Full breakfast

Full English breakfast

The normal ingredients of a traditional full English breakfast are bacon (traditionally back bacon, less commonly streaky bacon), egg

s, fried or gr

illed tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread or toast and sausages, usually served with a mug of tea.

Black pudding is added in some regions, as is fried leftover mashed potatoes (called potato cakes). Originally a way to use up leftover vegetables from the main meal of the day before, bubble and squeak, shallow-fried leftover vegetables with potato, has become a breakfast feature in its own right. Hash browns and baked beans are a common modern addition, while onions, either fried or in rings, occasionally appear. In the North Midlands, fried or grilled oatcakes sometimes replace fried bread. When an English breakfast is ordered to contain everything available it is often referred to as a Full English, or a Full Monty.

Full Irish breakfast

An Irish breakfast consisting of sausages, black and white pudding, bacon and fried eggs.
In Ireland, as elsewhere, the exact constituents of a full breakfast vary, depending on geographical area, personal taste and cultural affiliation. Traditionally, the most common ingredients are bacon rashers, sausages, fried eggs, white pudding, black pudding, toast, sliced potato, and fried tomato.[4] Sauteed mushrooms are also sometimes included,[5] as well as liver (although popularity has declined in recent years), and brown soda bread.[citation needed] A full Irish breakfast may be accompanied with a strong Irish Breakfast tea such as Barry's Tea, Lyons Tea, or Bewley's breakfast blend served with milk. Fried potato bread, farl, potato farl or toast is often served as an alternative to brown soda bread.

Ulster Fry

An Ulster Fry is a dish similar to the Irish breakfast or the Full English, and is popular throughout Ulster.

A traditional Ulster Fry consists of bacon, eggs, sausages (either pork or beef), the farl form of soda bread (the farl is split in half crossways to expose the inner bread and then fried with the exposed side down), potato bread[6] and wheaten farl. Other common components include mushrooms, baked beans or pancake. All this is traditionally fried, however in recent decades, people have taken to grilling the ingredients instead.
The Ulster Fry is often served for breakfast, lunch and dinner in households and cafés around the province. Emigrants have also popularised the serving of an Ulster Fry outside Ulster.
The usual accompaniment is strong tea, typically a blend with a high proportion of Assam leaves.
Between 2001 and 2007 the television channel BBC Two Northern Ireland used a station ID during local opt-outs from national UK programming which featured the BBC Two logo eating an Ulster Fry.