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If you plan a 12-mile hike, or intend to do farm labor (I mean labour) all day, it seems ok. In Scotland, substitute kippers for the bangers.

For me, a good breakfast is a coffee before workout and another one afterwards - maybe with a little sinful tobacco.

Can any of our readers eat this sort of breakfast below? And why is the fork on the right side of the plate? Is that an English thing?

Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 07:30 | Comments (20) | Trackbacks (0)

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I just had breakfast before my 6-mile walk. Not as big as that, though. Two sausage patties with two eggs over easy so I could dip my sausage in the yolk. Mmmmmmm.

#1 Alex G on 2022-07-08 07:57 (Reply)

We used to eat a very similar breakfast on our trips to Ireland. Loved each one but skipped the black pudding. We were then able to do all of our visitor things with out having to stop for lunch. Found the food in Ireland spectacular especially the fresh sea food.

#2 JC on 2022-07-08 08:05 (Reply)

Um, I'd say "only" the seafood.

#2.1 Bird Dog on 2022-07-08 08:06 (Reply)

I've read your posts on the food you eat while traveling. I can say I couldn't/wouldn't eat what you like. My palate and insides couldn't take your choices. Acid reflux does a number on your insides.

#2.1.1 JC on 2022-07-08 09:20 (Reply)

Certainly you can eat this kind of breakfast or its many variations (e.g. Croque Madame or Huevos Rancheros), and I do. Just make that your one and only big meal for the day.

I suspect the inappropriate fork placement is the fault of an inadequately trained wait-staff. With luck, we we soon have bipartisan Federal legislation to eliminate such etiquette disasters in the future. Of course, dissenters will immediately call for injunctions preventing the implementation of the so-called Where You Can Stick Your Fork Act. Which we can all read about...over breakfast.

#3 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2022-07-08 08:49 (Reply)

euros don't switch the knife and fork back and forth to the right hand. so they keep the knife in the left hand and the fork in the right hand.

#3.1 kon tildey on 2022-07-08 09:36 (Reply)

So your saying the KNIFE is on the wrong side? Jeez, we're gonna need a Presidential Commission to figure this one out.

#3.1.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2022-07-08 11:39 (Reply)

My parents told me that when I was a toddler they tested my left-right hand preference. I had a slight preference for picking objects up with my right hand. Which might explain why, when I first saw the fork on the left side of the plate, I picked it up with my left hand, and ever since have used the fork in my left hand.

I write with my right hand, which is in accordance with my slight preference for the right hand.

#3.1.2 Gringo on 2022-07-08 17:25 (Reply)

I can enthusiastically eat the breakfast as pictured...but not daily. I note however, the missing critical component: a large cup of black coffee.

#4 pilsnerfan (Link) on 2022-07-08 08:59 (Reply)

I truly love the Full English on occasion. I'll take the bangers over the kippers any day, and skip the blood pudding too, but I'm in for the rest!

We have a local meat shop that will make up a batch of fresh bangers (English breakfast sausage), but you have to order 25 pounds at a pop for them to take it on. That's a lot of bangers, as much as I love-em.

#5 Aggie on 2022-07-08 09:12 (Reply)

No beans?

#6 Louie Miller on 2022-07-08 09:36 (Reply)

You bet! As others, not often as my usual is a piece of fruit and a tub of yogurt but on occasions I like something more substantial. And I agree with pilsnerfan, add a big cup of coffee.

#7 Christopher B on 2022-07-08 09:45 (Reply)

Breakfast is my favorite meal. When we are traveling (mostly by car or RV) I often get to eat two breakfasts a day. My favorite is 2 eggs, 4 bacon, hash browns, English muffins and a short stack of pancakes. I'm a critic of bacon. I don't like the wimpy bacon and I would rather just pay more and get the real bacon. I cut up the eggs and then mix the hash browns and eggs together. Oh, yeah, coffee too.

#8 OneGuy on 2022-07-08 09:46 (Reply)

My wife is from Ireland and we go back to visit her relatives every couple of years. When there I always eat a full English breakfast. I like it all. Including black and white pudding and Haggis

#9 eclectickelvin on 2022-07-08 09:48 (Reply)

I normally don't eat breakfast. If I do it's to feed a hangover, which I try to avoid these days, or a lazy Saturday. But I could eat that meal and then some, no problem. I'd prefer the eggs to be sunny side up. I think it's supposed to have beans and blood sausage too.

Why does it matter where the fork goes? Is that a Yankee thing?

#10 jack walter on 2022-07-08 09:49 (Reply)

I grew up just outside of Boston and my mother taught us how to set a table and that is how we set it everyday. But until you said "is that a Yankee thing?" I never really thought about that. Maybe it is a Yankee thing.

#10.1 OneGuy on 2022-07-08 14:09 (Reply)

If I ate a breakfast like that, it would be lunch as well. My usual breakfast is protein powder mixed with whole milk. That keeps me satisfied for a couple of hours until lunch time. However, when we are traveling we will occasionally eat a big breakfast.

#11 Pod Hamp on 2022-07-08 17:07 (Reply)

In Romania the knife is place in the tines of the fork. Son #3 still does it that way if called upon to set the table.

#12 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-07-08 19:35 (Reply)

Fork has 4 letters as the word "left" does so it belongs on the left. just like spoon and knife hace 5 letters like the word "right" so they belong on the right.

#13 S.Lynn on 2022-07-09 00:28 (Reply)

A FULL English is only a breakfast fried in a pan. Usually Eggs,bacon,sausage,tomatoes, fried bread with maybe mushrooms,black pudding and Heinz beans. It is what the lady of the house cooked up for hubby and kids before work. Plus a good mug of tea

#14 Graham H on 2022-07-11 19:54 (Reply)

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