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What is a 'traditional' English Breakfast ?

basejumper said:
Yes, but for how many of those years have we had them for breakfast?
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Over a Century as I said earlier:

The Edwardian Standard
The Edwardian era is known as the golden age of long leisurely breakfasts and garden parties, basking in the sun that never set on the British empire. Leading up to the First World War, it was during this period that we first saw what we would recognize as an English breakfast begin to emerge and be served as standard in hotels, bed and breakfasts, on trains and at meetings across the country.

Standard ingredients made it easier to prepare and so the 'common' English breakfast rapidly spread nationally, its standard ingredients of bacon, eggs, sausage, black pudding, baked beans, grilled tomato, fried bread and toast, served with a jams, marmalades, tea/coffee and orange juice.

The English breakfast was not just a meal for the wealthy at this point, the middle classes began to eat a full English breakfast on a regular basis and began seeing it as a traditional family meal. They thought it sensible to eat a full breakfast before starting the day, one that provided an increasingly mobile workforce with the energy that they needed to see them through a full days work.

Taken from:
History Of The Traditional English Breakfast
 
pabloescaban said:
Over a Century as I said earlier:

The Edwardian Standard
The Edwardian era is known as the golden age of long leisurely breakfasts and garden parties, basking in the sun that never set on the British empire. Leading up to the First World War, it was during this period that we first saw what we would recognize as an English breakfast begin to emerge and be served as standard in hotels, bed and breakfasts, on trains and at meetings across the country.

Standard ingredients made it easier to prepare and so the 'common' English breakfast rapidly spread nationally, its standard ingredients of bacon, eggs, sausage, black pudding, baked beans, grilled tomato, fried bread and toast, served with a jams, marmalades, tea/coffee and orange juice.

The English breakfast was not just a meal for the wealthy at this point, the middle classes began to eat a full English breakfast on a regular basis and began seeing it as a traditional family meal. They thought it sensible to eat a full breakfast before starting the day, one that provided an increasingly mobile workforce with the energy that they needed to see them through a full days work.

Taken from:
History Of The Traditional English Breakfast
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That description is for a common English breakfast so is not pertinent to this argument old chap :love:
 
of course it's pertinent, you asked when beans were added to it and the TRADITIONAL English breakfast society says over a hundred years ago.....you're not attempting to say common breakfast and traditional breakfast are two different meals now surely?
 
pupuqiop said:
From my personal perceptions of the English language.
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Personal definition: belonging to or affecting a particular person rather than anyone else
Perception definition: The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses. Or the way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted.
 
basejumper said:
Personal definition: belonging to or affecting a particular person rather than anyone else
Perception definition: The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses. Or the way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted.
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Regardless of personal perceptions and definitions, to say a tradition isn't a fluid situation is utterly absurd. Traditions develop.
 
pabloescaban said:
of course it's pertinent, you asked when beans were added to it and the TRADITIONAL English breakfast society says over a hundred years ago.....you're not attempting to say common breakfast and traditional breakfast are two different meals now surely?
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This is what you posted:

The Full English Breakfast (AKA The Fry Up)
Known colloquially as a fry up, the ingredients of the English breakfast are now standardised, but there is currently a revival of the more traditional English breakfast ingredients underway in higher end establishments, where the English breakfast is once again being revered and raised into an art form, typically via the inclusion of some of the older and harder to prepare Anglo-Saxon breakfast dishes.

The 'common' full English breakfast is a substantial meal consisting of back bacon, eggs, British sausage, baked beans, fried tomato, fried mushrooms, black pudding, fried and toasted bread.

Hash browns however are a controversial ingredient that many believe do not belong in a traditional English breakfast.
 
basejumper said:
This is what you posted:

The Full English Breakfast (AKA The Fry Up)
Known colloquially as a fry up, the ingredients of the English breakfast are now standardised, but there is currently a revival of the more traditional English breakfast ingredients underway in higher end establishments, where the English breakfast is once again being revered and raised into an art form, typically via the inclusion of some of the older and harder to prepare Anglo-Saxon breakfast dishes.

The 'common' full English breakfast is a substantial meal consisting of back bacon, eggs, British sausage, baked beans, fried tomato, fried mushrooms, black pudding, fried and toasted bread.

Hash browns however are a controversial ingredient that many believe do not belong in a traditional English breakfast.
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At least we got there
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basejumper said:
This is what you posted:

The Full English Breakfast (AKA The Fry Up)
Known colloquially as a fry up, the ingredients of the English breakfast are now standardised, but there is currently a revival of the more traditional English breakfast ingredients underway in higher end establishments, where the English breakfast is once again being revered and raised into an art form, typically via the inclusion of some of the older and harder to prepare Anglo-Saxon breakfast dishes.

The 'common' full English breakfast is a substantial meal consisting of back bacon, eggs, British sausage, baked beans, fried tomato, fried mushrooms, black pudding, fried and toasted bread.

Hash browns however are a controversial ingredient that many believe do not belong in a traditional English breakfast.
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Yes beans, mushrooms. Black pud etc but NOT hash browns

Beans yes
Browns no
 
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