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The Irish breakfast is a cooked breakfast consisting mainly of pork products. Breakfast is the first meal of the day, preceding lunch or dinner and is eaten in the morning. ... Two halves of a pig being delivered Pork is the meat taken from pigs. ...

The contents

The traditional Irish breakfast includes at least the following fried items: pork sausages, bacon rashers, egg(s), black pudding, and white pudding, accompanied by tea or coffee and usually toast or traditional brown soda bread (one of the more distinguishing features). Similar traditional breakfasts, often with the same ingredients, are served in other parts of the British Isles (see Full English breakfast). The serving of white pudding is also often found in the traditional breakfast meal in Ireland and Scotland. Often, the bacon is grilled and not fried and less commonly the sausages can be too. Two halves of a pig being delivered Pork is the meat taken from pigs. ... It has been suggested that makkara be merged into this article or section. ... Bacon is any of certain cuts of meat taken from the sides, back or belly of a pig, cured and possibly smoked. ... A rasher is a slice of bacon. ... An egg is an ovum produced by a female animal for reproduction, often prepared as food. ... Morcilla cocida: Spanish-style blood sausage Blood sausage or black pudding or blood pudding is a sausage made by cooking down the blood of an animal with meat, fat or filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled. ... An Irish breakfast consisting of sausages, black and white pudding, bacon and fried eggs, served with orange juice. ... Tea leaves in a Chinese gaiwan. ... A cup of coffee Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. ... Two pieces of toast, a knife and a plate Toast is bread that has been browned by exposure to dry heat. ... Soda bread is a type of quick bread in which yeast has been substituted with baking soda. ... Location of the British Isles The British Isles is a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe consisting of Great Britain, Ireland, and a number of smaller surrounding islands and islets. ... A Full English breakfast, or traditional fry-up, is a traditional breakfast meal in England. ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots 2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I...

Although the items listed are the main criteria for a proper Irish breakfast, other items are sometimes included. This may include boxty (although nowadays this is rare), hash browns, and fried mushrooms or fried tomato — all of which may also feature in similar traditional breakfasts. Breakfast in Ireland may also be served with some non-traditional items such as baked beans. Boxty is a traditional Irish potato cake fried on a griddle pan using a mixture of raw and mashed potatoes with eggs. ... A hash brown (frequently in the pural: hashed browns) is a food made of fried diced or shredded potatoes. ... The relative sizes of the Cap (pileus) and Stalk (stipe) vary widely. ... Look up Tomato in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Baked beans and scrambled egg on toast. ...

Hotel and other fare

An Irish breakfast consisting of sausages, black and white pudding, bacon and fried eggs, served with orange juice.

The term Irish breakfast is the only term used in Ireland for fried breakfasts (often with varying selections of the aforementioned ingredients). It is also used by the Irish abroad, or by traditional Irish pubs outside of Ireland, or by those hotels choosing to apply the term Irish to various fried breakfast items. Around the world, various types of fried breakfast may be alternatively described as English, a more common label in some quarters. In France for example, the phrase petit déjeuner anglais (English breakfast) is prevalent. Download high resolution version (1772x1615, 1398 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1772x1615, 1398 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that makkara be merged into this article or section. ... Black pudding or blood pudding is a sausage made by cooking animal blood with or filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled. ... An Irish breakfast consisting of sausages, black and white pudding, bacon and fried eggs, served with orange juice. ... Bacon is any of certain cuts of meat taken from the sides, back or belly of a pig, cured and possibly smoked. ... An egg is an ovum produced by a female animal for reproduction, often prepared as food. ... Orange Juice was a Scottish post punk band founded in the middle class Glasgow suburb of Bearsden as the Nu-Sonics in 1976, becoming Orange Juice in 1979. ...

Many Irish hotels and B&Bs serve a fine Irish breakfast, as do many cafes and pubs. Hotel breakfasts tend to be more expensive and less inclined to 'experiment' with the ingredients than their cafe counterparts. Tourist class hotels often serve nothing but an Irish breakfast with varying degrees of quality. One of the most expensive places Irish breakfasts are found is on the dining car of trains (see Iarnród Éireann). Tourists of various nationalities chatting over breakfast at a B&B in Quebec City. ... 1994: Iarnród Éireann Iarnród Éireann (IÉ; in English Irish Rail), is the national passenger railway system in Ireland. ...

History

The traditional cooked breakfast is a relatively modern invention. Before the arrival of the potato in the middle of the 17th century, the Irish diet reflected the nature of the cattle based economy. Meat, as in most economies, was mostly the preserve of the gentry whilst the poor made do with oats, barley, milk, milk products and offal. Rural folk had more choice in that fresh eggs, chicken and cured bacon were more accessible. The practice of bleeding cattle and mixing the blood with milk and butter (much like the Masai of today) was not uncommon. (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Scrapple sandwich at the Delaware state fair Offal is the entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal. ... Masai can refer to Maasai, also known as Masai, the name of an African ethnic group from Kenya and Tanzania Masai, Johor, a suburb of Johor Bahru city This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...

