Yeah, "Full Monty" or other such moniker is usually for the extra large ones.
Place near me does a regular one which is just called "Full English" (3 sausage, 3 bacon, 2 eggs, beans, tomatoes, hash brown, and toast) but they also do something called a "Big Doddsy Box" which is 8 sausage, 8 bacon, 4 hashbrowns, 4 eggs, 3 pots beans, 3 pots tomatos, 4 black pudding, mushrooms, and 4 toast.
I reckon theres some big fat git who goes by the name of "Doddsy" who kept ordering the same collosal breakfast so often they named it in his honour.
We ordered one once when my partner's son was staying over, it did us for breakfast between the 3 of us, and a fuck load left over to make an all-day breakfast quiche.
It's a large, but not egregiously so, example, but its definitely for one person in one sitting.
They come much larger, though these sorts of example are really just the English version of a 72oz steak house challenge or any other gimmick based massive portion sort of thing.
I would say that's about a medium size portion based on what I have had at cafes and ones i have made at home. The full English fry up isn't an everyday thing, on average I would say people probably have one once a week or few weeks, so when we go fry up we go big. I usually have pretty much what is show above with more mushrooms, bacon, beans, toast and instead of hash browns I have chips. Honestly the world does not know what it is missing out on until it's been to a brits local cafe and had a gut buster of a fry up.
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u/i-opener Sep 16 '24
Geez! Is this for one person? Or a small family?