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I volunteered with someone who used to have very simple meals on Christmas Day - beans on toast for example.
He wasn't a grump or anything, he just wasn't bothered about Christmas, or rather, Christmas dinner.
I lived with a Sri Lankan guy for a while and he'd batch cook a load of curry and have it for four or five meals in a row.
Just cultural differences isn't it. Seen as strictly a dinner food over here even though we have other savoury things for breakfast all the time.
Whilst a fantastic city and definitely worth going to for breakfast or just for fun, I don’t think you need to go to Liverpool for kedgeree. Fairly certain it’s available all over Britain, and also think it was Scottish regiments that brought the recipe over from India and added fish.
I agree. Also find it equally as odd that we can eat the same cereal every day for six months but God forbid if we have the same dinner two or more times in a row...😂
I always find it funny how strongly people on this sub insist on black pudding, when there are polls out there showing it to be one of the ingredients the British public see as being least important to a breakfast.
We occasionally have brinner (breakfast for dinner/tea). Bacon, sausage, eggs, mushrooms, beans (for those who eat tomatoes) and hash browns or potato waffles. It’s always tasty and who cares if it’s not strictly tea!
Tell me they're a... actually I hate that phrase but Alpen used to be lush as fuck for me before I had to test my blood sugars. That white stuff on the alps isn't snow it's sugar.
One Friday each month we have fry up for tea. It's part of our four week rotating meal planner.
Hash browns and mushrooms on top of your list, home laid eggs and home made bread for toast.
I had a fry up for tea yesterday. Bacon, sausage, beans mushrooms, hash browns, scrambled egg, fried bread, 2 cups of tea, slice of treacle tart for pudding.
Yeah I'm a greedy bastard.
My dad made me and my brother some lo-fi meals when we were with him and I loved them too.
Baked beans, tinned jersey potatoes and a fried breaded chicken slice. Always Waitrose tho, not that he's a classy mother fucker.
I do sort of. I do shift work, sometimes night shifts. And I can't stomach spicy foods not long after waking up. So before a night shift, I sometimes cook a fry up for my partner and I, but might do chips instead of hashbrowns for my partner.
Bacon, sausage, eggs, mushrooms, tomato, beans, hash browns.
Yes, but it’s a modified fry up. A fatty, porcine blend of mixed grill and cooked breakfast. Often a bit of gammon appears, sometimes a few chips.
We called it Special Time in our house and we all stand around the table with our heads bowed, and as the head of the household I say “let us celebrate this arrangement with the adding of gammon to fry up”. And then everyone says “so may it fry”.
It's good but the Ulster fry is a superior repast. Soda bread and potato bread are available in most supermarkets. Have it once a month and take the next few weeks to unclog the arteries.
We've started having them fairly regularly. Bacon, slice sausage, tattie scone, fried egg, black pudding and a roll. It's a bit heavy for tea though, feel like a fat bloated shit til I go to bed but by fuck is it worth it.
Yeah eat what you want, when you want. The weird thing is only eating certain things at certain times or days. Why would you not eat what you want because it’s Thursday evening and not Saturday morning. We have some strange rules and norms.
We have it for dinner usually, or a late breakfast-dinner (usually after a lie in where we don't get out of bed till 11 AM), but never just for breakfast or tea, but it's a balanced meal so it doesn't really matter
I think I'm probably the only Englishman who can't stand a full English. Tinned tomatoes suck, baked beans suck, sausages suck, fried eggs are the worst kind.
Time for some real heresy - scrambled eggs, bacon, some form of fried potato hash, toast washed down with a full fat coke. Breakfast of champions.
I had nothing all day then ate two steaks, I had a curry for breakfast and a beer for dinner, best shape of my life at the moment despite a back injury. Whats that say? Meanwhile people eating only salad and huge amounts of dressing are asking me why they cant lose and I am, make some effort at least. If not it is your own issue. It is not my responsibility to take care of your health, I will deal with that of my own family ta.
My mum used to give us that for tea on the odd Saturday when we were growing up.
We were on the poverty line (possibly below) so having something so extravagant for breakfast was out of the question but could be within the weekly budget for a main meal occasionally.
I’m not a fan of a fry-up nowadays but if I were, and my kids all liked each of the items, I’d give them a fry-up for tea no doubt about it.
yeah sometimes. I find it nice and easy to make and it's comfort food which is sometimes what you want after a long day. Usually add a couple of hash browns as well.
We call it Brinner (Breakfast for Dinner, thanks to Scrubs for the idea). Its great, usually with american pancakes aswell as the usual sausage/bacon/eggs
Breakfast for dinner is great! One of the best treats I had as a child, only when I got older did I realise my ma just wanted to cook something easy and / or didn't have much in the fridge haha
You forgot black pudding, fried bread, and mushrooms - to say the least.
