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IRELAND IS KNOWN internationally for rolling green hills, the friendly nature of its people, our temperamental economy, our fondness for spuds, jumpers and beating seven shades of shite out of each other on the hurling pitch.
All of that pales in comparison though, when it comes to the latest cornerstone of Irish culture to light up the international stage…. the breakfast roll.
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Darren Kennedy / Twitter / Twitter
It’s not a new item, of course, but today’s Washington Post uses our meaty morning meal as a key player in an analysis of the history of the breakfast sandwich, written in the context of McDonalds’ decision to introduce an all-day breakfast:
The piece links the evolution of the breakfast sandwich to industrialisation, arriving unavoidably at the phenomenon of the link between the Irish breakfast roll and the Celtic Tiger.
A 2011 report from Ireland attributed the popularity of the “jumbo breakfast roll” (a half baguette stuffed with fried or grilled sausage, bacon rashers, blood pudding, a fried egg and ketchup) to the proliferation of construction jobs during the country’s “Celtic Tiger” boom years – Washington Post
That report, an actual scientific investigation was called:
The Post goes on to tell its readers:
At its height, the sandwich was so ubiquitous that a song about it by comedian Pat Shortt was for six weeks the top song in Ireland, bumping Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie” off the charts.
Sniff, so proud.
All together now…
Written by Emer McLysaght and originally published on DailyEdge.ie
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Would yiz ever lay a squirt of ketchup on them poor rolls! Look at them, as dry as Ghandi’s flip flops.
Brown sauce on a breakfast roll.
Eh Ballymaloe relish if you please!
HP brown sauce the job for a breakfast roll and plenty of it!!!
Chef ketchup all the way
Journal. .Can we have a poll on this? Brown Sauce , Red Sauce , Ballymaloe, None or other.
Na they will wait till tomorrow and run the story all over again this tike with a crucial poll lol
Give over it has to be YR brown sauce… lol
ballymaloe relish is made from the tears of children.
If the egg is done right, you’re elected.
Brown sauce and ketchup
now it’s egg white omelettes with a side of,kale and dry rye bread washed down with. peppermint. tea
Notions
twas far from kale you were raised..
Don’t forget the “quinoa” or however ya effing spell it!
^is that gluten free?..
Mustard is my poison
Jasus was there no stock photos of a centra breakfast roll? The Supermac’s one above looks terrible!
No wonder we’re all fat f@ckers
Speak for yourself!
Being overly PC you cannot ask for ‘black pudding’ in the US….it’s know as ‘blood pudding’….lord knows what you’d get in your roll if you asked for the former.
The Washington Post said blood pudding in the roll. Read, then comment.
I did read but was just pointing out that little fact as to why they call it blood pudding and not black pudding.
Breakfast rolls only look good when eaten by large men with hard hats and a crack.
@Tap Solny, is eat one off your mother given half a chance and I’ve a masters. Go take a hike ya ejit.
@Tap Solny, I’d eat one off your mother given half a chance and I’ve a masters. Go take a hike ya ejit.
Go have your pastry and latte and stick them up your ar*e!
Matt The Rashers breakfast roll 4 sausages 2 bacon 1 runny egg and brown sauce hot mug of tea on a winters morning in the work van ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Get inta ya Cynthia
Breakfast of Champions
Nothing worse than finding a seat on a packed train at Heuston and someone sits down next to you tucking into a a Supermax breakfast roll.
Heading….”Two eggs, two rasher, two sausage, two bacon, two puddins’ (one black and white ).”
Someone else work this one out…
It’s 13
But I prefer digital! 0111010001101000011010010111001100100000011011100111010101101101011000100110010101110010011100110010000001110011011010000110100101110100001000000110100101110011001000000110111001101111011101000010000001100101011101100110010101101110001000000110011001110101011011100110111001111001 now decipher that !!! now decipher that lad!!!!
Frank, you OK hun?? xx
Mark Dunne_ Here’s something digital and its quite old news going back 20 years..
Interpreting the Devils Number from Binary code from the UPC Barcode
This is the predecessor of the “Chip in Hand”
Mark Dunne
011101000110100001101001011100110010000001101110011101010110110101100010011001010111001001110011001000000111001101101000011010010111010000100000011010010111001100100000011011100110111101110100001000000110010101110110011001010110111000100000011001100111010101101110011011100111100
Character count = 279> 2+7+9 =18 not a very significant number. unless (6+6+6)
and now poor mark has gone all silent !
There are only 10 people in the world who understand binary, those who do and those who don’t….
Who puts two bacon and two rashers on a roll? Confused.
I don’t see the problem here
Ah the classic hangover cure!
Well I know what I’ll be grabbing for tae tomorrow
To eat such food on a regular basis is asking for trouble. This type of nonsense would only appeal to uneducated lazy kids.
To write such tripe on a regular basis is just asking for people to ignore you and not take you serious
Just the sight of that brekkie roll has me salivating, I love black and white pudding and seeing the Supermac’s logo on the coffee cup has me dreaming about cheese burgers and curry chips.
Oh I do wish we had Supermac’s in England.
sure isn’t that what you see the kids eating all the time on their lunch breaks , central I’m sure makes a fortune on them !
Infuriates me the way deli’s ruin a good breakfast roll with cheap ketchup. Has to be Heinz for me
ketchup ruins the roll, you can’t taste the ingredients then!
I’d like to see Mary Horney and Biffo in an eating Contest…….ding ,ding round one the Breakfast Roll….
I don’t get the love affair people have with breakfast rolls. I tried one about 14 years ago. Made it through half of it and thought I was going to be sick, I was that full :(
Batch loaf toasted, with *one* of the above fillings is heaven though :)
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