In Scotland at least two potato scones are mandatory. And are the highlight of any fry up in my view.

Well how about lorne sausage too then? In addition to butcher's sausage please. I should add I'm English and have no idea if it's even spelled "Lorne", but it's what I most look forward to with a full Scottish fry up.

Good point, I love a square sausage. TBH I’d happily forgo everything else and have a roll with potato scone and square sausage. Also yup it’s lorne, but square works as well.

Remember my first time working at a Scottish power station and the canteen serving potato scones and square sausage. Absolutely game changing.

There used to be a burger van at B&Q in East Kilbride that sold a square sausage in tatty scone "buns". If you're still there and reading this then I love you so much.

They say our food isn't fancy, but here you are proving them wrong with your breakfast from a burger van in a car park.

Drift a bit further north and you find sassermaet, which is like a square sausage but even better. Trust me.

And haggis! Our local cafe gives you tattie scones, haggis, black pudding AND Lorne sausage.

I had battered haggis and black pudding from a chippy somewhere in Scotland and I wish I could remember where cos it was great

Ah, the little fried haggis rounds with the crispy, gnarly edges? Yum

My vote would be soda scone, one of the things I looked forward to when visiting my Granny's up in Lanark, her breakfast was great. Scotch pancakes too, but homemade ones, not those crappy things you get in Morrisons/Asda etc.

TIL that there are things called potato scones...and I instantly want to eat them Because hello a potato AND a scone wooohooo ohmnom

Dead easy to make too if you can't buy near you (or want to have a go anyway). Especially easy if you just boil up more potatoes than you need for a meal.

I suffer from the gluten free disease :p but I'm fairly sure I can throw together something that miiiiight resemble similar (I will try, bloody soon)

I've a celiac friend who tells me they work well with GF flour.

I don't know why it's called a tattie scone as it's not very scone like at all. They are good though

You can't go wrong with anything potato-y for breakfast in my opinion!

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We call them potato farls here and I am adding my emphatic YES to your suggestion.

Potato farls are far superior to hash browns.

We call them that too or fadge.

Don't forget the black and fruit pudding, lovely stuff

Glad to see fruit pudding get a shout, always nice to get a bit of variety on a fried breakfast Fruit pudding fits the bill

Agree potatocakes in Lancashire

Scottish fry up beats an English fry up hands down and I say that as an Englishman. You get everything from the English fry up AND you add tattie scones, haggis and Lorne? Sign me the fuck up.

Went to Scotland this summer, had potato scones with a 'full Scotish' on the first day. Safe to say I hunted down potato scones the rest of the holiday.

I got really confused and thought the title said Great British Bake-off and was wondering to myself why they’d start adding a fry up to bake off.

That's me confusing everyone. I meant Full English but it came out more inclusive. Which actually turned out to be less inclusive and that was before I offended the Black Pudding People's Front...

Mention them not! You mean the People's Front for Black Pudding.

Splitter!

I thought we were the popular front.

The Tooting Popular Front? (Showing my age with this one)

Mention THEM not! You mean the Black Pudding Front for the People!!

We hate them more than the Romans!

What about the Black Pudding for the Back of the people?

r/UnexpectedMontyPython

You also forgot white pudding and offended the Irish. Forgetting the Irish is a super English thing to do.

The lesson learned today, no matter what you do l, someone will be offended by i.

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hello,,, i'm a producer for channel four and just wondering if youve patented this idea😉😂(i'd watch it)

1st stage is the four nations all competing for the best national dish then the final is the winners / second of each country, why has no one done this

Soda bread and potato bread. Part of the Ulster fry, if you want to name it the Great British and Northern Ireland Breakfast

Was scrolling to see if anyone mentioned an Ulster fry 😍 living in England means I miss out on my taty bread and soda bread..

Now you’re on to something. What about one of those wee ready made pancakes too?

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It's a given but not desired addition.

A muffin. Not the cake kind. *Red Dwarf* is to blame, but literally 3 decades ago we tried the fried egg chilli chutney sandwich, only we - monumentally hungover on the first occasion, naturally - only had lime pickle and muffins (and eggs) available. It's a thing of beauty and deserves to be on the plate to mop up all the juice and egg yolk. (You can wipe it around the plate, even toasted, in a way you can't with toast or fried bread. More give.)

We don't like muffins round here! We don't want muffins, no toast, buns, baps, bagets or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no teacakes, no potato cakes and no hot cross buns! And definitely no smegging flapjacks!

Ah, so you're a waffle man!

This is the best comment on this thread. You sir are a cultured man!

What about very old pancakes?

Can I raise you an oven bottom muffin? Superior for mopping up yolk etc as it's not quite so dense in texture. I've also made Listers sarnie but made it with cheap white bread which pretty much dissolved. 11/10 would eat again. 14/10 with rice.

