According to Wikpedia, the full breakfast traditionally comprises several fried foods, usually including bacon and eggs, and is popular throughout the British Isles and other parts of the English-speaking world. The name “Bacon and eggs” was made popular by Edward Bernays in the 1920s. To promote sales of bacon, he conducted a survey of physicians and reported their recommendations that people eat hearty breakfasts. He sent the results of the survey to 5,000 physicians, along with publicity touting bacon and eggs as a hearty breakfast.
A full North American breakfast (Canada and USA) consists of eggs, a “breakfast meat” such as bacon, ham, or sausage, scrapple, pork roll, spam or even steak or country fried steak; fried potatoes such as hash browns or home fries; toasted white, wheat, rye or some other bread, such as English muffins or bagels; fruit or fruit juice, and tea or, usually, coffee. It is often referred to as a “country breakfast” in many areas of the Midwestern United States. The terms “fry” and “full breakfast” are not generally used in North America, though hotels generally distinguish between a light “continental breakfast” and a hot, cooked breakfast.
In the Southern United States the meal is typically known as a “big breakfast” or “Sunday breakfast” and may add or replace elements of the above with: grits, toast or biscuits with white gravy, pancakes, cinnamon rolls or similar sweet pastries.
psstttt……in Mississippi there is also such as thing as “chocolate gravy”…….but I’ve never made it)))))
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