Full English breakfast
The normal ingredients of a traditional full English breakfast are bacon (usually back bacon), eggs, fried or grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread or toast and sausages, usually served with a mug of tea. Black pudding is added in some regions as well as 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 an occasional modern addition. 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, sauteed, sliced potato, and fried tomato. Baked beans and sauteed mushrooms are also sometimes included, as well as liver (although popularity has declined in recent years), and brown soda bread. 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.
FISH AND CHIPS
Fish and chips is a popular take-away food with British origins, consists of deep-fried fish in batter or breadcrumbs with deep-fried chipped potatoes.
The original takeaway food of England established itself as a national dish some time in the second half of the 19th century.
Fried fish had been eaten for many centuries, but its combination with deep-fried chipped potatoes appears to be an invention of the Victorian era.
In the United Kingdom fish and chips usually sell through independent restaurants and take-aways known as chippies, chippers or chip shops.