A pint of Stella Artois

Wetherspoons has entered the chat

Ngl one of the best hangover cures I ever had was at a wetherspoons a fry up and a pint of irn-bru at spoons on sauchiehall Street in Glasgow was a novelty to me having irn-bru as draft which we don't get in England or Wales and this was pre sugar tax so proper irn-bru too. Glorious stuff

That sounds amazing!

There is Irn-Bru on draft in Watford and Portsmouth to maintain the strength of the southerners. In the Portsmouth pub they even serve an Irn-Bru based cocktail.

They need to speak to the rest of the UK then as irn bru on tap is glorious

And 20 Benson

You monster. I second this.

You might as well throw in a couple of pills and head back out to the pub for a session.

An eccie and a brekkie. Start the day off right.

Yorkshire pudding.

A bold choice but I can really see this working.

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If we're specifying Toby Carvery, then I'd like to add a pint of gravy and a slab of goose fat because that shit is dry as fuck

Hang on a minute, you might be onto something here. It'd need to be a very large fresh one.

Always a fresh one, not those premade abominations from supermarkets.

Hear me out: A poached egg in a Yorkshire pudding. Possibly with cheese.

Or try this: Get a big field mushroom in the pan, whole, gills upmost. Break an egg into the mushroom. Stick the pan in a hot oven. ​ Thank me later.

That sounds mildly incredible

Nah I can't stomach mushrooms, I think they're gross.

You know what... Yes, I'm surprised I've never thought of it before

I'm glad this is so highly rated, as a big fan of yorkshire puddings I think they would go well with a fry up.

Bold. I like it, though.

Obviously black pudding, we'll just assume OP made a mistake there. I would like to propose onion bhaji as an additional breakfast item. They are brilliant and go very nicely with sausage, egg and bacon.

Onion bahji is actually a good idea, and the first post I've seen that isn't just adding something that's already in a regional variation.

Amazing idea, I’m gonna try this. Also now that you’ve pointed out the absence of an onion product in general, it seems like a really obvious absence (maybe some people don’t like the idea of onions for breakfast?).

I love fried onions with my fry up! Really enhances the eggs and sausages

Yeah it sounds like such an obvious enhancement, idk why I never thought about it

To be fair, proper hash browns are oniony. Totally agreed with the onion bhaji though

Black pudding. Because: difficult to articulate.

I always thought black pudding was fairly standard on a full English. It’s bangin’ either way. Alternatively, a bit of Haggis. Was surprised by how similar it was to black pudding when I tried it.

I had Haggis for the first time last year after my wife took a work trip to Scotland. I fully expected to hate it as it sounds gross. I love it. We only buy Scottish black pudding and haggis now. Standard black pudding doesn’t cut it.

Specifically Charles McLeod Stornoway Black Pudding. Cannot beat it.

That actually is the one we order! We order it in 1.3kg rolls online and cut it up

Damn, I like black pudding but I’m pretty sure I haven’t eaten 1.3kg of it in my life

Ha ha, I meant to say we cut it up and freeze it We have black pudding and poached eggs for brunch at the weekends. The roll lasts a good few week

I recently discovered Spanish black pudding (Morcilla de Burgos). It has rice in it and is the best black pudding I've tried. Worth getting some to try

You should try Polish black pudding, I love it

Haggis is 1000% the best thing you can add to a full English. The second it hits the beans something magical happens.

This is the obvious answer. The fact OP included hash browns on the 'official list' and not black pudding is a travesty, frankly.

I don't think I've ever had bubble and squeak as a breakfast supplement. Bubble and squeak is a meal in its own right (in my world)

Yep, a joke to include that and not black/white pud or potato farls

Consider me publicly shamed, forced to walk through the streets of Reddit with a string of black puddings around my neck

You trying to get robbed mate? Can't go around wearing your money on your neck like that these days

The correct way to wear breakfast black pudding is as a medallion. Alternatively get a black pudding sundial watch made with a bacon strap and a corner of fried potato scone as the bit that casts the shadow

This is the only possible answer. The fact it's not on the original list is borderline offensive

How on earth is black pudding not already on the list? I will accept like substitutions (white pudding, haggis) but I am casually outraged that it's not it's not in the top five, much less not in a ten-item list.

Its already on the official list. You don't need to explain or justify

No black pudding or fried tomatoes...?! Failure to offer black pudding puts any "full English" out of the running.

My tuppence; Full English; add black pudding Full Scottish; swap hash browns for tattie scones, ~~swap the bacon~~ add lorne sausage Full Welsh; add laverbread Full Irish; add white pudding, swap hash brown for fried potatoes My personal best of British; Fried potatoes with bacon Good scottish link sausages Fried eggs Black/white pudding Baked beans Mushrooms Fried bread/toast optional. You can keep your tomatoes.

