I fancy a fry up...

[eneville]

Get ye down to Bolton and have a proper fried breakfast.
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/3943812.Bolton_s_amazing_10_egg__big_breakfast_challenge/
10 eggs,
10 sausages,
10 rashers of bacon,
10 slices of toast,
five black pudding slices,
tomatoes,
mushrooms and baked beans.

£10.95, that's pretty good value for money, in fact, that's the best value for money that I've seen any fry up. There's a place in Reading called Cape (near to the Town Hall/O'Neils/Monk pubs) where you can get a reasonably priced fry up (one day they served me and the wife twice the amount they should have, we didn't realise until we'd left though).

Why only the five black puddings, 7 rashers of bacon and 7 black puddings, looking at the list, I feel that with all the eggs and sausages the black pudding is a bit of an after thought.

I may suggest Bolton as our next holiday destination, looks like a jolly good reason to go.

 

[Dr Rick]

It's a good few miles from Bolton, actually, though will within striking distance. I keep meaning to mount an expedition down there from my weightlifting club.

 

[Professor Blighty]

I've just had a fry up tonight, it was brilliant.

2 eggs
4 rashers
2 sausages
1 slice black pudding
scoop of baked beans
2 slices of toast
5 pints of Hobgoblin

:icon_razz:

 

[Pig Cat]

I've just had a fry up tonight, it was brilliant.

2 eggs
4 rashers
2 sausages
1 slice black pudding
scoop of baked beans
2 slices of toast
5 pints of Hobgoblin

:icon_razz:

Phew, I wouldn't want to be in the same room as you this morning!

 

[Johnus]

The "Frying Englishman"!!! Think it would make it on the Food Channel??

 

[Ken T M]

For a perfect but rare serious fry-up, I want bacon (back), eggs (fried), sausages, black pudding, hash browns, beans and mushrooms, fried slice (white), toast on the side (wholemeal), and some marmalade. And then probably nothing else until a light supper... Bacon, egg and toast is a more every-day proposition.

Perhaps luckily, I don't seem to have a cooked breakfast that I really rate closer than a bus-and-mile-walk, as the good town centre ones don't have parking.

FuOTD (Fry up of the day):

2 Grilled bacon
2 Sausage
Lots of black pudding
1 Fried egg
Mushrooms
Fried bread or toast

Like many others here I'm trying to look after myself which is getting harder as 40 approaches, so a fry up is a once in a blue moon treat. Maybe once every couple of months. Every other weekend I'll allow myself one sandwich with bacon and black pudding.

Good website that... I'm adding one of my own local cafes now.

Lightweights.
Get ye down to Bolton and have a proper fried breakfast.
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/3943812.Bolton_s_amazing_10_egg__big_breakfast_challenge/
10 eggs,
10 sausages,
10 rashers of bacon,
10 slices of toast,
five black pudding slices,
tomatoes,
mushrooms and baked beans.

Wow.

 

[Pete]

Found this great site, it's a browsable directory of cafes:

http://www.ifancyafryup.co.uk/cafes/england/berkshire/

Awesome

Here's another great site if you are a Londoner or a regular visitor (like me)

http://russelldavies.typepad.com/eggbaconchipsandbeans/

Sets you up for the day!

 

[Doctor Beaker]

Black Pudding and Red Wine ! Breakfast of Champions !

cheers all Danny

 

[Ken T M]

My favourite fry up in London, by a country mile: The Regency Cafe:

http://londonreviewofbreakfasts.blogspot.com/2006/06/regency-caf-pimlico.html

http://londonbells.com/2011/05/01/regency-cafe-great-greasy-spoon-in-pimlico/

 

[Arrowhead]

Black Pudding and Red Wine ! Breakfast of Champions !

Outstanding.

Black pud's essential, and white pudding is a nice surprise on the odd occasion when you see it, but haggis ... ah, food of the gods! :heart:

 

[antdad]

I always enjoyed a Bavarian breakfast....Weisswurst & weiss beer, that's where sweet mustard makes sense.

 

[hoodlight]

There was a cafe in Leeds just off Elland Road sadly closed now that used to do a Full English in a giant Yorkshire pudding with gravy on.

 

[SoapAlchemist]

Fried potatoes - haven't had them for years, but if our local fry up caff did them, I'ld probably just move in. On the other hand, to me, chips are just totally wrong with a fry up. With chips it's not a fry up any more, it's chips with bacon, sausage etc.
As for haggis; I actually bought one of these from Waitrose just a couple of weeks ago (the kind of thing that happens when you go food shopping hungry....); very nice it was too, although I expect some of our Northern members can tell me otherwise. But in my rare encounters with haggis, I absolutely must also have what we in Ireland call turnips. The big purple root vegetable, which is pale orange inside. Boiled to mush (none of that al dente here), and mashed with lots of pepper. God, I'm hungry.

 

[andyjreid]

Sharon we also call them turnips in Scotland or more affectionately "neeps". I believe in England they are called Swedes.

 

[Pig Cat]

Sharon we also call them turnips in Scotland or more affectionately "neeps". I believe in England they are called Swedes.

We have both turnips and swedes down here in England. I know they are closely related but Wikipedia is down today so I can't look up exactly what the difference is. I don't quite understand why the site is down but it does make you appreciate what a useful website it is.

 

[Canuck]

A swede is the darker, yellowy fleshed variery of turnip, it got it's name from "Swedish turnip" and you're right PC, it's closely related.