A fry-up in the morning. Is it unhealthy?

jimgoose

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I went to Spain once

All they seem to have is streaky

Not great for the bowels a week of that

The Americans are the same, their breakfast bacon is all belly-pork and narry a back-rasher to be seen.

Ipso

cj maxx wrote: »

I'd never heard of unami. Something new every day I suppose

It's that savoury "meaty flavour, as mentioned above it is common in Soy and MSG (just an extrcat for that kind of flavour and not the evil it's made out to be). Also found in parmesan cheese and tomatoes.

Giraffe Box

cj maxx wrote: »

Onion and mushrooms and tomato defo in a fry up.
Fry the mushrooms with the tomatoes fcucking lovely

Couldn't agree less.
The tomato on a fry-up is there for purely decorative purposes, and should never, ever, be eaten.
Leave it on the plate like any normal Irish person, don't be getting 'notions'.

Seamai

ShatterAlan wrote: »

I've noticed that there are 2 types of currywurst in Germany. One is with curry sauce slathered all over the chopped sausages and this is very good. I first had it in the main railway station in Cologne and went back for it everyday for the weekend. The other type is the chopped sausages with just curry powder sprinkled over and this is sh1t.

I've never had the second type, it doesn't sound appetising. If you're ever in Berlin check out Witty's, they do great currywurst and it's all organic. The last time I was there they had opened a van outside Schönfeld Airport.

ShatterAlan

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Whoa, no need to start throwing personal insults around just because you made a fry that only a, long haul, trucker could enjoy. The kind “served up” on a, late night, ferry crossing.

I believe a central “tenet” of this site is to attack the post and not the poster. Please adhere to this in future, you’re letting yourself down. Just like your fry.

This is the benchmark of a good fry. If it gets the stamp of approval from a bearded, diesel-smelling trucker or a donkey-jacket wearing docker then that is akin to a michelin star.

Mrcaramelchoc

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

That is not a fry. It is a hot salad with a rasher.

A proper fry has to include 3 sausages, hash browns, pudding, 2-3 eggs fried or scrambled, greasy mushrooms, 2-3 rashers. If you want something healthy then you can fry a half of a tomato but obviously you don't actually eat it.
Big mug of coffee or tea is the beverage of choice.
On a good day course number 2 iss pancakes with maple syrup.

Yes they are unhealthy.

Hot salad lol good one

Seamai

Giraffe Box wrote: »

Couldn't agree less.
The tomato on a fry-up is there for purely decorative purposes, and should never, ever, be eaten.
Leave it on the plate like any normal Irish person, don't be getting 'notions'.

I always eat the tomato, I never heard anyone ever saying that it wasn't meant to be eaten, seems like a waste. The jury is out on baked beans though, for me at least.

Alun

Giraffe Box wrote: »

Couldn't agree less.
The tomato on a fry-up is there for purely decorative purposes, and should never, ever, be eaten.
Leave it on the plate like any normal Irish person, don't be getting 'notions'.

The ones you find on most fries, Irish or otherwise, are made with nasty unripe tomatoes, straight from the fridge, and warmed up under a grill for 5 seconds. Horrible.

If you do it properly, i.e. use nice ripe tomatoes, season with freshly ground salt and black pepper, a little oil, and actually grill them until they take on a bit of colour, they're great.

Fish sauce? On a fry?

I’m calling the Gardaí, it’s for your own good

doodledoo2

Alun wrote: »

The ones you find on most fries, Irish or otherwise, are made with nasty unripe tomatoes, straight from the fridge, and warmed up under a grill for 5 seconds. Horrible.

If you do it properly, i.e. use nice ripe tomatoes, season with freshly ground salt and black pepper, a little oil, and actually grill them until they take on a bit of colour, they're great.

In England they often serve the whole canned type:mad:

jimgoose

ShatterAlan wrote: »

This is the benchmark of a good fry. If it gets the stamp of approval from a bearded, diesel-smelling trucker or a donkey-jacket wearing docker then that is akin to a michelin star.

