RFI: The Traditional Irish Fry-Up

No. Its quite strongly flavoured though. Pig flavour. A good excuse to break out the branston pickle.

fried bread your mouth with love the artery clogging sensation that it is.

A little mediteranean island in a sea of pork. Mmmm.

i'm going home soon to have THAT!

X-POST yeah the tinned kind!

mmmmm

wish i was in dublin again....

See if you can get clonnakilty pudding. The king of blood sausages.

I think I prefer the derivation from the French for "sausage" over the Old English for "wen."

The closest thing I know to white pudding is good german forcemeat sausage, the soft stuff like poloni, but even that isn't as good as white pudding. It's just like velvet and tastes like nothing else.

Yeah, think how many great dishes that's true of.

That's a real Irish breakfast experience.

Sometimes you get hash browns and mushrooms with an Irish cooked breakfast. Amusingly, Irish hash browns are completely different from US ones, but people eat them for their exotic foreign connotations.

A friend once bought and ate a tinned all-day breakfast. But he did this in the UK, so it was probably not a true Irish breakfasting experience.

Sadly what you want is not what you get in most B&Bs here. What you want: generous helpings of (preferably home-made) soda bread, a couple of potato farls, slow-grilled tomatoes, huge breakfast mushrooms, fresh free range eggs (fried but soft), a couple of really good pork and herb sausages, a rasher of high-quality bacon with a small, crispy rind, and a couple of pieces of Clonakilty pudding, one black, one white.

What you usually end up with is a thimble of warm Kulana or Sqeez orange juice and a mess of brown crispy salty things that could be either pudding, rashers or sausages, an egg that could be worn as a fetching if greasy brooch, two hard, warm tomatoes and half a tin of congealed beans to bulk it up. Nasty.

morning satisfaction = afternoon slumber = restless natives seize opportunity

Bacon, smoked long back, gloucester old spot
Sausage, Tamworth
Black Pudding, Stornaway and Bury
White pudding, Irish
Fruit Pudding, Stornaway
Fried Bread
Grilled cherry Tomatoes
Mushrooms
Eggs
Soda Bead toast
Brown Sauce (HP, Daddies or south african 'A' sauce)

I need some self-control to stop myself looking at this thread, because it's just making me hungrier and hungrier, and that's a vicious circle which will only end in disaster takeaway pizza.

I am sad that I will not be in Edinburgh this August to enjoy my traditional Big Gay Fry-up in the Blue Moon Cafe. Yum yum.

My life. Fascinating.

Taking Sides: The Ulster Fry v. The Irish Fry

why not go the whole hog and stick a large vodka on there too? mmm, bloody mary breakfast, now *there's* a hangover cure!

There's a hotel in Lancaster (the Sun, if you ever happen to be round that way) which does marvellous breakfasts. Including kidneys. I was so happy (choice of Tamworth or Gloucester Old Spot for the bangers and bacon too, and Mrs Coataltown was delighted to discover that they offered veggie sausages also). Damn those kidneys were good, and fried mushrooms as they ought to be, blackened and dripping with butter.

(btw FP who *are* you? I know youre a reg but it has me baffled)

(your email address is real, isn't it?)

I went to uni in Lancaster and have thus been in the Sun. Only for a few pints though so I missed the culinary delights of which you speak.

I had to make my own dinner tonight. I've run out of stuff the beloved cooked for me before she went to Palestine.
Taking Sides: The Ulster Fry v. The Irish Fry

-- DV (dirtyvica...), July 23rd, 2005.

Ulster. But I would say that. We have potato bread though which is just amazing. Lightly toasted with butter, mmmmmmmm..........*drool*

I assume this is what we call Potato Scones in Scotchland?

I once stayed in a B&B in Donegal with a vegan friend. All he could eat for breakfast was dry soda bread. Not good when hungover.

I have to say I was in a hotel last month ACROSS THE WATERS, and I had a "cumberland sausage", and it wasn't the best. and this was a posh hotel, you could watch tv in the bathroom.

i want this now : (

Taking Sides: The Ulster Fry v. The Irish Fry

-- DV (dirtyvica...), July 23rd, 2005.

wrong time of year to ignite this incendiary debate. but yeah the fried potato bread in the ulster fry adds a real oomph.

The one time I went for an Irish Breakfast in a cafe when I was living in Dublin I pussied out of trying the white/black puddings. Apart from that it was basically the same as an English Breakfast i.e. yum.

Isn't part of the magic of fried tomato that no one really likes it?

White & black pudding combo is the ultimate meat eating experience, proper meat sweats after eating this!

Scottish breakfasts pwn all as you don't get square sausage and tattie scones* with any of the rest of them.

* i don't think this is the same thing as potato bread, but I'm sure someone will correct me on this if I'm wrong.

