King of Meals.
The 'Full English' originated in roughly 1840.
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However, the menu wasn't fixed.
It could include: "baked halibut steaks, fried whiting, stewed figs, pheasant legs, collared tongue, kidneys on toast, sausages with fried bread, pig's cheek and Melton pork pie".
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Isabella Beeton lays out the following breakfast advice in The Book of Household Management (1861)
"The following list of hot dishes may perhaps assist our readers in knowing what to provide for the comfortable meal called breakfast. Broiled fish, such as mackerel, whiting, herrings, dried haddocks, &c.; mutton chops and rump-steaks, broiled sheep's kidneys, kidneys à la maître d'hôtel, sausages, plain rashers of bacon, bacon and poached eggs, ham and poached eggs, omelets, plain boiled eggs, oeufs-au-plat, poached eggs on toast, muffins, toast, marmalade, butter, &c. &c."
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Cooked breakfast fell out of fashion during WW2, due to the scarcity of bacon and eggs.
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