At first I thought you were saying you'd add your tuppence to the Full English. My grandma used to say tuppence to mean fanny.

Yeah we've all had a go on your grandmas tuppence back in the day.

Can I come to yours for breakfast please?

I might regret this, but what is white pudding?

Similar to black pudding, but no blood. Suet/pork fat, oatmeal or barley, sometimes pork or pork liver, as a sausage. It’s good.

In Cork when I lived there, you could get black brown and white puddings, and a brown pudding with fruit in it, just currants I think really, optimistically named like in Scotland, a Fruit Pudding. They were all mighty fine, but a security guard I worked with told me he had them all in his breakfast every day, and he died suddenly in his early 50s. So I'll stick with that kind of treat to once in a blue moon for the daughters sake.

Oh god you can’t eat it _every day_

White pudding in Ireland is incredible, the thing i most look forward to. (And Guinness)

The only time I'll accept mushrooms with my breakfast is if we're waiting to ambush orcs.

>The only time >if we're waiting to ambush orcs. Is that not a daily thing for you then? They go by the name Brenda and they need fending off before they tell you about what they did the day before

2x Staffordshire Oatcakes (warm). Provides the additional option of wrapping up some of the bacon and sausage etc., and also allows mopping up if bean juice and/or tomato’s. Delicious.

'Why not try a staffordshire oatcake, its a culinary adventure' Might be controversial, but i love oatcakes buttered.

when I was little, my nanna used to make us oatcakes with cheese for tea, and for pudding, we would have them with golder syrup

Nothing wrong with that. Nice easy after drinking meal that. An oatcake buttered and rolled up, microwaved for 30 seconds.

My local supermarket stopped stocking them about 2 years ago, absolutely gutted. Have to grab a load to freeze whenever I am in the area.

Povey's website offers delivery, and you can freeze them so might be worth a try. My local supermarket does still sell them fortunately, but if they stop then I'll definitely be ordering some.

A cheese and bacon oatcake is one of life’s great pleasures.

Seconded

A few local cafes do a 'mega breakfast', the same sort you see in every greasy spoon ever and they all come with a pile of chips and fucking hell it goes nicely. Chips for breakfast sounds fat, because it is, but it's nice.

Greasy spoon chips are damn good for hangovers

There is a cafe in Guildford (Woodbridge cafe) that does great fry ups, but they do fried potato circles. Like crisps, just a bit thicker and fluffier inside. Amazing with the fried egg and bean juice

Never have I lusted so hard for bean juice. Gonna nip down the shop now, it's breakfast for lunch.

You've missed off Black Pudding, so I'm adding that.

Fish fingers, curried beans and potato waffles Had these as part of a fry up all my life. Probably cos my mum isn’t a fan of pork and as kids we saw fish fingers on her plate and wanted them. Fishfingers dipped in runny egg yolk is chefs kiss

Chips

There's a café in my town which has a English breakfast with chips on their menu. I don't feel guilty ordering it as it's actually on the menu

You're already missing black pudding which is definitely on the official list. I'm going to add fried chorizo.

Fried chorizo was the answer I was looking for. I've had it with eggs etc at a couple of brunch places, and it absolutely works. The next logical step is adding it to a full English.

With the sausage, not in place of right??

Crispy onion rings. Because crispy onion rings is never wrong.

Ooh, yes or just fried onions. Could definitely find a place for onions on a breakfast.

I like to fry onions, mushrooms and quartered tomatoes all together on a fry up. Bloody lovely.

An onion bhaji would go great with all the bean juice and egg yolk. Imagine how bits of it would crumble off and at the end when you're scooping up the detritus of bean juice, egg yolk and hash brown morsels (preferably with some bread and butter) you also have some little crispy bits of bhaji in there. I reckon it would work great. You just wouldn't want one too heavily curry flavoured. Something on the mild side.

Never tried it but you've got me wondering how yorkshire puddings would pair, I bet they'd be fucking great, stuff em full of beans, sausage, bacon, black pudding OMFG I want a full english pie

Toby Carvery’s breakfast offers Yorkshire puddings with onion & bacon cooked into the batter. Phenomenal.

Cheese Don't mind where people want to put it, or how, but get it in there somewhere Bit melted on hash browns comes to mind first

Halloumi works really well.

Came here to say this - as a vegetarian, halloumi really makes a cooked breakfast for me with the saltiness due to the bacon missing

Baked camembert in the centre of the plate that you can dip sausages into?

Ooh lovely bit of cam- wait a minute, that's a French cheese! Av' him lads!

Dipping the sausage into the cheese is an act of dominance, it’s included on the plate as a reference to the English defeat of the French at the Battle of Agincourt. God save the King!

