What is a Proper English Breakfast?

[KhunLA]

36 minutes ago, NoshowJones said:

I am never able to get an English breakfast when I'm in Pattaya. I do not like black pudding, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, and do not like coffee, I like steaming hot tea, not the  lukewarm tea you always get. If you are paying for the full breakfast, surely you should be allowed to take in a flask of tea in with you.

I do understand not being allowed to bring in a flask of tea at the exclusion of paying for a cup of tea though.

Guess you'll be ordering beans & cheese on toast, muffin or crumpet 

 

I'd think as long as you're ordering a beverage / tea, you can bring your own in.  Used to do that when I drank beer.  Simply because nobody carried my tipple / Kopper Kraft.   I'd order a water or two, or large bottle & ice.   So they really couldn't cry.  If asked, I'd simply tell them you don't carry what I'm drinking.

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

Guess you'll be ordering beans & cheese on toast, muffin or crumpet 

Muffins are for breakfast

Crumpet is for teatime

[scottiejohn]

30 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Crumpet is for teatime

I thought you could get crumpet 24/7 especially if you pay for it in places like Pattaya etc!

[MangoKorat]

I don't think there is an actual 'Proper English Breakfast' - variations depend on the region of the UK and personal preferences. The only two constituents that should be in any one to be able to call it 'English Breakfast' are Bacon and Egg. Some say it must include Sauasage but an increasing number of people (including myself) won't eat that.

 

Although there have been improvements over the last few years, getting actual Bacon or decent Bacon can be difficult in Thailand.  Quite often you will find Ham is substituted for Bacon although the meal may still be named 'English'.  As far as I know - Ham is an American variation.

 

Variations can include Mushrooms, Sausage, Black Pudding, Baked Beans, Toast, Tomatoes and more.

 

For me, almost every day, whether in the UK or Thailand - its Bacon, Egg, Baked Beans, Tomatoes, sometimes Mushrooms but always Toast and of course - Tea - Yorkshire Tea.

[StreetCowboy]

12 hours ago, Mutt Daeng said:

Is Lorna sausage the LGBTQ etc version of Lorne sausage?

My apologies - auto-correct run amok.

 

[Mutt Daeng]

19 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

My apologies - auto-correct run amok.

 

I knew what you meant mate,  Just pulling your plonker.

[StreetCowboy]

2 hours ago, Mutt Daeng said:

I knew what you meant mate,  Just pulling your plonker.

Gentlemen only pull their own pudding, but no offence taken; to take offence when none was intended is theft of the worst kind; or in this instance- wurst kind

[Evil Penevil]

The development of the full English breakfast as we think of it today is an interesting chapter in food history.  Like so many food trends, the concept of a big morning meal originated with English royalty, was copied by lesser nobles and the landed gentry, then spread to the (economic) upper class and on to the middle and working classes.  But it didn't happen overnight; it took about 600 years for the full English breakfast to take the form we recognize today.

 

As breakfast slid down the social scale and into the bellies of the broad masses, it became a much simpler and smaller meal. Bacon (and/or sausages) and eggs emerged as the focal point of the full English in the early 1900s,  mainly for practical reasons of concern to  hotel and restaurant kitchens as well as home cooks.  Bacon and eggs were cheap to buy and easy and quick to fry.  Almost all the components of the full English are fried, the one outlier being tinned beans.

According to the  English Breakfast Society (https://englishbreakfastsociety.com/english-breakfast-recipe.html}, the ingredients in a full English breakfast for two should be:

4 Pork Sausages
6 Strips Of Back Bacon
4 Eggs
1 Tomato
2 Cups Of Mushrooms
1 Can Of Baked Beans
200g Of Black Pudding
Tea or Coffee
Fresh Orange Juice
6 Pieces Of Sliced Bread (two of which are fried, the others are toasted)
Selection Of Newspapers

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Yield: Breakfast For Two

NUTRITION FACTS:
750 calories and 55 grams of fat per serving.

The Web site also maintained beans should NOT be served on the same plate as the other components and gave this photo to illustrate.  I added the yellow arrow).