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.
Londoner here. I don't eat 'til after I've been awake for a few hours, and then it's usually an oat-based granola bar with dried fruit and a banana. If I do have a full English, it's perhaps twice a year, and never at breakfast time, most likely for lunch. I can't eat anything heavy, or sweet or dairy for breakfast; I find it nauseas. Mid-morning/lunch I like crumpets with marmite, or occasionally eggs or beans on toast.
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
Best breakfast: Scrambled eggs with melted cheese and a slice of onion all on a toasted bagel. Don't need to eat again until mid-afternoon, even when skiing. Yum! Those Denny's Slams look like an attempt at a "Full American Breakfast."
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.
Great vlog Alanna ❤ I have a sweet tooth so I prefer the American breakfast. Pancakes 🥞 and bacon 🥓 with warm maple syrup...lush 😍 As I have my breakfast once I get to work it's either a porridge pot or a yoghurt with some grapes and nuts thrown in, not the most exciting of breakfasts 😂 While holidaying in Florida, one day we went to Dennys for breakfast, there was a chap at the next table eating steak 🥩...for breakfast 😲 I'm sure he would of loved the good old British fry up 🍳🥓🍞
As a kid I always had cereal with a spoonful of sugar sprinkled on. As an adult, my sweet tooth has chilled out and I don’t bother. But that was the hack to save the bland cereal here.
When my colleaques and I was visiting UK, it was the best part of the day every day. It keept us going strong. We was also in US and hated the sweet extra large breakfast. Shuggar got you high but slammed you down hard very quickly.
Hi Alanna, As an American, on an average weekday I eat a bowl of oatmeal with fresh blueberries and strawberries, then I add some honey, dried cranberries, and a sprinkle of Aldi’s Chocolate Coconut Granola on top. It is really delicious. But on the weekends I will have an egg omelette or pancakes. My sister makes an amazing German pancake with lemon juice and powdered sugar on top, so when we have a Family Sunday Brunch, she will make that. Also, my cousins from New York came to Illinois for a visit last week and my cousin Evan made a spinach and egg quiche. I never had quiche before that, but it was so good. Anyways have a great day, Marc K
I prefer Toast'ems because I think they are a little thinner without so much dry crust around the edges that Pop Tarts have. Also I like them warmed in the toaster - so much better warm. And actually Toast'ems is not a knock off but was invented first(the process for making the dehydrated squares). After they announced it Post cereal rushed to copy it. They came in the mid 1960's when I was a teenager & I liked them.
I love eggs and I love bread, in so many forms and combinations. So... FRENCH TOAST! I don't typically eat breakfast. But, my favorite breakfast item used to be French toast. I would treat myself (on a day off) by going to Denny's just for the French toast. Unfortunately, since 2020, I have stopped doing that. Nowadays, I'm more than likely to grab a breakfast burrito from Tims.
Every Day.... Eggs and Bacon with Bacon bacon and Bacon.... With a Little Bacon on the side..... But I must admit that the Best Bacon I ever had was in the Hotel Marriot in TimeSquare New York.... There was a bowl of Crispy Bacon... I could have eaten the Whole Bowl full!!! Some Times I will have Beans ON Toast not Toast with Beans on the SIDE!!!!! Lots of Love Alanna.... :-)) xxxx
Ok. Weetabix is the absolute perfect vessel for cut up fruits like banana and atrawberry. Add a bit of sugar, and its one of the best probably. Weetabix absolutely is made to add other stuff to it.
I love a full English breakfast, but it is very time consuming to make, my normal breakfast is Rice Krispies and mug of tea, full English is only for special occasions
Normally I have Belvita breakfast biscuits and black coffee (fresh ground or Nespresso). Ideally it would be Irish wheaten bread, salted butter and some crispy middle-cut bacon with brown sauce: my ideal bacon sandwich 🥪
Breakfast burrito is pretty common in the USA usually cheese, eggs, and sausage. Most of the time bigger breakfasts are weekend thing. (Savory and Sweet mix up is a thing in the US.....its the reason PB&J is a thing)
Greggs, either a sausage roll or a steak slice (depends on the hunger) Fruit & Fibre cereal or toast if at home (with Peanut Butter & Marmite (yes together)) The Americans favour Eggs, but what with? like an Omelette or will it have cheese on it and 10 other ingredients
Quite a few Brits have what's called a continental breakfast. This is usually a sweet pastry breakfast found in northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Maple syrup and Scotch pancakes (sounds more Canadian), Belgian waffles with syrup or whipped cream, pan au chocolat, croissants with jam or marmalade, chocolate crepes, English pancakes with sugar and lemon or orange juice, mini French baguettes with ham and/or cheese or a Danish.
