This is not a full English due to the following issues or errors:

  • Fried eggs are ideal, poached acceptable, and some oddballs like scrambled. Boiled egg is not acceptable. There should be two eggs as standard, more if the breakfast is a ‘large’.
  • It’s missing baked beans that have simmered until the sauce thickens into a syrup.
  • While cafes love to serve this kind of tomato that’s only because it’s easy to keep a pot of chopped, tinned tomatoes warm. If you’re going tinned, they should be good quality whole plum tomatoes. But well-grilled fresh tomatoes are acceptable. No cherries. No vine attached. Definitely no raw tomato.
  • It’s missing the black pudding which elevates a fry-up into the full English.
  • Fans of the full English almost all prefer cooked sausages over raw ones.
  • The mushrooms look like they came in a tin. Ideally whole field or chestnut mushrooms shoud be used.

There is hearty debate amongst the governing body of the full English about whether or not hash browns are acceptable on a breakfast. Many declare them to be unwanted compared to, for example, bubble and squeak or a tattie scone, or even fried potatoes. They go further and label them ‘trash browns’, ‘American nonsense’, or just ‘shite’. Personally I don’t mind them, and consider them to be an optional addition, but not a core requirement of the full English. There are many other optional additions, not to mention regional specialities which render an Ulster fry very different to a full Welsh or a full Scottish. Hogs pudding, white pudding, fruit pudding, haggis, Lorne sausage, potato farl, soda bread, laverbread, kidneys, etc.

I am available for for keynote speeches on the subject should anyone be organising a full English conference.

Considering the quality of the cooking points to it being committed by an American black pudding likely wasn’t available as it’s illegal in the United States.
Should be illegal everywhere
Not really it’s delicious. And eaten in one form or another in all parts of the world.
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I’m guessing you’ve never tried it. It’s a glorious food stuff and the full English is its perfect context.
Accurate, meat is universally gross

A strong position to take on a post about a full English.

Veggie versions abound, though, replacing pork sausages with Glamorgan sausages and bacon with halloumi or some such. And you can get vegan black pudding too, though I’ve never tried it. A good veggie version is fine eating.

Once you go full vegan though, it gets a bit harder since you also need to fake the eggs (and I’ve only heard of people doing tofu-based scrambled ‘eggs’) and faking or swapping out the bacon and the sausages and the black pudding so by that stage I’d be wondering why I was trying to recreate such a meat forward meal.

Vegan tofu eggs are actually pretty good, you use this sulphur salt to add the flavors. But you can’t do a fried egg, just scrambled, which ruins the experience. However I’m totally fine with eating eggs because eggs aren’t alive. Vegan bacon is a crime against humanity, but maybe one day it won’t be. Veggie sausages are solid. So…yeah you can mostly assemble it.

As the world dies I’m hoping we figure out some better veggie options (not necessarily meat substitutes, just interesting things to do with veggies).