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Foods in a Full English Breakfast

Name all the foods served in a traditional English breakfast.
According to the English Breakfast Society
Answers are in no particular order
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Food
Back bacon
Eggs
Sausages
Baked beans
Fried tomato
Fried mushrooms
Fried bread / Toasted bread
Black pudding
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103 Recent Comments
JackBeNimble
+9
Level 82
Jun 13, 2018
Any fellow cold baked bean eaters here?
mrnafe
+47
Level 84
Jun 13, 2018
Pervert.
luxint
+1
Level 67
Oct 7, 2018
haha! Here here mrnafe
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
Oct 8, 2018
NO! Just no.
birdorrogers
+1
Level 56
Nov 10, 2025
yes cold baked beans are elite!
Jeg333
+1
Level 53
Nov 10, 2025
Yes.
Malbaby
+8
Level 70
Jun 17, 2018
Add a cup of hot / strong tea and I'm in.
AllHailKingHomer
+3
Level 81
Oct 7, 2018
Tomato and mushroom, very nice. Meanwhile in our USA: 'Can I get a burger with no veggies?'
IsleAuHaulte
+3
Level 92
Oct 7, 2018
Burger with no vegetables? You mean hold the ketchup?
musiclistsareus
+3
Level 61
Oct 9, 2018
Onion?, Tomato?, Lettuce?, Pickles?
kalbahamut
+16
Level 79
Oct 7, 2018
what are you even talking about? Have you seen English food? Or an English breakfast? Looks like the greasy contents of a tipped over rubbish bin. Tastes about how you would imagine based on that description. And feels the same way while working its way through your digestive track. Meanwhile I've never known any Americans to order a hamburger for breakfast; and Baconator aside, rarely seen any burgers served later than breakfast without vegetables. Making myself a lovely fluffy omelette with chorizo, sundried tomatoes and pesto as I type this..
TWM03
+5
Level 72
Oct 7, 2018
Hmm... Not really sure what you mean generally by English food. If you specifically mean a full English breakfast then yes it is not very healthy. I don't eat the typical English diet by any means, but I'm just wondering if most of what people eat in England you would consider "English". We tend to eat a pretty wide range from different cuisines. Can't really think what you mean by "the greasy contents of a ripped over rubbish bin", if there's anything specific other than a Full English you would describe this way I'd be interested to hear it. Clearly though the idea that people eat burgers for breakfast in the USA is an exaggeration.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 79
Oct 8, 2018
That's true I've had great food in London it's just not usually what is thought of as traditionally English food.

Though when I have guests visit from overseas here and we go out to eat Thai food and Korean BBQ and pizza and sushi and Pho and Lebanese mezze and maybe some Cajun then I ask how they like American food they'll look confused and say we didn't have any American food.

I'll reply, of course we did, everything we ate was American. What does it matter if it was made originally by Italian or German or French immigrants in the 1800s, or by Asian or African or Arab immigrants more recently than that? It's all American now... and much like, for example, chicken tikka masala was first made in Scotland and is technically Scottish... all of the food you eat in the US regardless of who is making it, it still has an American twist and character.

