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[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 76 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

This is not a full English due to the following issues or errors:

  • Fried eggs are ideal, poached acceptable, and some oddballs like scrambled. Boiled egg is not acceptable. There should be two eggs as standard, more if the breakfast is a 'large'.
  • It's missing baked beans, which should have been simmered until the sauce thickens into a syrup.
  • While cafes love to serve this kind of tomato that's only because it's easy to keep a pot of chopped, tinned tomatoes warm. If you're going tinned, they should be good quality whole plum tomatoes. But well-grilled fresh tomatoes are preferable. No cherries. No vine attached. Definitely no raw tomato.
  • It's missing the black pudding which elevates the humble fry-up into the glory that is a proper full English.
  • Experienced afficionados of the full English almost all prefer cooked sausages over raw ones.
  • The mushrooms look like they came in a tin. Ideally whole field or chestnut mushrooms shoud be used.
  • There seems to be a lack of hot buttered toast (with optional marmelade).

There is hearty debate amongst the governing body of the full English about whether or not hash browns are acceptable on a breakfast. Many declare them to be unwanted compared to, for example, bubble and squeak or a tattie scone, or even fried potatoes, or a fried slice for that matter. They go further and label them 'trash browns', 'American nonsense', or just 'shite'. Personally I don't mind them, and consider them to be an optional addition, but not a core requirement of the full English. There are many other optional additions, not to mention regional specialities which render an Ulster fry very different to a full Welsh or a full Scottish. Hogs pudding, white pudding, fruit pudding, haggis, Lorne sausage, potato farl, soda bread, laverbread, kidneys, etc.

There is also a hugely spirited disagreement over the serving of baked beans. There are, by-and-large, three schools of thought with regards the beans (not counting those poor,deluded fools who don't like them). Firstly there's the 'put the beans in a pot' faction who are scared of bean juice contaminating other ingredients. Secondly there are those who eschew the ramekin, considering them to be one of the ultimate signs of pretention. They insist that the beans should be on the plate, but segregated from the other ingredients by a barrier of sausages. Lastly, there is the sane and balanced group who believe that the beans should be put on the plate with no barrier, ideally in the middle. This group of illuminated Full Monty enjoyers recognise that the mixing of bean juice, tomato juice, and egg yolk forms the most perfect gravy of the gods. I, myself, am in the latter camp.

I am available for for keynote speeches on the subject should anyone be organising a full English conference.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Love that you took the time to write this out as a comment on a shitpost. That’s dedication!

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 21 points 5 days ago

Some things matter!

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I think that a full english isn't an exclusionary meal. I think there are a few factors it needs to be in the category of full english but that there are many variations and additions or subtractions that still count.

In my opinion the only things required for a full english are any 4 of the following:

  • fried eggs
  • sausages
  • bacon
  • beans
  • toast

Anything less is not "full" and anything more is a variation of the full english.

Hash browns? Sure! ulsterfry? Go for it! Mushrooms? Absolutely! Tomatoes (grilled of course) yes please! Black pudding (not for me) bring it on!

But there is no singular thing that makes it a full english, it just has to have enough of the core ingredients to meet the criteria.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What you describe is a mere fry-up. The required ingredients of a full English are eggs, bacon, sausage, black pudding, beans, and tomato. Six perfect ingredients.

There’s nothing wrong with a fry-up, mind you. But it’s not a full English without the six.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Historically there is no set version of a full english. What you describe is just your version. It will be, entirely, a social construct. This is why the full english varies so much, its different traditions in different areas and families being passed down, giving everyone a different vision of what it is.

Its similar to how everyone has their own christmas traditions, or how fish and chips in the north tend to be more traditionally served with gravy mushy peas and bread+butter. Whereas in the south, typically, they are sold with just ketchup or mayonnaise. But again, not exclusively. They only requirement is a fash and some chips. Everything else is just a variation of that but still counts.