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
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 !
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.
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 .
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
An Adventures and Naps video about breakfast? Yes, please!
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"When I'm at Gatwick I always have a full English and a pint." You may be the perfect woman ;-)
- 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.
A fry up isn’t a blow out without fried bread.
During the week toast and honey or marmalade and coffee
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!!
The Dream Breakfast - 2 sausages, 3 bacon, 2 eggs, beans, mushrooms, black pudding, white pudding, tinned toms, 2 hash browns, fried bread and about a pint of coffee along with some juice. REALITY Breakfast - 3 cigarettes and a kit-kat.
Breakfast of champions!
Three cigarettes and a Kit Kat lol 🤣
Then off to pick up benefit and a trip to Poundland no doubt. :)
@mikepxg6406 I wish Mike! It's the stress of having a small company that means I need to generate the income to pay 4 people every month. We are profitable, but it still gives me anxiety!
@@GiantHaystack
A very nice return serve 😉
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!
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 totally agree, full English breakfast are amazing and delicious, but obviously very high in calories and fats
Toast and marmalade and coffee is the way to start the day. Cheers Alana for a great video.😊
Thanks for watching!
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.
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.
For the last 4 years I have consumed the same breakfast every morning. Two hard cooked eggs, sliced and heated in butter, salt, and pepper. Two slices of bacon, One sausage patty. Two sausage links. 3 oz of SPAM. And a coffee. I guess I'm a Texan who eats like a Brit.
No - sounds like you're a Texan that eats like 2 Brits!😄😄
Well I doubt I could eat that much but it sounds great, I sometimes have canned corned beef and poached eggs, kind of like a corned beef hash without the potatoes, not that I have anything against potatoes but they are too high in carbs for my keto diet.
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SPAM SPAM SPAM and EGGS!
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.
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.
Dream breakfast... freshly squeezed orange juice, kedgeree, toast, and excellent tea!
U.S. regional differences challenge these sorts of generalizations, and indicate that this RUclipsr may not have travelled extensively there. I notice this habit with another popular RUclipsr, 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).
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.
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 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.
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 .
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
Coffee until 6.30pm, meal, work & bed.
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!
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).
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.
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
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!
Porridge (oatmeal for the foreigners). Add some dried fruit (not too much) and quarter teaspoon of mixed spice. made with milk. That’s if I want anything more than a glass of water.
My ideal breakfast - bacon, sausage, poached egg, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding, hash browns, toast. What I actually eat - yep - cereal .
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.
Kedgeree is nice, not had it for years
It's funny, I never used to bother with breakfast but as I've gotten older I much prefer a decent sized breakfast, a light lunch and a proper evening meal. A personal favourite? Some bacon or a few slices of smoked sausage fried up until crispy, whisk up two or three eggs before chucking them into the pan as well, scramble up until fluffy and then serve on a couple of rounds of thick sourdough toast (with plenty of salt and pepper). Takes only a few minutes, delicious!
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 video 👍🏻Here goes, bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, mushroom, tomato and black pudding. Never have beans. Normal day, toast.
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 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 :)
The full English breakfast is a wonderful thing. Being from the Southeastern US my preferred breakfast would be eggs with sausage or bacon grits and toast (with hot sauce on the side). The grits served farther north that are sweetened are heresy! They should be served with salt, pepper and butter . More often I get a McDonalds sausage biscuit. This is making me hungry.
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.
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.
My ultimate, once or twice a month, would be: corned beef hash, 2 eggs (over easy), hash browns, and either sourdough or rye toast. Then at home Breakfast varies between cereal, toast, scrambled egg sandwich with cheese, and then anything left over from the night before or whatever tickles my fancy that morning.
The best is a British breakfast, it starts with Porage Oats served with Jersey Breakfast milk for the starter, Then we have Fried Egg with a pink yolk on Fried Bread (Which has been cooked last to absorb the bacon and tomato juice left in the frying pan smoked back bacon, beef sausage Fried tomatoes, baked beans with a sprinkle of chilli powder stirred in. Some people have black pudding and or hash browns. This followed by Dundee Marmalade on toast. This is all washed down with down with Yorkshire Tea and Jersey Breakfast Milk.