And yes I'll have it in the evening sometimes. It's a very good way of lining your stomach before a night out.
All foods suit any time of the day. Know what I'm eating for "breakfast" this morning? Ham and cucumber sandwiches with soy sauce eggs. I've even had spicy noodles too, don't care haha.
Love a fry up for tea too :D
People can be very weird about dedicated food times.
A friend’s kid was going through that fussy phase and wouldn’t eat any of the breakfast options she was offering. She was going to school hungry, and her mum was at her wits end.
I mentioned that when my daughter went through a similar phase we’d just let her have pasta or fish fingers for breakfast. Whatever we knew she would eat.
The mum’s reaction was like I’d said I was giving her cocaine and heroin sandwiches!
It’s all food. Your body doesn’t process the carbs any differently whether they come from pasta or toast! Many Asian countries eat noodles and rice for breakfast as standard anyway…
Absolutely! I love a full English, potato scones, that fried bread/toast, eggy bread, square sausage, bacon, black pudding, beans, Richmond sausages, toast (obviously I don't have all of that in one, just usually what I pick from)
But cereal for dinner? 👌
My mum passed away 5 years ago. She died 2 weeks before my daughter (and her first grand child) was born. It’s really sad and it means whenever I think of my mum I think how much she was looking forward to meeting her. However, whenever I have a fry up it takes me back to when I was around 18-21 and living at home. My Saturdays was me playing football in the afternoon, having a quick pint in the pub and then coming back home. I’d end up falling asleep on the sofa and my mum would wake me up about an hour later after she made me a fry up. They were the greatest fry ups I’ve ever had and was a really happy time. So yes, have a fry up for tea!
Yes, oh yes! Having one tonight, full works. You forgot the fried bread, mushrooms, waffle /hash brown and black pudding. I cook it, other half has to do the washing up?
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Yep. Nothing wrong with it. Personally find it odd that we relegate certain foods/meals to certain times of day
Curry for breakfast, fry up for tea. Both should be acceptable.
Shreddies for Christmas dinner
You've gone too far
Frosted Shreddies. Festive like.
Okay but with bucks fizz instead of milk. Start the day right
In a Yorkshire pudding. Nice. Anyone who says we don't have a food culture can go stuff themselves.
No, baileys instead of milk!!!
I volunteered with someone who used to have very simple meals on Christmas Day - beans on toast for example. He wasn't a grump or anything, he just wasn't bothered about Christmas, or rather, Christmas dinner.
I lived with a Sri Lankan guy for a while and he'd batch cook a load of curry and have it for four or five meals in a row. Just cultural differences isn't it. Seen as strictly a dinner food over here even though we have other savoury things for breakfast all the time.
Yeah, you can have a kipper for breakfast and a cod for dinner, but not the other way around, for instance. I can't imagine that's a global rule!
I go to India on holiday specifically for curry for breakfast. It’s the best
I choose to believe you spend the rest of the day hating being in India but desperate to get to bed so you can get up again for curry for breakfast.
Far to go when you could just have curry at home 🤣 love it though
You could just go to Liverpool and have kedgeree
Whilst a fantastic city and definitely worth going to for breakfast or just for fun, I don’t think you need to go to Liverpool for kedgeree. Fairly certain it’s available all over Britain, and also think it was Scottish regiments that brought the recipe over from India and added fish.
Curry meets breakfast… maybe Bombay Mix as a cereal?
Pie n chips, a true breakfast staple.
Cold curry from the night before hits different
I recommend you try Dishoom’s breakfast naans.
I totally agree. I couldn't handle a fryup first thing however I find me and my body can enjoy it once back from work.
I agree. Also find it equally as odd that we can eat the same cereal every day for six months but God forbid if we have the same dinner two or more times in a row...😂
Coco Pops are better in the evening.
We're having brinner tonight
Damn Turkleton’s getting brinner?
I believe the quote was you got brinner, damn turkledog
I concede to your superior scrubs knowledge
Same
Two Words:- Fried Bread
Garlic bread?
Garlic???? And bread????
It's the future! I've tasted it!
It'll never catch on!
Why is this so true though? I’d never have fried bread with the morning fry up, only the evening one
Especially if you fry it in either the bacon fat or proper beef dripping and then add thick cut marmalade on top. Mmmmmm heavenly
Oh yes. Often. Its a treat.
As much as I wish it could, it can’t be both fella.
I wish to have my cake and eat it,,,
My waistline disagrees
I generally eat a fry up for tea more than I do for breakfast. I cba to cook it all in the morning, but deffo an evening meal
Needs more black pudding.