If you can find a driver of a modern Actross or Globetrotter smelling of diesel then I doff my cap. That aside, I agree. "Oh Royal is the Routier... " ðŸ˜

Seamai

jimgoose wrote: »

The Americans are the same, their breakfast bacon is all belly-pork and narry a back-rasher to be seen.

I remember staying in a B&B when I was young and we were served up streaky rashers as part of our breakfast fry up. My mother was furious saying she wouldn't insult anyone with them and the owner was obviously very mean.

Seamai

Batrachotox wrote: »

Fish sauce? On a fry?

I’m calling the Gardaí, it’s for your own good

They might be lesbians, they look for any excuse to have fish sauce, they even do shots of it at parties.

ShatterAlan

Flavour Diaper wrote: »

Haven't had an irish breakfast in ten years and don't miss it. Poor quality meat made from animals that never see the light of day served with sugary beans, oily hash browns and undercooked tomatoes? Each to their own but Nah.

You do know that you are perfectly entitled to seek out rashers and sausages made from happy piggies spoiled by a doting farmer. Add to the mix some nice free-range eggs from plump chickens who have the run of the farmyard. The butter for your toast can come from fat, coddled, resplendent cows. Your potatoes, you can dig up yourself or procure from a farmers' market and par-boil then fry to perfection with a sprinking of Galway sea salt.


The salmon that you eat is most likely a tortured, farmed, misfortune whereby dye pellets have been added to the water to accentuate the pink colour instead of some brave majestic beast who has launched over waterfalls and battled with an angler before losing the fight but losing it with dignity.

El_Duderino 09

doodledoo2 wrote: »

In England they often serve the whole canned type:mad:

It's incredible. What makes anyone think a canned tomato would be a good idea?

ShatterAlan

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Is mustard supposed to be posh now?


When did that happen?

She probably thought that mustard was classy since the French make Dijon. Never mind that French cutthroat football hooligans and taxi drivers probably slather it on their jambon baguette.

Seamai

doodledoo2 wrote: »

In England they often serve the whole canned type:mad:

No No No,! My experiences of the "Full English" is that the quality of the products are usually pretty inferior. Had haggis once in Scotland instead of white pudding which was better than I expected.

EmmetSpiceland

ShatterAlan wrote: »

This is the benchmark of a good fry. If it gets the stamp of approval from a bearded, diesel-smelling trucker or a donkey-jacket wearing docker then that is akin to a michelin star.

Wouldn’t agree there. That’s like taking the advice of a “white van man” on breakfast rolls.

You’re talking about people who would eat dog food if it were fried or “sopping” with grease, all washed down with a bottle of lucozade and a fag. Hardly a “refined” palate.

I tell you what, maybe try getting your breakfast somewhere other than a garage or shopping centre. Once we’re through to the other side of this crisis, of course. You’ll find there’s places far superior to the muck you’re swilling in one of those “Kay’s Kitchen” or “Kylemore” type establishments.

The last couple of breakfasts that impressed me, personally, were in The Hazel House at the foot of the Dublin Mountains and Castlemartyr Resort Hotel. Lovely stuff.

It was a dark day for the “upmarket” breakfast when the Millstone on Dame St took their one off the menu. Very dark indeed.

Giraffe Box

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

It's incredible. What makes anyone think a canned tomato would be a good idea?

To be fair, the tomato is never going to be eaten in a fry-up anyway, so why not indeed use a canned one.
Or better still, one of those plastic tomatoes you get in a kiddies toy shop. Give it a quick wipe with a dirty cloth when you're done, and it's 'plate ready' for tomorrow morning's breakfast!

mikemac2

Colemans English Mustard obligatory

They may have pillaged us for 800 years but dammit they make good mustard

Penis Overlord

Penis Overlord wrote: »

Whatever you are serving the vegetarians for breakfast you can thrown that on mine too I always say.