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!!
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🇬🇧.
if you try wheetabix again, enough milk with a sprinkling of sugar, eat it quick before the milk makes it go soggy. Marmite on toast, peanut butter on toast
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.
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
An Ulster Fry with all the meats, mushrooms and tomatoes with no beans.
That means, both potato and soda farls, pork sausage, steak sausage, veggie roll, both black and white pudding and a fried egg on my soda
Normally I have two slices of toast, one with marmite one with marmalade and two cups of tea.
Bacon...Egg...Fried Bread...tomatoes...the staple ingredients of an English breakfast....trouble is when I wake up I hardly have an appetite which is really frustrating.😊
Have you tried the American breakfast at 'spoons yet Alanna? I tried it recently. Well, my son ordered it so I joined in!
Hi Alanna,
I'm boringly British but and while my favourite quick breakfast is a croissant with bacon & cheese (yes, I like American-style crispy bacon, and it has to be be a non-pasteurised-milk French or Swiss cheese such as Comte or Gruyere) I think probably the greatest breakfast which I will make on a weekend is eggs Benedict. Thus the Americans win!
British.
Usually (50% of the time) real Greek yogurt with blueberries, raspberries and honey.
Runner up, bite size shredded wheat with blueberries, raspberries and honey.
Weetabix with (specifically with cold milk) chopped banana or again blueberries and raspberries and always with honey.
Sourdough toast, smashed avocado, fried egg (sunny side up, never poached as don’t like em) and sometimes with smoked salmon if I have any and with a bit of Sriracha.
Streaky bacon (hate back bacon), eggs on toast.
If I can’t bothered at all then a Greggs sausage roll or a Greggs sandwich and drink meal deal or a McDonald’s sausage McMuffin.
Breakfast mostly depends on your job in the UK, I'm a builder, usally I don't have time for breakfast first thing in the morning, maybe just a bit of toast (with real butter) and marmalade or marmite with a coffee to wake me up, but when at work, around 10,15am I would normally go to a cafe or canteen for a full English, very rarely in London have I seen an office worker sitting down in a cafe at that time, they tend to go for a takeaway coffee plus a sandwich or Croissant, I believe most offices have kitchen facilities these days, where the microwave gets a good bashing, tea/coffee also made on site.
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?
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 usual breakfast is two fried eggs on buttered toast - but I add chilli flakes to the vegetable oil that I fry the eggs in. :)
My favourite weekend breakfast is Eggs Benedict. Two poached eggs on a toasted muffin, homemade Hollandaise sauce, and one or more of bacon, sausage, fried mushrooms and grilled tomatoes.
Uk and Eire...that was easy
If you are north of the border, the scotts also dont dissapoint in the breakfast offerings
@@MrBlackjimrogan i will edit to UK and Eire
@@j.s3300 we all win 🏆
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
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
My breakfast heaven is scrambled eggs with black pepper, vintage cheddar and Beachwood smoked salmon, served on a buttered, toasted, English muffin. 😋
2:30 We had pop-tarts in UK. We called them the Spice Girls.
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 :)
I always thought crumpets were the equivalent of our English muffins in America. Boy was i wrong! Crumpets are divine though. ❤
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.
Londoner here. I don't eat 'til after I've been awake for a few hours, and then it's usually an oat-based granola bar with dried fruit and a banana. If I do have a full English, it's perhaps twice a year, and never at breakfast time, most likely for lunch. I can't eat anything heavy, or sweet or dairy for breakfast; I find it nauseas. Mid-morning/lunch I like crumpets with marmite, or occasionally eggs or beans on toast.
UK here. Porridge for weekday breakfast. Fruit and/or golden syrup optional.
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
Ideal UK breakfast for me: toast and smoked mackerel with spinach and a poached egg. That's my favourite!
Best breakfast: Scrambled eggs with melted cheese and a slice of onion all on a toasted bagel. Don't need to eat again until mid-afternoon, even when skiing. Yum! Those Denny's Slams look like an attempt at a "Full American Breakfast."
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.
Brit here...and if I see full English on a menu next to American pancakes, eggs and bacon...its gonna all depend on if there's maple syrup or not!