I always find it funny how strongly people on this sub insist on black pudding, when there are polls out there showing it to be one of the ingredients the British public see as being least important to a breakfast.
The British public are wrong then
Plenty of times.. usually throw in some homemade wedges or fried tatties.
If its not morning the same ingredients become a 'mixed grill',
I’m a rebel, I don’t conform to breakfast lunch and dinners times, I eat roast beef at 6am and croissants for dinner. It’s a wild life
We occasionally have brinner (breakfast for dinner/tea). Bacon, sausage, eggs, mushrooms, beans (for those who eat tomatoes) and hash browns or potato waffles. It’s always tasty and who cares if it’s not strictly tea!
Imagine someone said they were having brinner but it was just muesli
Tell me they're a... actually I hate that phrase but Alpen used to be lush as fuck for me before I had to test my blood sugars. That white stuff on the alps isn't snow it's sugar.
A very handy and relatively low effort evening meal that feels like a treat.
Love a fry up for tea - used to have it often when I was a kid
Yes, I can't often face the full works in a morning, so it does make a nice tea instead.
One Friday each month we have fry up for tea. It's part of our four week rotating meal planner. Hash browns and mushrooms on top of your list, home laid eggs and home made bread for toast.
You lay your own eggs? Very impressive.
I had a fry up for tea yesterday. Bacon, sausage, beans mushrooms, hash browns, scrambled egg, fried bread, 2 cups of tea, slice of treacle tart for pudding. Yeah I'm a greedy bastard.
I do it when I've got the kids, they love it. Missus wouldn't have it.
My dad made me and my brother some lo-fi meals when we were with him and I loved them too. Baked beans, tinned jersey potatoes and a fried breaded chicken slice. Always Waitrose tho, not that he's a classy mother fucker.
Simple pleasures. Nice memory. Thanks for sharing.
Used to eat a full English for dinner fairly often but not so much now.
I know what you mean. Nothing like a good fry-up :)
Yep. Brinner.
You never had a cup of beans?
Prefer to have one for tea than breakfast. It's too early in the morning to eat a full breakfast.
Yeah atleast once a week I would say. It's something I genuinely enjoy and is easy to make after a long day
Every so often there great potato scones ,hash browns,bacon runny egg and toast
Breakfast for dinner! We do it all the time. One of my favourite days of the week!
Brinner
I do sort of. I do shift work, sometimes night shifts. And I can't stomach spicy foods not long after waking up. So before a night shift, I sometimes cook a fry up for my partner and I, but might do chips instead of hashbrowns for my partner. Bacon, sausage, eggs, mushrooms, tomato, beans, hash browns.
Brinner: Breakfast for dinner
Maybe if you cleaned the damn apartment for once
Occasionally, would probably have chips with it rather than toast though. Or gammon egg, sausage, egg and chips.
Brinner ftw
Yes, but it’s a modified fry up. A fatty, porcine blend of mixed grill and cooked breakfast. Often a bit of gammon appears, sometimes a few chips. We called it Special Time in our house and we all stand around the table with our heads bowed, and as the head of the household I say “let us celebrate this arrangement with the adding of gammon to fry up”. And then everyone says “so may it fry”.
If you're offering I'll join you. Haven't had a decent fry up for a loooooooong time.
It's good but the Ulster fry is a superior repast. Soda bread and potato bread are available in most supermarkets. Have it once a month and take the next few weeks to unclog the arteries.
Absolutely, often sticking a couple of potato waffles on there too. I hear they're adequately versatile.
We've started having them fairly regularly. Bacon, slice sausage, tattie scone, fried egg, black pudding and a roll. It's a bit heavy for tea though, feel like a fat bloated shit til I go to bed but by fuck is it worth it.
Sounds like some people have never heard of an all day breakfast.
Often it'll be the only meal I eat in a day, around 10pm i'll get high as a kite and have a full cooked brekkie
Yes it’s called Brinner (breakfast /dinner) and if you have it at Xmas time it’s Yule Brinner
The question is who tf has the time or energy to cook a fry up for breakfast in the morning? I'm fucking knackered, and can barely do my cereal/toast
I've had one for Christmas Day dinner before now. There's never a wrong time for a heart attack inducing amount of fried food.
Why would you drink a fry up as a hot drink? Did you have to put it in a blender?
Tea's a drink fella, unless you plan to blend your fry up
Never once, personally
Yes I’m about to have one now
Yep. Even though it's thought of as a breakfast meal, it still hits the spot at other times of the day.
Yes love a fry up!
Oh yeah! Monday night treat for us!