Yeah, if I went back to meat eating, Black Pudding would be the first port of call!

black pudding really isn't that odd a taste...it's v nice, good in bread. I like it on its own more than as part of a big fry.

or it's a good addition to an omelette.

I could murder some white pudding right about now.

always preferred white to black, but that's because a bad white can still be ok, but a bad black pudding can really put you off for the month.

I just want to add that if lisbon comes in you can forget about black pudding or the Irish fry up. remember that as you scoff on the jackboot flavoured panini of europe

as long as i can still eat boudin aux pommes and morcilla i can live

i'd be willing to believe that the rumoured banning of red lemonade was worth a 10% swing in Irish attitudes to the EU

Isn't part of the magic of fried tomato that no one really likes it?

U RONG

Brown Sauce (HP, Daddies or south african 'A' sauce)

U ENGLISH RONG

The Ulster Fry v. The Irish Fry

SOON THERE WILL ONLY BE ONE FRY! A NATION (OF FATTEYS) ONCE AGAIN!

but - hash browns are nicer than sausages!

U VEGETARIAN RONG

We have potato bread though which is just amazing. Lightly toasted with butter, mmmmmmmm..........*drool*

THIS IS A GOOD POINT

It all depends on what kind of sausages. Dennys are some kind of salt, fat, and water abomination and I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole. Our local butcher has his own award-winning ones which are not bad, and I've always liked Kearns, but I agree that the finest sausages I've eaten have always been outside Ireland.

WHERE DO I BEGIN? THIS IS SO RONG I CRY TEARS OF GREASE

superquinn sausages are amazing.

OTM

wrong time of year to ignite this incendiary debate. but yeah the fried potato bread in the ulster fry adds a real oomph.

A NATION MARCHES ON IT'S STOMACH AND OTM

Crazy talk! I always go for the option with fried tomato!

COLONEL POO SPEAKS TROOF...

The one time I went for an Irish Breakfast in a cafe when I was living in Dublin I pussied out of trying the white/black puddings. Apart from that it was basically the same as an English Breakfast i.e. yum.

...BUT THEN SHOWS TRUE COLOURS - RONG

or it's a good addition to an omelette.

WTF?

always preferred white to black, but that's because a bad white can still be ok, but a bad black pudding can really put you off for the month.

THIS IS A GOOD POINT.

I just want to add that if lisbon comes in you can forget about black pudding or the Irish fry up. remember that as you scoff on the jackboot flavoured panini of europe

I REGRET VOTING YES NOW! THANKFULLY IT IS MOOT

as long as i can still eat boudin aux pommes and morcilla i can live

WTF DUDE?!

i'd be willing to believe that the rumoured banning of red lemonade was worth a 10% swing in Irish attitudes to the EU

CULCHIES NEED TO CUT THEIR MOONSHINE WITH SOMETHING AFTER ALL

I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT FRIES BECAUSE IT'S BEEN AGES SINCE I HAD ONE :(

one more culchie jibe and i'm going to mod req board.

Sorry. Peasant. No really, I'm sorry. That you're not from Dublin. No but seriously, I'm sorry. For you.

u mad

Irishes makin' a claim for ILX space

how fitting that it is a fry up thread...

on that fateful day in easter 1916 padraig pearse had egg yoke running down his face

i'm trying to imagine what "hyggeligt" sounds like pronounced like through a D4 nasal passage. ugh.

Ha ha it's not going to be pretty no matter what accent used: it's Danish.

on that fateful day in easter 1916 padraig pearse had egg yoke running down his face

Those bastard Brits and runny eggs. I hear the martyrs were given their last meal with Brown sauce to make things worse :(

and tesco sausages

OMG THE HUMANITY.

well, tesco finest sausages aren't that bad, if saying so doesn't dent my republican credentials.

they are vile....every sausage the brits have foisted on our fine nation is disgusting.

seriously tho the only decent sausage I've bought since moving to London was in that shop in London Bridge.

"nobody is more committed to chipolatas than us, but to be offered your chipolatas, on that plate, is unacceptable"

Yet the Irish sausages you get in Britain are pretty much identical to our own cheap crappy sausages! We must hide the good ones from each other.

xpost

yes it's weird, there's a traditionally packed brand of Irish sausages with some "since 1885" bullshit on them in Sainsbury's that I've never seen on sale in Dublin in my life.

it's not hard to find good british sausages

It's a conspiracy I tell you

yes it's weird, there's a traditionally packed brand of Irish sausages with some "since 1885" bullshit on them in Sainsbury's that I've never seen on sale in Dublin in my life.

Those Richmond things? They're about as Irish as an O'Neill's pub.

This is going off-topic somewhat but I remember there being a load of different Cadburys chocolate in Dublin that you can't get here.

the Catholic Guilt bar?

