All I can think is: boy that would set me up for an 'inflated' day!

I stayed in a nice London hotel for a week a long time ago... they had a huge daily breakfast buffet and served all kinds of things for breakfast, but I don't recall ever seeing beans served. I could eat baked beans for breakfast -- especially if they had vinegar on them. :)

So many cultures use beans in their diet and make pots daily/weekly. Or mixed grains or both. Makes sense that some beans and grains end up on the breakfast table.

Common in NYC where all cultures blend to have a dozen or more breakfast offering with beans. Usually a combination of corn tortillas, black beans, salsa, avocado, egg, cheese. Chilaquiles, (my favorite), BreakfastBowl, (no tortilla), Spanish Burrito, Ful Mesdames, Egyptian. A Vietnamese dish i can't remember the ingredients.

A Spanish Omelette. Lots of variations. A Guatemalan breakfast will often have eggs, any way you like, then beans and rice.

Ecuadorians like a hominy but will use a white bean.

I've had 'MexicanEggs in Purgatory' many ways but similar using tomatillos and a spicy fresh salsa over beans and rice casserole style with soft cracked eggs on top and baked.

Eggs Revueltos is a scrambled blend of everything with beans. Every chef does it a bit different. Often beans on the side. In a wrap it is all together.

Garlicky hummus on toast, open faced, topped with a fried egg. (had that this morning)

I think the list is long. Not sure about the English one. Probably and obviously a cheap protein. A low cost food to stretch a dollar but is used now everywhere.

And usually a minor addition, like a 1/4 cup maybe.

Heinz canned beans are ubiquitous in the UK at breakfast. Here's a link: Heinz Baked Beans

I admit I'm fine with beans at breakfast, but prefer frijoles. ;)

I'm also fine with beans in the morning and I love baked beans. I often eat cold baked beans on a bun as a sandwich, or with toast for breakfast.

Elery likes to put refried beans or well seasoned beans in his omelette in the morning, the current incarnation is a North African stew made with lentils and chickpeas. He also likes chiliquiles and gallo pinto, a bean and rice mixture.

It has always been my understanding that beans for breakfast in England is much like our canned baked beans or pork and beans.

Annie

Yeah, back when I lived there it was always Heinz baked beans, just like canned pork and beans here. It had to be Heinz brand.

Born and raised in northern Maine, and New England baked beans were often served for breakfast along with eggs, bacon, toast and home fries. Yum!

The only time I have beans for breakfast at home is when I make breakfast burritos or migas, and I use my bean dip that I've been making since I lived in Texas. It is a puree, however, and not individual beans. In Mexico and Central America (Guatemala and Costa Rica) I was always served beans with breakfast (not pureed). In C.A. it was black beans, but it Mexico it was more often pinto beans. The only time I make black beans is when I make Cuban beans, and I got that recipe here. I always either have my bean dip or hummus on hand, but generally not at the same time, and I've not yet had hummus at breakfast. My hummus is a bit garlicky for that early in the morning.

I avoid baked beans, if they are sweet. I never put sugar in beans.

We've been to England often and love the Full English. Yes, they use Heinz beans which are very similar to our "pork and beans" -- they ARE a bit different but you can sub our pork and beans but you can find the Heinz British beans at places like World Market. I always try to have a couple of cans on hand -- the Heinz variety. But you need bacon and eggs and fried bread and even a proper sausage!

Oooh, yum! The more garlic the better when it comes to hummus. Breakfast hummus has a drizzle of honey. :)

I stayed in a nice London hotel for a week a long time ago... they had a huge daily breakfast buffet and served all kinds of things for breakfast, but I don't recall ever seeing beans served.

Missed this before. When I was over there in the early 70s, beans didn't appear for breakfast in restaurants except in slummy cafes. In those days, a regular middle class and above establishment had cornflakes, juice, eggs, bacon, those aggravating sausages that looked and smelled so wonderful and tasted like nothing because of no seasonings at all, toast, sometimes mushrooms, kidneys, fried bread, grilled tomato, and if you were lucky, maybe even kedgeree. Even in fairly humble B&Bs, the kind which were just a room in someone's house, I never saw beans.

