This is not a full English due to the following issues or errors:
- Fried eggs are ideal, poached acceptable, and some oddballs like scrambled. Boiled egg is not acceptable. There should be two eggs as standard, more if the breakfast is a ‘large’.
- It’s missing baked beans that have simmered until the sauce thickens into a syrup.
- While cafes love to serve this kind of tomato that’s only because it’s easy to keep a pot of chopped, tinned tomatoes warm. If you’re going tinned, they should be good quality whole plum tomatoes. But well-grilled fresh tomatoes are acceptable. No cherries. No vine attached. Definitely no raw tomato.
- It’s missing the black pudding which elevates a fry-up into the full English.
- Fans of the full English almost all prefer cooked sausages over raw ones.
- The mushrooms look like they came in a tin. Ideally whole field or chestnut mushrooms shoud be used.
There is hearty debate amongst the governing body of the full English about whether or not hash browns are acceptable on a breakfast. Many declare them to be unwanted compared to, for example, bubble and squeak or a tattie scone, or even fried potatoes. They go further and label them ‘trash browns’, ‘American nonsense’, or just ‘shite’. Personally I don’t mind them, and consider them to be an optional addition, but not a core requirement of the full English. There are many other optional additions, not to mention regional specialities which render an Ulster fry very different to a full Welsh or a full Scottish. Hogs pudding, white pudding, fruit pudding, haggis, Lorne sausage, potato farl, soda bread, laverbread, kidneys, etc.
I am available for for keynote speeches on the subject should anyone be organising a full English conference.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
The utter lack of seasoning make me think this is authentic.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Heat is classified as a seaoning now.
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Didn’t use enough of that either. Only the bacon looks like it has seen a grill or pan.
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I mean, it kind of can be
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
What sort of seasoning would you require on sausages or mushrooms…?
BetaBlake@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I understand that the shrooms in a full English are usually just this way, but literally speaking you can season the shit out of mushrooms with all sorts of flavorings.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Salt on mushrooms, herbs on sausages.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The seasoning is the bacon grease this all cooks in. Besides salt and pepper for the egg, that’s generally all this needs.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
a worrying amount of people seem to only consider habanero peppers as flavourful, anything else is unseasoned
Senseless@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Always can add some brown sauce.