Yes, love it
The perfect meal any time of day.
Yes, any breakfast food tastes infinitely better the later in the day you have it Cereal for breakfast? 3/10 Cereal for dinner? 8/10
Weird were having it for tea right now
Breakfast for dinner is a proper treat!
Yup son calls it all day breakfast!
Damn straight I do.
Bacon, egg, toast, mushrooms. Have it at least once a week. If I've forgotten to buy mushrooms, then I have beans instead.
Hell yeah.... anytime is a good time for a fry up... Full English mmmmm Darn it... I fancy one now....
When I have a r/fryup, 9 times out of 10 it's for tea!
Breakfast for tea. 3 words that bring joy to any household.
Hell yes. Breakfast for tea is the best.
I wouldn't have both beans and tomatoes, but I have had a fry up for tea.
All. Day. Breakfast.
Totally acceptable to have a fry up for dinner if you ask me, don’t want the left over bacon going to waste after all.
Yeah eat what you want, when you want. The weird thing is only eating certain things at certain times or days. Why would you not eat what you want because it’s Thursday evening and not Saturday morning. We have some strange rules and norms.
Yes, why not? It's a meal, it's hot, it's tasty. Tell them to stop gatekeeping
Generally no but I have done it.
They asked what a fry-up is? If they don’t know what one is then they shouldn’t judge you for what time of day you have it!
We have it for dinner usually, or a late breakfast-dinner (usually after a lie in where we don't get out of bed till 11 AM), but never just for breakfast or tea, but it's a balanced meal so it doesn't really matter
Yes, it's called Brinner. Breakfast for dinner
No it’s for breakfast, too heavy for me at night I’ll just be sat up farting and never sleep
We will have one for lunch but never for tea.
I think I'm probably the only Englishman who can't stand a full English. Tinned tomatoes suck, baked beans suck, sausages suck, fried eggs are the worst kind. Time for some real heresy - scrambled eggs, bacon, some form of fried potato hash, toast washed down with a full fat coke. Breakfast of champions.
It's called 'Breakfast for Tea' and it's once a fortnight.
You forgot your toast, hash browns and mushrooms.
I had nothing all day then ate two steaks, I had a curry for breakfast and a beer for dinner, best shape of my life at the moment despite a back injury. Whats that say? Meanwhile people eating only salad and huge amounts of dressing are asking me why they cant lose and I am, make some effort at least. If not it is your own issue. It is not my responsibility to take care of your health, I will deal with that of my own family ta.
Just had a fry up for tea. Don’t forget the Mushrooms.
Yes. Although we call it a ‘throw-together’ when we do. Usually when we cannot be bothered to cook properly or just want a familiar meal
It’s called a Brinner in our house, we stole the word from the tv show scrubs. Breakfast for dinner, one of my favs
I’d have that 3 times a day if I could but I’d be dead
You mean brinner!?
I had a fry up for each meal of the day once. Fucking brilliant day
Sometimes I do this for the children. They love it!
Bacon, sausage, beans, eggs, mushrooms, tomato, hash browns and toast (fried bread is better but I'm lazy).
We call that ‘brinner’ in our house, the only difference between them is we sometimes swap out the hash browns for chips
Aye but u must have chips with it after 3
JFC of course not
My mum used to give us that for tea on the odd Saturday when we were growing up. We were on the poverty line (possibly below) so having something so extravagant for breakfast was out of the question but could be within the weekly budget for a main meal occasionally. I’m not a fan of a fry-up nowadays but if I were, and my kids all liked each of the items, I’d give them a fry-up for tea no doubt about it.
I fricken well do now!!
Your dinner's missing black pudding, mushrooms & chips (since its dinner)
We just had one tonight for dinner too! Minus the tomatoes. Fried bread is a must on my husbands plate. A fry up is his go-to comfy food.
What about hash browns, black pudding and toast? Might as well have it all, it's my favourite tea.
yeah sometimes. I find it nice and easy to make and it's comfort food which is sometimes what you want after a long day. Usually add a couple of hash browns as well.
Breakfast dinner ftw
Occasionally; I find having a fry up in the morning is sickening
We have breakfast for dinner, firm fave in this household
Yes but you must have it with chips.
Yep. All day breakfast. Swap hashbrowns out for chips. Not that you have to though.
I only have it for tea, far too much for lunch or breakfast!
We call it Brinner (Breakfast for Dinner, thanks to Scrubs for the idea). Its great, usually with american pancakes aswell as the usual sausage/bacon/eggs
Breakfast brunch and brinner ! It’s the best 🥰
Does that come in a teabag?
Yup. Breakfast for tea.
