Full English breakfast

Another question from the Brit-coms on PBS: what do you get when someone serves a "full English breakfast"?

The full heart attack on a plate - bacon, sausages, fried eggs, fried bread, tomatoes, mushrooms and anything else there's room for. I go for the vegi-sausage version myself so I'm not an authority, but I get the impression that the full English is easier to find in Ireland these days.

You forgot the black and white pudding, and the tinned beans!

What's black and white pudding? Beans for breakfast?

Believe me, you'd rather not know, and yes, we eat baked beans for breakfast.

That will get you going in the morning.

May I just say: "porridge and kippers"?

These days it seems to be :
fruit juice
the core : bacon, sausage, egg, tomato, mushroom, toast
often baked-beans (+ black-pudding - regional variation) also sometimes includes hash-brown type potato

more toast and preserve/jam/marmalade
coffee/tea

makes one drool.

I noticed that a mini-sausage equivalent to black-pudding is sometimes available in Belgium along with very streaky bacon and scrambled egg. White pudding is a northern addition - from the Borders/Scotland - never encounter it down Sarf.

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