Greenland
+2
Level 47
Oct 10, 2018
As a Brit who has just returned from a trip to the US - I enjoyed the breakfast there, although it was definitely inferior to a British one. Apart from breakfast, the food I have eaten in the US is not great - I've been a few times now, and keep thinking I am just eating in the wrong places or something, but I keep finding the same thing. There is some great beer there though. I am trying to be impartial - but based on my experience British food is superior to US food
joshuil
+1
Level 57
Jul 11, 2019
i think the thing is because a pretty much all of the food is modified a lot more recently than those from other countries and so is linked much more strongly with the other country still, therefore it doesn't really feel american which in many ways is an important factor in it being food from america. Anyway i disagree that just a small change makes it from the country, i think it has to go through a significant change to make it not that recognisable from the original product, e.g. pizza being drastically difficult to how it was in italy. If you count every small thing as being a new dish, then suddenly you lose the meaning of food being from a country as there becomes so many that are from said country. (Apologies for wording it so badly, but i can't be assed to change it)
kalbahamut
+4
Level 79
Jan 29, 2020
One downfall of being a tourist anywhere is that you don't always know where the good places to eat are unless you do some research or have a local to show you around.
EcceHomo
+5
Level 85
Mar 2, 2021
The English Breakfast Society sounds like a self-appointed body which holds absolutely zero authority. I am English and I don't eat what is called a "Traditional English Breakfast". But, occasionally I do like a plate populated by couple of fried eggs, 2 x grilled back bacon, slightly charred at the edges, 2 x good quality sausages, mushrooms lightly fried in a little butter, and toast. Baked beans are a fine nutritious food, but they ruin a breakfast for me. Black pudding and white pudding, again, fine food items, but not in my breakfast thanks. I might include a grilled tomato. The two other important items are 1. the condiment, which is, naturally, HP Sauce, and optional, and 2. the accompanying drink, which is of course hot strong tea, either English Breakfast blend, or Assam. I am convinced that if I presented this to you as I make it, you would be very happy, possibly even the curmudgeonly (certainly on this subject) kalbahamut.
Quizmaster
+10
Level ∞
Mar 2, 2021
How dare you impugn the authority of the English Breakfast Society!
EcceHomo
+1
Level 85
Jul 11, 2023
:D
catlady
+2
Level 48
Feb 8, 2024
American breakfasts include things like pancake with syrup on the same plate as bacon and egg. Really, really weird. The thing you can't convey about an English breakfast is the taste of good British Bacon,
ander217
+1
Level 74
Oct 8, 2018
I know no one who eats burgers for breakfast, with or without veggies, but sausage and biscuits, Egg McMuffins, or ham and cheese croissants are popular here, which are worse IMO. Since I developed an egg allergy I usually eat a small salad, bowl of soup, or leftovers, or I occasionally join my husband in his usual breakfast of deer sausage, fresh side pork, tomatoes, and fried peppers - all from our farm. Would that make his a "half English"? (We used to enjoy fried mushrooms with it, too, until I had a bad reaction to a hen-of-the-woods and we stopped gathering them.) BTW, last week at his annual checkup the doctor said my husband was the healthiest patient he'd seen in weeks, but that's probably due more to the exercise he gets while growing or hunting our food.
breasticles
+3
Level 61
Aug 20, 2019
sorry thats not even half English although it does sound good
EcceHomo
+1
Level 85
Mar 25, 2024
yes, it does all sound good :)
mikeyp
+9
Level 76
Oct 7, 2018
Please include "Antacid" as the final ingredient.
kiwiquizzer
+2
Level 68
Oct 8, 2018
Mushrooms has the lowest score yet it was the first answer I wrote! My English mum cooks a great English breakfast, but we would never have it for breakfast, rather for dinner.
coxbury
+1
Level 57
Oct 10, 2018
I am frustrated that there is no mention of devilled kidneys
Remster
+2
Level 81
Oct 10, 2018
I've stayed at a B&B in the north-east of England that served a large lettuce leaf as part of its full English breakfast. My father insisted it was for decoration; I ate it. The B&B was run by Danes, to be fair.
Geographyearth
+3
Level 71
Oct 10, 2018
I think rashers should be accepted for bacon
Kaz60
+1
Level 48
Oct 11, 2018
Hate hash browns! Mind you, I think it's probably because ive only ever had the frozen ones which are awful
catlady
+1
Level 48
Feb 8, 2024
It's really hard to find good hash browns even in North America (Brit here living in Canada). It can be hard to find a good breakfast place that does nicely seasoned hashbrowns - places like Denny's, IHop etc all seem to use unseasoned frozen hashbrowns - just potatoes and grease with no taste. Not nice.
Jakubtheking123
+6
Level 17
Oct 21, 2018
Being British, this is so easy!
roadrage
+1
Level 67
Nov 9, 2018
So I'm guessing haggis and black pudding are not the same thing.
TWM03
+2
Level 72
Nov 11, 2018
Definitely not.
FurQ
+1
Level 69
Sep 8, 2024
Haggisn- sheeps innards, spices and oats in a stomach.

Black pudding - blood.

