English breakfast, should it have beans?

I like a nice full English (or Scottish, Irish or Welsh), everywhere I go they get served up with a pile of cheap baked beans (not Sainsbury's basic, Viv) which spread across the plate and contaminate the egg, fried bread and everything else. In my book beans are not part of a full English.

For me a full English should include
Eggs
Bacon
Sausages
Grilled tomato
Grilled mushrooms
Fried bread
A dash of brown sauce (not tomato ketchup)

Served with a mug of strong milky tea and some white toast with butter and marmalade

Regional variations may include black pudding, potato scones, fried sliced potatoes, toast instead of fried bread

I would not mind if they put the beans to one side of the plate behind a couple of sausages, however the bloody things get everywhere.

Given a choice would you have the beans or something else?

For me, ditch the mushrooms and bacon and add beans!!

yes yes yes,but maybe on the side in another little dish,and beanz meanz heinz!!!!!!!!!!!

Beans are the devils food, awful little bastards

No beans on a proper one with posh sausage n bacon, but if its a greasy spoon one from a cafe yes somehow brings it all together!

As a hater of tommy sauce they are not for me. Beans in general have a real odd texture to me,same reason I can't abide peas

A posh full English usually bean free.

But cafe food beans and tinned tommies.

I like baked beans love them but not microwaved yuk !!
Have to be cooked in pan so they are soft and break down a bit.

I don't eat meat or fish.
My brekkie would be
Fried mushrooms tomatoes egg I can't stand egg whites! So I cut out the yolk or have scrambled egg.
Hash browns :) toast with butter.
Fried bread I like but not in meat fat.

Local thing here in our chippy is deep fried black pudding.

I also love potatoe cakes and proper soda bread :)

I'm dead happy with beans on toast with a dash of HP sauce.

Tomatoes. Who on God's green earth decided it was a good idea to put fruit with a cooked breakfast?

Breakfast should not contain fruit or veg - fungus is fine

Legumes are a personal choice and dependant on how hungry you are - named brands only

Originally Posted by figaro

Tomatoes. Who on God's green earth decided it was a good idea to put fruit with a cooked breakfast?

Probably Americans. They even put strawberries on their fried breakfasts. Just so wrong.

ditch the beans

however my prime gripe is cheap nasty sausages and bacon rashes so thin you can see through them

Yuk no beans or runny tomatoes
No fried bread either

If you want beans then I think they should be served in a separate dish so you can add to your choice.

Nothing wrong with basics beans :-)
I would rather mine cold though they go like stodge heated up

And a good dollop of HP sauce
And milky coffee

Yeah, just great guys. I am completely hungry now.

[hold the beans, though, not at breakfast]

Ditch the Mushrooms
Swap the fried bread for thick sliced toast
Beans
Eggs fried scrabbled or poached
Sausages Lincolnshire
Bacon with no fat
Plum Tomato's
Brown sauce
Mug mug of tea

No mention of black pudding??

Originally Posted by Freak

No mention of black pudding??

[Homer Simpson Mode On] Mmmmmmmm black pudding [/Homer Simpson Mode Off]

Originally Posted by 749man

Beans are the devils food, awful little bastards

More like the Devil's discharge, they have no place on a plate for human consumption...

Beans are never served in a Full Irish breakfast. No way, yuk. Here it would be Bacon, egg, sausage, black pudding, white pudding,tomato (not tinned) toast and tea. Yum

Two Thick bacon,
two quality sausage,
Two eggs, fried poached or scrambled,
One Fried Bread,
Tomatoes, real or tinned, matters not,
Mushrooms,
Black pudding,
Beans,
And a great big steaming mug of Tea!

Or variations thereof!

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Or This

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Sausages can be utilised as a dam to prevent the "contamination" of other items with Bean juice.

Now if you will excuse me im off down the caff!

Could also have white pudding in certain places.

I'm not fussy but hold the fried bread. It's just an excuse to soak up all the fat that came out if the sausages and bacon.


Sure, repeated cooked breakfasts will give you heart disease, but there's no point trying to make them as fatty as possible deliberately.

Bean juice - why does that sound so wrong

Ditch the tomatoes if I want wrinkled, dried, old tasting tomatoes I will eat old, wrinkled, dried tomatoes no need to turn perfectly good tomato in to that.

No pudding as that is just discussing, is that not made out of blood?

Rest is a go and loads off beans, loads of them.

Beans for me but I can live without the Tomato.

I had breakfast at a diner in California a couple of weeks ago that included 2 massive Pork Chops, 2 Eggs, a bucketful of sauteed potato and bizarrely an apple.
It was magnificent, but it needed a chipped half pint mug of tea to make it right.

Americans can do damn good breakfast. Pancakes with baked in sausage and bacon all covered in maple syrup. Yum yum yum.

Bacon, egg, fried bread, mushrooms , good sausage and beans for me. Nice glass of orange juice and a mug of coffee. You can keep your tomatoes and I'm not very keen on black pudding either,I' ve tried so many different types and never had the same taste twice!