Question on any and Dec quiz show just now

According to some experts how many items make up the common full English breakfast?

The answer was 9. Bacon, eggs, sausage, tomato, beans, mushrooms, black pudding, toast and fried bread.

That isn't right is it? Generally speaking if you were to go to a cafe and order a full English you'd have the option of tomato OR beans and toast OR fried bread (or normal bread). Very rare would you get all 9 items as a full English and most people I know wouldn't have those items all together either, they'd make choices which ones.

Also no hash brown? What's that all about?

 

Hash browns are an American thing?

I can’t stand grilled half tomato on a breakfast, absolutely no point!

 

Hash browns aren't typically English though are they? As a kid I had fried bread and fried potato.

 

I've got it on but I'm not really following how they get the money

 

7.
Coffee, hot water, sugar, milk, bread, butter, banana.

And before anyone says that the above is not a full English, I'm English and it fills me up.

 

Hash browns are great but not Full English breakfast-worthy.

Tomatoes? Get to fu ck.

 

Didn't watch it, but seems a very weird question. More subjective than quiz show questions should be in my opinion.

 

I'd say hash browns are part of the standard full English that you get at cafes these days even if they aren't what we would call traditional. In fact I had a full English yesterday for lunch and it was bacon sausage beans (which I chose instead it tomato) hash brown black pudding mushrooms toast

 

A few of the questions have been a bit like that. One was something like on a digital clock how many lines are used to show that it is ten thirty am.

The answer depends if you are in 12 or 24vhour mode surely?

 

It said "according to the English Breakfast Society".

So God knows what that bunch entails. Sounds like a group I want to be involved in if they're claiming 9 items. Only 5 or 6 in the local Wetherspoons.

 

That's them.

I've just looked at their website and just from what they've written themselves I think it was a very unfair question to put on a quiz show.



The 'common' full English breakfast is a substantial meal consisting of back bacon, eggs, British sausage, baked beans, fried tomato, fried mushrooms, black pudding, fried and toasted bread.

These ingredients may vary depending on where in the Great Britain you happen to be and are a subject that is still open to (sometimes quite fierce) debate, we acknowledge this, so please stop writing to us saying that they are wrong, these are the right ingredients in our learned opinion.



You can't ask people to list all the ingredients that even the random organisation you choose to use admit that the list is up for debate and not agreed upon.

 

The exact number doesn't really matter.

 

My grandparents always did fried bread and toast. No baked beans though, just tomatoes.

 

It kinda does when the question is 'how many...' and you lose life's for every number you're out by.

There's been a few poor questions on quiz shows lately that have been wrong or debatable. I wonder if it's due to the sheer number of quizzes they're pumping out these days that they're struggling for questions or rushing them without proper research

 

Well they got £500000 so I don't think it mattered too much!

 

Isn't black pudding Scottish?

 

Thought it was iridh?

 

Possibly, I had Scottish in my head but no idea why

 

I always have beans and toms...if theres an option of one or the other I ask for half of each