Irish breakfast

To take full advantage of Flickr, you should use a JavaScript-enabled browser and
install the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player.

Comments

Carisenda says:

*cough* English. *cough*
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

euroninja! says:

Mmmmm, the full Irish. Delicious. But where oh where are the white pudding, baked beans and fried mushrooms? Are you on some sort of crazy American diet?
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

ceejayoz says:

Cameraphone NYC?

Methinks you mistagged your Ireland photos... :-p
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Carisenda, that's definitely not an English breakfast. I've never seen a tomato in an English breakfast and I've definitely never seen Black pudding in an English breakfast.

Not content with 800 years of oppression the English attempt to claim our breakfasts ;)
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Dunstan says:

daveirl, I've never had/made/ordered an english breakfast _without_ black pudding and fried tomato.

Maybe it should be better known as a British Breakfast? :o)
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

JodiWarren says:

Err, ye olde Full English traditionally has tomato and black pudding in it, though they're often served without black pudding nowadays as it's gross and wrong and stuff.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

ciaron says:

Let's just agree that since it's in Ireland it's a full Irish, shall we? ;)
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Isaac Forman says:

I want to flag this as "may offend". Not a pretty breakfast!
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Neil T says:

The Ulster Fry is the king of all cooked breakfasts.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

ladyb says:

dunstanorchard - calling it a British breakfast does not somehow include the Irish connection there!

I'm claiming it for Eire for the following:
1.as pointed out it was served in Ireland
2.It was likely served to a man with a stinking hangover
3.We are the far better drinkers,only the scottish might keep up, hence we need more hangover fries.

Although in second thoughts...that egg looks so dodgy maybe we should let the Brits claim it????
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

tim912 says:

It's certainly an American take on whatever type of breakfast it is - only an American would be using only a fork to eat it! :-)
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

condor says:

No one noticed the Irish Soda Bread at the top of the frame?

In an Ulster Fry you get sweetened bread, but not in Monaghan, Cavan or Donegal.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

randomdaftname says:

The top bit of pudding looks like it's the white variety.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Spikeo [deleted] says:

i spotted dunstan! on the internet! incredible!
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Copydesk Martin says:

This is a bit more like a Scottish breakfast, although the tattie scone, dumpling, fried bread, toast and mushrooms are missing.

And please, please, please, no-one post and tell me porridge is a Scottish breakfast.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

cocovan says:

I can only point you guys at a full Scottish breakfast consumed on New Year's morning after a heavy Hogmanay!

(Complete with tags for reference on various "bits")

Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Carisenda says:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_English_breakfast
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

varohaub says:

I spent three months schlepping a backpack through Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England, staying mostly at B&Bs in each country, and I can state without any hesitation that breakfast is basically the same in each of those four regions. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

jmason says:

anyway, all credit to Jason for eating black pudding. most USians of my acquaintance tend to shy away from sausages made mainly from bloodsoaked oatmeal.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Carisenda says:

varohaub - damn your eyes they are not the same! (And yes, my name is Samuel.)
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Mr-Wild says:

mmmm... English/Irish/Scottish/Welsh breakfast. A national obsession.

Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

ladyb says:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_breakfast

Compare the pics
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

esteban says:

God bless the fry up no matter what you call it.
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

josette says:

it doesn't matter what you call it--as long as the word 'breakfast' is in there somewhere, i will eat it.
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

birdbath says:

gah! perfidious moustache-twirling albionites telling me what my breakfast is?

this from the culture that gave us such culinary train-wrecks as the deep-fried Mars bar, chip butties and bovril?

i think not.
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

flwombat says:

From where I'm sitting (in the midwest of the U.S.A.), it certainly seems to be a commendably filling breakfast. Just glancing through the pics included in Wild's comment leaves me feeling like I won't eat for days.
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

NutsyFagan says:

I'm hungry...
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

genghis says:

The real test of whether it's Irish or not would be the bacon. Which looks pretty un-British to me.

Also the actual location of the breakfast would appear to be a logical smackdown from where I'm sitting.
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

jf1234 says:

the "british" versus "irish" breakfast debate is mentioned on this hilarious wiki page called "the lamest edit wars ever"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_w ars_ever

another heated edit war is "petrol" versus "gasoline"

btw - the photo way above is an English breakfast. Irish breakfasts have more than just 1 slice of bacon, definitely fried mushrooms, at least three sausages, white pudding and lashings of toast and soda bread. the cup of coffee is too small - an irish breakie would have a big huge mug of the stuff...
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

ladyb says:

fried mushrooms.....are you kidding me.........seriously, I have never in my life had a fried breakfast in Ireland served to me with fried mushrooms...not unless I requested them in Bewleys or something!
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Irish Typepad says:

I just had the same breakfast aboard Irish Rail and feel that my cholesterol level is high enough to tackle the day ahead. Now, where is my breakfast Guinness to dilute that rancid orange juice?
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

jf1234 says:

"fried mushrooms.....are you kidding me.........seriously, I have never in my life had a fried breakfast in Ireland served to me with fried mushrooms"

Dead right - i stand corrected. I've been living in Sasana (England) too long.

In Cork, its grilled mushrooms - never fried. But its not part and parcel of the core breakfast, so you usually don't have them unless you ask.
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

ebby says:

ummm depends on the place you get it from - a lot of "Irish Breakfasts" now cater for English tastes too - particularly during the tourist season. I used to work in the Living Room in Galway, and they don't even call their fry an Irish or English breakfast, as it's bloody huge, and comes with potato wedges to top off the experience.

so, my point is that you can get fried mushrooms in some places, but it's an english import.

The different breakfasts are merging together as people travel and ask for different things.

My mum used to run a B&B and the frys we served were different depending on what people asked for.
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Would you like to comment?

[?]

	jkottke's photostream
		588 uploads

6 people call this photo a favorite

Additional Information

Taken on May 29, 2005
Viewed 15,019 times

Add to your map

Yay location removed

...

(Some formats are OK.)

Or, remove it from the map.

Go to the map

You	Sign in \| Create Your Free Account
Explore	Places \| Last 7 Days \| This Month \| Popular Tags \| The Commons \| Creative Commons \| Search
Help	Community Guidelines \| The Help Forum \| FAQ \| Sitemap \| Get Help

Irish breakfast

Comments

Carisenda says:

euroninja! says:

ceejayoz says:

daveirl says:

Dunstan says:

JodiWarren says:

ciaron says:

Isaac Forman says:

Neil T says:

ladyb says:

tim912 says:

condor says:

randomdaftname says:

Spikeo [deleted] says:

Copydesk Martin says:

cocovan says:

Carisenda says:

varohaub says:

jmason says:

Carisenda says:

Mr-Wild says:

ladyb says:

esteban says:

josette says:

birdbath says:

flwombat says:

NutsyFagan says:

genghis says:

jf1234 says:

ladyb says:

Irish Typepad says:

jf1234 says:

ebby says:

Would you like to comment?

jkottke's photostream

Tags

Additional Information