full Irish breakfast

noun

A full breakfast usually including some combination of soda bread/farl, boxty, black pudding and white pudding.

Meanings

nounfull Irish breakfast (plural full Irish breakfasts)

plural full Irish breakfasts

  1. A full breakfast usually including some combination of soda bread/farl, boxty, black pudding and white pudding.

    Brenda's full Irish Breakfast includes homemade black and white pudding.

    1996, Frank Sullivan, Fran Sullivan, The Irish Bed and Breakfast Book, Pelican Publishing, →ISBN
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    I should disclose at this point that there is, of course, a full Irish breakfast, one that my friends in Dublin claim was the very first and that the English stole from them.

    2010 September 2, Albert Jack, What Caesar Did For My Salad: The Secret Meanings of our Favourite Dishes, Penguin UK, →ISBN

    Boxty is often served alongside a full Irish breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, black pudding, toast, and tomato slices.

    2014 March 18, Foodspotting, The Foodspotting Field Guide, Chronicle Books, →ISBN

    The first place we filmed in Ireland was a breakfast place, and the one thing they didn't have was a Full Irish Breakfast.

    2022 October 18, Phil Rosenthal, Jenn Garbee, Somebody Feed Phil the Book: Untold Stories, Behind-the-Scenes Photos and Favorite Recipes: A Cookbook, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 114
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