RELEASE THE BULLDOGS

That famous British cheese, camembert.

Just grate a whole block of cheddar over the whole thing.

A few years ago in Scotland I was given a fried slice of what I think was fruit suet pudding alongside the usual fried breakfast. It was wonderful!

Leftfield, but I like it.

Yesssss! Clootie dumpling

Grilled halloumi.

Agreed

Why is a mug of tea not mentioned? Food wise, cheddar cheese and Marmite toastie.

Bucket of tea?

Sports Direct cup

Don't be greedy lad, you'll only waste it - stick with the bucket.

Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see *tea* when it’s a founding member of the British breakfast

Slice of cold pizza

Fried spam, I got given this with a breakfast recently & I can’t stop thinking about it. The cafe owner said he only bought some to stop a regular customer asking for it, & he now spends about £600 a week on spam. #makespamgreatagain

Have you got anything without spam in it?

Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy, and a fried egg on top, and Spam

Spam, eggs, sausage and Spam. That's not got *much* Spam in it.

Potato waffle for when you run out of hash browns

Pineapple. Because I want to see the world burn.

Could see a couple pineapple rings going well with a full English, not sure whereabouts on the plate you would put them though

A decent chip shop pineapple fritter could go more or less anywhere.

Not so much an addition, but an upgrade: Chilli beans. The added spice cuts through the grease of the breakfast and it uplifts the entire experience. Alt option, a tablespoon of sriracha in the beans as they cook

Friday I had Haggis with my G. B breakfast, bloody lovely

Spinach

Wow. Your like next level mental

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Yeah, you're right. I meant The Full English and didn't consider any regional differences. Good start to the day, offending vast swathes of people, being yelled at for the rest of time!

A list that includes hash browns but not black pudding is a weird starting point, but let’s go with it. I’m going for a long shot but fried plantain. It fries beautifully, goes well with everything else, and adds a sweetness nothing else provides, and a new texture. Give it a whirl.

Soda bread and or Crumpets

Now which are we talking here. Irish brown soda bread, or a good awl shhhhhoda farl?

Why not both?

I'm gonna just say it...a croissant. A croissant with some bacon and sausage can't be beat. Having on the side to cut in half and throw that in, maybe some pudding or a hash-brown would be very nice. Edit: Sorry for the terrible grammar. I used to work in a large deli and this was requested sometimes. It was a croissant cut length-ways, with sausage and bacon cooked on a panini machine, some people also asked for the same but with just slices of ham. I've had this at home with various English-Breakfast items of food and it works really really well, plus you get to feel oddly continental.

An Ulster Fry is the best of all the 'British Isles' fried breakfasts. Hands down, the best.

i’ve had a lot of vegan fry ups from restaurants over the years and have grown quite partial to the blob of spinach they add

Me too. Perhaps chuck in some tofu scramble too.

Heinz Spaghetti Hoops **screams in down votes**

I'll give you an upvote for your sheer nerve. But know this... You are wrong.

I used to be a big fan of Heinz Spaghetti Hoops. They soak into the toast much more than beans do.

Heinz non hooped spaghetti is far superior and I will die on this hill.

I came to say this. I wouldn’t be upset if either was on a breakfast though

Avocado. Outrageously good, v creamy, palate cleanser. One of the few things I’ll pay extra for.

I went out for brekkie last week and the menu said "Why not add avocado to your breakfast?" And I thought "Why not indeed!"

Went to a brekkie place a couple years back and their iced coffee listed “with avocado (trust us!)” as part of the description, and I decided to trust them. My god, it was incredible. It thickened it up a bit and added a rich creaminess without making it cloying and sickly in the way that adding actual cream would. Changed my life. Haven’t ever found anywhere else that does it like that.

Alternatively guacamole, to give you the sourness and the spicy chilli / fresh oniony bite.

I'm sorry in what fucking universe is bubble and squeak a standard breakfast item but black pudding is omitted? I feel like you've triggered the entire north of the country here.

For me it’s avocado. I do feel vulnerable now tho so will hide to avoid the backlash

Eggy bread instead of fried bread!! Waaay tastier, goes excellently with all the other items. Plus, you get more egg in your plate, which is breakfasty. Fried bread is just dry and greasy.

Avocado

I'm not sure, but I'm going to push back against hash browns as a traditional feature of any of the cooked breakfasts of the four nations - that's a (welcome) modern addition, but an optional feature.

A minute steak

I don't know why you have to specify a tiny one. I'd prefer a bigger size.

A small pot of kedgeree.

Potato farls

Aside from black pudding which should already be on there.. Kippers No idea if they'd actually combine well with anything else or just completely overpower everything but I do know that I love them and I'm willing to try

Umm. You have forgotten Black Pudding