GeoDude
+5
Level 46
Mar 4, 2019
No tea? This list is invalid.
TWM03
+2
Level 72
Jan 16, 2020
That's a drink.
Bonzo007
+7
Level 65
Feb 25, 2021
Tea is so much more than just a drink. It is the only drink which has caused wars and won wars. Tea is an essential part of the Full English breakfast and the Brits are quite particular about their national beverage. Serve a bad cuppa to a Brit and they may report you to the constabulary, and rightly so.
Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
Feb 7, 2024
I would like to introduce you to the Whisky War.
WLicky
+3
Level 18
Feb 26, 2021
hello from usa: i rememeber when we fought over tea
WLicky
+1
Level 18
Feb 26, 2021
I was thinkin that too.... NO TEA?
Neil
+1
Level 65
Jan 13, 2020
Missing liver and kidney? Both good components of a fry up but both seem to have disappeared in this modern world
CUFCDarren
+1
Level 52
Feb 11, 2024
Not for breakfast though surely. Lunch or dinner then it becomes a mixed grill.
bachslunch
+1
Level 93
Nov 10, 2025
Fried liver and deviled kidneys aren't encountered as often in a full English breakfast these days, but they can be part of it. I got one with both included when I was in London a few years ago at a breakfast place in one of the main meat markets. I was keen to try it, but found they're not for me in a morning meal.
joez
+1
Level 77
Jan 16, 2020
No English muffins?
catlady
+2
Level 48
Feb 8, 2024
I think English Muffins are a North American thing. I never encountered them in the UK. And certainly not served at breakfast.
Daggett14
+8
Level 44
Jan 16, 2020
Where's my hash browns? Ruined my day, cheers.
JojoGreenGables
+2
Level 30
Aug 18, 2024
definitely agree! one of the best bits - they should defo swap it out for the black pudding, absolutely horrendous
QuizWol
+1
Level 66
Jan 29, 2025
They are an import from USA and not yet official English breakfast item.

Having lived in USA for nearly 20 years, over 20 years ago now, the hash browns there are very different from those you find here!

Here Hash browns are nearer to what USAmericans call tater tots, only bigger.

US hash browns are either grated potato just heaped onto the grill and squashed into a flat crisp 'pancake' (like rosti really), or cubes of potato fried up with veg (peppers, onion ...) and maybe a protein like sausage or ham or tofu ...

I like all kinds.

A lazy weekend breakfast in the sunshine. almost, but not quite brunch), aaahhhhb.

bachslunch
+1
Level 93
Nov 10, 2025
The cube kind is called "home fries," at least where I live. Hash browns are the grated and fried version.
HantsAgent
+1
Level 55
Jan 21, 2020
Baked beans have no place in a traditional English breakfast. Unless you're serving children of course.
sihollett
+8
Level 91
Jan 21, 2020
That's fighting talk: beans are the anchor of the Full English! They can be badly deployed with too many, or leaking everywhere, but that doesn't stop them being a key background player, without which the dish falls apart. As for tradition, they've been a fully standardised part of the meal for over 110 years now and had long since been something common (though probably in a form more akin to pease porridge), but not ubiquitous as they have been since.
HappyQuizzer
+2
Level 68
May 28, 2022
I think people should eat whatever they like for breakfast - children though? You're definitely over the line there :)
KeiranO90
+3
Level 70
Jan 21, 2020
Full Scottish is much better.

Tattie scone is a million times better than a hash brown.

sihollett
+1
Level 91
Jan 21, 2020
Nothing is better than a hash brown. Hence why it's not on the list of things in a Full English - having nothing instead is an improvement! ;)

The various extras that Celtic nations add are all good - especially the potato things: bread, cakes (which are not the same as hashed potatoes), or scones. I will say that perhaps the Scots go overboard by having up to half a dozen type of sausage-type things (link, square, black pudding, white pudding, haggis and fruit pudding)

QuizWol
+1
Level 66
Jan 29, 2025
Hash browns are an idea imported from US.

However, what is served here as hashbrowns here is never what I saw served as such in US (lived there over 20 years). What is called hashbrowns here is more like a tatertot but bigger.