I like that.

salmocab

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Wouldn’t agree there. That’s like taking the advice of a “white van man” on breakfast rolls.

You’re talking about people who would eat dog food if it were fried or “sopping” with grease, all washed down with a bottle of lucozade and a fag. Hardly a “refined” palate.

I tell you what, maybe try getting your breakfast somewhere other than a garage or shopping centre. Once we’re through to the other side of this crisis, of course. You’ll find there’s places far superior to the muck you’re swilling in one of those “Kay’s Kitchen” or “Kylemore” type establishments.

The last couple of breakfasts that impressed me, personally, were in The Hazel House at the foot of the Dublin Mountains and Castlemartyr Resort Hotel. Lovely stuff.

It was a dark day for the “upmarket” breakfast when the Millstone on Dame St took their one off the menu. Very dark indeed.

Hazel house does great food but not for breakfast. It’s a poor fry.

Pawwed Rig

I like the spreadable white pudding that you can smear on your toast.

Pawwed Rig

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

I like the spreadable white pudding that you can smear on your toast.

salmocab

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

I like the spreadable white pudding that you can smear on your toast.

Amen to that, FXBs do great pudding

SEPT 23 1989

Her indoors picked up sausage rolls filled with black pudding from dunnes a couple of weeks ago

Merciful hour the taste of them

Perfection

salmocab

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Her indoors picked up sausage rolls filled with black pudding from dunnes a couple of weeks ago

Merciful hour the taste of them

Perfection

There’s a Morton’s supermarket next door to my job and they do them at the deli. Deeelightful

Giraffe Box

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Her indoors picked up sausage rolls filled with black pudding from dunnes a couple of weeks ago

Merciful hour the taste of them

Perfection

What a review!
The late A.A. Gill couldn't have put it better himself.

ShatterAlan

mikemac2 wrote: »

Colemans English Mustard obligatory

They may have pillaged us for 800 years but dammit they make good mustard

To all those who can't agree on a sauce I would recommend trying this....


you may balk at first but that's the natural human resistance to change and / or suspicion of the unknown....


please bear with me. We have the three condiments....Coleman's English Mustard, Heinze or Chef Ketchup and a brown sauce whether it be Chef, HP or YR.


Now.....take a teaspoon of all three and mix in an egg cup or small tea cup. The finished product will have a light brown hue.


Try that as an accompaniment to your fry and let me know your verdict. To some I expect it will be an epiphany...others will call foul.....others still shall scoff at the thought of even entertaining such an exercise but to those of you who are adventurous and stout of heart I say try and allow your taste buds to overrule your intransigence.

FVP3

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Wouldn’t agree there. That’s like taking the advice of a “white van man” on breakfast rolls.

You’re talking about people who would eat dog food if it were fried or “sopping” with grease, all washed down with a bottle of lucozade and a fag. Hardly a “refined” palate.

I tell you what, maybe try getting your breakfast somewhere other than a garage or shopping centre. Once we’re through to the other side of this crisis, of course. You’ll find there’s places far superior to the muck you’re swilling in one of those “Kay’s Kitchen” or “Kylemore” type establishments.

The last couple of breakfasts that impressed me, personally, were in The Hazel House at the foot of the Dublin Mountains and Castlemartyr Resort Hotel. Lovely stuff.

It was a dark day for the “upmarket” breakfast when the Millstone on Dame St took their one off the menu. Very dark indeed.

This "opinion" is all wrong. Snobbery about breakfast fries is like snobbery about MMA.

Giraffe Box

ShatterAlan wrote: »

To all those who can't agree on a sauce I would recommend trying this....


you may balk at first but that's the natural human resistance to change and / or suspicion of the unknown....


please bear with me. We have the three condiments....Coleman's English Mustard, Heinze or Chef Ketchup and a brown sauce whether it be Chef, HP or YR.