Inferiority Caramels

They probably make them just for export, like loads of terrible whiskies I've never seen ever in a shop over here ("Queen Margot, distilled in Glasgow" is quite popular in cheapo crap expat pubs in Spain, for example, and I have no idea where it comes from and have never seen it over here in my life)

Sounds like when my brother-in-law was over here reminiscing about some English ale they all used to drink when he was growing up that I'd never heard of.

the Catholic Guilt bar?

-- Ronan, 11 July 2008 15:03 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

is this an address or a chocolate snack?

the Catholic Guilt bar?

-- Ronan, Friday, 11 July 2008 16:03 (Friday, 11 July 2008 16:03)

Inferiority Caramels

-- Ronan, Friday, 11 July 2008 16:03 (Friday, 11 July 2008 16:03)

<3

that would be an ecuminical malteser

<3

the treaclety

Walnut Whip of Oppression

Padraig's Pieces

Death By Famine

Hail Mary, Full Of Taste

Controversial Topic

Institutional Fudge

Corkie?

Up the Revels!

1916 Raisins

Poisonous blight ridden potatoes

Crunchie Bloody Crunchie

Terry's Chocolate Orange Order

After Eight (Hundred Years of Oppression)

Treaclour.

Easter Egg Rising

A Mars a day helps you work rest and emancipate the masses

does darraghmac actually rhyme properly with caramac, btw?

Choccy Ár Lá

haha, I was going to do that as well a while back.

Lollipap(ist)s

Pope lies with the proles

nothing to do with chocolate that one...

I don't get it...

Pope lies with the profiteroles

as ever it's a mixed bag

It takes allsorts...

does darraghmac actually rhyme properly with caramac, btw?

-- ailsa, 11 July 2008 15:52 (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

in my head, yes. but i don't know how to pronounce caramac.

Choccy Ár Lá

-- hyggeligt, 11 July 2008 15:56 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

win. detail on the fadas a nice touch.

Go raibh maith agat

fair play to all

I'm now starving thanks to this thread!

good man yourself

Ah tanx Ronan, ur a grand fellah.

god bless

Ah now, sure he will I'm sure. The same to you of course over there across the water...

Where was sexydancer going to get an irish fry-up? i think that place Spikehill had it on the brunch menu, but I was never brave enough to try it.

molly's on 2nd & 22nd does a good one.

mmmmmmmmm. i will go.

i did grill tomatoes for my toast & eggs this morning because of this thread.

loving the black pudding lately...so fucking good.

fried soda bread my arse. get out.

drooling at the thought of one of these

hobarts otm tho

wish i hadn't re-read this with no black pudding in the house

Not the best fry in Dublin but a very decent one and maybe the best value one is done in a place called mes amis beside the Jervis stop, staffed and run entirely by Chinese ppl.

New Ireland how are ya

Well it requires a lower skill set than say preparing sushi so not entirely surprising

The hell u say

Is frying an egg not a universally learnt skill i ask

Maybe making the beans can run afoul ok sure

This all sounds pretty interesting. I'm more familiar with the Kentucky/Tennessee/Indiana version of this which would be frying up sausage or thin cut porkchops then making milk gravy with the remains to go with some either fried or baked eggs (if you got a bunch of people) along with scratch biscuits and/or maybe some fried potatoes with onions.

this thread is close enough i guess

https://twitter.com/cornsplosion/status/834289946311684096

frying an egg is harder than many other basic techniques imo - as the comment in that young man's jpg shows.

had my first white pudding last month, v delicious

what's the actual best fry up in dublin then? so happens I'll be over this wkend

Jaysus.

I'm in Paris. We'll have to wait til Manchester obv.

Whereabouts you based. Couple of different styles too before we can narrow down a rec

Mes Amis, lr abbey st for convenience and value

Hobart's in ranelagh never let me down if you're out that way

Shameful admission but I tend more towards brunch type places if I'm out at that time these days, greenery in donnybrook, San lorenzos on George's st, the winding stair on the north quays all get honourables there

stoneybatter. last time we went to a pretty good place, maybe cowtown? there'll be a few of us so it'll be a bit hectic but i might be able to steer us somewhere, tho there'd need to be something for a vegan

i ate in san lorenzo's before a wedding a few years ago - it was nice. i mostly go for brunch stuff as well, and haven't lived in ireland for years. i love a fry-up but i've had them hundreds of times as a child. also they feel more breakfast than lunch, brunch makes a lot more sense given it's rare i'm out paying to eat at 9 or 10am.

also the idea of a full breakfast feels p intense to me these days, at home i might have one element of a fry-up on bread, maybe with eggs, once a week.

Fuckin soft yiv gone biyyyyy

I hear good things about cotto which should definitely cover vegan options

Third space in Smithfield square decent for lunch too.

Wuff is generically ok.

i also live away from good greasy spoons. my previous flat had two of the best in london nearby.

ta, made notes of the above. let me know when you're in manchester and i'll make a note of that too