Great vlog Alanna ❤ I have a sweet tooth so I prefer the American breakfast. Pancakes 🥞 and bacon 🥓 with warm maple syrup...lush 😍 As I have my breakfast once I get to work it's either a porridge pot or a yoghurt with some grapes and nuts thrown in, not the most exciting of breakfasts 😂 While holidaying in Florida, one day we went to Dennys for breakfast, there was a chap at the next table eating steak 🥩...for breakfast 😲 I'm sure he would of loved the good old British fry up 🍳🥓🍞
Judging from the amount of emojis, by 'work', you mean 'school'?
As a kid I always had cereal with a spoonful of sugar sprinkled on. As an adult, my sweet tooth has chilled out and I don’t bother. But that was the hack to save the bland cereal here.
When my colleaques and I was visiting UK, it was the best part of the day every day. It keept us going strong. We was also in US and hated the sweet extra large breakfast. Shuggar got you high but slammed you down hard very quickly.
Hi Alanna,
As an American, on an average weekday I eat a bowl of oatmeal with fresh blueberries and strawberries, then I add some honey, dried cranberries, and a sprinkle of Aldi’s Chocolate Coconut Granola on top. It is really delicious. But on the weekends I will have an egg omelette or pancakes. My sister makes an amazing German pancake with lemon juice and powdered sugar on top, so when we have a Family Sunday Brunch, she will make that. Also, my cousins from New York came to Illinois for a visit last week and my cousin Evan made a spinach and egg quiche. I never had quiche before that, but it was so good.
Anyways have a great day,
Marc K
I prefer Toast'ems because I think they are a little thinner without so much dry crust around the edges that Pop Tarts have. Also I like them warmed in the toaster - so much better warm. And actually Toast'ems is not a knock off but was invented first(the process for making the dehydrated squares). After they announced it Post cereal rushed to copy it. They came in the mid 1960's when I was a teenager & I liked them.
I love eggs and I love bread, in so many forms and combinations. So... FRENCH TOAST!
I don't typically eat breakfast. But, my favorite breakfast item used to be French toast. I would treat myself (on a day off) by going to Denny's just for the French toast. Unfortunately, since 2020, I have stopped doing that.
Nowadays, I'm more than likely to grab a breakfast burrito from Tims.
Every Day.... Eggs and Bacon with Bacon bacon and Bacon.... With a Little Bacon on the side..... But I must admit that the Best Bacon I ever had was in the Hotel Marriot in TimeSquare New York.... There was a bowl of Crispy Bacon... I could have eaten the Whole Bowl full!!! Some Times I will have Beans ON Toast not Toast with Beans on the SIDE!!!!! Lots of Love Alanna.... :-)) xxxx
Ok. Weetabix is the absolute perfect vessel for cut up fruits like banana and atrawberry. Add a bit of sugar, and its one of the best probably. Weetabix absolutely is made to add other stuff to it.
I love a full English breakfast, but it is very time consuming to make, my normal breakfast is Rice Krispies and mug of tea, full English is only for special occasions
Work days - toast with pate and a cup of tea. Weekends - toasted egg and bacon sandwich..
Normally I have Belvita breakfast biscuits and black coffee (fresh ground or Nespresso). Ideally it would be Irish wheaten bread, salted butter and some crispy middle-cut bacon with brown sauce: my ideal bacon sandwich 🥪
Breakfast burrito is pretty common in the USA usually cheese, eggs, and sausage. Most of the time bigger breakfasts are weekend thing. (Savory and Sweet mix up is a thing in the US.....its the reason PB&J is a thing)
Greggs, either a sausage roll or a steak slice (depends on the hunger) Fruit & Fibre cereal or toast if at home (with Peanut Butter & Marmite (yes together))
The Americans favour Eggs, but what with? like an Omelette or will it have cheese on it and 10 other ingredients
Quite a few Brits have what's called a continental breakfast. This is usually a sweet pastry breakfast found in northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Maple syrup and Scotch pancakes (sounds more Canadian), Belgian waffles with syrup or whipped cream, pan au chocolat, croissants with jam or marmalade, chocolate crepes, English pancakes with sugar and lemon or orange juice, mini French baguettes with ham and/or cheese or a Danish.
Dream breakfast: a fresh spinach frittata, grilled tomato & a hasbrown. Typical breakfast: frozen waffle with peanut butter 😢
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
French Toast is called Eggy Bread or Gypsy Toast in the UK.
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 !