I recently rendered a little lard from the pork fat I get from a local Mennonite farmer--heritage breeds, on pasture, corn raised by the farmer--so I have cracklings. This morning I had leftover refried beans and an egg fried over a generous tablespoon of cracklings. Mmmmmmm.

''ci_lantro

Here's a link for ya:

Serious Eats: Guide to a Full English Breakfast

Clicking on the links within that link takes one to a lot of interesting places.

BTW, Amazon has a full Irish Breakfast for only $55 but you must provide your own egg and tomato.

Heinz baked beans are the best. Went to boarding school in the UK and a full English breakfast always had baked beans. Favorite breakfast but you are pretty useless after eating one.

Why do I think those beans are supposed to be on toast? I'm sure that comes from some book(s) I've read.

In any case, I spent a few days on a farm in Australia and there were always beans for breakfast.

Baked beans on toast and spaghetti on toast were the featured item for supper or high tea (which is actually a meal meant to tide you over till tomorrow's breakfast, not a frilly high-class thing as Americans believe), but at breakfast toast was always stone cold in those little racks to make sure it cooled down enough.

In the budget cafes where we often ate, beans on toast was a very popular dinner entree.

Homepro1, you remind me of breakfast in the tropics, where mama sends you out the door full of chilaquiles and refried beans. Light Summer fare. :) If you're working the fields maybe. :) Delicious though.

English meals : It's a question of choices.

Choice 1. you have breakfast. Not usually a cooked one except at the weekend. You probably won't have beans with it. Then, you'll have lunch at 1, tea at 5 (tea, cakes, scones, teacakes....) then dinner at 8. (usually the main meal of the day).

Choice 2. then you'll have breakfast. Not usually a cooked one except at weekends but you'll be more likely to have beans. (Yes, they are very sweet!) Then you'll have lunch at 12. Tea is the main meal of the day at around 6pm. Then, you'll have supper at 10-ish - a cup of tea and a slice of cake.

High tea is a meal, usually eaten on a Sunday when you've had a big Sunday roast at lunchtime so you don't need another meal. You start with savoury things - a sandwich, beans on toast.... then end with sweet things - cake or leftover dessert.

It's all just choices.

Plllog,

Most of these traditional breakfasts cannot be had unless you were working in the fields manually. Work that involved manual tools only. I was in New York recently and went to a British restaurant where I engaged in a full English. I walked eight miles that day and had a cup of coffee the rest of the day. I was still stuffed the next day!!! I guess my metabolism is not as strong as it used to be.

I walked eight miles that day and had a cup of coffee the rest of the day. I was still stuffed the next day!!!

Cold weather helps some. But that was what I loved about it when I was an impecunious grad student working on research for my thesis over there. Our accommodations served breakfast as part of the deal, and then we were set for the rest of the day, usually. Dinner, if we ate it, could be plain brussels sprouts, which were usually the cheapest veg in the market. Or just a cup of tea someplace.

Writers block,

This is why I refuse to touch a Brussels sprout today. It was just abusive! Why was it always steamed until it smelled like a sock?????

Having spent nearly a dozen years on the competition barbecue circuit, I can remember plenty of 5am breakfasts where a pot of baked beans sat right next to the grits and sausage.

Ha, homepro01. Yes, they did like their well cooked veg then. We were lucky enough to have the use of the kitchen so we could cook them as we liked.

It's interesting that Americans used to cook vegetables to the same degree. I've seen recipe guides from the 20s that call for 45 to 75 min for cooking green beans, for instance. They just stuck with it for a long time after we decided it's better not to do that.

A Full English -- no bacon because British bacon is hard to find here although I can find British sausages and buy them (and the beans -- Heinz beans) whenever I can. And yes, our toast is "cooling" on what my husband calls "The Toast Cooler" (he doesn't like COLD toast!)

Where's the bacon? The fried tomato? The black pudding? That's a half-full English :-)

When DD was small we often had canned baked beans on toast (I actually prefer the New Zealand Watties brand to Heinz :-) ). She called them "toast beans" and they've been "toast beans" ever since :-)

Not a black pudding fan, but sometimes, a full English is the ONLY thing that really hits the spot! It's great all-day food!

Heinz beans in tomato sauce... blue lable on can in the minute "international" area of my Shop-Rite.

