Full breakfast

The typical ingredients are bacon, sausages, eggs, black pudding, tomatoes, mushrooms, and fried bread or toast and the meal is often served with tea.

Baked beans, hash browns, and coffee (in place of tea) are common contemporary but non-traditional inclusions.

[5] Across the British Isles and Ireland, early modern breakfasts were often breads served with jams or marmalades, or else forms of oatmeal, porridge or pottage.

[5] Of note were the lavish breakfasts of the aristocracy, which would centre on local meats and fish from their country estates.

[5][8] It is so popular in Great Britain and Ireland that many cafés and pubs offer the meal at any time of day as an "all-day breakfast".

[14] Black pudding was the least popular of the traditional ingredients, chosen 35% of the time,[14] and 26% of people included either chips or sautéed potatoes.

One theory for the origin of this term is that British Army general Bernard Montgomery, nicknamed 'Monty', was said to have started every day with a "Full English" breakfast while on campaign in North Africa during the Second World War.

[19][20] In Ireland, brown soda bread, fried potato farls, white pudding and boxty are often included.

This style of breakfast was brought over by Irish and British immigrants to the United States and Canada, where it has endured.