In US hashbrowns are either like rosti, grated potatoes flattened onto the grill, OR cubes of potato fried up with onion, peppers maybe with sausage or ham or tofu or somethig.

All versions are delicious, but if served up at breakfast in UK not traditional, at all; it will a take a few more decades to be that.

bachslunch
+1
Level 93
Nov 10, 2025
The cubed and fried potatoes are called "home fries." Hash browns are grated potatoes in a pancake-shaped patty.
timshorts
+1
Level 61
Nov 10, 2025
No. Lavabread is wholly disgusting. Can I please apologise to everybody who is not Welsh for this "delicacy".
andyjohn
+1
Level 34
Jan 21, 2020
i work in a café and we serve black pudding and hashbrown in our full english
IsleAuHaulte
+8
Level 92
Jan 29, 2020
I have never in my life understood why you're supposed to eat only certain foods for breakfast, but absolutely anything imaginable the rest of the day, including "breakfast food". Go out to eat before 10 or 11 A.M. and the variety is paltry and boringly redundant. Any argument about digestion or energy in the morning go out the window when you look at the wide variety of narrow breakfast diets across cultures.

As for all the people shocked by anyone eating a hamburger in the morning, what's the difference between that and steak (a tough, crappy cut) with eggs or the greasiness of seasoned pork products and tons of butter?

clivey
+3
Level 69
Feb 25, 2021
Exactly! The look you get when you get a slice of last nights pizza out the fridge before 12pm, why not?!
vermiciousknid
+3
Level 91
Feb 25, 2021
I'll take cold pizza for breakfast any day!
catlady
+1
Level 48
Feb 8, 2024
There's no difference - that all sounds quite disgusting for breakfast.
rosina
+3
Level 60
Apr 16, 2020
I'm surprised there's no hash brown
QuizWol
+1
Level 66
Jan 29, 2025
Why? It isn't English.

It is a USAmerican breakfast thing. Though, even then, British serve something USAmericans would think of as giant tater tots and not what USAmericans serve as Hashbrowns.

Alacave
+1
Level 55
Feb 25, 2021
That's strange ! I'm delighted that there is no hash brown !
clivey
+1
Level 69
Feb 25, 2021
I mean what's traditional anyway? Let every man eat what he wants and likes! Same with the controversy over the roast, and the barmcake debate.
Yungmiko3
+1
Level 28
Feb 25, 2021
And a cup of tea to top it off
WLicky
+1
Level 18
Feb 26, 2021
yesh
Poncho202
+2
Level 57
Feb 25, 2021
Um what about hashbrown???
QuizWol
+1
Level 66
Jan 29, 2025
Not british.

USAmerican breakfast thing. Though they serve different forms of hashbrowns not what is called hashbrowns in UK.

camus
+3
Level 80
Feb 25, 2021
This must be the most ingenious thumbnail choice in Jetpunk history. If I'm not mistaken these cottages (of Arlington Row in Bibury, Gloucestershire) served as Tolkien's inspiration for Hobbiton. So it's of course a reference ot England but also to Hobbits, who are famous for their rich breakfast.
sihollett
+1
Level 91
Feb 25, 2021
Is the Hobbit's breakfast that rich, given they need second breakfast afterwards?
stusum
+1
Level 64
Feb 25, 2021
My ideal breakfast:

Toast

Poached Egg

Bacon

Black Pudding

Hash Brown

Potato Scone

Fruit Pudding

rabbitfood121212
+3
Level 57
Feb 25, 2021
English breakfast is the worst (mushrooms???)

