How often do you have a fry up/full Irish?

Molloy10

It's been months since I had one for breakfast sadly Absolutely love them, but their terrible for you. How often do you have them?

pwurple

Rarely. Think they are way too greasy in the mornings. Hate that puddle of grease on a plate.

Closest I usually get is a grilled black pudding and tomato with a poached egg. Nomnom.

HemlockOption

Molloy10 wrote: »

It's been months since I had one for breakfast sadly Absolutely love them, but their terrible for you. How often do you have them?

Even worse for the animals

donegal_man

Having one right now. Does it still count if the rashers, sausages & pudding are grilled?

Tom Dunne

A full fry up? Never. I'd always grill/air-fry.

As for a full breakfast, rarely. Probably once or twice a year, especially as a treat if we have friends over after a night out.

However, I would have the occasional black pudding/white pudding sandwich, or maybe a sausage in a roll about once or twice a month.

ibarelycare

Once or twice a year! Christmas morning, as it's tradition. And then maybe if I'm staying in a hotel and manage to get up for breakfast. I'm not a huge fan, but they're nice the odd time. Have scrambled eggs most weekends, sometimes I'll have a piece of bacon or turkey bacon with them.

Lovely Bloke

About once every six week, but not usually for breakfast. And I don't fry anything apart from dry-frying mushrooms.

Sausages
Pudding
Bacon
Poached Egg
Spice Burger
Tomato
Beans
Toast
Tae

The Hill Billy

HemlockOption wrote: »

Even worse for the animals

Please do not bring any anti-meat-eating agenda into this forum. This may be addressed in other, more suitable forums.

Thanks,

tHB

ireland.man

I think once a month I eat a full, greasy Irish breakfast and that's not too frequent. The best cup of tea you can drink is with that type of breakfast!

Btw, anyone know the difference between an Ulster and an Irish fry up?

pwurple

ireland.man wrote: »

Btw, anyone know the difference between an Ulster and an Irish fry up?

They have farls or boxty I think on the ulster fry?

April O Neill

Rarely a full one, but I like to have one if I'm travelling a long way that day as they keep you full until dinnertime almost.

Gran Hermano

ireland.man wrote: »

Btw, anyone know the difference between an Ulster and an Irish fry up?

Extra ORANGE juice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast#Ulster

Mr. CooL ICE

I never have a full irish, but have a reduced fry as my breakfast every day. Basically some bacon, gluten-free sausages and scrambled eggs with black coffee.

bigneacy

An actual full irish - very very rarely. Had rindless rashers, reduced fat gluten free sausages, vegtable roll, scrambled eggs, wholemeal toast and beans just yesterday morning - all fried in fry light. Would have also had boxty but the butchers had none left.

As close as you can get to a full irish on slimming world whilst staying syn free!!

B0jangles

Not strictly on-topic, but I accidentally bought some of Clonakilty's gluten-free white pudding. I was expecting it to be awful but it was actually very very good- a bit blander than my favorite ordinary white pud (Rudds); I definitely wouldn't have guessed it was gluten-free.

MissFlitworth

Almost never, I'm a one-pork-product-and-eggs-at-a-time girl. Rashers and eggs/sausages and eggs, eggs by themselves but I don't love a full Irish at all

soundsofgeisha

I stopped having sausages because I didn't trust what was going into them! But if I'm in a restaurant for brunch and if they have nice looking big homemade sausages with loads of herbs, I'll go for that.

At home I'll have a veggie sausage from the Linda McCartney range, some scrambled eggs too. Sometimes on some rye bread.

Would have the brunch version maybe 5 - 10 times a year?

gg2

Myself and my ex used to take it in turns to make a "full Irish" each Saturday.

Mine consisted of homemade sausages (well the butcher's homemade:P), a slice of dark wholemeal toast, scrambled eggs with sun dried tomatoes or poached eggs, portobello mushrooms, ballymaloe relish and a big cup of shcauld...
His was about 8 of those little tiny sausages (4 each!!), bacon, black pudding, fried eggs, white toast, fried mushrooms n onions could never get through it..... Started to realise I never felt good on a Saturday come about 4 o'clock and stopped eating them.

Was watching Nigel Slater (I find him so annoying tbh) this evening and he made a breakfast which was basically sausages taken out of their casing fried with a pan with onions and mushrooms I think (he said to throw in whatever you fancy) and eggs added at the end...... Looked delish

Billy86

Only the odd time and I only actually dry-fry the egg (or poach) and mushrooms, but a nice addition is a tomato with the top chopped off, then each segment about half emptied and filled with cheese, grilled for as long as the rashers/sausages. Gawrjis, so it is!

EDIT: Oh, and McCabridges with a good slobbering of butter is absolutely key to any full breakfast.

Faith

We have one maybe once a month, at a maximum (usually reserved for bad hangovers). I don't actually like half the components though, so I tend to just eat sausages, fried eggs, black pudding and toast, maybe a grilled tomato.

Mellor

The "full" Irish, rarely. But I eat eggs, rashers, sausages, mushrooms in various combinations all the time.

Dizzyblonde

I'll have a full Irish only 3 or 4 times a year, when there's a crowd in the house for brunch.
I have grilled rashers and tomatoes with toast for breakfast most Saturdays.

spiderjazz

Did a big meat shop yesterday in the butchers and had some sausages, pudding roulade and rashers this morning, gorgeous!

Weathering

I'm hungover I'd murder one now. Where's me mammy

ibarelycare

spiderjazz wrote: »

Did a big meat shop yesterday in the butchers and had some sausages, pudding roulade and rashers this morning, gorgeous!

Where did you get the black and white pudding in one like that? Saw it for the first time ever in a guesthouse I was in last weekend and I loved it!

Faith

ibarelycare wrote: »

Where did you get the black and white pudding in one like that? Saw it for the first time ever in a guesthouse I was in last weekend and I loved it!

I also saw it in a guesthouse last weekend...

/Suspicious eyes

tony1980

Rarely have a full fry up but tradition to always have one on Christmas morning after the kids Santa presents are done. I do love a grilled rasher, slightly crispy with some scrambled eggs once a week though!

ibarelycare

Faith wrote: »

I also saw it in a guesthouse last weekend...

/Suspicious eyes

:eek: Were you in Achill??

Faith

ibarelycare wrote: »

:eek: Were you in Achill??

No, Kinsale. Funny coincidence though

the beer revolu

ireland.man wrote: »

Btw, anyone know the difference between an Ulster and an Irish fry up?

Or for that matter, the difference between an Irish, Ulster, Scottish, Welsh and English breakfast?

Ulster and Scottish will have "tattie scons" (potato bread).
Ulster will have soda farls (fried white soda bread, I think).
All the others are pretty much the same, depending on who you ask with variations in beans, potatoes/hash brown/chips, mushrooms etc.

I very rarely have a full fry - usually when we have visitors - but often have streaky rashers or sausages or black pudding but rarely together.

sbsquarepants

Not very often (unfortunately) maybe 1 a month or slightly less, although not actually fried - George Foreman to the rescue and poached eggs. Any time I stay in a hotel with a buffet breakfast though I eat about 6 months worth at a sitting, it's perfect after drinking food!