When I was in Costa Rica, it was beans for breakfast, beans for lunch and beans for dinner.

In Asian stores you can get green bean ice cream and red bean ice cream.

dcarch

LOL! I love red bean ice cream and other sweets, but it's not very beany by the time it's finished. Sweet without being cloying like strawberries.

I'm reading a great Italian detective novel at the moment and had to laugh at this passage:

I thought of you when I read this quote from "The Case of the Sleeping Beauty: A challenge for Commissario Beppe Stancato" by Richard Walmsley -
"Inevitably, his version of an English breakfast, consisting of crisply fried pancetta and deep yellow scrambled eggs – not on toast – produced ill-concealed expressions of disapproval. Many of his English clients would ask him, as politely as English people do, if he had something that sounded like ‘bike-ed beentz’. When he got his teenage daughter to research this item on Google, he was astounded to discover that they wanted something that he only ever served up as an antipasto, but with no hint of the beans wallowing in a wholly unappetizing-sounding tomato sauce. But the proprietor need not have feared on this occasion; the men and women who made up this motley crew belonged to a stratum of English society whose virtues he could not possibly have appreciated without having lived in England. He himself"
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In the Feb 2017 issue of Southern Living page 80 is 'Leo's Aussie Breakkie' served at The Collins Quarters...and right in the middle is a serving of beans......

i have never have heard of beans for breakfast till this post, but I could eat beans for breakfast......

Everywhere in England when we had a Full English, it was an egg (on fried toast), a rasher of bacon, a sausage, and either beans or a fried tomato half or mushrooms. Occasionally, we would have both mushrooms and tomatoes but not usually and neither of them when we had beans. And we've not just stayed at one or two London hotels but rather have stayed all over the country -- from east to west and from south to Scotland -- in bed and breakfasts. Were we shortchanged?

Yes!

Yes Martha you were. It should also have a slice of black pudding! A pretty good picture of the carnage.

Well, in fairness I have to say that the only time I ever saw black pudding back in the 70s was in Scotland, but for sure Martha was short-changed on the rest of it. We did have white pudding in Ireland, though, but it wasn't served everywhere.

I was brought up never having either black pudding or beans with our full English - just a question of what you fancy.

When I was in England and Scotland, I never saw beans for breakfast. I would have been fine eating them,however.

I did see blood sausage. I'm an adventurous eater, and tried it. Didn't like it.

I made sure I had kippers the last breakfast I was there, I liked that!

Most of our meals were in bed and breakfast homes so I would assume that perhaps they were giving us the economy version! LOL!

It's also possible that they were used to their guests not wanting to eat the full plate. There's an old B. Kliban cartoon that was very popular among some of my friends entitled Never Eat Anything Bigger than your Head.

Here we go... typical Aussie Brekkie.

We have this about once a month. Sometimes add mushrooms or a sausage if we have them. Never blood sausage. Heinz baked beans.

NO SAUSAGE????? Heretic! LOLLove a good kipper too!

Actually, for digestive purposes, beans are best eaten early in the day, so that they don't sit in your gut for long. Breakfast or lunch are great. Being mostly vegetarian, I try to follow that plan, and also eat something light for dinner, easy on the tummy. That's why I like afternoon tea, to supplement a light dinner.

I can't recall how kippers were served for breakfast in the UK. However, I'm pretty sure they weren't served with beans. LOL.

Kippers are buttered and grilled and served on their own with toast.

Thank-you, IC! I've always heard about kippers (see the kippered herring staring) and seen pictures, but (not being a fish eater) they looked very foreign to me (as opposed to Japanese fish/rice breakfast bowls which just look Japanese, or lox and cream cheese bagel which is something my grandfather would eat). Buttered, grilled and served with toast sound much more breakfasty than what I'd been imagining all these years!

I've made kedgeree (another savory British option, for breakfast or other meals) with kippered mackerel. I also serve kippers on a bagel with cream cheese as a cheaper alternative to lox. Kedgeree is curried rice, smoked fish (typically haddock but doesn't have to be) and hard boiled eggs. Veggies can be added, as can cream.

L Pink, you reminded me. I love that. Here's the best ever recipe that I always use :

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes

Interesting site IC......I saved... don't have time this am to enjoy....back later.......THANK