hi i'm josh i'm ollie and today we're
with sorted food
to settle once and for all
what is in the ultimate full english
breakfast
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i hope you brought boxing gloves okay
you guys opinionated when it comes to
food
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let me lay out the facts for you one of
us is a chef and when we went to find
london's best little english breakfast
he took us for a bacon and scallop roll
wow i thought it was best breakfast not
best full english bread here we go again
here we go again i hadn't realized quite
to what extent but it's very debated
what belongs in a full english breakfast
first round meats i mean if there's no
meat is it a full english can vegans
enjoy full english breakfast should they
okay
okay jamie walk us through what meats
belong in a full english bacon okay
smoked oh back oh
job done
okay sausage yeah two oh okay
okay
specific i mean these are little
chipolatas yeah scrap them pigs in
blankets brilliant idea not on a full
english okay except you're doing two for
one you're doing the bacon and the
sausage i'm just putting out a full
english breakfast is not about
efficiency okay
okay black pudding is non-negotiable wow
okay english breakfast because you need
something in there that people who
aren't from england are disturbed by it
oh yeah
yeah
streaky bacon delicious okay with
pancakes for a full american breakfast
baby yes
not on a full english interesting i
don't agree sorry i'm just saying
i'm a i'm a streaky bacon guy on a plate
you want the crisp on the plate
i think i'm with barry on this
absolutely not wow okay we've got some
head shakes behind
a full english breakfast well how about
we do like a couple rashes of back or a
couple of streaky and one up you know
mix and match should we do that he's
furious oh it's human
next category potato so in front of you
you have some potato waffles you can
also swap those out from smiley faces do
the same sort of job um and equally as
delicious usually just the one of these
three would do the job wait so you would
say that any of these could go in
my order of preference i would go fries
first wow laughs
spin it off if i was at home i wouldn't
do it at home but if we're aiming for
the ultimate for english yeah if you're
being offered chips you take them okay
i'm here offering you chips
all right
these guys are coming
and he's just left well i would say
tradition hash browns is an american
thing however it is something i'm very
very happy to bring to full english i
mean look at that that's basically just
a fried triangle of potato perfection
it's a throwing star of heart disease
it's got to be hash browns over chips
good decision and we did side with the
wizard it's true as opposed to the
muggles
next eggs if i'm given the choice for
health reasons you are not having a full
english i was about to say yeah
yeah that's true but i would generally
choose poached fancy nine times out of
ten i would agree with you but on a full
english yeah the poached egg doesn't
belong no it's gonna be different it
doesn't it's got to be scrambled
i i want to distance myself a little bit
okay all right so you guys going fried
bit is that the every other time i would
make eggs i would make scrambled or
poached yeah unless i'm making a full
english and then it's a treat and then
it's a fried sorry two fried eggs the
thing is i want a runny yolk
to go into the bread and maybe the hash
brown as well no okay i'm up for that i
am up for that so we're doing fried but
sunny side up yeah i like this i like
where we're going okay
next category oh it's one that i'm not
too happy with i would leave it if i had
the option i grew up having tinned plum
tomatoes so i'm i'm partial to it if
it's there in front of me i'll smash it
but today you've got the choice i
wouldn't choose this no i wouldn't
choose it okay we're on the same page
yeah that might be a generational thing
because i think we all grew up with two
tomatoes on a weekend breakfast now this
to me says australian brunch how good do
they look they do look great
next to a fan of avocado yeah and then
now we're talking so are we okay with
the on the vine there's a container i'm
okay with wow what we are setting a
precedent for the type of full english
that we're going for oh okay it's bougie
next category is mushrooms if i'm
perfectly honest it's filled mushrooms
or button all the way okay having just
done the army-based stew we had some
mushrooms left so they ended up on the
tray okay
next one tin beans or homemade babies i
feel quite strongly about this i feel
very strongly about it yeah
i just don't think there's any place
for homemade beans on the full english
okay
but the okay is the tin beans are too
sweet when you've got the time to make
your own beans you can personalize them
and make them
happen
a tin of baked beans is perfect already
someone else has done the work for you
you don't need to come along and screw
it up okay wow okay
it's like gordon ramsay making a burger
restaurant you know it's like stay in
your lane
i feel like we're doing the same as we
are with back bacon we know they're not
as good those ones in the tin with the
blue label but we're prepared to
sacrifice quality for tradition
yeah i mean the thing is
oh my gosh that's incredible
yeah okay it is good but it doesn't have
any of the nostalgia and all of those
you know the cravings that i get when i
see you know a sloppy pile of heinz
baked beans on a plate i just want to
you know wipe up with some toast
next up is bread sorry we can get rid of
gluten free because that literally isn't
bread i mean no one's gluten
turn to it if not don't yeah but it's
like you know if you if you don't have a
limp you don't want with crutches you
know
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can i say that
you said it already like that okay okay
all right so then now
now we've got soft white or wholemeal
now i think some of this comes down to
personal preference fried bread
white bread you can find okay
whole meal personally i prefer wholemeal
for toast okay kind of great for your
toast wholemeal's fine you've got to
keep it healthy but what you know
personal preference
yeah as you consume the three
thousandths calorie yeah i got some
fiber it's wholemeal bread
i think it's time to make some breakfast
let's do it
it is wow it is a thing to behold look
at that we put off the decision on the
bacon we cooked both we now have to
decide streaky or back bacon just to
chime in here okay i would i would say
that if you are going to put streaky on
there it needs to be cooked a lot more
than that yes oh it needs to be crispy
crunchy i obviously wouldn't disagree
with you because i'd be terrified of the
consequences
but in this case i do agree with you i
think streaky bacon needs to be crispy
back bacon wins it make them win right
back bacon's going on all right it's
time to dig in i feel like the beans
just pull everything together like
everything needs to get involved with a
bit of beans is that just me a little
bit of black pudding dipped in the yolk
excuse fingers what about the fried
bread does that go in there yes oh come
on fry bread into that yolk look at that
boys i think we've done a good job i
think we've done okay
i mean well if we've missed anything or
if you guys
prefer to have something else
in uh your breakfast you're wrong let us
know in the comments
know in the comments uh
yeah thank you guys very much i think it
divides a nation but it also brings us
back together again that's it it does
look like a lawless meal
yeah
we've spent nearly the last like hour
debating over what belongs in this
literally just looks like a bunch of
random ingredients
all right guys wow
excellent brilliant thank you very much
and uh
thank you guys for watching we'll see
you jolly soon
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