This is why i belive that there only needs to be a few core ingredients for a full english to qualify as a full english. After that its all tradition and preference.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well, you're very welcome to continue enjoying your fry-ups.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

And you are very welcome to enjoy your specific version of a full english. 😀

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I tend to agree on that more flexible definition with a few core ingredients as baseline but it does seem to me that that core list needs to include at least one regional speciality item specific to the British Isles because I think that's what the "full" part is really referring to as opposed to just a "fry up" as the other bloke suggested. I think in general in England that's probably black pudding.

This thinking is because that minimum combination you listed is fairly common in a few places including Australia and while I don't speak from experience, I think with the exception of the beans if wouldn't be a totally strange or foreign combination in America either.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Its a fair point and i see where you are coming from but would it not also be fair to say a that a "fry up" is a colloquialism meaning full english? I would ask, where does a fry up cease to be a fry up? Whats the minimum requirements? Is eggs on toast a fry up? Eggs and sausage and beans? Sausages and bacon and toast? Or all of the above?

Or does fry up refer to how its cooked, in that it all goes in the pan? I tend to grill my bacon and sausages, fry my eggs and mushrooms, toaster my toast, microwave my beans. Is that not longer a fry up because its not all in the frying pan?

As to your point about the ingredients being common in a few places like Australia and America. Is it not fair to say that they adopted the meal and that explains the commonality? Like in england a curry is a practically a national dish, but its adopted from indian cuisine. We make it slightly differently to its country of origin but at its core the ingredients required to call it a curry are not uncommon anywhere in the world.

[–] WinterBear@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

This is poetry. If you ever do a Ted talk please let me know.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A long time ago I was in old Blighty for the first time for work and the locals took care of me foodwise. I remember getting all the usual "English food is terrible" remarks before going and I didn't know any better so I was worried when I arrived.

Everything was delicious, I loved all of it. The full English especially, that could power you through supper.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You rarely have a full English followed by a heavy lunch. More likely a heavy nap.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Or a light cardiac arrest.

[–] LorIps@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Considering the quality of the cooking points to it being committed by an American black pudding likely wasn't available as it's illegal in the United States.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Are you sure?

Wikipedia tells me blood sausages are available in Puerto Rico, Wisconsin, Maine, Michigan, the San Francisco Bay Area, Fresno, Santa Rosa, and of course, Cajun Louisiana.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not really it's delicious. And eaten in one form or another in all parts of the world.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’m guessing you’ve never tried it. It’s a glorious food stuff and the full English is its perfect context.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Accurate, meat is universally gross

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A strong position to take on a post about a full English.

Veggie versions abound, though, replacing pork sausages with Glamorgan sausages and bacon with halloumi or some such. And you can get vegan black pudding too, though I've never tried it. A good veggie version is fine eating.

Once you go full vegan though, it gets a bit harder since you also need to fake the eggs (and I've only heard of people doing tofu-based scrambled 'eggs') and faking or swapping out the bacon and the sausages and the black pudding so by that stage I'd be wondering why I was trying to recreate such a meat forward meal.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 4 days ago

Vegan tofu eggs are actually pretty good, you use this sulphur salt to add the flavors. But you can't do a fried egg, just scrambled, which ruins the experience. However I'm totally fine with eating eggs because eggs aren't alive. Vegan bacon is a crime against humanity, but maybe one day it won't be. Veggie sausages are solid. So...yeah you can mostly assemble it.

As the world dies I'm hoping we figure out some better veggie options (not necessarily meat substitutes, just interesting things to do with veggies).

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

You definitely need the sausage to act as a breakwater

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

The lack of beans and black pudding is especially egregious. If England is giving up on free speech they could at least go after these faux english breakfast frauds.

[–] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The black pudding doesn't sound appetising. My grandma never made. We would have weetabix some mornings.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

It might not sound appetising but it tastes great. Try it sometime. And in a full English is where it’s best with a little egg, beans and tomato. Lush.