Full English breakfast
 

This may sound trivial but what exactly is a "full English Breakfast" in comparison to just breakfast?

My experience with "English Breakfast" was that it was included with my hotel cost and it was a soft boiled egg, tea, toast and cereal.

It means a fried breakfast - eg sausages, egg and bacon. All washed down with a lovely strong cuppa. In a hotel I visited in the Cotswolds not long ago you got fried black pudding with it too. <BR> <BR>This is why all Brits live full and happy lives and pass away peacefully in their sleep aged 40. <BR> <BR>Julie

Wendy, you was gypped! At the 3 B&B's that I stayed at last summer, the full breakfast also offered yogurt, orange juice, bananas, sausages, bacon, tomatoes, and mushrooms. Our eggs were cooked to order, but I think the default was fried. Two places also offered beans that looked like American canned baked beans.

Simple breakfast or 'continental' breakfast cosists of minimum of tea or coffee, bread (usually toasted), butter and jam/marmalade. Often you get fruit juice and cereals as well. <BR>For 'English' breakfast you get, in addition, cooked food consisting of fried bacon, sausage, grilled tomato and egg (usually fried, but boiled, poached or scrambled as an option). You may get in addition kippers, baked beans, mushrooms, fried bread, fried potatoes. Other options may be fresh fruit, stewed fruit, yoghurt. In larger hotels breakfasts are served buffet-style, so you can have as much or as little as you like.

Read more than anyone needs to know about English Breakfasts on the older thread I just topped for you.

Alec's post reminded me: at least 2 of the 3 full English breakfast places also offered a croissants and a dish of grapefruit sections swimming in juice, presumably from a jar. One of our B&B's, with 7 rooms, also served buffet-style.

OMG! The hotel we stayed in, in Mayfair, had this huge breakfast buffet~we hardly ever ate lunch we were so full-fruit eggs,bacon,sausage,potatoes,breads,sweet rolls, juices,teas,coffees,jams jellies,pancakes...~sigh~, I wish I was in England~