After the potato arrived in Ireland it quickly became the dominant source of food for the poor. From the late 17th century to until the late 19th century most people in Ireland lived on a meagre diet that consisted mostly of potatoes cultivated at a subsistence level. Potatoes were also used as a food for pigs that were fattened-up and slaughtered at the approach of the cold winter months. Much of the slaughtered pork would have been cured to provide ham and bacon that could be stored over the winter. Binomial name Solanum tuberosum L. The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, commonly grown for its starchy tuber. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Species Sus barbatus Sus bucculentus Sus cebifrons Sus celebensis Sus domesticus(Sus scrofa domesticus) Sus heureni Sus philippensis Sus salvanius Sus scrofa Sus timoriensis Sus verrucosus Pigs, also called hogs, swine, boars (male) or sows (female), are ungulates native to Eurasia collectively grouped under the genus Sus within the Suidae... Two halves of a pig being delivered Pork is the meat taken from pigs. ... In food preparation, curing refers to various preservation and flavoring processes, especially of meat or fish, by the addition of a combination of salt, sugar and either nitrate or nitrite. ... For other meanings of ham or Ham, see Ham (disambiguation). ... Bacon is any of certain cuts of meat taken from the sides, back or belly of a pig, cured and possibly smoked. ...

The reliance on potatoes as a staple crop meant that the people of Ireland were vulnerable to poor potato harvests, consequently a number of what today might be called 'lesser famines' occurred throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. The first great famine of 1739 was the result of extreme cold weather but the famine of the late 1840s (see Irish potato famine) which lasted several years led to the death of nearly 1,000,000 people and the emigration of another 2,000,000 was caused by potato blight. After the famine some 3,000,000 people were left destitute. Throughout this period most people would have eaten a simple breakfast of potatoes or porridge washed down with ale and later tea and would have had a more substantial dinner at around midday. // About the number 1739 1739 is the smallest integer that can be written as sum of three perfect cubes, in two ways. ... // Events and Trends Technology First use of general anesthesia in an operation, by Crawford Long The first electrical telegraph sent by Samuel Morse on May 24, 1844 from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.. War, peace and politics First signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) on February... Starvation during the famine The Irish Potato Famine, also called The Great Famine or The Great Hunger (Irish: An Gorta Mór), is the name given to a famine which struck Ireland between 1846 and 1849. ... Potato blight (Phytophthora infestans) is a serious disease of the potato plant. ... For other uses, see Ale (disambiguation). ...

The traditional fried breakfast emerged in the houses of successful farmers or landowners in the late 19th century. For the more well-to-do, an array of breakfast dishes would be laid out buffet style in much the same way as hotels do today. Up until this period, fresh meat was generally considered a luxury except for the most affluent. Chickens were not cultivated on a large scale until the second half of the 19th century. The emergence of town grocers in the 1880s allowed people to exchange surplus eggs etc. and for the first time purchase other food items and diversify their diet. Only with the relative increase in the wealth of the general populace in the 20th century was the consumption of the meal commonplace amongst the working classes. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...

The opening of Ulysses by James Joyce contains a famous Irish breakfast scene, in which Leopold Bloom prepares and eats a fried pork kidney with bread and tea. The meal is often reenacted by those who partake in the annual Bloomsday celebrations. Ulysses is a 1922 novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from 1918 to 1920, and published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. ... James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Seamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ... Leopold Bloom is a fictional character in James Joyces novel Ulysses. ... Two halves of a pig being delivered Pork is the meat taken from pigs. ... The kidneys are bean-shaped excretory organs in vertebrates. ... Bloomsday is a holiday observed annually on June 16 to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and commemorate the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. ...

Variations

A small Ulster fry, including potato farls

The traditional Ulster fry does not normally include puddings, and so stands apart from the traditional Irish breakfast. However it should include fried potato farls (potato bread) and soda farls (flat bread leavened with baking soda not yeast) - grilled or sometimes fried. Potato farls are also eaten as part of an Irish Breakfast in many parts of Ireland. Ulster fry (Full English breakfast; Irish breakfast), an instance observed at Queens University, Belfast guesthouse in 2003-09. ... Ulster fry (Full English breakfast; Irish breakfast), an instance observed at Queens University, Belfast guesthouse in 2003-09. ... Ulster fry An Ulster fry is a dish of fried food that is popular throughout the province [citation needed] of Ulster in Ireland. ... Please move this to the Wikibooks Cookbook (or the List_of_recipes, but those are being migrated to the cookbook now); thanks! Potato farls are a type of fried bread served with Irish breakfast. ...

A breakfast roll is a French bread demi-baguette, filled with this kind of breakfast. The concept developed as a ready-to-go meal from convenience stores. It was spurred on by the innovation of in-store ovens being used to cook part-baked frozen French bread. In addition to standard breakfast ingredients, it usually includes ketchup, and sometimes spicy potato wedges or other random ingredients from the hot counter, and is often used as a hangover cure due to its high grease content. now. ... French-Bread (known as Watanabe Seisakujo prior to 2003) is a dojin soft company that specializes in 2D fighting games. ... For the architectural ornament, see molding (decorative). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A hangover (veisalgia) is the sum of unpleasant physical effects following heavy consumption of alcohol. ...

See also

• Bacon and eggs
• Full English Breakfast