Traditional English Breakfast - The Secrets Behind One Of The Most British Dishes You Can Eat

Eight ingredients adorn your plate when you order the "Full English Breakfast" at Terry's Cafe in London, including black pudding, baked beans and bubble and squeak. We show how the national dish is prepared.

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Report, Camera, Edit: Robert Richter

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[keithtansley]

Just one egg? Any less than two is an insult to a chicken.

[trajancanada]

Now that's the kind of breakfast to start the morning with -- and right afterwards to go back to bed until mid-afternoon.

[michaelm]

My parents from Ireland cooked up a fry every weekend here in the States. I was never much for baked beans, and didn't do the mash with cabbage. The most difficult items to get in the States are the black pudding, the Irish sausages (American breakfast sausage is different) and thicker bacon. But there are several Irish shops in Boston, MA where they make their own sausages and black and white puddings. The entire fry was washed down with plenty of pot brewed, loose Lyons or Barry's tea.

[ammovette]

I spent 5 years in England and their traditional breakfast is on point!!!

[mannyb]

I had the full English breakfast once but at a different place while on short stay in London and I really liked it, with all the trimmings (blood sausage, baked beans, bubble and squeak included), it was love at first taste.

[frakundo]

Oh yes, they call it full English…I have been making it since college and call it “I’m so drunk let’s fry everything in my fridge and call it the night” cheers everyone

[itouchelmo]

"the best time to come and have breakfast is in the morning"

[andrewjones-productions]

This isn't the only classic 'English Breakfast' however. Kippers with a fried or poached egg is also a very good alternative and far healthier too. People would of course vary their diet and not all of the ingredients would be served in a home as Austin rightly suggests to us. A traditional Welsh breakfast using laverbread is also an alternative from the UK, but this video is about the English breakfast. Personally and even though I am Welsh, I like the English breakfast, but I wouldn't want to eat it every day. A good black pudding is very delicious, but 'bubble and squeak' was not something that was ever served in my family or extended family. Any leftovers would be used to make a late night supper called 'broes'.

[malemutekid]

I'm French and I love English cuisine

[sichhuang]

Bring up my good memories of London, I used to came in every single weekend ❤

[hoilst]

"To eat well in England, you should have breakfast three times a day" - W. Somerset Maugham

[EXSonic]

On my first trip to the UK, I made sure to get this for breakfast and it is amazing. I even liked the black pudding which I didn't think I would based on my experiences with other blood dishes.

[paulhollis]

That’s Great Suffolk St, about a 10 minute walk from Borough Market and a few minutes walk from my office. Terry’s is always busy and that means that it’s good.

[willyung]

I cant say I ever felt like running 5 marathons after a full english

[MealsFromAnarchyUK]

Bubble n squeak on a breakfast, what a legend.

[manithangavalu]

Cholesterol laden breakfast!
Terry looks like a mad scientist.

[BeaglefreilaufKalkar]

The way the mushrooms and eggs are fried makes me cry, the oil is way to cold.

[Lofarl]

Jesse Plemons can knock out a decent fry up.

[learnurduwithsara]

I made english breakfast few days ago. I added some Spinach.

[DavidJensen-nmsf]

When I was in my 20's, I could take down a full breakfast. I'm 54, now.