A full Irish is the way to go:

- Sausage

- Rasher (bacon)

- Black pudding

- White Pudding

- Hash Brown

- Scrambled egg

- optional: toast & beans

Teegthebeeg
+2
Level 53
Mar 1, 2021
yes, mushrooms. Cut them thickly, dry fry them for a couple of minutes to concentrate the flavour and get rid of the excess water. Then finish them off with a quick flash fry in butter. Nomnomnom...
AndreAlfaro
+1
Level 33
Feb 25, 2021
I was today years old of finding out Hash browns are not part of a traditional english breakfast.
FurQ
+1
Level 69
Sep 8, 2024
They are American.
WLicky
+1
Level 18
Feb 26, 2021
i said tea first LMAO
NV1
+1
Level 55
Apr 29, 2021
No scones?
Stoggler
+1
Level 55
Nov 12, 2025
Eh? They're an afternoon thing you have with jam and cream, and a pot of tea.
JojoGreenGables
+2
Level 30
Oct 27, 2022
Hi I'm English and I love this breakfast. Please could you add hash browns? It's the best part, even if all the ingredients are optional. Most people go for everything except black pudding, but it depends on the taste.
QuizWol
+1
Level 66
Jan 29, 2025
Hashbrowns are not British!

The ones called such here are giant USAmerican tatertots and not what is served as hashbrowns in US either.

Catgames2
+1
Level 56
Jul 17, 2023
ya know, in my country we eat two slices of bread with peanut butter or cheese. not a full on luxury dinner
NielsDeNoob2
+1
Level 75
Feb 7, 2024
Let me guess, you're Dutch
Remster
+1
Level 81
Feb 7, 2024
If ever a quiz was likely to lead to arguments ...
CyberSnare
+2
Level 59
Feb 7, 2024
This list is spot on, no more no less.
vazilega
+1
Level 29
Feb 7, 2024
No milk ? No tea ? No sugar ? (Yes, those are food)
vazilega
+1
Level 29
Feb 7, 2024
The "English Breakfast Society" is a joke.
Woozie121
+2
Level 52
Feb 7, 2024
I got 7/8 first try. I'm not even British. WHY DO I KNOW THIS?!
Hodor51
+3
Level 44
Feb 8, 2024
Happily swap out the Black pudding for hash browns and why a cup of tea isn't included I have no idea.

Perfection for me is 3 sausage, 2 bacon, scrambled egg, beans, mushrooms, 2 hash browns, tomato and toast

clivey
+1
Level 69
Feb 8, 2024
Sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs, hash brown, black pudding. Keep the toast, stick it all on barm
xtremeyoylecake
+1
Level 53
Feb 9, 2024
I remember all these bc of a fricking teen titans go episode DX
HawkeyeGaming
+2
Level 35
Feb 15, 2024
what about tea?!
FurQ
+1
Level 69
Sep 8, 2024
No bubble and squeak?

Also, fried slice should be allowed for bread/toast/fried bread.

geographylover05
+3
Level 40
Mar 1, 2025
where are hash browns
CUFCDarren
+1
Level 52
Nov 10, 2025
It says Traditional English Breakfast!
Ollie2220
+2
Level 44
Nov 10, 2025
hash browns must be here, quiz isn't complete
NQChien
+2
Level 68
Nov 10, 2025
Yuck!
CharKnado
+1
Level 21
Nov 10, 2025
The whole quiz is invalid without hash browns
Jeg333
+1
Level 53
Nov 10, 2025
Some people eat kippers in their English breakfast. Not me though.

I got them all right in 40 secs, I wasn't going particularly fast, but how in earth does anyone get it in 9 or 25 seconds!!!

akbadry
+1
Level 52
Nov 11, 2025
Don't care what is considered "traditional" or American, because the reality is what's important and literally every single time I've ordered a full English Breakfast at English restaurants hash browns have always been included so they should definitely be there - they're one of the tastiest parts of the meal!
Jeremy2011
+1
Level 46
Nov 12, 2025
I was surprised milk wasn’t there
Botticella
+1
Level 68
Jan 26, 2026
As a Canadian my version of this is a bit trimmed down:

Eggs

Bacon

Sausage

Potatoes

Broiled Tomatoes

Toast with Jam

Orange Juice

Coffee

HP sauce

Hot sauce

Contrary to popular opinion most Canadians don't eat 'Canadian Bacon' that often (we do eat is sometimes but we call it Back Bacon or Pea Meal Bacon); our go-to bacon is streaky bacon/rashers.

Also I never see broiled tomatoes on menus but thats what we had growing up so thats what I make at home. Just wanted to chime in on my favourite meal!

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