Ulster Fry

American Ulster Fry                                                                   

A full English breakfast with scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, black pudding, mushrooms, baked beans, hash browns, and half a tomato

A full breakfast is a traditional cooked meal, typically and originally eaten at breakfast, though now often served at other times during the day (this is particularly true of the Ulster Fry, described below).

The full breakfast traditionally comprises several fried foods, usually including bacon and eggs, (vegetarian alternatives exist) and is popular throughout the British Isles and other parts of the English-speaking world. Depending on where it is served, it is called bacon and eggs, a fry, a fry up, The Great British breakfast, a full English breakfast, a full Irish breakfast, a full Scottish breakfast, a full Welsh breakfast or an Ulster fry. The complement of the breakfast varies depending on the location and which of these descriptions is used.

Typical ingredients

The ingredients of a fry-up vary according to region and taste. The bacon (often called rashers) and eggs are traditionally fried, but grilled bacon, poached eggs, or scrambled eggs may be offered as alternatives. These are accompanied by toast. Some of the additional ingredients that might be offered as part of a full breakfast include:

toast, fried bread, English muffins, or scones

soda bread

potato bread (also called "fadge")

sausages

black pudding

white pudding

scrapple (in the Midatlantic US)

fried, grilled, or tinned tomatoes

fried mushrooms

Ulster Fry                                                                                                          

A full Ulster Fry served in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

An Ulster Fry is a dish of fried food that is popular throughout Northern Ireland and the three counties of Ulster which lie in the Republic of Ireland (Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal). The Ulster fry is similar to the Irish fry.

A traditional Ulster fry consists of bacon, eggs, sausages (either pork or beef), the farl form of soda bread (the farl split in half crossways to expose the inner bread and then fried with the exposed side down), potato bread and tomatoes.[10] Other common components include mushrooms, wheaten bread or pancakes. All this is traditionally fried in lard.

The Ulster Fry is not considered solely a breakfast dish as it is often served for lunch and dinner in households and cafés around the province. Emigrants have also popularised the serving of an Ulster Fry outside Northern Ireland.

chips

baked beans

bubble and squeak

sautéd potatoes or hash browns

condiments such as brown sauce and ketchup   

pancakes (in the USA, Canada, and Ireland)

grits in the Southern United States

biscuits (US-style, not British) and gravy (normally sausage gravy), also in the American South and never in the UK