The Great English Breakfast: Select your FIVE must-have items + one condiment

[SockMonster]

Poached egg
Bacon
Mushrooms
Brown toast
Grilled tomatoes
Ketchup

 

[GoingUp]

Need a good slice of fried bread on the plate.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Kippers
Prawns
Haddock
Lobster
Rice
Hollandaise Sauce

 

[Box of Frogs]

Eggs (Fried or scrambled
Bacon
Sausage
Mushrooms
Black pudding or Hash Browns - can't decide which

Black pepper

Tea and toast on the side obvs.

 

[seagull_in_malaysia]

Anybody who puts beans on the same plate as egg is quite simply a wrongun.

I take it you're not a fan of poached egg and beans on toast then

 

[Guinness Boy]

Poached egg
Bacon
Mushrooms
Brown toast
Grilled tomatoes
Ketchup

:safeway:

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Egg
Sausage
Bacon
Hash brown
Black Pudding

Tommy K.

Lovely stuff. I would actually prefer chips to bacon, but an english breakfast needs bacon for it to be an english breakfast

 

[Lady Bracknell]

Kippers
Prawns
Haddock
Lobster
Rice
Hollandaise Sauce

Liar.

 

[Lady Bracknell]

Any fule kno that breakfast is not complete without:

Bacon - unsmoked and crispy
Eggs - fried
Grilled tomatoes - always real ones, never tinned
Fried bread - white sliced
Mushrooms
Does salt count as a condiment for these purposes? Because any sort of sauce is WRONG.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Fried eggs
Bacon
Sausage
Mushrooms
Toast with butter

Brown sauce

And a mug of tea every time.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Poached egg
Quality sausage
Grilled fresh toms
Lambs kidneys
Chablis

+ brown sauce

 

[beorhthelm]

Kippers
Prawns
Haddock
Lobster
Rice
Hollandaise Sauce

Kippers is a good shout, but Scottish breakfast shirley?

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

Scrambled eggs
Bacon
Sausage
Mushrooms
On toast

Condiment: Pickle

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Good quality smoked back bacon - preferably rind on.
Proper English Breakfast Sausage
Traditional Black Pudding, thick cut and not served in hockey puck consistency.
Poached free range egg with a runny yolk (if it's overcooked, it goes back)
Fried Bread

Large mug of tea that has come out of an industrial sized urn.

If the egg is good enough you shouldn't need any sauces but just in case, Wilkin & Sons Tiptree Brown Sauce

 

[desprateseagull]

bacon x2
eggs
sausage
beans
hash brown / toast

ketchup

 

[The Spanish]

Bacon - crispy
Egg - fried, sunny side up, runny
Tomato - whole, grilled
Fried Bread - firm, not soggy

These are the essentials, and then I am quite happy with any one of:
Sausage
Mushrooms
Baked Beans
Black Pudding
although I guess I would generally go for sausage.

Brown sauce, preferably Daddies.

Orange Juice.

Black Coffee.

Toast and Marmalade.

And that is a perfect British Breakfast. Ideally on a Sunday morning with all the Sunday papers reading the reports of a 3-0 win against Reading.

Orange juice and black coffee is the weirdest pairing ever. Both lovely individually but for breakfast. Terrible. Yeah if you are on a cruise or in a hotel or an American. For an English breakfast? No way.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Could I go for two courses?

Smoked Salmon and brown toast

Followed by: Eggs (scrambled), Bacon and Sausage

HP Sauce

 

[joker]

Sausage
Bacon
Scrambled
Toast
Black Pudding

Daddies brown sauce

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Sausage
Bacon
Fried egg
Mushrooms
Baked beans

Daddies sauce

Pint of properly steeped tea with two sugars

 

[tinycowboy]

Sausage, fried egg, hash brown, toast, ketchup. No fifth element for me. I know when to quit.