Now.....take a teaspoon of all three and mix in an egg cup or small tea cup. The finished product will have a light brown hue.


Try that as an accompaniment to your fry and let me know your verdict. To some I expect it will be an epiphany...others will call foul.....others still shall scoff at the thought of even entertaining such an exercise but to those of you who are adventurous and stout of heart I say try and allow your taste buds to overrule your intransigence.

I say to the above with much subtlety and nuance: Never Never Never!!!

jimgoose

FVP3 wrote: »

This "opinion" is all wrong. Snobbery about breakfast fries is like snobbery about MMA.

What exact denomination of "snobbery" is acceptable to you?

FVP3

jimgoose wrote: »

What exact denomination of "snobbery" is acceptable to you?

Not sure denomination is the word we are looking for there Jim.

I myself am sick of the fancy Irish breakfast. Went to a restaurant in a salubrious suburb a few months back which has a renowned Irish breakfast but it was mediocre dry nonsense with a spicy sausage. Always a huge uncooked tomato in these places as well.

Giraffe Box

FVP3 wrote: »

Not sure denomination is the word we are looking for there Jim.

I myself am sick of the fancy Irish breakfast. Went to a restaurant in a salubrious suburb a few months back which has a renowned Irish breakfast but it was mediocre dry nonsense with a spicy sausage. Always a huge uncooked tomato in these places as well.

The tomato's just there for show, that's why they didn't bother cooking it.

Jonybgud

Penis Overlord wrote: »

Love a fry myself.

Five sausages.. the cheaper the better. I'm talking about the ones that are all water and salt and pork protein and starch. Four cheap rashers burnt to a crisp with as much crispy fat on them as possible. Two pieces of white, two pieces of black. Nothing fancy.. no Clonakilty for me.. no sir. I want no texture in my pudding, no oatmeal or fancy seasoning, just slices of cylindrical mush. A side portion of cheap beans, the fewer beans the more sweet nectar the better. Two hash browns, these should be firm and oily not soppy and oily. Mushrooms as many as you can give me and spinach too if you have it. Whatever you are serving the vegetarians for breakfast you can thrown that on mine too I always say. Ketchup and brown sauce. Butter and toast. A cupán tae. Heaven!

You're just a piss taker, shame on you, spinach? nothing green has any place near a fry.

Jonybgud

Giraffe Box wrote: »

The tomato's just there for show, that's why they didn't bother cooking it.

A cooked tomato is just the bollix.....

mikemac2

ShatterAlan wrote: »

To all those who can't agree on a sauce I would recommend trying this....


you may balk at first but that's the natural human resistance to change and / or suspicion of the unknown....


please bear with me. We have the three condiments....Coleman's English Mustard, Heinze or Chef Ketchup and a brown sauce whether it be Chef, HP or YR.


Now.....take a teaspoon of all three and mix in an egg cup or small tea cup. The finished product will have a light brown hue.


Try that as an accompaniment to your fry and let me know your verdict. To some I expect it will be an epiphany...others will call foul.....others still shall scoff at the thought of even entertaining such an exercise but to those of you who are adventurous and stout of heart I say try and allow your taste buds to overrule your intransigence.

Brown sauce is the work of the devil

Lewis_Benson

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

There’s something desperately wrong with people who like beans with a fry. Or like beans in general.
Even more perverse than people who like those tasteless triangle hash brown yokes that have creeped onto the fry plate in the past 15 years. Cheap auld shïte designed to bulk up the meal.

Dude,
I had a full tin of Heinz baked beans, 3 hash browns, 6 slices of black pudding, and 3 runny eggs for dinner.
Washed down with 6 cans if Guinness.

I'll post in the etiquette thread tomorrow.

Lewis_Benson

Lewis_Benson wrote: »

Dude,
I had a full tin of Heinz baked beans, 3 hash browns, 6 slices of black pudding, and 3 runny eggs for dinner.
Washed down with 6 cans if Guinness.

