The Ultimate English Breakfast

Adding to our breakfast series here, here, and here, we note that Country Life magazine has been trying to identify the ultimate full English breakfast:

Few topics are more contentious than what constitutes the classic morning fry-up. Should the eggs be fried or scrambled? Baked beans or grilled tomato? Toast or fried bread?

However, Country Life magazine has sought to set the benchmark by hunting down Britain’s best food producers to make the perfect plateful.

Controversially, its line-up only comprised sausages, white pudding, black pudding, mushrooms, bacon, and fried eggs. [What, no baked beans, no grilled tomato? G.T.]

The entire article.

British food seems to be up and coming in the States, at least according to the Telegraph's Marmite Takes Manhattan, from which we get the below list:

GREAT BRITISH GRUB

The top 10 British products sold at New England supermarket chain Stop and Shop

• Ribena

• Cadbury's chocolate fingers

• Branston pickle

• Bird's custard

• PG tips

• Marmite

• Maltesers

• Galaxy chocolate

• Jacob's cream crackers

• Peppermint Aeros

Comments

[TanGeng]

That looks absolutely disgusting. I don't understand how anyone could eat that. Ewwwww.

Please excuse my visceral reaction.

[Laura]

Do the British have a lot of indigestion? I sure would if I ate that stuff.

[Georg Thomas]

Good question, Laura. While I like the stuff - perversely-, it does not agree with me at all. I get the squitters.

I am off to Mainz, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt this morning - maybe I`ll have an English breakfast in one of the many British places in the area.

It is about time we had a post on American breakfast - don't you think?

Also, thanks a lot for the post on the Monty Python event in the royal Albert Hall. Certainly a highlight. I am afraid inertia will keep me grounded, though.

[Eric Parks]

From the looks of it, an English breakfast is the perfect way to start a 24 hour fast.

[Robert Eckerson]

That explains the fall of the British Empire.... makes me nauseous just looking at it. I'll stick with 2 eggs, wheat toast and maybe just one piece of bacon.

[Georg Thomas]

Sounds cool to me.

I'll have only one egg, two wheat toasts (correction: two slices of untoasted wheat bread), no bacon, some cheese instead, with my bread. Earl Grey, a quarter of a liter of it, as well as a glass of organge juice.

(I don't drink milk at all - it's as agreeable to my stomach as English breakfast).

[Steve]

To be fair, The picture does not do the full English justice. A couple of slices of un smoked back bacon grilled, with 2 pork sausages, fresh grilled halved tomotos, fresh mushrooms lightly sauted in butter and 2 fried eggs with runny yolk, 2 slices of thick sliced fried bread, I usually brush with oil then toast under the grill. Then you can optionally add to this Black pudding, bubble & sqeak (mashed potato mixed with onion & cabbage shaped into patties, then fried) and Baked beans. Serve with 2 slices of toast and a mug of tea. Made correctly this is deliceous and will set you up for the day, you would usually have this on a sunday or a day where you wouldnt be expecting to eat lunch.