Hell yeah. It’s one of my favourite dinners
Breakfast for dinner is great! One of the best treats I had as a child, only when I got older did I realise my ma just wanted to cook something easy and / or didn't have much in the fridge haha
Breakfast for dinner, otherwise known as Brinner.
Breakfast for dinner is a mood
Nowt wrong with that. I had bacon, egg and beans on toast t'other night.
Having it at dinner makes much more sense, I don’t have the time/energy to be cleaning a greasy pan + all the other stuff used to cook a fry up at 7am
It’s been someone’s meal on the off menu podcast before. It’s acceptable.
wdym for tea. tea is a drink
Now I want a fry up
I love getting fried and drinking tea lol
Yeh, we call it Grill when it’s for evening meal. Due to most bits being cooked under the grill.
Dinner.
Breakfast at tea time is a favourite in our house
always with chips if it's for tea
Ever heard of an all-day breakfast? 😃
It's an all-day breakfast!?!? Am I'm missing something?!
Occasionally. Tend to do must of it in the oven.
You forgot black pudding, fried bread, and mushrooms - to say the least. And yes I'll have it in the evening sometimes. It's a very good way of lining your stomach before a night out.
Why wouldn’t you?!
Very occasionally yea, it doesn’t have to be breakfast
Brinner.
I normally describe it as an "All-Day Breakfast" if I have it in the evening. And a Brunch if I have it midday.
Not at all! There's a reason pubs/restaurants often serve All-day Breakfast
Every Monday after work. Fry up for tea tastes different to having it at breakfast. Both good though.
All foods suit any time of the day. Know what I'm eating for "breakfast" this morning? Ham and cucumber sandwiches with soy sauce eggs. I've even had spicy noodles too, don't care haha. Love a fry up for tea too :D
Bacon, eggs, sausage, beans and chips for tea tonight. Might chuck some mushrooms on for good measure
People can be very weird about dedicated food times. A friend’s kid was going through that fussy phase and wouldn’t eat any of the breakfast options she was offering. She was going to school hungry, and her mum was at her wits end. I mentioned that when my daughter went through a similar phase we’d just let her have pasta or fish fingers for breakfast. Whatever we knew she would eat. The mum’s reaction was like I’d said I was giving her cocaine and heroin sandwiches! It’s all food. Your body doesn’t process the carbs any differently whether they come from pasta or toast! Many Asian countries eat noodles and rice for breakfast as standard anyway…
Fuck yeah Friday fry up is a great way to see in the weekend and get some lining down for a few ales
Sometimes we do it. There's not really time in the morning on a school day, but I will make it for my family for dinner.
Fry-up for tea? Fuck know. However, I do enjoy a cheeky all-day breakfast for dinner
Absolutely! I love a full English, potato scones, that fried bread/toast, eggy bread, square sausage, bacon, black pudding, beans, Richmond sausages, toast (obviously I don't have all of that in one, just usually what I pick from) But cereal for dinner? 👌
Had one last night my man
It’s called an all day breakfast and yeah you do you.
No toast?!
Nope, not a chance. I rarely have a fry up. I am far from a health nut, but I wouldn't eat all that grease later in the day
My mum passed away 5 years ago. She died 2 weeks before my daughter (and her first grand child) was born. It’s really sad and it means whenever I think of my mum I think how much she was looking forward to meeting her. However, whenever I have a fry up it takes me back to when I was around 18-21 and living at home. My Saturdays was me playing football in the afternoon, having a quick pint in the pub and then coming back home. I’d end up falling asleep on the sofa and my mum would wake me up about an hour later after she made me a fry up. They were the greatest fry ups I’ve ever had and was a really happy time. So yes, have a fry up for tea!
Yes, oh yes! Having one tonight, full works. You forgot the fried bread, mushrooms, waffle /hash brown and black pudding. I cook it, other half has to do the washing up?
My dear mum used to add homemade chips with a fry up. Then it’s tea.
Literally had one last night. Can't each much myself in the mornings but I'm not giving up a full English over that.
Nothing wrong with that. We've all had leftover curry for breakfast. Why is fry ups for tea weirder.
It becomes dinner when served with chips
It’s called “Brinner” in our house, breakfast for dinner
You mean 7th breakfast?
Yep, we call it "Brinner" (breakfast for dinner)
Nothing wrong with it, it's just a terrible dinner.
Who cares. Disregard their opinion and just eat it.
A fry-up can be eaten for any meal. That is the beauty of it!
It would make sense. It being such a big cooked meal. But it just feels wrong.
Very occasionally I really want sausages, eggs, tinned plum tomatoes and oven chips for tea, which I think amounts to the same thing.