I'll post in the etiquette thread tomorrow.

Tomorrow will be windy with a warm breeze coming from the south..

Giraffe Box

Jonybgud wrote: »

A cooked tomato is just the bollix.....

I agree that it looks great on the plate with a fry-up, but it's not meant to be eaten with the rest of the food.
Fine, you can look at the tomato while you're eating your breakfast, but dear me, please, please don't eat the thing, you'll ruin the most important meal of the day.
And if I'm not mistaken, it's against the law in Ireland to touch the tomato on a breakfast plate.

Lewis_Benson

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Tomorrow will be windy with a warm breeze coming from the south..

There may be an avalanche.

Giraffe Box

Penis Overlord wrote: »

Totally wrong mate. Nothing nicer than that sweet sweet juice from a well cooked and seasoned tomato when it runs into and commingles with the fat and grease from a cheap rasher. I love to top load a slice of rasher with tomato before shoving it in my gob.

Your problem is that you are getting uncooked tomatoes with your breakfast.

I despair.

lainey_d_123

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I enjoy an occasional fry when I'm back in Ireland, and even bring some vacuum packed artisan pudding and sausages back to Germany with me for a brunch treat. That is the source of some mirth for my German friends. 'But Aongus, this is already the country of 500 types of sausages; why do you need to bring your own?'

What I do notice about Ireland is that many people are obsessed with the idea of quantity when it comes to a fry. They'd rather a large plate of barely human-grade mushed pig meat, than a smaller fry made up of quality ingredients. Red-faced men queuing up with a tray for an 11-item breakfast which has been sitting under lights since the food was reheated in trays earlier that morning. Fried eggs sitting in grease, congealed baked beans, rubbery rashers with a thin skin of salty foam forming on them.

I have to say, I went vegetarian a few weeks ago there, and this post is making my mouth water, and now I could murder a few rashers and mystery meat sausages.

I'm aware that probably wasn't your intention.

Sam Quentin

lainey_d_123 wrote: »

I have to say, I went vegetarian a few weeks ago there, and this post is making my mouth water, and now I could murder a few rashers and mystery meat sausages.

I'm aware that probably wasn't your intention.

I would consider myself guite/kinda religious ok.. but even I know God give us chicken,cows,fish etc to eat... So I actually feel sorry for vegis(I genuinely do with no disrespect)and I always wonder why and even more so how do they do it. Seriously.
Ps: I wont say fair play to ya as I often have to vegetarians,. because I don't see why or how... I really dont...
No lectures nothing please, because it will just go over the top of my head.

Cookie_Monster

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Fried tomato(for the dog)

tomato is poisonous to dogs you know...

r93kaey5p2izun

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

tomato is poisonous to dogs you know...

No they're not.

mikemac2

Soda bread.

The nordies got that one right, thumbs up

Cookie_Monster

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

tomato is poisonous to dogs you know...

Braylee Shrilling Marsh wrote: »

No they're not.

It's not a straight up 'yes' or 'no'.

In the case here of chucking the fried tomato to the dog, it might be fine, but I'd be reading up on the particular breed of dog (and variety of tomato) before doing such a thing.

https://dogtime.com/dog-health/dog-food-dog-nutrition/59085-can-dogs-eat-tomatoes

Anyway, when I treat my dogs it's with something which isn't a boring fúckin tomato. I mean, I love them myself, but they don't jump out at me as prime 'doggie treat' material.

I only do beans on a fry I make myself because I can drain most of the sauce before I heat them. I do like dipping a rasher sambo in them though.

begbysback

Tomatoes are the most pointless things in the world, whether it be a salad or a fry.

And to those eating streaky rashers, ffs hand them back in to the butcher or supermarket, you’re being robbed, there’s fcuk all meat in them, there basically 95% fat.